and then my world changed.

oct 30 2008.  4 years ago. i found out i was pregnant and thus began the most bittersweet 9 months of my life. so much anxiety. so miserable. so blessed.

this is blastocyst carter. 

i made no bake cookies to celebrate my own little achievement. james went to the store at ten pm for butter so that i could conquer this quest. he is the best. and can i just say that no bake cookies sure make me happy :-)

i'll be loving you for quite sometime....

James got me the new taylor swift cd and i love it.

a day in the life

in instagram photos! i picked a day last week and took random pictures of my ordinary daily life.

The first thing I see when I wake up. :)

Then I check on this boy

sometimes he wakes up and I feed him

Action figures in the fridge.... seems right....

This is where I park

What I look at all day long.... (at the moment at least, I am moving offices next week to my PERMANANT home, yay!)

Grocery Shoppimg

Hanging out with these crazy kids (they are being chickens)

Finally dinner and putting munchkins to bed!

I watch my favorite tv shows: Modern Family

and The Middle

This is my favorite snack! James got me ADDICTED to these carmel apple sugar babies.  

That's about it! :) I love my life!

This and That

HIKING

I mentioned on Saturday that I have really wanting to go hiking so later when I got home James suggested we go up to our favorite canyon to do just that. :) It was such a beautiful day! I really enjoyed it.

THE ZOO

Monday we took Carter and Ava to the zoo. it was fun with just the little ones!

My DIY Projects

I really wanted to do something in the master bedroom but had a very small budget so I hit DI and got some frames for $1. I painted them with acrylic paint I had and i printed some things I found on Pinterest and voila, I spent like $5 (I had been wanting to try the picture on canvas project for a while so I decided to do that too with one of our family pictures

Here is the "before"

And the "after" 

A True Love Story Never Ends  

 I love us

My canvas picture... 

I had gotten this frame a while ago and just never got around to hanging it.

MY JAMES

James is such a sweetheart. My favorite part of the day is when the kids are asleep and we just hang out. Sometimes we watch tv, James will watch whatever it is I want like the Bachelorette, or The Voice. We read scriptures and pray, we talk, sometimes we play games. Its the perfect end to a hectic day of work and kids.

Life can be hard sometimes, But it can also be so sweet. I am so thankful that I have James in my life, he makes it happy, fun and interesting. Though the hard times I have been going through lately I have peace and comfort.  Between the Lord and my dear sweet love, things are ok.

Some things that lifted me up today: