currently.

Postponing everything to work and play outside

loving... This spring weather. I'm going to brag a lot and say we've been having pretty amazing weather here lately. In fact, yesterday it snowed most of the day and decided to go sledding in decent temperatures. While today, the snow has disappeared in town and I'm wearing a t-shirt, soaking up the sun. Our temperatures are supposed to get up into the fifties by this weekend. I'm not gonna lie, I've been pretty over this fridged weather for a long time now, so I'm in a pretty happy place right now. I've been working out in the yard during every nice day we've had so far and I still have a long way to go, but I'm really happy with how much I've dug up, broken down, pulled, raked, shoveled, and trimmed!


Thinking about…  So many things at once! But I'll just choose one topic for now. One of my favorite childhood friends is headed off to New Zealand for quite a while, and I had to say good-bye to her last night. It's always so sad to see someone you love leave, but I'm SO HAPPY for her that she gets to go experience something so cool! I can't wait for her to come back with all her cool stories to share!


Watching... I found the Friends seasons three for the price of one. So I've been watching them a little every evening. It's my guilty pleasure show for sure.


Wishing... That Fruits and Vegetables were just plain.. well fruits and vegetables. I'm so tired of hearing about all these bad things we do to them. A normal, organic, Non-genetically altered food has to be labeled with all this information just to tell you it's a normal plant that was never messed with. I know it's all more "efficient" to change them, but really, I'm ready to just buy a food and it be just plainly a normal whole food.


Listening to… Liam Finn

eating... Roasted beets, cucumbers, spinach, and my homemade mustered/balsamic dressing... Tastes so much better than it sounds.

Our Weekend(on a Wednesday)

This last Saturday was one of our friends weddings, and it was a BEAUTIFUL one. Also, one of the cutest couples ever! I'm so excited for them. My SIL Danelle and her two(my niece and nephew) were also in the wedding!

Ring bearer sleeping in Grandpa's arms just before the ceremony

Wedding party table(so cool!)

Flower girl, Ellie

The next day, as we all know, was Super bowl Sunday. We have an annual tradition to spend all afternoon in Ouray, Colorado hot springs pool and then stuff ourselves at one of the best pizza places afterwards for dinner. We always make a point to visit the hot springs fish too and this time Everett was able to feed them a little bag of fish food as well.

Lately

I really thought, for some reason, that I'd have a pretty nice long break after Christmas, but I'm always wrong. Not complaining or anything, it's pretty nice to be keeping so busy, so now I'm trying to catch up on what's been happening lately. Our weekend was very eventful, and hopefully I'll get to our weekend post soon, but here's a little taste of what's been going on lately.

Mustache Monday, painting an Airplane

Starship Romance and friends. If you'd like to see the kinda cruddy video I took some short shots of each band with my phone check it out here. (if you watch it, can you spot green man?)

Playing drums and guitar at the same time, finding artsy drum heads the next morning

A snapshot of our morning, vintage coat hook I made

David's Birthday, Desert

Interviews With Everett

Instead of a doing a Project 365 or something crazy again, I wanted to try something a little more subtle. I'm going to try to do a videoed interview with Everett every month(or two) for the rest of the year. I'm not so worried about the part of being committed as I am being able to remember to do it every month. SO here's to hoping it'll work out! I hope you enjoy. xo -Liz

Stuffed Heart Banner DIY

 I can't stop putting up different banners in this certain spot of my living room. I made a new one for valentines and it was extremely simple.
If you'd like to make your own, here's what you do:
grab some scrap felt or buy some colors you like at your local craft store(they should only be about 30 cents a square). Cut out a heart shape out of cardboard or thick paper. trace it onto a folded piece of felt.

Cut just outside the lines for a seam allowance. You might want to cut the crevice of the heart a little deeper.

sew it along the line. Make sure you leave a little opening, of course. Turn inside out, stuff, and hand sew the opening of each heart, just like a pillow.

Take two different colors of yarn and twist them together. I used about three yards of each color.

find the middle of your yarn strand and work out from there. Sew tightly around the middle top of the heart and the yarn. Space each one evenly apart- mine were 8 1/2 inches apart.

Once you finish them off, find a great hanging spot and you're done! A little time costuming, but super simple and totally worth it. Enjoy! xo -Liz

Currently

Trying to get this guy to sit still for a photo is pretty much impossible 

Currently:

loving... My life. It's definitely not perfect, in ANY way, but when I stop and think about my life being in any other situation than what it is now, it just makes me all the happier to be where I am. My little dude is absolutely one of the funnest people I've ever known and I feel so grateful that I get to spend every day with him! I just can't think of it being any better in a different situation.

Reading… I've been reading a ton of various articles via the internet lately. As far as books go, I haven't taken much time for that sadly. I've been spending way too much time researching about various random interesting things like: Dreams, and Asthma and House Plants,

Obsessing Over… Purging, Organizing, and Rearranging. I don't know what its been lately, but ever since after all the Christmas shadings, I've been having this NEED to get my house completely organized and clean. I feel like we've been living too long in our unorganized, chaotic, unfinished house and someone needs to put a stop to that! 

Thinking about… I know I've mentioned once on here before about my BIL's band Starship Romance, he's been pouring a lot of hours into it, in fact, if you haven't already check out their awesome music video! David helped them out with it and plays drums through it. They have an upcoming show this Friday, so if you're in the Grand Junction area, I hope to see you there. David is going to be playing drums for two of the bands(including Starship) and they've been practicing and preparing for this upcoming show like crazy. So I'm super excited to see the outcome! 

Anticipating… Warmer weather. It's suppose to actually get above freezing here by next week! I can NOT tell you enough how much I miss even some semi warm weather. I love to spend a lot of time outside, in fact, I don't feel like myself unless I get a certain amount of time in the sunshine and this weather is making it impossible to do anything. Our back yard has a good foot or more of snow and I think our average high temperature the past few weeks has been a whopping 20 something, but most of the time it drops back down too fast to even enjoy that. OK! Enough complaining.

Listening to…

Lowlakes

Eating... Chia seed pudding with warm blueberries!  It's completely my new favorite breakfast!

Life Lately(according to iPhone photos)

 

Gray haired baby, Visiting Santa for the second time(lucky boy), Our Christmas light drive, Watching the choo-choo go around the tree, First haircut(did such a great job!), cousins on a sled ride, Too much fun in the snow, snowy cliffs, alaskan salmon and homemade caesar, Everett about to partake in the cake he helped make.