Tie-dyed Eggs

Saturday during the priesthood session my mom, Des and I decided to experiment and Tie-dye (literally) eggs for Easter. My mom found a tutorial online (I'd link to it for you, but well I'm just not savvy enough to know how to do that) for dying eggs with neck ties. Mind you, they have to be 100% silk, but the end result can be pretty cool...

 You wrap the eggs in the ties then wrap them in some other type of rag so that the colors don't run too much

 Then you boil them in water and vinegar for about 20 minutes

 And voila!

 Obviously some turned out better than others, but you can see the patterns from the ties on the eggs. SO COOL!

 Oh yeah, and Des made S'Mores cookies. Y.U.M.

I'm going to get fat living in Bountiful. Between Des' cooking, her great treats, Einstein's, Parson's, Kneaders, Pace's, Robintino's and Orange Leaf all within a 2-5 minute drive. I am so screwed!

Picasa!

Okay so once I master my super nifty camera my plan is to tackle photoshop. But in the meantime I am LOVING the latest release of Picasa (type Picasa into Google and you will find it) If you don't know what it is, it is a simple and easy way to organize your pictures and it also has some editing tools as well. I'm sure it's NOTHING compared to photoshop, but for someone like me it totally works!

So remember the pics I posted last week? Well, here they are again, tweaked just a little. I love, Love, LOVE them!

 I love her attitude in this one...

Can't wait for Easter!

Fun stuff

I took a class on Saturday about using my super nifty DSLR camera. I am SO EXCITED to practice and get better at taking pictures! I have always loved photography so to finally have a REALLY good camera, and then actually KNOW how to use it...well watch out! Next step is to learn photoshop, but one thing at a time people!
So this afternoon I took my Little Miss Sassy Pants outside and messed around for a bit. I think I got a couple of pretty cute ones. Then again, I have a pretty cute subject.

Okay, I know, totally amateur, but hey I'm just learning!

Tiny Dancer...almost

So I know I promised pics of this weeks ago but things have been super crazy busy! The 29th I got a text from my agent saying that the short sale of the house was approved and could we be out by the 12. Of March.

We were able to extend until the 15th, which helped but when all was said and done we ended up moving everything on the 9th and 10th. So yeah, things have been slightly chaotic.

So now on to the important part. Sasha's Dance Debut!!!


  Getting ready at Aunt Mandi's

So unfortunately Miss Sassy Pants got a little scared and overwhelmed by the big crowd and instead of doing her dance, she just cried. I felt so bad! I should have been right down in front where she could see me and the next time I definitely will be. But she looked absolutely beautiful and I can't wait for the next one.

St. George

Sassy & I went down and spent the weekend in St. George with my Mom, Rich, Garret, Holly and Chris. It was such nice weather! We hit a few of the homes in the Parade of Homes (some totally awesome houses!), ate WAY too much and left way too early. Always wish we could have just a few more days.

 Going out for a spin...

 Playing on the red rocks...

Chillin with Grandma DeEtte at the fire pit.

Next time you're in St. George go eat at Russo's NY Pizza. My brother Chris works there (he's a poor college student that could really use the tips!) and the pizza is YUM! It's just off Bluff and Sunset. They have delicious pizza, great salads and the garlic knots- to. die. for.

In other news....the house sold! I have to be out by the 16th of March. ACK! It's kind of bittersweet. I'm not ready to leave my neighborhood. I absolutely love it here! But on the flip side, I can't take care of this house on my own and it will be a good change for us girls. We're going to move in with my oldest brother Ryan and his family for a while. Which is super exciting because my awesome SIL Deseree' is expecting a baby! YAY! I love litle newborns so I'm really excited to be there. It's just a move from Farmington to Bountiful so I know I can come back and visit often, which is good. I've made some really, really good friends around here that have been a huge support to me over the years.

I've been traveling a bunch for work. I've been to California twice this month! It's been good to be busy, but I think I may need a small break from the road, at least until I can get things situated at Ryan's. Then back at it!

Sasha's first dance recital is this Saturday. I am SO. EXCITED. I can hardly stand it. Her costume is so darling and I know she is going to rock it! Yes, there will be pictures, and hopefully video soon to come.

My little Valentine...

My little princess...she insisted on wearing the crown to church today. And since it's Valentines she wanted to wear a "big pink dress." I think she looked pretty darn cute

My Mom throws a pretty good party. Tonight we had a birthday/valentines party. She planned a scavenger hunt in the house and it was tough! She wrote all of our names on hearts and cut them in half. We were divided up into teams and each of us had to find the other half of our heart. The team that found the other half of their hearts first won "fabulous prizes." The little kids had just as much fun as the big kids :)

Garrett holding up his "fabulous prize" of .... deodorant!

The yummy combo birthday cake for Garrett, McKenzie and Ryan. It was Ryan's idea to put the Jesus statue over the cake. Some of us laughed but my mom didn't think it was so great...

Then an intense game of domino's started up...

Cute baby Ellie :)

Great party mom!

Okay, so I technically should be prepping for a business trip. I should be packing. I should be prepping my client presentations. I should be going to bed early. But instead I'm browsing around online, playing on Pinterest and blogging. If only I could get paid for this, ha ha.

Oh, and I got bangs.

HGTV Dream Home

This weekend has been BUSY! Have you heard of the HGTV Dream Home? They build one every year in a different location and then give it away. Yup, they just give it away. Along with a car. And $500,000 CASH! Well this year they built the house up in Heber. HGTV allows the builders to offer public tours of the home as long as a local charity benefits from the proceeds. The Utah chapter of Make-A-Wish was selected as the charity! So of course they have needed volunteers to help direct the tours and such. I of course jumped at the chance! Not only does it feel good to spend some of my free time volunteering & helping grant the wishes of some really awesome kids, but I get to hang out in a really beautiful house and meet some nice (and some strange...and some really strange) people all day. It's really been awesome.

And now for the plug...

Tours are offered Thursday/Friday from 12-5 and Saturday/Sunday from 10-6 throughout the month of February. The cost is $15 per person and all the money goes to Make-A-Wish. Kids 3 and under are free, but have to be carried throughout the home. (Honestly, if you can come without the kiddo-s I suggest it. They don't necessarily think walking around looking at homes is very exciting) Yes, you can take pictures in the house.
The tours fill up pretty fast, especially on Saturday so you will want to register & reserve your spot online at
http://www.dreamhome.kintera.org/

And you should definitely come on the 18th or 19th cause those are the other two days I'll be up there volunteering. :)