Busy, Busy Bees

OK so I know it's no excuse, but we've been super busy and when I'm not busy Brockston is busy getting into stuff so I've neglected my blog. But hopefully this new post will make up for it.

So what have we been up to? Well the whole summer we've been working towards putting our yard in. We still have a ways to go, but we went from this...

Helping Daddy on the skid loader...

Yep, count 'em that's 12 pallets of sod...


To this...

Yeah for green grass and for all the help from our families to get it in! One project down about a million to go. Oh the joys of home ownership!

Bridal Bouquets

My sister is having her Bridal pictures taken today and I put together a couple of bouquets for her to use. When we went to get the flowers we picked out the tulips and the lady at the floral wholesaler threw in the calla lilies as well (because some of the tulips were starting to go bad and we didn't really want to pay for 3 bunches of callas for the bridals). So I put together two bouquets for her to choose from or she can use both!

Sorry the lighting in the picture isn't the best, but these are called Hot Chocolate Calla Lilies, a very pretty dark purple. I had to do more of a presentation type bouquet because I only had 10 flowers to play with.

I took a floral design class when I was at BYU and I wish I could go back and take it again. It's been a while and I'm forgetting a lot of stuff. I'm not the greatest at it but it has saved lots of money over the years for family weddings. I did my own flowers for my wedding but not my bouquet. I'm still a little weary of doing bouquets... I did a little hand tied bouquet for my Bridals though and it turned out alright, mostly because of how pretty the flowers are.

This is my bouquet done by the professionals. It is done so well that it will stand up on its own.

When Life Gives You Lemons...

Or in our case weeds... lots and lots of weeds. I wish I could say these came from my beautiful garden but I can't. Maybe some day...

Aprons

I broke out the old sewing machine to put together a couple of fun little aprons. They were super easy (thanks to my mom's serger and my mom who sewed the hems...) and fun to do. I have since put together another one (which I did on my own, thank you very much... I did learn from observing!) and plan on doing some more. Thanks Lisea for letting me borrow your patterns!

Firsts...

Our first family trip to Solitude for the weekend...

Brockston's first Bee's game on Daddy's birthday...

First taste of rice cereal....

First time swimming...

Were you awake?

Yesterday, I saw on the news that you should set your alarm for 04:05 and 06 seconds in the morning. Why? Because then it would be 04:05.06 07/08/09. It only happens like once in a bazillion years or something like that. I thought, who would be stupid enough to do that? Wake up, say "Wow!" and then go back to bed. Really?

Well I didn't need an alarm I have Brockston to wake me up. He woke me up at exactly 04:05.06 07/08/09 - OK so not really, but it would have been cool if he did, right? I was, however, awake at that exact moment in time trying to get our little guy back to sleep. Were you awake?

Our first attempt at video...

So this is our first attempt at video. Please forgive the camera work - I was balancing the camera, the baby, and trying to use the kitchen equipment. Just close your eyes and listen...

P.S. I'm really not that mean!