Sunday, November 25, 2012

crafting is my day job

As a stay at home momma, I have lots of time to make stuff I see on pinterest.  It rocks. Taylor and I have this wonderful marriage agreement: He can golf as much as he wants and I can craft as much as I want.  It keeps our relationship healthy on so many levels.  We both have an outlet and hobby that we feel completely supported in by the other.  Lately, I've been really cashing in on this arrangement by making lots of Christmas decorations.  

I've been feeling a lot of Christmas spirit this year.  I think it's a type of nesting.  I want to start our family traditions and memories now that we have little Lisey Lou.  There is just so much magic about the holiday's with a baby around.  The last two years of our marriage my Christmas decorating has been non existent.  So here's what I've been making so that we can have a little Christmas cheer around here.  Thank you pinterest.


giving thanks

Thanks giving this year was wonderful.  Lots and lots of family time!  The Browns came down from Washington and Jared and Morgan (+ peanut!) came from Rexburg.  It was so fun to have so many family members in town and then to be able to celebrate with the Runolfson family in their home--it was a perfect turkey day!

Julie made the best potato rolls I've ever tasted in my life.  Aunt Janna made this amazing homemade stuffing--like dry-your-bread-out-a-few-days-before-Thanksgiving-kind of stuffing and there was just tons and tons of amazing food. *Funny moment was when everyone had their LOADED plates and I looked over at cousin Noah's plate and all he has on his plate is one roll. Just one.  I guess he's a picky eater and was totally content to only eat rolls...they were really, really, good.*

The day was full of football, crafting, napping, eating, shooting guns and a little bit of Brave to round off the day.  It was perfect.  I married into a pretty great family.

Of course I wish I'd remembered to get more pictures..but here's what I got :)

 

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

i scream for ice cream..

Two months ago my mother-in-law came to Utah to help us move back in to our Wymount apartment (she da best) but CURSE HER for buying BYU Creamery ice cream...and Mrs. Richardson's hot fudge because I am now literally obsessed.  





I'd say once a week... at least...Taylor runs to the Creamery, I have to stay with the baby of course, and then comes home and scoops both of us up a bowl.  I like Cookies and Cream and tonight he was a German Chocolate guy.

Before E, we loved to go to the dollar theater and get the huge popcorn with half diet/half cherry Coke. These days we love our ice cream and shows: White Collar, Once Upon a Time and Shark Tank.


This is a really, really good life.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Sleeping Beauty

I'm a pretty spoiled momma... My little baby slept 9 hours straight last night!!! According to some websites sleeping through the night means five hours of uninterrupted sleep... Sweet Elise does that every night and some nights, like last night she gives us an extra special treat and she sleeps 9 to 12 hours!! I know I'm spoiled and I love being a mom to such a great baby! Oh...and when she does finally wake up... This is who I get to hang out with... Lucky momma!

Monday, November 5, 2012

Fresh Start

Today is a special day. Today, I am committing to anyone who cares, to actually write on my blog. My cousin Courtney, who is more like a sister, took time today to make this blog look just the way I wish I could make it look! It's perfect. Thanks Court!

I think I've avoided writing on a blog, in a baby book or even in a journal because there is SO MUCH going on that I feel overwhelmed and so I write nothing at all, which is actually quite pointless.

For me, this blog is a journal so I'm writing for me, but it's oaky if you want to read my journal :)

Taylor is going to BYU and studying Economics. He's working as a recruiter for Alterra Pest Control, who we sell with in the summer. {P.S summer sales is the best thing that ever happened to us despite my fear of it a few years ago}. He's my hero because he wakes up literally every morning between 6 and 7 am to pump iron at the gym. I love to squeeze his sexy muscles ;) Lucky girl, I know.. Actually, today he came home from school and meetings with a Chunky Strawberry from Jamba Juice for me.


Flowers are awesome but food....that's the next level...
Oh, just got a call from Taylor.  He's on his way home from making call for Mitt Romney and he's coming to pick me up so we can go get my iPhone!  This is what I currently have..

..Yeah I still T9...so I'm out, but posts full of Lise pictures...COMING SOON!


Wednesday, March 9, 2011

random month

So the last month we've done lots of things, however, we're still trying to get used to having a camera and remembering to take pictures. So here is a random smattering of what we've been up to.



I woke up at 6 for my early class and didn't want to wake up Taylor by turning on the light. Unfortunately, I was sitting in my class when I realized I had put on two DIFFERENT boots. GAH!



My cousin, Courtney, recently moved back to Rexburg with her husband and we've had a blast together. So we wanted to have a little fun. hee hee for V-Day we made these risque, love cookies for our hubbies. So fun to frost while chatting and listening to Michael Buble :) P.S. they were SO yummy!!!!



Taylor's brothers, Jared and Spencer and Jared's recent FIANCE, Morgan, came to visit for Valentines Day weekend and it was lots of fun! I wish we'd gotten more pictures...but we kept forgetting to whip out the camera. So here's what we did get pictures of!



After a full day of work, Jared, Spencer and Morgan drove 12+ hours through the night to get here. So it's no wonder that they slept in Saturday morning :) :)



While they slept in the living room, the rested Emily and Taylor played games in their room! It was fun because we had celery and peanut butter while we played SET. Never played? You should! SET is a game that actually makes you SMARTER! We love playing it for FHE. So fun!




Later that evening we had a junk food party while we watched a movie. Of course there was ice cream and then Spencer bought the most random candy--which turned out to be pretty popular. :)



Clearance licorice, old-school Sixlets and Mambas.



Another night we all played Phase-10, which is probably the best $5 ever spent. Hours of laughs.



The next weekend, we drove down to Utah to see Jess and Jordan and Lauren and Braden--I CAN'T BELIEVE WE DIDN'T GET PICTURES WITH EITHER OF THEM!!!!!!!! It was a whirl-wind Saturday because we drove down at 6 am and drove home, in a blizzard, the same night. It was amazing to see my dearest friends and catch up!! Taylor and I are that much more excited to move down to Provo next winter. So many good firends down there! Also while we were down there we stopped at IKEA and finally got a bookcase! I have wanted one since we first got married and we finally splurged and got one. Taylor build it as soon as we got home and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!!!!




The next week I got sick with the horrible, no-good, yucky flu. I was so sick I couldn't work for a week and Taylor took care of me like true champ. I knew I married an amazing man, but to be treated so incredibly well and to be loved so much in my ugliest hour proved that I married the BEST man. I'm a lucky girl. That-is-for-sure.

We've also been hanging out with our darling little cousin Emma's "Flat Emma". It's a school project she is doing and we are so happy she asked us to help out! We've been taking Flat Emma around with us for a couple weeks and she helped Taylor take care of me. She's also helped with a few other things like....



helping Taylor cook an artichoke....



YUM!!!!



And helping me study for a math exam!!!

We've had a great month and feel so blessed to be here in Rexburg (despite the weather). It's a great phase of our lives and we are loving every minute of it!!!!

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

utah mini trip


We spent the three day break in beautifu
l Utah with Taylor's good friends Jordan and Gavin and their great ladies--Erin and Natalie! It was a great escape to stay in the Woodward's beautiful home and enjo
y an escape from the chilly burg with great friends!

Five of us drove down together where we met up with Gavin's girl, Natalie.

First order of business in Utah? Scrounge 6 Jazz tickets. How much did we get them for? $10 each! Woot Woot! The Jazz smooshed the Cleveland Cavs to a pulp. I don't remember the final score but there was a big gap between the scores. GO JAZZ!

We found a neat Asian Gifts store that was quite entertaining! The boys LOVED all the freaky looking weapons....

Erin, Em and Nat <3

All of us including the Woodward's darling daughters Keeli and Kapri. It was fun to spend time with little kids :)

Temple Square was a Sunday must. We had fun taking lots of pictures around the temple.