The Simple Life

these boys.

sunlight and shadows.

fall leaves + snow.

church time.

 

every sunday jeremy has a blast running up and downstairs all over in and out every door, we were ready to leave him!

boutique prep+ set up...

pricing and inventory is not my favorite thing to do! i also ran out of labels on my price gun. but when set up is done, the final product is worth it all! 

these two are pretty good helpers. after i took a photo of both of them, isabella says "ok now just a picture of me!" 

another show down. now i can just focus on online sales and the holiday season, thanksgiving is coming up!

first snow fall 2015...

documenting our first snow fall of the season. we took the boys to lunch at das cafe. levi has been working on one of my favorite charming houses on main st. 

jeremy! using the bathroom, finally.

and yes, still holding on to halloween! taking it down today. also a peek at my awesome new chair i got last weekend at

3 Dotters Vintage Market ♥

thanks jen for having the best vendors!

civilization saturday outing...

we ventured out to civilization today! 

and about 2 feet of green leaves all over the excursion and the ground. the last of the green! 

we weren't planning on going so we left later... actually i was trying to plan on going by myself! ha! but it's hard to leave my family behind ;)

and this is what HANGRY looks like! 

we got lucky and got to catch the tail end of georgia's last volleyball game! we miss you georgia!

and then 3 DOTTERS! what i was trying to sneak away too. it's always fun to see jen and her eclectic show ♥ #3dottersvintagemarket and how cute is this soda truck! follow them over at The Soda Truck, they just started their business. apple beer, yes! #thesodatruckut

magical forest...

afternoon walk around town...crying, fighting and whining included. but still lots of exploring and playing too!

this is what we call the "magical forest!" look around lot's of imagination and creations to be found here. i envision it with an old rustic sign "welcome to the magical forest" and strings of lights from all the trees ♥

isabella had to climb out through the weeds, so she was stuck with cockleburrs all over.

jeremy enjoying an apple along the way home...

thanksgiving in idaho...

yay...it's been a while since we've been in idaho during the colder months, we went home for thanksgiving! it was definitely weird to see hardly any snow, it was windy as usual, and by the time we were leaving what little snow was there, had melted all gone! dirt and grass, and potato fields for miles. we had a good thanksgiving, always good to be home with my parents.

hello november...

november first. twenty fourteen.

hello rainy saturday morning.

i love this pumpkin in front of this historic home. 

simple and lovely.

♥

outdoors up the canyon...

we live in such a beautiful valley with amazing canyons just minutes from home! every fall we have dinner around the campfire up maple canyon. this year i tried to plan to go up the beginning of september but that didn't work out, and then we were busy every day it seemed like. so we made it happen and went. 

we love the outdoors! and our kids love to explore! and rock climb... we had a great evening and the best tin foil dinner ever, thanks to levi :)

 

happy thanksgiving!

i can't believe it's here already.

the holiday season. so thankful for so many things.

my family. making our place our own. levi's job.

we have been here for a year now...crazy.

we have accomplished a lot on the property and yet still so much to do.

levi finished the tile in the dining area yesterday...just need to seal the grout.

and i get to figure out where to shove my scrapbooking stuff so that we can actually eat on our dining table!

yep...my stuff is still in the kitchen, no scrapbook room yet. most days i am crazy because i just want to sit down and make something. but i am thankful that i have a place to live.

we are actually having thanksgiving here. i wish my family could come down or that we could go to idaho. but we are going up there for christmas, we are excited!

the past 3 thanksgivings have been non traditional to me. 2009 we moved. levi brought the last load home either the night before or on thanksgiving morning, i can't quite remember. that was the year we moved to utah. so because it was last minute, no turkeys left so we had chicken. then 2010 he worked all day...we didn't have a thanksgiving dinner because i didn't make any effort to try...remember not my area of expertise. last year we moved again and didn't have a kitchen so we met with cherry and corey in salt lake at chuckarama...their tradition. it was good to visit and see them, but we didn't care to go out for thanksgiving.

now 2012 is here. levi is cooking, claudia and daniel will be coming over. can't wait! just hope i can get everything done. seems like we are always playing tetris and jenga on remodeling. moving stuff from one area to finish another!

now i gotta get my hutch finished so i can move it back in.

i painted it green!

fall leaves...

tonight we drove up the canyon to see the fall leaves...i was feeling sick with a cold but knew if we didn't go today, by next weekend they will all be the same color and half fallen i'm sure.

so we loaded up...

grabbed my camera...i really need to be using it more. been slackin'.

everything was beautiful! levi wanted to go up at noon and have lunch up there...and was mad i wasn't ready...but he forgot he has a kindergartner, we can't leave gulianna behind!

here's my instagrams...i'll try and upload pictures from my camera tomorrow.

swimming at the hotel...

after we had our thanksgiving dinner, we went back to the hotel where cherry was staying to let the kids swim! this was their highlight of the day, they've been waiting to "go swimming at the hotel!" or as isa would say "wimming." {she doesn't pronounce her "s" if they are in front of a word.

getting ready!

anthony did not want to be in the water!

levi telling anthony that it's okay...

isa being a little schmuck...

fighting dad...doesn't want a picture.

isa had more fun playing with the towels, she loved the way ronda would wrap her up in a towel...she kept going back!

isa NEVER lets me take photos, or stands still for a second to even snap a few of her, so when she actually did today...i kept shooting away! i love all of these and her cute little face!

 

Happy Thanksgiving...

 
For us will be another year of Thanksgiving with no family...Levi's working again. Just us at home. We had planned to go to my parents for Thanksgiving this year, but with all the snow that Idaho just got, and bad roads, and us not having snow tires yet...we are staying home. Levi will be working all day, so for us is just another day at home. I remember last year, he brought our last trailer load of stuff from Idaho on Thanksgiving morning, then went out to Walmart to go buy groceries to make Thanksgiving dinner for us, of course they were out of turkeys, so we had a rotisserie chicken instead :)

I am so thankful for everything that I do have. Especially my family!

 

And...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Annareigh! My little sister was born on Thanksgiving night, seventeen years ago!

before "the storm"...

We all knew "the storm" was coming...so I figured it was my last day to hurry and snap some pictures while it was still Fall! We had just got back from Tai Pan... while we had the Durango for an hour, we had to get out of the house! Levi hasn't been doing computer work for over a month now, so he's out doing jobs, which leaves us home. I do have my Bronco, but now that winter is almost here, it's too cold to drive it with the soft top on, my hard top is still in Firth, parked in the shop.

 

 

My quick wreath I put together at the last minute...
 

Gulianna in her sunglasses...and Isa, yeah, don't know what she's doing!
 
 

My .25¢ scarecrows I bought, like 6 years ago...and the first time ever using them! Gulianna loved them, and she always has to count them in spanish :)
 

And then a couple hours later..."the storm" hit! Of course it wasn't what we are used to in Idaho, but apparently down here, people freak out... 

I know, hardly any snow, compared to what Idaho just got!
 
 
 
 

 

Thanksgiving...

 We went over to my mom's for Thanksgiving, she had everything all ready before we got there...and she even went to the airport to pick up Anthony! We haven't been able to see Anthony since he's been home from Iraq...so it was nice to see him for Thanksgiving.

Gulianna on our way up there...

and with Rene and RJ, now where's Anthony? I can't believe I didn't get one single picture...

mom's decorated Thanksgiving table...

and we also celebrated Annareigh's birthday, can't believe she's 15 now, she was born on Thanksgiving fifteen years ago! 

oh...there's Anthony!

Picking a pumpkin...

I was planning on taking Gulianna to a pumpkin patch, but every time we got off work, it was getting to dark, so we never made it to one. Gulianna and I had colds all Halloween week, which kinda sucked, who wants to be sick the best time of the year! I managed to take her to Broulims to find a pumpkin, but because I waited till the last minute, they were all gone. They had a couple huge mushy ones, nothing even round like a pumpkin! I took a couple of pictures of her playing with the ugly pumpkins, and then we went inside and found a perfect little one her size, for 79¢, imagine that! She loved it, she tried to say pumpkin, so cute...and we actually still have it, and it's December now!

{pictures taken 10.28.08}

Thanksgiving!

Wow, I can't believe its already Thanksgiving tomorrow....and now Christmas is right around the corner! This year as just gone by way too fast. Its starting to snow a little outside. Actually, we don't even have snow yet and its almost December...next week, something is definitely wrong here, NO SNOW! I do like it, but "we need the moisture" hahah, something I heard EVERY SINGLE DAY while working at Corner Drug. I do miss that place! Well we are getting ready to move...and I hate it. So sad. oh well. Here's some pictures to look at!