Catching up...

I know that I should keep my blog more recent but I have been supre busy with work, and I just don't think my life is that interesting but I do have some news that I thought that I would share.

I have been working a ton lately, I worked 6 days then had two off, my mom and I went to Idaho falls during those two days to visit my friend and her baby. Then I work another 6 days had 3 days off and now I am in the middle of working 8 days straight, so I have been working a ton! But I love my job, so I don't mind much. We finally got out new schedule, I now work the 3am to 130pm shift for 7 days straight and then I have 7 days off. Which means I can maybe go visit some family on those off weeks, I haven't been to my one uncles house in years, and I keep saying I'm going to go. One of these days I'm just gonna pack up and say Uncle Clint I'm on my way. I do like my new shift, it means I have to be up at 2am to be to work on time which is way earlier than I have ever wanted to get up for work. I am not a morning person, but I have found that I kind of like mornings, I feel more awake during the day when I work mornings than when I work night shift. And I get to sleep in on the weekend that I work til 430am which let me tell you 2 1/2 extra hours is great!

I am going to Missouri next Thursday and coming home on Saturday. My boyfriend is graduating from the National guard so I am meeting his family there and going to his graduation, it is a surprise he doesn't know I am coming it is my birthday present to him. I will have to take pictures and post them later, I haven't used my camera much, but he sent me a picture of him and his niece before he went to boot camp so I will post that below. His name is Casey Unruh, we have dated off and on, and have known each other for 5 years. He lives in Arizona, but we've talked about him moving to Idaho this summer. So we will see.

Tage is growing like a weed. He is talking way more, which is hilarious. You can ask him "what does a chicken say?" and he'll make the noise and he knows about 12 animals if you ask him like that. And then he has two new words that he says and I love them. He learned to say Zorro, (zorro is his dad's cat) and he learned to say spider (which comes out shider) I giggle everytime he says it.

Easter was good, I had to work and Tage was at his dad's for most of the day, but he came home and hunted for easter eggs in the house. We just use the plastic ones with candy in them. He would scoot around pick up and egg open it, take the candy and chuck it across the room and then play with the empty egg. He did that with every egg there was candy everywhere.

Bo went hunting for turkey and go a big one, the beard was 9 7/8 long, which is bigger than my grandpa's was so he had to rub that in just a little.

The weather has been kind of nice here lately, it is a little chilly in the mornings, but by afternoon it has warmed up a little I think todays high is suppose to be like 63 or something. But it's not snowing and I don't need a coat just a jacket so I am happy.

I am still selling stuff for my grandpa on craigslist, it has slowed down but that's okay. We are having his 70th Birthday party tonight as soon as I get off work I am headed there. I can't think of anything else really to say. Oh I painted my bathroom, it was a mint green color (my grandma use to have that bathroom) and I changed it to a tanish brown color. Which matches really well with the counter top, it is a marbled tan/brown.

So that is how interesting my life is as of right now, it's busy but fun.

Tage with Zorro

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Friends Wedding....

I think that I said this before but I am not sure. Two of my friends married each other on the 7th of March, and I was one of the photographers. They asked me to take the pictures, so I asked one of my friends to go with me and then one of his friends came too. So we all took pictures at the temple, and then I was the only one at the reception that took pictures of us three. So here are some of the pictures from the reception I think they turned out pretty good, I haven't edited them yet or anything, but they are still okay. Hope you all enjoy them. Amanda I hope you love them!

This is Amanda and Jack McKie, They were married in the Boise Temple on the 7th of March, 2009. I went to High school with Jack and I met Amanda through young womens.

This is Heidi, Amanda's sister pinning Jack's boutonniere back on.

Jack and his groomsman, two of them were his brother, can you guess which ones?

Amanda and her Bridesmaids, I thought this was a really cute picture.

Amanda and her dad, I love this picture there were several I have of them dancing that I like.

Jack and Amanda dancing their first dance as husband and wife, they make a pretty cute couple.

Playing catch up

Okay so I know that I haven't done a blog in like forever, but I have been really busy. I still don't have my 7 on 7 off schedule yet, they are changing every ones schedules and they are having a hard time pleasing everyone. I am part time though so I do get insurance now which makes me happy.

I am still working for my grandpa selling furniture, it is a great little side business that doesn't take up to much time. In fact I have to go in tomorrow and take some more pictures because we got some new stuff in.


Bo just turned 14 yesterday on the 21st. We had a little family party and he opened gifts and we had cake and ice cream, I am taking him shopping tomorrow for his present. He wanted to go shopping so I said that is what I would give him for his birthday present. He also went to Wahooz, which is a go cart/laser tag/game room place and he took one of his friends with him. My mom and I took him, it was a lot of fun.


I haven't done much sewing lately, I have so many projects to finish though that I really should do some of them. I do have a bunch of pictures to post of projects I have finished recently, but the pictures wouldn't load and since the pictures are the majority of the post I will try again later.


My family and I are going to my grandpa's cabin this weekend. It is spring break so we are all leaving on Thursday to go up there and go 4-wheeling and steel head fishing, and stuff like that. My grandpa and his girlfriend are going to so it should be a fun time. I will take my camera and post pictures when I get back.


Oh my mom, Shandi, and I went to the elementary school carnival on the 13th of March and had a blast. We sat and played bingo, and won a bunch of stuff. I won several dinner gift certificates, my mom won some aspen trees from a local nursery, we won some bowling passes, cookie dough (which is really good), and a few other things. It was a really fun night.


I have been talking to Casey (a guy I use to date) recently, he just joined the National Guard and this past week was his last week at boot camp, now he has 6 weeks of special training. He is coming to visit me in May. And I think he is going to meet Bo, mom and I down in California when we go to Disneyland. I really excited to get to see him again. We dated about a year and a half ago almost two years, and have talked to each other almost everyday since we broke up. We've gone and visited each other, and texted each other while we were at work when there is a lull. So it was kind said we could do all that for the past 6 weeks, I did get to talk to him 3 times though when he had passes.


Here are just some pictures that I have taken recently.





This is a picture shandi and I took while we were in the car. I had gotten a soft serve ice cream cone from McDonalds and Tage wanted a bite, and this is what he looked like when he was finished sharing.
This is what the Easter bunny looks like at our house, a smirk and a little bit of camo.

As most of you know, I change my hair ALL the time, whether it be the style, color, cut. This is my latest look, I went dark and I have an A line cut where it is longer in the front and shorter in the back I love it, and it is super easy to style which makes it nice.



This is Tage fishing at the school carnival, he won a ball at this game. I think he really enjoyed it, he only played a couple of games because the rest he wasn't big enough for but it was fun.

So as we are walking down the hall at the carnival there are all these little kids, with balloons, and Tage kept pointing and saying balloon, balloon, balloon, so I went and bought him one, which was a fantastic idea because it kept him busy while we played bingo, as you can see he is totally content on just chewing on the string.

Projects...

So I have been working on a few projects lately and since I have 6 days off I hope to finish a few more. I have taken some pictures of some of them and when I finish the others I will post them too. I have been doing well, this past Saturday two of my friends got married to each other, in the Boise Temple, and I was one of their photographers. They asked me and I recruited a friend that does it professionally to help me out. I will post some of the pictures I took later, their wedding was absolutely gorgeous! Her dress was amazing. I also knew the bride that came out before them and the bride and groom that came out after them. It was a crazy day. Other than that I have just been working a lot.

These are the burp rags I have been working on, I put them in packs of 4 and give them away.

The edges are frayed like a rag quilt, they turn out really cute and are super easy to make, I can make two out of a 1/2 yard of fabric.

This is one block from a new quilt I am working on, It is going to be black,white,and hot pink, obviously. All the corners are going to be pink and the other pieces with alternate between being black with white, or white with black.

This is one of the baby quilts that I just finished, it has frogs on it.

This is a close up of the frogs.

The back is a green strip this is a picture of the front and the back.

Just an Update

So nothing to exciting has been going on. I found out today that I will have a full time job with in the next two weeks. I have just been working on call, but my boss told me today that I will have a 7 on 7 off schedule which I really like that kind of schedule. My old roommate had a baby on the 18th, she had a little girl and they named her Brinley Rose, I guess she has a lot of hair but I haven't seen picutres yet. My family and I went to my Grandma's this weekend to help her with some stuff. She taught my sister how to quilt, well she helped her start her first quilt and I started another one. Yeah I know I should finish the three I have started. Tage lately has been a funny kid, when you try to take his picture he squints his eyes because he knows the camera is going to flash. Here are some pictures of him trying to not get the flash in his eyes.

This last picture is just Tage playing in my boots, there were sitting in the living room and he wanted to try them on.

Finally a picture...

So I know that when I first got back off my mission I talked about a crayon roll that I made at an enrichment day (super saturday) with my mom and sister and I never posted a picture and now I have one. If anyone is interested in the pattern let me know. I thought that it was a pretty cool thing to have in a purse or church bag for little kiddos.

You can put whatever material you want this one has dinosaurs and mine has crayons on it and it takes such little fabric.