Stupid burns.

This is what happens when you're canning late at night and you're tired. Stupid burns.

The burns, late nights, sweat and messy kitchen are worth it all though. Here is what I've bottled so far this year. Vegetable marinara sauce, tomatoes, peaches, pear sauce (like apple sauce), strawberry jam, strawberry peach jam and raspberry jam.

Is this something I'll laugh about later?

Yes, that is lipstick on my douvet cover. No, I don't wear lipstick... in fact, here is a funny story about this lipstick. You know those "slumber" parties? Well I was invited to one and they gave out these little prize boxes containing goodies and mine happened to have a beautiful sunset colored (who wears that color) tube of lipstick inside. Little did I know that the lipstick was in the shape of a penis. Yep, you heard me right. I never wear lipstick and I probably won't ever wear lipstick (especially if it's shaped like a penis) but for some reason I happened to put it in my make up bag that Hendrix likes to sort through sometimes.
So I'm on the phone and I look over to discover that his hand is COVERED in lipstick and he's looking for something to wipe it on. I run into my bathroom (5 steps away) and when I get back to him (5 seconds later) he has already wiped his hand down the entire length of my W H I T E douvet cover. OMG! I couldn't react because I was on the phone but I almost started crying after.
Thank goodess for the internet, specifically GOOGLE because I was able to find a home remedy to remove this lovely shade of lipstick. If you're interested in the process in case this ever happens to you, here it is:
- I soaked the spots in rubbing alcohol for 10 minutes.
-Applied dishwashing detergent (grease cutting) on it for 10 minutes.
- Gently scrubbed each spot with a tiny toothbrush.
- Put bleach on the spots that were still kind of pink.
- Washed in hot water and prayed it would come out white again.

IT DID! SUCCESS! I really hope this is something I'll be able to laugh about later.

Picture Wall

So..... it's pretty obvious I've been a bad blogger lately. This might be the longest I've gone between blog posts, shocker huh? I just haven't really been in the mood to blog and I haven't taken too many pics lately. I've been busy canning and stuff... kind of on a canning kick right now.

Anywho, I look a picture of my picture wall the other day because it's finally what I pictured it to be like in my head 2 years ago when I started creating it. I have been taking down and putting up new frames for awhile but was never satisfied, until now.

 The glare was so bad from my window that I had to take the picture on an angle.

This yellow frame is my fav. I bought it for $5.00 at Michael's but it was this hideous gold color so I painted it burnt yellow (little obsessed with this color lately) and glazed around the edges. I love how it turned out and I've always pictured an oval fram on my wall. Check that off the list!

I'm sure I'll get sick of these frames in 6 months and change it all again. Why do I do that?

Tibble Fork Lake

We were bored Sunday evening and decided that a much needed trip to the mountains was just the ticket, plus is still super hot and the cool mountain air sounded fabulous. I feel really guilty that we take these incredible mountains for granted. It only took us 30 minutes to get up there and it was so amazing. Annie came with us because she loves us and can't live with out us. =) 

Hendrix loved splashing in the ice cold water and throwing rocks to his hearts content. We fed the ducks, checked out the dam and walked around the lake a bit. There were lot's of people fishing and camping... something else we need to do with Hendrix. Just add it to the list! We're hoping to go camping in the next little bit because Hendrix has never been (that would be my fault because I love showering too much to go camping.) Good times at Tibble Fork Lake though!

P.S- I special shout out to Annie for taking all of these pics! She's like a pro or something.



The air was kind of smokey from all of the camp fires.

 

 This is Hendrix running out of the water after he put his feet in and realized how cold it was.

 These 2 pictures are hilarious. He wanted NOTHING to do with taking pictures as you can tell by the expressions on his face.

 Happy boy!

 Feeding the duckies. All we had was gold fish crackers... everyone loves gold fish, even ducks!

 I love this picture because it shows how cute Hendrix's nose it. I'm so glad he didn't get my straight, boring nose.

 Watching the "waterfall" aka the dam.

 Some sisterly love goin on right here.

Meagan and Chloe come to visit!

My sweet sister in law Meagan and her baby Chloe came up to visit a couple of weekends ago. I'm so thankful Meagan took some pictures of Hendrix and Chloe together because I have ZERO pics of these two and we totally need to have some. They LOVED playing with each other and were so adorable together.

Here they are at Olive Garden for Denise's graduation party. Hendrix really wanted Chloe to sit on his lap even though they're roughly the same size. We were all impressed that Chloe cooperated and stayed there for so long. Aren't they so cute?

 Brooke and her kiddos came up Saturday night for a bit. It was super fun to have almost all of the cousins together... poor Cash was stuck in Texas, BOO! I totally love this picture though.

 Meagan snapped some pictures of the wedding cake and cupcakes she helped me with before we headed out the door. I stole these from her blog. Thanks again and again and again Megs, you're the best!

This is Judy's beautiful kitchen in complete distruction. Thank you SOOOOO much for letting me take over and detroy your kitchen Judy, you are the best!

Sisters Night.

Julie had to come up to Salt Lake on Thursday for a school outing and decided to stay over night. She didn't have Marcus with her and came up with the brilliant idea to have a sisters night. We were trying to remember the last time we went out as sisters with out babies or husbands and we couldn't even think of a time. That's pretty sad. We ate at Red Lobster (mine and Julie's favorite) where Julie gave us all snow crab cracking lessons. We're like professionals now. After dinner we hit up a Frogurt and lounged around while we ate our yogurt creations. Delish. I had so much fun and will always remember that night! I would die with out my sisters, I love them all so much. We missed Benny Boo Boo... maybe when he decides that it's cool to live in Utah, we'll have him come with us next time.

Moving on.

I hate bad days... and yesterday was a bad day. Late last night we realized that our 3rd attempt at IUI has failed. I went for a 7 mile run and thought long and hard about what we were going to do. I just wanted to run forever so that my emotions all became a blurr. I wanted to run until my knees started to shake and my muscles burned. I wanted to run away from it all and move on. While running I came to some conclusion in my head that I needed a break from all of the hormones, disappointment, anger and frustration. I need a very LONG break, one that I might not return from because I finally came to terms with the idea that we might only have one baby. And that's okay because he's the sweetest little boy in the entire world who's eyes sparkle like the twinkling stars in the sky. He's my best buddy and I love him from the depths of my beating heart. He makes me smile and that's all that matters.

If it's just the 3 of us for the rest of forever, then I will be happy and I will be grateful for my 2 handsome boys. I can feel myself moving on and letting go of the somewhat control I thought I had throughout this whole process. (This is where everyone says, "You wait and see... you'll get pregnant now that you aren't stressing about it." So let's just go ahead and skip those comments mkay? Thanks.) Now I look forward to a nice big house, Hendrix riding in the back seat of my cute little Audi, lot's of Disney Land trips and the best eduation for our son. Sounds pretty awesome right? "Table for THREE!" Yes please!