Monday Night Craft Night

Tonight was a fun girl's night at Lisa's apartment! Jess and Lisa had seen my 25 goals blog post from my birthday and decided to make goal books of their own, yay!!! So I got to go and donate my 'expertise' haha... not so much! Pizza + Beer + Scrapbooking + The Bachelorette = Awesome Night :)

Lisa working away on her book.

Jess cutting the paper for her book.

We made quite the mess... evidence of some serious scrapbooking going on!

The end result... Jess' on the left, mine in the middle (nothing different from the last time you saw it), and Lisa's on the right. And the girls informed me that I should clarify that my book is only a 4x6 sized mini-book. I was told that when pictured it looks much bigger and can be misleading ;) I chose the 4x6 size because I can easily print out the pictures as a 4x6 and insert them into the book as a page right away. But you could easily change the size of the book to anything you want.

Here we are with our books... now we better get busy accomplishing all our to-do's! Can't wait for our winery visit so all 3 of us can check that goal off the list. Now Jess... you'd better get your own blog going so you can finish another goal ;)

Jeryn's Baptism

Jeryn's baptism was last weekend in Great Bend and was a big celebration for that special little lady! After everything that happened back in February it was a very special day for everybody.

Jeryn loves baths and water so she didn't mind it one bit!

Jeryn has not one but TWO Godfathers to watch out and take care of her. The church didn't mind having two guys for the Godparents so Jerad and Ashley asked their brothers to be the Godfathers. Jeryn's future boyfriends better look out!

Our favorite little girl!!!

Our favorite nephews!

The Godfathers

Abuelo Bob and Abuela Lora

A very happy and blessed family!

After all the excitement from church, baptism, and a BBQ for countless family and friends... the angel finally needed her beauty sleep :) I love that little girl!!!!

Canvas Class

Lora, Ashley, and myself are obsessed with the most amazing scrapbook store in the world, Archiver's in Overland Park. We are quite frequent visitors there and have taken several classes from them. But their newest class was very unique and different from their others. We signed up for the first one they had and loved it!!!

The class was a canvas wall art class. All you had to bring in was your 5x7 picture and patterned papers. They provided the rest and showed you how to do it. Here's mine that will be hanging in our upstairs hallway. Mine is a picture of our gang on New Year's and I chose the word celebrate so I can change the picture out for different party occasions.


Here's Lora's that she's going to put in her bedroom.

And here's Ashley's that she's going to put by her front door. We were all very excited that we took the class... well worth it!!!

Quarter Century Old

Another year older, another year wiser??? Last Saturday Ashley and I both had birthdays. It's awesome sharing my birthday with my sister-in-law :)

I think Jeryn's saying "My mom is HOW old?!?" ;)

Birthday girls and our birthday drinks! We started our night with dinner at Houlihan's.

The drool-icious Coldstone birthday cake!

My fam at dinner.

Ashley's fam at dinner.

After dinner we headed down to Westport to meet up with some of our friends at the piano bar, Ernie Biggs.

My parents came too and the bachelorette parties loooved them haha.

The party crew... too bad only 1/2 of Jerad made it in the pic. Thanks to everybody for coming out!!!

Much to Ashley's dismay the guys paid to get us birthday girls up on stage.


Then they had some guys up on stage to serenade us and my dad came up with them. The song choice wasn't the best with your dad on the stage!

My BFF

Ash and Jerad

Birthday shots

The July birthdays!

My handsome boy and I

Cheesy self portrait time

Lots of fun with my girlies

Thanks Mom and Dad for coming out :)

We turned 25 today!!!!! Wait.... how old are you now Ashley?

Oh that's right I'm 25, you're 30 ;)

Check out Jo's new creations... she's now in the fabric flower making business!

After the piano bar the celebrating didn't stop... we headed to Harrah's Casino to lose some money and scarf down some pizza. Finally made it home at 4 a.m. and felt alot older than 25 the next day!

Mason Jar Masterpiece

My new name is now Martha Stewart. I have taught myself to make Pottery Barn knockoff mason jar candle holders! I love everything at Pottery Barn but hate paying the price. I drooled all over their summer catalog with their outdoor living and candle items. But with the fabulous world of blogging I can blog stalk how to make them myself, thank you very much.

All you need is glass jars of any kind, aluminum gauge wire, needle nose pliers, and wire cutters. The pliers you see above are from my very own set I got from the hubs for my birthday :)

And here is my end result as my new table centerpiece!

The clear jars are just salsa jars we've been saving and the blue mason jars we found for a couple bucks at some antique stores and flea markets down in the Ozarks over the 4th of July. Since these are in the kitchen I filled them with food related items- coffee beans and white rice.

Buy some cheap-o votives and voila! My new centerpiece I made all by myself :)

2 Year Anniversary

July 12... our anniversary!!!!!

The BEST day of my life... so far at least!

For our one year we got dressed up and ate on the plaza then Trent surprised me with a sunset hot air balloon ride for later that week. It was AMAZING and what a way to celebrate one year of wedded bliss.

This year we celebrated 2 years of matrimony! We exchanged our presents before we headed out to celebrate with dinner.

We headed to Longhorn Steakhouse this year for our dinner. We got some summery drinks that were delicious... I could get in trouble with a few more of those ;)

Appetizers... a fruity summer salad. Trent's starting to become a salad fan and he LOVED this salad.

My dinner... loaded sweet potato and crusted parmesan chicken. Mine was so good Trent was jealous!

Trent's dinner... loaded sweet potato and portobello mushroom chicken. I'm sure it was good but I don't like mushrooms so I didn't try his.

Our caramel apple ice cream dessert, a.k.a. Heaven on a plate!

Back home for our champagne toast in the wedding flutes... Callie, check out the wine stopper from your wedding :)

We were horrible at this on our wedding day! We're starting to get it mastered!

Happy 2 year anniversary to the most amazing husband in the world... two years down and forever to go!