The Simple Life

Memorial Day weekend...

 
We enjoyed our quiet weekend together at home. Levi got the garage cleaned out and his stuff organized, I cleaned the house {and now it's messy again} the girls played outside and even took a couple naps! Levi made my favorite pasta salad for lunch, and I made the dessert :) We hung our flag outside, and Anthony stopped by for a quick visit before he headed back to the Marine base in California. I am thankful for his service as well as my Grandpa who served in the Navy, and my uncle Mark who was in the Marines too, and of course all the others out there! So grateful that Anthony made it home safe from fighting in Afghanistan, he almost didn't.

I remember as a child...Memorial Day weekend was always spent with family and we usually went to the park for a picnic! We never visited any grave sites, I think because no one was dead, well that and if we knew of any relatives and where they were buried? I don't know. The same with Levi...when he was younger. Of course now we have a couple grandparents who have passed, and if we lived closer we would definitely pay a visit :) I think the first time I have even visited a grave site on Memorial Day was my grandma's, which was in 2006, and I miss her so much. I think about her every day and wish she was still here. 

Since Levi and I have been together Memorial Day weekend usually marked the first camping & boating trip of the year...usually at Palisades, and we would get rained on every year! It's seems that you can always predict crappy Idaho weather for that weekend every single time. A couple of those years we stayed home and I scrapbooked with Claudia and my sisters. Now that we have our little girls, I think we will carry on the picnic tradition :)

This was a book that I made 3 years ago for a good friend. And I just remembered that I started a Marine book for my brother that same year...I better finish that!

  
more photos of my Memorial Day book that I made here:)

inspiration...

i want my living room to look something like this!

i really want some vintage fabric for some curtains now!

 
{ Toby Fairley } 

these pretty Patty Young fabrics could work!

and this funky dish from Mary Judy to sit on my coffee table :)

red & turquoise is taking over my life! i'm obsessed!

isa...

 
{pictures taken 4.27.2010} 

I have finally put all of Isa's hair in ponytails! Some hair still falls out of them in the back, but for the most part they stay in, that is until she pulls them out!

I did her hair and then took her downstairs to show Levi, and he had to take a double take, he thought she was Gulianna! She looks so different with her hair pulled out of her face, and so much older!  I always say she reminds me of the girl on Incredibles because her hair was always in her eyes, until they end when she got a headband!

Lately all I do with my girls' hair is put them in ponytails, but now Gulianna has decided to take the elastics out and shove them up her nose...great!

And I learned by the second day of having Isa's hair done that I need to carry extra elastics with me, we go through at least 10 each time we go shopping!

almost there...

 

i can now say that i am almost done!

while i still have some boxes to go through down in the basement, i have the majority of my stuff organized and put away in my {scrapbook} room!

one last pile of misc. stuff...

 
 can someone please just come over and throw this stuff away while i close my eyes???

 okay maybe take out my cute mini book first :)

turquoise...

over the years i have collected a lot of red home decor in my living room...and now when i look it is everywhere!

it's almost as if i have 'too much' red!

so slowly, i have been trying to incorporate some turquoise!

 

so far all i've purchased is a turquoise vase for the living room...in the meantime, i was putting away our dishes and put all the turquoise bowls together.

they look pretty with all the red :)

i came across this picture today as i was organizing my scrapbook room...

{not the best, i had to scan it}

Daniel, Kevin, Levi

Claudia & {me}

yup...that's Kevin for ya! {Levi's dad}

can't wait to finish up this album from our trip to Virginia & Nevada City...from 2005?

i almost can't remember now...

and i almost had it finished here... and yes i still gave it to Levi for Christmas that year :)

back to cleaning & organizing my scrapbook room! i am almost done!

the best deal ever!

I just came across this new site today... and if you don't live in Utah, you'll want to check out your Groupon Deal for your city!

Today's deal is a $20 Groupon to Ace Hardware for only $10! Plus you can purchase up to 5 per person!

the best deal ever! I'm using it for paint! {although I don't live close to these locations...I can just stop in the next time I make an Idaho trip!}

Utah: Syracuse & Layton locations only

home again...

just got home an hour or so ago from a quick trip to Boise, Driggs and Rexburg...and a few stops on the way back to Utah. We were gone for 6 days! It is always good to go back to Idaho! Next time we need to stay for a bit longer...too many people to visit, and not enough time!

and it was my 28th birthday on Sunday...yup twenty-eight.

and we came home to a clean house...there is a reason why I frantically clean the house spotless before we leave anywhere, so that I don't have to clean it when I get back :) and it makes Levi mad, but then he is always happy when we get back, lol!

i just have to do a couple loads of laundry...and life is back to normal!

Gulianna & Isabella hugged all their Mickey 'cubhouse' friends and begged to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse right away :)

...and thanks for all your comments, i am pretty sneaky :)

3...

i could be crazy or i could just be expecting AGAIN!

soon we will be a family of 6!

{levi, me, baby in heaven, gulianna, isabella & possibly gabriella if she's a girl!?} no boy names picked out, or clothes for that matter!

{photo taken aug/2009}

i could possibly be due in august...which if that is the case

...umm 3 kids under 3!

and i'm delivering at home with a midwife, who is good at what she does! if i am home :) i hope all goes well & fast as usual!

we are all excited to have another little one in our family!

xoxo

happy scrapbooking day...

i don't know if you all knew that yesterday was National Scrapbook Day! yup...pretty much a dedicated holiday for us! Which means I usually go and buy more stuff that I don't need...but stuff that I had to have :) Claudia and I celebrated by going to the MM Warehouse sale! It has been too long since I was there last!

And I have been putting my scrapbooking room together all weekend...and it's actually coming together--quickly! I have been without my stuff for too long! Some of it I had seen...when we moved from our home to the 'brick house' in Rigby, I tried to have it all in my store, but some of it still managed to get in the storage unit. And then we moved to Utah, and I didn't unpack it all because I knew that we would be moving again.

At last...we get reunited again :) I have to say that it has been fun going through all my scrapbook stash, but at the same time overwhelming because it's quite ridiculous what I have. But I almost have everything in it's place...and most things are gone through and sorted out of what I don't want anymore. I can't tell you how many times I have organized and reorganized my stuff! But it's so exciting!

I was frustrated because I didn't have a desk and a big enough closet to store most of my things. Last week, I set up a big table in the corner...and started unpacking, and thought, where am I going to put all my cardstock & paper?!  Then I put a smaller hutch on the top of the table, and that solved some of it! I was able to put my cardstock and paper and boxes of embellishments on the shelves. Then the next morning I went in, and my table was literally sagging because it was too heavy, plus the hutch top was about to topple over on me and kill me! It was then that I realized that I needed to put the big hutch in my room (both the top & the bottom) which I didn't want to do. Levi told me to move it in there in the first place, but I refused. 'I told you so'...so he was right. But it works p e r f e c t  l y ! I am still missing some stuff that belong in my room, just have more boxes to go through. I don't have my computer set up yet...but maybe tonight!

(the rest of the house is still a disaster...I hope to hang some of my home decor tonight though! moving is such a pain!)

And last...I can't wait to buy some of this fabric! I have been waiting and waiting!

This is Cosmo Cricket's newest fabric line... Early Bird!  Oh what to make when I get my hands on some :)

happy Sunday!