Hello Idaho!

This last weekend I went to Idaho to visit my sister and her family. We had a great time shopping and hanging out. It took awhile for my niece to get used to me but now she loves me. If only she'll remember me next time I see her...but that's just wishful thinking.

I love this picture of Wendy and Amora. No, Wendy doesn't smile when she's sleeping, but it's still super cute!!

Amora is growing up so fast. I took some really cute videos of her showing off her skills with different body parts and animal sounds. The sounds a cat makes is by far my favorite. Just look at her facial expressions when she does it. LOVE IT!!

BiRtHdAy GiRl

24 years ago, one of my favorite people in the world was born.

Happy Birthday Wendy!!

She was a little concerned at first...

but then she realized we would be best friends for life.

I love you Wendy. Hope you have the best birthday ever!!

Design Star

For all of those who know Eric and me, you know how much we love watching HGTV. We decided it was time to actually test out our design skill by starting with his mom's office at work. The decorations have been the same for over 15 years, so anything we did would really be an improvement.

We started with garage saling (our new Saturday morning hobby) and found these awesome shadow boxes for a dollar a piece. They were dusty and dirty, but we saw definite potential, especially because the retail value is over $20 a piece at the Quilted Bear.

Taylor came over and helped us dust the boxes.

Once the dirt was off, Eric was able to spray paint them to look like new. He did a fantastic job.

After we hit the garage sales, Eric and I went shopping for decorations to go in the shadow boxes. It took awhile, but after we found an inspiration piece the ideas kept flowing. We even found this vase for a dollar. It was an ugly orange and yellow striped color, so what did we do? When you're on a budget, just paint it!

This is our final product. We set it all up downstairs on Mother's Day morning and brought his mom down for her surprise.

Eric got a great pic of her shocked face. We were glad to do something nice because his parents have been so great about letting us live with them this summer and everything else they do for us. Happy Mother's Day!

I plan on spending the summer doing more crafty projects. We'll keep you posted!

Graduation

A lot has happened with us in the past month. Eric and I graduated, we celebrated our one year anniversary, and moved in with his parents for the summer before we leave for Kansas. Because of the move I lost my laptop cord and haven't been able to upload any pics. I'm going to try my best to get caught up and blog lots this summer!

Before graduation we got to meet President Samuelson (president of BYU) and his wife.

Here we are in front of the infamous BYU sign. We had to wait in line for the picture opp because it's such a popular spot.

There's the campus in the background.

My name in the program under the Business Management Grad section. Eric's name won't be in the program until August so we'll have to swipe one of those when the time comes.

The fam right after graduation.

I've never rung the victory bell so this was the last chance for me to take advantage of that. Yay for graduating!!

Eric with Dallin, one of his good friends growing up.

Me and Ruby, my friend from supply chain classes.

Me and Tay Tay!!

Us with Riley and Chelsea, some other friends from Provo High School.

It feels good to finally be done with school forever! If only I didn't have to miss out on summer by sitting in an office all day. Eric is trying to finish up strong at BYU and then he'll get a few weeks of vacation in August.