Johnny at 11 Months

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Journaling:

Johnny turned eleven months old on May 13, 2013. He loves to eat bananas and he usually rubs his messy hands in his hair, giving himself a crazy awesome spiked look!

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Johnny turned 11 months old last week!

Dustin cut Johnny's hair the night this picture was taken. I loved his spiked hair and miss it, but I don't miss the banana mess he would make in it!

At 11 months Johnny::

:: hasn't cut that eighth tooth yet, but its coming!

:: is sleeping through the night. YAY!

:: starting to walk. He takes steps but won't get serious and walk from place to place.

:: gives kisses

:: is so small. I can't believe he'll be one soon! He's just a tiny string bean of a kid.

:: waves and claps

Mother's Day

Mother's Day was great.
Saturday, Dustin and I spent most of the morning in Las Vegas, where we attended the wedding of our cousin and his sweet bride! The sealing, performed by Grandpa Whitney, was wonderful. I always love to hear the blessings and promises of the sealing covenants that we made, (almost 9 years ago!) again. After the temple, we went to Lowe's and got my Mother's Day present.. new fans for my living room!!

Sunday morning, Dustin got up early with Johnny and made breakfast while I showered and got ready for church. The kids were all angels and doted on me and showered me with love and kisses. They even cooperated long enough for a photo!!

This Sunday was also my first day as the new Primary secretary. That was a whirlwind of fun! I have a whole new respect for Primary Presidencies (or any presidency.. or any church calling really) now that I'm having more "grown up" callings. Its truly an honor to work with the children in our ward and I'm so excited for the adventure that I'm embarking on!

Allie and Mark (Estefan spent the day with his mom) were able to answer questions about me during Singing Time and this is what they said (in italics):

Mark: My mom is almost 60 years old. My mom weighs 30 and 60 pounds. My mom's favorite color is blue and red. My mom's most favorite, favorite food is macaroni and cheese. My mom always says I love you when I say I love you to her. My mom cooks the best lunch and dinner. My mom's job is to take care of me and my family. My mom laughs when I tell her something funny. If my mom had time, she would love to watch me play baseball with my dad. My mom and I like to sometimes paint together. My mom really loves me giving her something that she likes. I love my mom because she loves me.

Allie: My mom is 26 years old. My mom weighs 78 pounds. My mom's favorite color is red and turquoise. My mom's favorite food is spaghetti. My mom always says she loves me. My mom cooks the best homemade macaroni. My mom's job is she works on the computer. My mom laughs when we tell her funny jokes. If my mom had time, she would love to take me on a girls day. My mom and I like to have a girls day. My mom really loves to go on camping trips. I love my mom because she loves me.

Luke made this super cute hand print flower in nursery!
The flower book was made by Allie in school. The books has pictures and more fill in the blank type things: If I could give my mother something special just from me, it would be a new sapphire ring and a big kiss! I want to thank you, mom, for loving me, giving birth to me, giving me toys. My mother looks prettiest when she goes to church. I know my mother loves me because she takes care of me. She helps me when I am sick. My favorite thing about my mother is she is beautiful. My favorite time together is when we go on girls days and watch a movie at night.

Mark made this in preschool. Best Mom, Hands Down. Mom you bring me mounds (Dustin ate it.. lol) of joy when you make me cookies. You make me snicker when you tell funny things. (Mark stuck on a piece of string for some reason.. silly boy!) You are extra special because you give me money when I work hard for it. Kisses I love you, Mark.

And my Mother's Day scrapbook page!
I fell in love with this template in the Split Pea Soup pack from Little Green Frog Designs over iNSD weekend. I love the circular elements! The design kit is by Megan Turnidge, of course!

The journaling is the words from the song Mother, I Love You from the LDS Children's Song Book.
I love that song and never tire of hearing my kids sing it!! It brings tears to my eyes thinking about my kids singing it in Sacrament meeting and when I remember that Heavenly Father sent them to me. I'm so grateful to be a Mother and for the sweet spirits that I've been given to raise!

Happy Mother's Day!
I love you mom! Thank you mom and all the other wonderful mothers who have influenced me and made me the mom that I am today!!

A Vintage Inspired Sign Tutorial

This tutorial was recently featured on, my sister's blog, Him & Her
and I thought I'd share it on my blog as well! 

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The tutorial that I'm sharing with you today was inspired by the "Life is better on the Farm" sign that I recently made. I painted an old piece of wood turquoise and then added my vinyl and distressed it. After I got it done I was telling Dustin how I wished that I could make the vinyl look distressed like the wood.

He had a fabulous idea to try on our next sign project.. to start we'd paint a piece of wood white, add the vinyl, then paint it our color and finally peel the vinyl off, revealing the white distressed wood instead of the shiny vinyl!

So I immediately started another sign project, that I'm sharing with you today!

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To start you'll need a piece of wood and some vinyl lettering.

1. Spray paint your board white or whatever color you want your text to be.
Distress if desired. Dus thinks its hilarious that I like things to look "old and crappy"! ;)

2. Once the paint dries add your vinyl lettering

3. Outside or in a well ventilated area, spray paint your wood the color you want your sign to end up. Right on top of your vinyl lettering! 

 

4. Before the top coat of paint dries completely, grab some tweezers and start peeling your vinyl off. 

If you wait too long and the paint dries fully the paint may peel off with the vinyl.

5. After your sign dries completely, you can give it a nice once over with a very light grit sand paper and distress the edges with a heavier grit, giving it that fun vintage look.

Here is a close up of the white lettering, after peeling back the vinyl. Love it!!

And a look at where the cute sign sits on the shelf in my kitchen!

The quote we chose is very special to our family. Not only do we love gardening and the literal meaning behind "reaping what you sow" but also the spiritual message behind it.

Dustin was inspired by this Gerneal Conference talk for the quote. 

And I especially loved this segment of President Perry's talk:

One must be impressed with the great message of the Lord’s law of the harvest. His system produces growth, multiplication, and abundant rewards. Surely as we watch the blessings of this growth cycle each year, we would expect His children to catch the vision of their mortal potential. He has entrusted to many of His children during their earthly ministry the opportunity of caring for His special creations—His sons and His daughters. It is surely the greatest of all responsibilities which He has delegated to mankind.

So not only is it a reminder for us to tend to our literal gardens but also that we must tend to our children very carefully. That we and our children may reap the good that we sow in them. 

 Which as President Perry said, "is surely the greatest of all responsibilities which He (our Heavenly Father) has delegated to mankind."

I'm giving away a 10x12 version of the vinyl I used for this project. 
To win click here and leave a happy comment!!