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? ;)

Introducing...

Our precious baby has finally arrived! He is absolutely perfect. Life is completely insane right now trying to adjust to everything- I just wanted to show off our little William. I can't believe loving someone this much is possible!! We will update more when life calms down a little :)

You've Been Spooked

Our neighborhood has a tradition for Halloween -as I am sure most of your neighborhoods do. They doorbell ditch 2 families with some treats and an orange sign with a ghost on it and instructions. So, when you receive a treat with the orange sings you are supposed to copy the flier and make treats for 2 families that do NOT have the orange ghost posted in their window and doorbell ditch them. (Confused yet?)

A few nights ago Scott and I were getting settled in for the night and I went to turn off our yard lights. Well, as I approached my front door I heard what sounded like someone skateboarding in our driveway. Totally bizarre considering it was getting late and our neighborhood is mostly small kids. So I decided to peek outside and see what was going on. Our front door has a big window that we hate and we hung up some small curtains. So I swung the curtains aside and shoved my face against the glass to see who was skate boarding in my driveway. When I focused my eyes, I saw this mans face right in front of mine!

I was scared to death- to say the least and jumped back. I then realized it was my neighbor from across the street trying to doorbell ditch us some treats. So I swung the door open and both of us were just laughing and telling each other how badly we were scared. He was upset that I saw him dropping off the treats because it was supposed to be a secret but I took the delicious rice krispy treats anyway and told him not to worry about it.

The catch to this story: After my nice neighbor left and I was trying to tell my husband what happened in between all of my giggling... I realized that I just answered the door in my pajamas. With no bra on. Fabulous.

More Completed Projects

We have been in our home officially over one year! I can't believe how fast the time flies and I can't believe how different our home looks! It is so fun to add your own personal touch to your very own home.

I have had many projects I have wanted to do since we moved in and I have never finished them. One of my main projects for our downstairs huge blank wall- is done! Doesn't look too impressive but it took a lot of time and a lot of my husbands skill for being a perfectionist :)

Voila! Family Wall!

Most of the pictures are from our wedding last September but there are a few pictures not from the wedding because my brother got home from his mission and we have a new niece. But it turned out pretty well and we will just continue to add to it!

My Old Love

For years I played the piano and I was pretty good! I quit back in high school and I have been wanting to pick it back up. My fantabulous husband found this beauty for me and let me buy it!

It is a gorgeous cherry wood and it has an amazing sound to it! I practiced last night for a while and realized how much I LOVE playing! I can't wait to get some of my favorite songs down again.

Looks pretty good, hu!? I am in love with it and I love my man! Thank you for finding this piano for me and for letting me buy it! You are the BEST!