Summer Blog Challenge: Catch up

So I'm behind again so I'm playing catch up on the Summer blog challenge.

July 3, travel plans for the summer.
We arent actually traveling anywhere this summer that I know of. We may visit my mom at some point, but I'm not sure when. But I do know that my BFF and her hubby are coming to visit me this summer, which I'm super excited about.
July 4th was a free day
July 5th talk about a fear you have.
My biggest fear is that something would happen to Morgen or the girls. My family is my whole world and I am always hyper aware of where they are and what is going on with them. I get upset when even the tiniest little thing happens to any of them. Today Tabitha fell down and hit her head really hard. Even though I know she's ok, I'm so upset about it, It was totally my fault. I was holding her hand and I tripped.

July 6th What is a holiday tradition you have in your family.
Growing up someone would always play santa and pass out presents. Its still something that my family does. I can't wait till our kids get to start doing it, they will be so cute when they start passing out presents.

July 7th Something I would attempt if I knew I wouldn't fail.
I would love to create my own clothing line. I love to sew and design, but i'm not all that great at drawing so all my designs are in my head not to mention the crazy amount of money I would need to start, but its a lovely dream.

July 8th Song lyrics you find some meaning in.

These are the lyrics to The Luckiest by Ben Folds, Its Morgen and My song.

I don't get many things right the first timeIn fact, I am told that a lotNow I know all the wrong turnsThe stumbles and falls brought me here
And where was I before the dayThat I first saw your lovely face?Now I see it everydayAnd I know that I amI am, I am the luckiest
What if I'd been born fifty years before youIn a house on the street where you live?Maybe I'd be outside as you passed on your bikeWould I know?
And in a wide sea of eyesI see one pair that I recognizeAnd I know that I amI am, I am the luckiest
I love you more than I haveEver found a way to say to you
Next door, there's an old man who lived to his 90'sAnd one day, passed away in his sleepAnd his wife, she stayed for a couple of daysAnd passed away
I'm sorry, I know that's a strange wayTo tell you that I know we belongThat I know that I amI am, I am the luckiest


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Tiny Prints Christmas Cards

So I was looking at christmas cards for this year, and OMG have you seen tiny prints cards? They are so freaking cute!! While I was looking they have a great feature on their website where you can add all your favorites and then look at them individually and personalize so you can find the one that is perfect for you.

They have some truely awesome cards. Seriously! They have the normal folding cards, all of which are beautiful, but they also have flat fold cards, round cards that look like ornaments, trifold cards and even ones where your picture is an ornament that spins! How cool is that? I've been having such a hard time trying to decide which one I like the best! Let me show you some of my favorites.

I think this one is my favorite. If I had a little tiny baby I would so use this one, too bad Evangeline isn't due till Feb. 

How cute is this for a couples first christmas as Mr and Mrs.? So sweet! 

So you see my dilemma? There are just so many awesome cards that its hard to choose from! Want to get some awesome cards yourself? Go here  On the left hand side of the page there are ways to narrow down your results so you can find what your looking for. 

I can't wait to start getting cards in the mail! I made a cute little card holder last year from a embroidery hoop some cute fabric and clothes pins. I can't wait to start putting up cards! Christmas is definitely my favorite time of year and I love getting cards and sending them! 

for full disclosure, I am being compensated by Tiny Prints for this review. All views are my own. all pictures are property of Tiny Prints. 

Tabitha"s first cristmas!

Tabitha had a pretty good first christmas. On Christmas eve we went to the Chipman's for Chipman's corner. It was a lot of fun and tabitha had fun playing with melonie chipman.


we read the christmas story and opened christmas eve pj's her's were from her Avo Bob, and she looked so cute in them.
The next morning we woke up (at 9am!) and went down to eat breakfast.



then we opened her stocking. She got a ball that i made her, a fresh food eater (basicly a mesh bag on a binky ring so she can eat food without choking on it. ) new binky clips i mad her, and two new binkies. she also got a new hefelump. in the pic it doesn't really look like she cares all that much but she did love it.


Then we opend all her other presents which she seemed to like. My favorite was her new car seat that her granny and grandpa walt got for her. We're so excited about that one!
Tabitha on the other had does not look so excited. but we put it in the car today and she likes the cup holders. she made a mess with jo's o's today and I picked them up and put them in the cup holder and she loved that. she just sat there eating out of the cup holder for a good 10 min.
on another note, morgen got me a sewing machine bag and some more drawers for my fabric and a small set of drawers that goes on my desk to hold my thread. i was really excited about that one. and morgen's parents got me a gift card to jo-ann fabrics i'm so excited i get to go there and buy something for myself! also they got us a gift card to olive garden and a movie and are going to babysit for us so we can go on a date! thats super exciting!

Today was not such a good day unfortunately. I had back spazums all night so i was super tired and tabitha had a hard night because she got scared when i was in pain and she wanted me to hold her but i couldn't so she cryed for over an hour. when i was finally able to get up and cuddle with her she went right to sleep. but today was a crabby day for her. We went and got our errands done, she was still upset that i couldnet carry her since my back still hurt, but we managed. We got my oil changed, went to old navy and got some jeans ($15!) and went to costco to get my eyes checked. then we came home and took a nap (it was already 5pm by this time). Then she ate dinner played while we packed and went to bed. Morgen is still packing and we'll be leaving tomorrow after sacrament meeting. Can't wait to spend a week with my family!

My Husband Rocks!

My Husband Rocks! Today he made dinner for me (it was my turn but i went to enrichment), Did some laundry for me and finished my new banner for my blog! He's just so awesome!
In Christmas news, I finally got everything i need to make presents and i now have a ton of sewing to do in the next few weeks. Tomorrow we need to finish our christmas cards so i can get them out before saturday. We also need to take pictures of our stroller and post it for sale on Craigslist, so if anyone is interested in a basicly new Mia Moda Atmousferra stroller We're selling ours for $300, we paid over $400 with shipping. ITs just not what we need, and some friends are going to sell us thier uppa baby vista since they just had another baby and are getting a double stroller.
Still no news on BYU for morgen, DeAnza is taking forever to send his transcripts to BYU, they have had all his other transcripts for a while, but DeAnza is taking thier sweet time. Its looking more and more likely that he will have to switch is application to the spring instead of winter.
I'm almost finished with this semseter at gav, I have a few more weeks left of my worthless art class. Seriously i didn't learn anything in this class except that the teacher thinks that the only artists are photographers, and that she doesn't care if you have a learning disablity, if you spell a word wrong she will yell at you, (as in use all caps and tell you to fix your spelling, its an online class so using all caps and a bunch of exclimation points is equal to yelling, i think she needs to take a class in netiqite). My film class ended 2 weeks early and i thouhgt i wasn't doing well, although the teacher gives no feedback when you turn in stuff, but when i went to turn in the DVD with my film, he said i did a great job on my other projects. So cool!
I'm trying to figure out what classes i'm gonna take next semester. It depends on where morgen goes to school, if he goes to west valley, i'm going to take some photography and a sewing class, if he goes to Gav i'm goning to take some child development and health education classes.

I'm looking forward to Tabitha's first christmas, its going to be so much fun! We're going to see santa on saturday so we'll see how that goes. I'll post pics if she doesn't cry. I hate those pictures of children crying on Santa's lap, i don't know why people find them funny?
We went and got our chirstmas tree the other day and it was so much fun.
Usually it takes hours to find the right tree, and this time, we drove in asked the guy where we might find an 18 foot tree (yes 18 feet) and he directed us to the back of the cut your own lot. We went on a one lane road to the back of the property and about 5 min after we got out they had found our tree and everyone agreed it was the one. its so pretty. we even got a spice angel to hang up in the kitchen while we were there.
These are pictures from lunch, we went to a Chines place after getting the tress, and tabitha had cheerios. she is getting really good at feeding herself.






Tabitha is doing so good, i swear every day she's learing something new!
She is so sweet and she giggles all the time now. Here is a super cute video of her on the swings the other day.

Good Night all!