Sushi, Dresses, and Chairs

I have lots to blog about since I haven't done so in a while, so here I go!...

Ok, so in my plot to find a way to store our shoes neatly, I went to Habitat for Humanity. I did not find anything for shoes (we eventually went for hanging shoe storage), BUT I did find this FABULOUS chair :) I am super excited about it! Only 5 dollars to top it all off :)

So, with the help of my dear friend Shawna, I have completed my very first dress! Or, at least one that is wearable :)

So Shawna (pictured above) not only helped me make a dress, but also introduced Matt and me to her FABULOUS sushi! Because it was SOOO good (that we couldn't even get it off our minds!) she offered to show me how to make it :) It was super fun, and very tasty!

LOADS OF FABRIC!!!

So, maybe this isn't exciting to anyone but me, but I am ECSTATIC!!! Someone in our ward was getting rid of a bunch of fabric, so I asked if I could have it (thinking one garbage bag full, maybe) and I get there and she had 6-7 garbage bags FULL of fabric!! All the wonderful things I can do with all this fabric :) Now I just need my friend Shawna to teach me how to read/use a pattern and I can just go CRAZY!!

The only question now is where to put it all?! I guess that is why I have a craft room :) To load with craft supplies, and free ones at that!

I think I will have to think up some fabric crafts for my YW to do because we could have a really good time with this fabric gold! (wow, seriously excited, can you tell?)

Link's First Time Swimming

Link loves his baths so we thought it only natural that he would love to go to the pool. Only, the water there isn't as warm as a bath so he wasn't too thrilled at first :) We kept him in the water until he got used to it, and he started to have so much fun not long after!

The Outside Of The House

So we got our very own lawn mower! First one we have ever needed. It's green so of course I love it :) And even though it is used, it works GREAT! So I have decided to show the yard now that it is cut and doesn't look so WT! I also planted my first flower garden EVER, so that is fun too. And my little pink flowers started with only one bloom and now there are five. How exciting :)

The stone path I found while gardening. It was covered by grass and weed so I have started uncovering it. It is quite a project so that is why I only have half of it done.

And when you look at the backyard pics you can see that Walmart is literally our backyard. This is a good and bad thing for us. We can walk through a gap in the fence so we go a lot more than we prob would, but it is a nice stroll when I need to get something, but don't want to load Link up in the car. Even though it is our background, we don't hear the noise from it so that is nice.

And there you have it :) Our very first yard!

The New House!!

Well we have gone from a studio apartment, to a one bedroom (not any bigger than the studio), to a two bedroom, and finally...a house! Funny how much you accumulate with a kid, and we only have one. This will be the last place we have to move while Matt is still in school. That is very comforting since I HATE moving. Of course it doesn't help that Matt and I have moved 4 times in our 3 years of marriage.

It is a 3 bedroom so now we have room for guests!...hint hint *:) We are really happy with it, and we will have more pics as I continue to decorate. As of right now I just have the living room finished so that's why there are so many pics of that :) As I decorate I will add more. Or you could just come see it for yourself....(another hint*)

Redhawks Gamee

We went to a redhawks game with some friends for family home evening and it was a lot of fun. The game was really short, though, so we had time to visit the OKC bombing memorial. (I don’t think that’s the official name...). The back wall of the memorial is the actual foundation of the federal building which I thought was really neat and really added to the memorial. The saddest part for me, though, were the cement chairs that were lit with peoples names on them. There was a chair for everyone that died in the bombing (168 people) and then there were smaller chairs for the little kids that died L I just don’t understand how people can do that.

All in all we had a really good night with friends, and had yummy nachos (a ball game must J)

Norman Tornado

So for those who don’t know already, we had a tornado in Norman. It dropped only 3 miles from our apartment, but luckily none of us were home. We are all okay, and we didn’t have any damage done, but there were a lot who did, and so we helped out Saturday. These are just some pictures from the houses we helped, and their yards we helped clear. The tornado was an F4, which is why some of these houses are beyond repair.