Canning Jar Lid Wreath, plus a mini update!

So its been a while but life has been completely crazy. I have no time for much of anything it seems like lately! We've had lots going on and it doesnt look it its slowing down any time soon!  I just wanted to share the most recent picture of me and my man. I promise I will take some time to get everything uploaded. I have my family coming up, my mans most recent race and so much more! haha

Also, I wanted to share one of my projects!

 I got 2 boxes of these, 4 bucks a box. 

 Got them all out and them separated.

 Divided some up, and spray painted them. Let them dry for a good 20 minutes if not a little bit longer to avoid the spray paint smell in your house. 

 I went with these, and Almond White from Krylon. 

 Line 'em up with how you want your wreath. I used a piece of Burlap.

 I also left some of them shiny silver. I love how its kinda random and totally my house colors. I also love (not on purpose I may add) Some spray paint missed some of the lids. I think it adds charter. I also love the way the paint has chipped a little bit when rubbing the lids together. I think it gives it a more rustic feeling.

 Tie at top and hang! 

Easy as pie! 

With the left over lids and box; I spray painted those, and applied some hemp around the box for coasters!

 Happy Wednesday!

You might notice something new

I have changed the blog and URL!
 I have decided, that I am going to try to post some DIY projects that Ive done or projects in the house in hopefully inspiring someone to do something crafty! I follow tons of blogs that inspire me so much & I want to give some of that back! I plan on starting slow maybe one or 2 posts every couple of weeks and if its something that I enjoy to increase to one a week. I also am going to show you before, during and after photos of projects that are currently going on in my house. If I use another persons blog, I will link it up so you can see theirs too!

I saw a post, hopefully I can find it again! that was so inspirational and helped me make the decision to start blogging my projects. She said, if you dont love it, dont do it. Because if you dont love it, it becomes a chore or task that you have to do. She turned her blog into a huge website, and I just think thats awesome! So Im going to give it a shot! Why not!?

Make that 3,815!

We got it the house! and its been a BUSY month. Between getting everything ready to move, moving, putting boxes were they belong. its been full! I wanted to share a little tour with you guys to show ya our new casa!
 

 

 A view of the entry and part of the Living Room

 Down the hall way to the bedrooms and bath

 Kitchen and Dinning

 From the guest room to the living room

 Guest Room closet. Its huge!

 Master

 Linen Closet

 Bath

 Bedroom 2- We are turning it into the office

 A shoe cubby

 Downstairs Family Room

 My guy mowing the yard!

 Our Deck :)

Success

 It hasnt been a month since I last blogged! Win!

I have planned meals till May 9th. Yes, a month! NO Im not crazy. I think planning that far in advance will keep these next few weeks going fast, and also help the piggy bank. By knowing what we are going to have in 3 weeks, I can cut coupons a little more accordingly. fantastic!

Im ecstatic to say, we put in a OFFER on a HOUSE! CRAZY. but so exciting. Kam and I are both so excited to start this new chapter!

Speaking of dinner nightly and everything, which is going great. Havent missed a night yet!

Heres what we had last night that I recommend EVERYONE should try.

I am great with seeing progress. So lists work for me. Last time I kinda did a list of things, that I wanna check off and hopefully every month I can do this as a tracker of how well Im doing. 

Cook Book - Assembled & Actively using, just collecting more recipes!

Cooking Dinner Nightly - That is going wonderfully! Every night this week I have done something, and some of the meals we have tried something new! 

Gardening - My herbs are growing wonderfully! Hopefully we can plant more when we move into the new house :) 

Getting out of the grove- WELL we are buying a house, trying new recipes and doing more things together. Id say we are doing great!+10 

Coupons - By planning meals ahead of time, I can collect coupons for upcoming dinners. and by getting a shopping list in order for only what we need has really really helped me not buy things we do not need. 

Scrapbooking. THIS WEEKEND. since it has snowed we cant really do much else. haha 

Inspiration Book -  Since we have put in an offer on the house and I know more of what its going to look like and where Im gonna get to decorate, this has become SO much easier. Even Kam is helping! yipee! 

domesticated

Well saying goodbye to my grandma was so hard. I basically cried the entire time. I have to say thank you to my wonderful supportive boyfriend Kamas for holding my hand through it all and a huge thanks to my family for knowing just how I felt and everything they did for me. Amazing people I have in my life. <3

We are now serious house hunters. We got pre approved and are looking for something borderline perfect. We want 3 bed 2 bath preferably with a yard to make a masterpiece & have a dog. Since we've been looking, Ive had this urge to get everything in order. and since Ive had this urge, I feel like Im being more domesticated. haha I say that jokingly but in all seriousness I feel like Im becoming more of an adult women. Which all in it self makes me feel amazing. So Im going to share some of things Im doing around our house to make me feel so accomplished.
* Cook Book. Finally getting around to getting our cook book done! Ive found all these fantastic recipes from The Pioneer Women, Ree Drummond. Here is the link to her website http://thepioneerwoman.com/, Its AWESOME. Ive broke down food categories to everything I can possibly think of. Go tab dividers and its all labeled in a binder waiting for me to fill it. My plan is to get the recipes to all the same basic layout, which means some of them Im going to have to retype myself. but I feel like if they are the same then I can just find it without a problem. Im still contemplating whether or not I am actually going to put every recipe inside a sleeve or not. If I do it could possibly save a recipe from being destroyed from a spill. Ill just have to test it with my tab dividers.
*Cooking Dinner. With doing that cook book, its made me realize I want to start making more at home dinners. Sometimes its really hard and others I know exactly what I want to do. But so far this is day 4 of cooking and Im loving it! Also something that I think will help me, is having a planner, I can plan a week of dinners at a time and see what we had last week, what not to do this week. Some of them I really like having preplanned so I can get it all ready in the morning and either stick it in the crock-pot in the morning or know what I need to do right when I get home. Kam is so great too, because hell help me cook every once and a while. I love just cooking and talking to him about the day and whats going on. He puts a smile on my face :)
*Gardening. crazy to hear those words come out of my mouth. but I have planted an herb garden! I cant wait till we actually have a place of our own so that I can plant veggies & make more homemade recipes.
*Homemade Baking. I am attempting to make my own bread, flour tortillas and whatever else comes to mind! I think this will potienally save us some pennies in the end and who doesnt love homemade stuff?
*Getting Out Of The Grove. I want to try new things. For example, Last night I made a new kind of potatoes for our friend cubed steaks last night. Heres the link to them http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/2010/05/restaurant-style-smashed-potatoes/ They were DELICIOUS! Kam mixed everything together for me, but I put my red potatoes (which I love) in the crock-pot on my lunch and set it on the lowest setting possible when I got home they were all ready to be delicious. I tried a new recipe AND green onion. Which I happened to love as well. So when I make individual pot pies tonight I am going to put green onion in them, which works well because thats what we are growing too! Today I put a can of sweetened condensed milk in the crock pot and hopefully when I get home from work its gonna be caramel! Something new.
* Coupons. In ALL reality, coupons takes so much time. but IT IS worth it. I have a binder with baseball card holders in there with that broke down by tab dividers into everything I could think of and Im slowly starting to collect some coupons. My thing is, If Im not gonna use it dont cut it. simple enough.
*Scrapbooking. I love to be creative and scrapbooking makes me feel good. Looking through all my memories. I want to be able to pass those kind of things onto my kids and grand-kids when I get old. I have decided, Im just going to scrapbook what I have available, since most of my childhood pictures are at my parents. One weekend I go down Ill go through it with my mom again and get all the stuff I want to include. 
*Inspiration Book. Thank you Bethany Ever After on Bravo! They just bought a GORGEOUS apartment and have all these designers, the thing that hit me the most about this episode is she just handed over a binder to a designer that she called her inspiration book. She went on to describe it, and I fell in love with the idea. She has a binder of all of the looks and things she loves and wants in a house. So what have I been doing!? creating our own Inspiration Book. Now we arent going to hire a designer by any means. so Its mostly DIY stuff that I know Kam and I can do. Ill have to show you some pages when I get further along 

AND I know this is all kinda making me sound like I am an old lady BUT I have started crocheting. and I love it. Being the over achiever I am, I have decided I am making a queen sized blanket. It might end up taking me a life time to make but I love it. Next time I post, Which I promise, I am trying to do atleast twice a month I will show you all pictures :)

Until then Im going to watch the rain fall and day dream about decorating.

If Heaven Wasnt So Far Away....

Ive thought for a long time about how I was gonna write this post, or what I was going to say.

My grandma Janet was an amazing, incredible, beautiful person who I love dearly. Shes the grandma that all of my friends loved, that I loved to brag about, she was amazing in the kitchen, that I could talk to about anything, that played along with my imagination years ago the list could go on and on. She was a fighter.

For those of you who dont know, my grandma battled cancer for quite a few years. She had a Mastectomy and had gone through countless treatments of Chemotherapy and Radiation. If any of you know the toll either of those treatments takes on a person, you know how hard it is to watch your loved one go through that. Last summer my grandparents and her doctors decided enough was enough. She got placed in Southern Utah Hospice; if anyone from that office reads this, THANK YOU! Thank you for being so good to both my grandma and my grandpa. You helped my family so much and were so nice.


With tears in my eyes, its hard to write that my grandma passed away Saturday March 10, 2012.

Services will be held Saturday, March 17, 2012 at the Masonic Lodge in Cedar at 4 p.m..

I get a huge fat F for blogging...

I really have not blogged in over 6 months.
I get in moods where Im like YES blog, but nothing ever comes out the way I want it to. or I do not have time to do it today and it gets shoved into the back burner.... So I most definitely get an F.

Just an FYI for anyone who's reading this, its gonna be a long one! I have 6 months worth of stuff to catch up on.

Over the summer, my family came up to Idaho Falls for the first time! YAY! they had a great time and not to mention I think I have them hooked on the river :) That my was my first thing too. We went to a ball game, ate delicious cupcakes, hung out with Kams family, watched fireworks and time went wayyy to fast.

Im hoping that I can get them to come up after we buy a HOUSE! Yes thats right, I said it. we are buying our very first house. We will be looking and buying in March, April, Mayish time frame. So after I get it all cute (thanks to pinterest) Im hoping they will come up. Heres acouple pictures of the things Ive done around the house thanks to pinterest.

 DIY Dry Erase Board. Seriously under $5!

 Its almost done! We moved some stuff around. The desk is where our TV used to be. but Thanks to My man for christmas he got me a desk and a printer! LOVE HIM! I got the 'K' idea from pinterest.

 Two in one! haha That jar, has money in it for my workout progress. so when Supercross in April rolls around I can so spend money on new clothes! and the drawers are now covered. yay! bye bye clutter!

Kam raced acouple of races and won every single one. Couldn't be a prouder girlfriend! He has since decided that hes going to race every Southeast Idaho race this year, and you better believe I will be at every one cheering my man on! and... taking way too many pictures. ha The joys of being in a relationship with a photographer. :)

 I didnt even realize he wrecked till I didnt see him further down the track and went back and looked at my pictures and saw he fell. I was nervous for him but hes okay :)

We took up fishing and boating acouple times this summer, and I loveee sitting and relaxing with Kam on a summers Eve.

We also bought a BBQ that we used basically every night!

We camped not nearly enough. We are going without a doubt more often this summer. The picture is of Palisades; we went camping for the Albertson Family Reunion

We also got a little visit from Kams bestfriend Chris.One of their favorite things to do is cliff dive. 

September came, Labor day (my FAVORITE hometown holiday) I went to cedar for a week and spent much needed time with my mommy, and family. Had Tiki Shack snow cones.... 2.die.4! haha

 We also had family pictures! love my dad ^^

We also had Kam's birthday, Nothing big, but I did make his favorite Cherry Chip cake, and as hard as I tried the frosting I used to write his name would not go red. so he had pink frosting. For some reason I cant find my pictures I took on his birthday. I will look harder! But I turned 21 in 2011! Whoop! My family and boyfriend made it extremely special.

 Flowers from my man!

 Flowers delivered to me from My mom, dad, brother and sister!

 

Cupcake from work! 

Overall Im extremely spoiled! We went down to cedar that weekend and I shot my first wedding for Photos by Kacie & had an AMAZING weekend! In November I went back down to Cedar for Thanksgiving. We had planned a trip to Vegas as well. So I got to go down with my mom, dad and grandpa for a little get away.

 Sams Town - Where my Grandpa stayed. View from his room.

 View from my room at Planet Hollywood

  View from my room at Planet Hollywood

 Touch pool at Mandalay Bay!

 Good Morning from LAS VEGAS! View from my room

 My moms favorite place!

 

Oh Ya! penny slots!

Then I went back to Cedar for Thanksgiving and to hang out. We decorated for Christmas, my favorite holiday to decorate. and of course cougar loves the tree branches.

Back to Idaho I went, where I decorated our house :)

Supercross tree this year! I decided that I was going to a theme every year! Wish me luck! haha Even though I hate the cold weather, the sunsets are gorgeous. I snapped this as I was walking to my car from work.

Christmas was marvelous. Christmas eve I cried pretty much all day. It was my first christmas way from my family :( but It was nice to spend it with the Albertsons!

 Night before! so excited!

 During, Kam and his new shirt from my family! he love sit!

 After. haha, we got SOO spoiled and Im so grateful for everything and everyone who thought of me this Christmas.

Well that kinda wraps up 2011....
Oh wait. I dont want to forget that I started modeling again!

Yup, Im gonna kick butt in 2012 in this industry. So many doors to open and try out!

Whoo. my fingers are alittle sore. haha
Anyway, I just want to say one more thing. I am SOOOOOO GRATEFUL, LUCKY, BLESSED for the family that I have and the people that I love. Without them I wouldnt be who I am today. You guys know who you are, and I LOVE YOU!

HERES TO 2012 BEING THE BEST YEAR YET!!