Overwhelmed by the craftiness.....

As I have mentioned before, I like to do crafts. I'm happiest when I have a big project to work on. Right now I am making a cross-stitch Christmas light sampler ( I love samplers best of all).

I also have a baby afghan I am crocheting, I bought fabric to make our family matching pajama pants, and I just went to a huge scrapbook sale and bought a bunch of supplies to do scrap booking.

I love all these things, and I really want to get back into scrap booking. The only thing I don't like about it is not having room to spread out and really get it done. It seems like once I get all the paper, cutters, embellishments, pictures etc. out, it's time to put it all away! I would love to have a craft room where I can have huge tables and organized paper stackers and all the fun things for scrap booking on one side of the room and then another side for sewing. If everything was already ready for me then I think it would be easier to get things started and finished. It seems like it's harder getting things ready so it's just easier to put it off and not do it at all.

I talked to Chris about it and asked if we could set up a place for me in the basement. We are thinking over our options and wondering if I can handle extra mess in the bedroom. It's really the only option. I'm sure I can keep things neat, especially if I don't have to put everything away, just tidy. who knows?

Someday, when we have our own house, I will make a spot just for me. Until then I will have to make due, even if it means carrying everything up to the kitchen table.

Things I Like Saturday

This is something I really like. It is my husband's style. He's not afriad to do things a little different than other people. He has a style all his own. The thing that really attracted me to him was his nonchalant attitude and not caring about what other people think of him.

Just one of the many things I love about my man.

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Things I Like Saturday.

I have decided to to a weekly post called "things I Like Saturday" . I will be posting pictures and descriptions of random things I like. Today I am posting about a pretty cool thing I like. It is the Salt Lake Temple.

I got to go there today. I consider myself to lucky to be minutes away from such a wonderful sacred place. Going to the Temple today was something I really needed and I'm so grateful I can do so whenever I want to. Such a beautiful, reverent, special feeling I have when I am there. I'm especially thankful that Tristan got to be there with me. I am loving my new calling.

Exercise your right

Something new in the works......

I will now officially be crazy busy! I just got a new church calling. I am the second counselor in the Young Women program! I haven't been in YW since I was one (and a beehive? wow that was 22 years ago almost (wow, I'm old)). I'm really excited about it, still don't know exactly what I'll be doing, but from what I hear, I will be busy! I hope that I will be able to do a good job. I went on Sunday and I think there were more leaders there than girls. Hopefully we can get more girls to come to church. But even if they are all there, there are only 15 Young Women total in our ward. We need some families with teenagers to move into our ward!

give me something good to eat!

Halloween this year was really fun! We had the warmest weather I can remember. We didn't even have to wear our coats trick or treating so we could really show off our costumes.

We went trick or treating with our friends, the Flittons. We had a great mix of costumes. It was fun going with them, they live in a great neighborhood. Thanks for inviting us!

Tristan was a "recycled costume" he took bits and pieces from old costumes and put them all together into this beauty.

He won a prize at a costume party with the young men and young women.
Connor was a Ninja. Notice how stealthy he is.
Anna was a princess.
We got tons and tons of candy! I think that we trick or treated more than we ever have before.

We got home and got visited by ONE trick or treater! I guess we missed out on that part this year. So now we have all the candy the kids got and the 4 bags I bought to pass out.

can you say sugar high?