Exciting News (Something new, Pink, and coming soon)

We are so excited to announce that we are having a baby girl.  She will be joining our family in Nov.  so we already know what our side dish is going to be for Thanksgiving dinner haha.  We are really excited for this little girl to join our family and look forward to being her parents. 

We went to the doctor last thurs.  I was almost 18 weeks, the doctor did just a general ultrasound that isn't the high tech version.  We were able to still see that we were indeed having a girl though.  I think we both were a little in shock, mostly realizing that there still was a kid inside and that she was growing and gonna be our responsibility the rest of our lives.  We went and got some pink and blue balloons to do a little gender reveal video to send to our families.   I would post the video but its not saved to this computer.  Anyway there ya have it Baby Hepworth is healthy so far and we quite love her already.

Fathers Day

This fathers day weekend I was reminded of two fellas in my life and what they mean to me.  I think every little girl and big girl dreams of marrying a man that is like or similar to there father.    I am lucky enough to have the best father.   I'm also very lucky that I have a husband that is perfect and my kids will be very lucky to have him.   I was reminded on Sat. of a certain quality that both of them have that is such an example to me of selfless love.   (A little story)   Ever since we've moved into this new ward Daniel has tried to make it to every person that has moved outs house to help.  He's never been asked but if he hears word or sees a u haul he steps up.  He heard about a neighbor moving out various times and every time he went there was no sign of moving, but yet he still dropped everything to make sure.   This past Sat. we got home from a day in WVC, we were exhausted,  I was in a really bad mood and know I needed to start dinner.   He sees that theirs a u haul at there house at 7 at night (who moves at that time) he makes sure I'm okay and asks if he can go and help.  I tell him yes even though the whole time he's gone I'm just furious thinking this is not his job to always drop everything,  dinners gonna be cold, why can't he just spend some time with me.  (selfish I know)  Then I'm finally coming to my senses and think you know what it's okay.  Then of course he comes back and says I'm gonna follow them to there new place and help them move some stuff, I'm the only one helping them so I feel like I should.  (Are you kidding me, but yes dear you can go).   After he left I had this major moment where I was reminded of the selfless love that my sweet Daniel has.  I thought about all the sacrifices he makes for me and for others.   There has been so many times when he's asked to go with the missionaries, give someone a blessing, or just move like on Sat. with no time to even think.  When I came to this conclusion about Daniel I also was reminded that my father is the exact same way.  Just that day here we are for a dinner to celebrate him and he's no where to be found because he's serving my brother by making sure he had things he needed for his house.   I remember countless times growing up when my dad would drop what he was doing to serve a neighbor.   He borrowed tools (sometimes without a return ) to neighbors, he would give of his time to countless boys in the ward that didn't have amazing role model dads, he'd give blessings in non priesthood homes, he'd use his time off to go on all scout camps, he'd drop anything to run to the store for my mom, mowing a neighbors very long lawn, and just last week giving up a sat. to drive to Provo to help us with our car problems.    I'm so grateful for these two men in my life.  I mean how could you not love such amazing service minded men.  I know these two would never tell people the things they do, but I feel a little recognition is needed this Fathers Day.   I hope all fathers and some day fathers had a great day.

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.