What REALLY Matters...

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This last week has really opened my eyes... and this happens quite often with me: I will forget what REALLY matters in my life until something jolts me and I am reminded that the little things I obsess over and hold grudges about do not matter. I am not one to really hold a "grudge", however if someone has truly hurt me- I have a hard time forgetting that. I don't try to continue being offish or mean about the situation, but I will think about the situation a lot, dwell on it and continue to have hurt feelings often until one day I just don't think about it anymore. I know this is not healthy behavior and I truly try to get over things quickly...its just my personality. It's also my personality to beat myself up over a situation and never forgive myself for the mistakes I make. The point to my ramblings is this:

Life is too short and too precious to hold onto any negative feelings

I try to keep my blog an upbeat and happy place...obviously this is not the way life is ALL the time, and its not the way MY life is all the time. I have hard times, stressful situations, heartache, worries and sadness just like all of you. This week my brother's father-in-law found out he has cancer. This has been such an extreme blow to their family and to all their friends and family as you can imagine. My heart breaks for them and my prayers and thoughts are centered around them. It makes me realize that all the silly things I stress and worry about and dwell on do not matter in the big scheme of things. It brings my life into perspective. What matters is who I love, how I treat them and everyone around me, and the GOOD things I do in my life. I want to be a good person, mom, and wife. I want to love everyone and be happy! I want to be a good influence and example... I want to let things go! I don't want to dwell on the little things, I want to focus on the big picture. So many people in my life are excellent examples of all the positive things I want to be and I thank them for that! I hope we can all focus on the good things in our life and may the bad things leave quickly.

Anniversary & AuTuMn

This past week was our 3 year anniversary! I can not believe how different our lives are just from 3 years ago. We LOOK so different (ha ha), we have a baby, we have done so many things: bought a home, Scott has finished his Masters, I started school... man, I just can't believe it. I LOVE our life tho and I wouldn't trade it for anything. To celebrate we went out to dinner and got massages. We also exchanged a couple small gifts. I have the best husband ever and I am so blessed in my life. Happy 3 Years love!

All of you know by now that I LOVE to decorate my home... I am constantly switching out my decor and I am so excited for this upcoming season. Fall is my favorite and this year I decided to decorate with pumpkins and owls- my new obsession. So of course, here are the before and afters...


All my owls!!!


My mother-in-law is the sweetest and found me this Owl plug in at Bath and Body Works.... ah! I love it!!
And in our bedroom I decorate the wall with different art... here is winter, spring and summer...


And here is fall- more owls!


My sister and I are in a crafty mood so we are going to make some pillows. I am going to make an owl pillow to match the wall art and I am making a coupe bird pillows to match my summer and spring decor. I am so excited! We bought the fabric- so I will start working on them asap and post when I am done! Can you tell I am really excited for fall? ;)

"Agri-Culture"

Last weekend we went out with my parents to the Greek Festival and the State Fair all in one night. The Greek Festival was awesome and I wish I would have taken pictures- we were all about the food and the art. We tried a few dishes and desserts and they were all delicious. Scott and I really like the art they sell there as well and my parents got us a beautiful painting of cafes in Paris for our Kitchen! (We have a theme of Parisian Cafes in our kitchen all ready... so it will match perfectly!) I just love the Greek Festival! Opa!

Next we hit the State Fair in Salt Lake City! There wasn't a whole lot we wanted to really do or see... we mostly wanted to try a fried Twinkie. So we were on the hunt and we found it!

My parents and Scott holding the yummy food... fried oreos, fried Twinkie, fried snickers bar and fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich. We tried a bite of each and the Twinkie and PB&J won! They were delicious but EXTREMELY filling. Lol.

Scott enjoying the Twinkie...
We also wandered around and saw all the huge produce...900 lb pumpkins and huge watermelons and that sort of thing. We also saw some of the largest cows and rabbits I have ever seen. It was a fun night out and I'm glad we got to spend time with my parents and William :)

Family Photos

A couple weekends ago we decided to take some family pictures- and 3 month pictures of our little man. I am horrible at thinking of cool settings and coordinating outfits etc when it comes to photo shoots. However- I think we picked the perfect location and cute outfits this time... the only thing is... I still need to figure out the correct time of day. The sun was awful and in our faces the entire time. Despite that set back my sister Bri and my father-in-laws camera did a great job.

My Papa (William's great-grandpa) built this barn himself and it is FULL of vintage signs, gas pumps, every tool imaginable and old Ford cars. He rebuilds these cars as a hobby and he is amazing at it. Here is "Pop" in his sanctuary...


We used that black car (don't ask me what it is....I am awful with car info...but I bet Scott knows) and an old wagon for our shoot and I just love the way things turned out. Yay for Bri and her talent. Thanks so much for putting up with us Bri and for taking these pictures....

I love my men...

Found this picture on my father-in-law's camera... How cute is he? He is seriously one of the happiest babies I have ever seen. He is constantly smiling and laughing and just happy to be here. I love him so much.