My birthday!

I had an amazing birthday, turning 24 was pretty fun! The night before my birthday we went to Fort Collins for birthday dinner at red robin(yummm) and then we went to cold stone for desert:-) We gave Khloe a bite of ice cream and she was in LOVE! it was pretty cute to watch her reaction! Then on Wednesday while Steve set up the sink for my salon I made dinner for my family to come up and celebrate with us. I made Paula Dean beef stew over mash potatoes, soo good! and then tried an Oreo cake from pinntrest and it was HORRIBLE! Never again...we ended up running to Safeway to get peanut butter Oreos and ice cream, soo good:-)

For my birthday Steve and Khloe got me a hair cutting chair, mirror, washing sink and dryer! I am so excited to be able to start doing hair again! I LOVE being a stay at home mom and really don't want to work outside the house but I get sooooooooooo soooooooooooo sooooooo bored sitting at home! this way I can stay at home AND work! Ill post pictures when we have everything up and running:-)

house!

We have been working like horses trying to get our new house liveable! When we moved it it had all white walls and old nasty light fixtures and blinds that looked like they had seen one to many days. I am so sad we forgot to take before and afters, every time we started a project we were so excited that we just forgot! These pictures are not very good, the house turned out really hard to photograph!

we still have a bit of work to do with hanging things on the walls and window coverings but I haven't had time to even think about that!
we only two things we sacrificed in this house was the second bathroom is SMALL, and hardly and closet space! its a good thing the basement is unfinished and all our stuff can go down there!



I want to refinish the cabinets to either cream or a really dark brown, and get new counter tops, but that's way to much to even think about doing right now!
This is Steve's HUGE couch! he picked it out himself! He did a great job! its so nice to cuddle with Khloe and Buddy and watch movies all day:-) Every time I used to see a fireplace "hidden" and not the center of the room, or covered with kids toys I got soo annoyed because I have always wanted one, i am now the one "covering" the fireplace with toys and a HUGE couch!

my amazing finds!

Khloe has never been attached to anything before but this pink monkey from grandma Jensen has changed EVERYTHING! She carries it every place she can! including bed, the worst part is I cant find another one and the monkey cant be washed...it could be a sad day when monkey has to be put "away".

This last Saturday I went to a Grab Bag sale at Once upon a Child, honestly not a fan of second hand stores but I thought I would give it a try! I have changed my mine on second hand stores, not only did I find name brand clothing WITH TAGS STILL ON, but toys that have NEVER been used! for $70 dollars I grabbed 3 Never used and SUPER cute jackets 13 outfits All tags on and from places like Gymboree, gap and children's place couple skirts(once again tags still on from name brands) a vest, 3 walker toys couple books all brand new just not from the typical place! I couldn't believe it! people were actually throwing away perfectly good kids items! I was soo excited to find all these good deals!

New car!

Well like I said we would "try" to be without a new car for a month...NOPE! Steve's job requires him to have a car to go to the bank and run and grab stuff during work, leaving me and Khloe with no car...we took 2 days of not having a car and went insane!

So this is my new beauty:-) She gets 500 miles to a tank! 40mpg on the highway and about 31 in town!! I didn't want ANOTHER small car because Steve and I are super tall and driving long distances to Idaho and Utah are so miserable but this car has MORE room than our SUV! Khloes car seat even fits perfect, refacing even! I'm in love with her!

Life

Its no surprise the last 10 months of our life have been combined with blessed events(khloe, moving closer to family) and multiple HORRIFIC(pipe break, hail dented car) events. Well last night I got a phone call from steve saying he had been in an accident! another HORRIFIC event in life, we are blessed he was not hurt but that was most definitly NOT the case for our corrolla.

We have decided to TRY and live with only one car for awhile, my guess is that we will have to have another car within a month. That corrolla has REALLY taken a beating this last year. We keep saying we will be fine if NOTHING else happens to us, and yet one thing after another continues to come. SOOO im not saying that any more now ill say

"When the next HORRIFIC event happens, we Will get through it"

~Khloe and her Buddy~

The day Khloe came home from the hospital, Buddy has looked over her every morning and night! Its so much fun to watch their relationship grow!

I hope to have some pictures of our new home next week, but we still have a bit of work to finish!!

Thanksgiving!

Well these are a bit late but to cute not to share!

She makes this face alllll the time I LOVE it!

We had such a fun time in Colorado for Thanksgiving, Christmas was going to be in Idaho this year but stoves work requires him to be around...We will miss being in Idaho with his family but maybe next year they can come see us for christmas?!