Apartment Tour

So a lot of family haven't seen our new apartment yet and have been requesting pictures.  Here's a little peak into our Provo apartment.

 this is our door from the inside

 Our kitchen table is the first thing you see coming in, make a left and your in the living room

 from one corner you see my fancy red shelf that gets decorated for holidays, tv, movies

 the other corner view is the couch and book shelf

 and then once again the craft corner

 back into the kitchen we have the fridge hiding a bit

 cupboards, sink, oven, etc.

 there's also a little pantry closet where we store food, pans, ironing board.

 The hallway leads to the two bedrooms and bathroom

 first door on the right is the bathroom.  I think this room is still my favorite decorated room ever.

 our bathroom is super tiny, we have to duck down to get in the shower haha

 Next room is the second bedroom/office/child room/storage room.   It has many purposes :)

 Then of course the bedroom.  We took the smaller room because it had a bigger closet and we knew more stuff would be going in the larger room.

Our very full closet, I think Daniel only has like 8 shirts on the right and I take up the rest. 




Well there ya have it

Provo thats how we roll

We moved!

Daniel got excepted to BYU a few months ago and we finally made our move to Provo.  We got all packed up last week and moved in on Sat. thanks to so many family members.  We are sure lucky that everything has fallin into place as far as switching to summer semester which helped out with Daniels program to the apartment being in better condition then we expected.  We are also so lucky that we had people help us move, the stairs weren't very fun but they never complained.  We have quite enjoyed it so far.  Daniel is looking for a job right now so we've had a few days to just explore and have fun together.  It's weird that you can live in a place less then a week and already feel like your home and slightly forget what it was like to live in an old place.  I must just have bad memory haha or its Heavenly Fathers way of making you feel good about your situation and choice.  Here's a few pictures, not a lot.  We need to get better at taking more pictures. 

 First time living without a dish washer, it really hasn't been to bad.  This is our first round of wash :)

 This place has a cute little corner desk, because Daniel already has a desk I made it my craft corner.  I'm pretty excited for this and I think Daniels excited because maybe my sewing pins will stay in this corner haha (maybe I'm not making promises)

 Our laundry building, it actually has lots of washer and dryers and was dead.  We were able to do like six loads (theyre small we don't have a ton of stuff)  without anyone else being there.

 Daniel being the folding man

Daniel has really wanted to play soccer for days so he went and set up his goal and shot some.  I swear children are just drawn to Daniel, this little boy came out and wanted to play.  He saw all the soccer balls he had and was just like wow, wow. 


I also wanted to share that Daniel has a new buddy.  We stayed with his parents this last Sunday and Daniels Bro and sis inlaw were also there with there daughter.  Lets just say that every time I looked over they were together.  It was the cutest thing in the world.  They are friends and although I was slightly jealous jk I couldn't help but love what I was seeing. 

Wedding bells are ringing

A friend of my moms asked me a few months back if I would make some wedding table decorations for her daughters upcoming wedding.  I was thrilled that she asked and was excited to have something to keep me busy for a little while.  I also was pretty nervous saying yes,  this was someones wedding and I wasn't confident in my level of skill.  I also just didn't want to make a mistake, or the fear of getting all done and it not being what they pictured.  I'm happy to say though that it was a success and they loved it.   The bride to be wanted a southern/rustic type wedding.  She is from the south and wanted it to have elegance in the colors but that rustic charm that could be added in the details.   So this is what I came up with. 

Her colors were pale pink, cream, champagne

 I made her throw bouquet and two little bouquets for flower girls

 This is the base of her bouquet

 These were just veggie cans spray painted cream and then I put burlap then lace over the top

 I made this sign that she could put by the cards table
I also did these really adorable jars but forgot to take a picture.  They were just simple canning jars, I threaded pearls on twine and wrapped it around the jar a few times, for the lid I just took some lace put in on paper then screwed the lid back on.

My dad took this picture of what the tables looked like at the actual wedding. 
I'm hoping that if she posts some pictures on facebook I can maybe snag a few to put on here. 

I sure do love decorating and doing fun stuff like this

Gotta Love Taco Time Sauce

If you know me at all you know that I love Taco time sauce, okay and I love Taco time.  Well I found out that I could make there crisp bean burritos a while back.  So what did we eat on the blessed day of May 5th, crisp bean burritos.  Live would not be complete with out taco time sauce so had to pick some of that up as well. 

Random Exciting and Yummy

What have we been up too?  Not a whole lot, but I do have a few pictures I wanted to share.  One being a mission call in the family, cute baby pictures, and of course a yummy recipe. Enjoy!

Daniel's brother got his mission call to Chile.

Were so excited for him

My sister started making these adorable baby shoes.

Aren't they the cutest things you ever did see.

Oh wait this is the cutest thing I ever did see, man I just could snuggle her all day.

As promised a recipe

Homemade Crackers 

I just put everything in my food processor and pulsed it together, once mixed roll in a ball and put in the fridge for 15 min.  Roll dough out on floured surface to the thickness you want.  

Cut into squares or any shape you'd like.  If you have a child you may want to do a animal or fun shape.  I made mine look like cheeze-it crackers.

Place on lightly greased cookie sheet and bake at 350 for 15 min or until crispy.

These were so good, a little to good meaning that they were eatin really fast.  I like that they're healthier then the store bought ones, and so much cheaper.

The babies have arrived

We were excited for the arrival of the Babies.  Daniel's Brother A and his wife F were expecting there 5th child (gender unknown)  and My sister was going to be having a girl.  Little did we know we'd get both of them in the same week.  Last week was so exciting to hear of there births and to get to see and hold them.  I just love babies especially newborns.  A and F ended up having another little girl, we got to see her at Sunday dinner.  Holding her was such a great moment for me this being the first of there kids to hold as a newborn.  She was so sweet and wide awake the whole time.  I also mentioned that my sister had her little girl this week as well.  She had her on the 27th just a tiny little girl, 5lbs.  Little baby O was definitely anticipated by our family being that the last baby was a couple years ago.  She is also so sweet, just sleeps and has that mushy skin you just want to keep kissing hahah.  I got to go see her twice while in the hospital and a couple times since being home.  Here's some darling pictures of Baby O that I captured.

Meeting her for the first time

(love at first site)

a little selfie from O

Momma and Baby 

O doing her signature pose

Uncle Daniel meeting her for the first time

(theirs just something about a man holding a baby......LOVE)

We sure do love all our nieces and nephews.

(and Juliann declares holding of babies as her new hobby)

Spring is the best

It's that time of year again, Spring, Spring, Spring  (only you seven brides for seven brothers fans would get that reference)

I love the Spring!  I've been enjoying the weather and the beautiful sun that shines through my windows.  I've also enjoyed not wearing a jacket inside and cracking the windows open for some fresh air.  Sadly though I really don't have much to blog about so I thought I'd share some recipes I've tried recently.

Baked sweet and sour Chicken (served over rice)

Breading for chicken
3-4 chicken breasts
1 1/2 C cornstarch
3 beaten eggs
1/4 cup oil

Sauce
1 C sugar
4T ketchup
1/4 C vinegar
1/4 C apple cider vinegar
1T soy sauce
1t garlic salt

chop chicken into small chunks, dip in cornstarch then into the eggs, place in a pan with oil just so they lightly brown on the outside, then place on cookie sheet.
In a bowl mix the sauce ingredients, when mixed poor over chicken.

Bake 30min to 1 hour at 325  Don't over cook or the sugar tends to make it very hard.



Oreo truffles

1 pkg of oreos
4-6 oz cream cheese

in a food processor chop the oreos then add to softened cream cheese, once mixed well form into small quarter size balls, place on cookie sheet (with wax paper on it)  place in freezer for about 15 min.
Dip in white chocolate, or any chocolate really.  Keep refrigerated until serving.