Easter!

Easter is one of my favorite holidays and not just because of all the candy and the fun Easter dresses...I love that we have a holiday to celebrate Christ. It’s a day to dress up cute, spend time with family and to remember His life, His death, His resurrection, His atonement and most of all His selflessness and love for me a sinner. I know that my Redeemer lives! What joy, peace, gratitude and reassurance this brings to me in this troubled world. I know that when I sin all is not lost but that Christ is there to help me right my wrongs. He is there to lead me by the hand! He atoned for all my sins and because of that beautiful act of mercy, He knows us all, because he atoned for all of us. He knows my joys, He knows my sorrows and He loves me just the same. He knows everyone’s pains he knows everyone’s trials because he has already born them. In this holiday season may we all turn to Christ our Savior and Redeemer and let him help us carry our crosses.



This egg craft is made using a 100% silk tye check it out!!


Now for the amazing easter egg craft project that I found! I love love love this idea and it may just be one of my new family Easter tradtions!! I haven't tried it yet but I do have all of the materials thank you D.I. and I will be sure to post my final egg pictures just as soon as I get them done...for now you're just going to have to pop on over to this fun little website and see the eggs for yourselves. And find the instructions there...Oh and while your there check out their recipes THEY ARE PHENOMENAL!!! Here's the link!!

School, babies

This semester has totally flown by! It's almost over and boy am I glad! I have under a month left and it's only getting crazier! Wednesday morning I apply for my next and LAST semester of classes at BYU-Idaho. Can I get a woot woot! I'm so excited and so ready to be done here in Idaho! All my classes are going to be online and I'll be graduating with my associates in July!! And while it's not a Bachlores degree I'm still pretty proud of myself. And I'm excited to feel like I've actually accomplished something with my life in the two years since I graduated from high school.
I know this is a crappy picture but it shows my color!




Enough about me though. I'm a new aunt as of a few weeks ago! My oldest sister Alexandra had her first child. Alice Catherine French, and holy cow she's a doll. She is so beautiful and such a good baby! They had her pictures taken professionally and they turned out so good! HERE is a link to her website she does such good work! Take a peek!!

Here is one of Alice's pictures in case ya don't wanna go to her website!!

The only constant is change...

In the next few months my life is going to start changing in some big ways. The first week of April I will be moving permanently to the greater Seattle area.In May I'll be starting a CNA program in Tacoma. In July I will graduate from BYU-Idaho with my associates. The end of July I plan on applying to a LPN program. Life is crazy but good, busy but I'm so happy. I'm married to the best man in the world a man who loves me and supports me in everything that I do. No matter what. I have the cutest puppy in the world who loves me. An amazing family who I love and who supports and loves me and life has never been better! It's not easy but I'm happy!

Crafting

So I've been crafting :) I made two cork borard wall hangings for my sisters and a giant piece of art/crap depending on how you look at it.

I started with a canvas that has wooden frame within it and I cut and shoved the cork board in from the back.(If that makes any sense)and then I modge Podged scrapbook paper over them.

The art piece/crap is plywood with paint chip samples (Thank you Home Depot) hot guled on. I applied several layers of modge podge and then I did several different layers of stain. To give a rustic/antiqued look. I would brush it on let it sit for about 30 seconds and then wipe it off with paper towels. Anywho that's what I've been up to...

Zandra's Baby Shower

My older sister Alexandra's first baby was due friday! She has yet to pop out little baby Alice but things are getting close. Anywho, I threw a baby shower for her that was a total blast! We played normal baby shower games and had lots of yummy food! Then she got to open some wonderful presents!

Shuga Snooki Gray Joins the Family

I am so behind blogging but I have to start somewhere. The last few weeks have been crazy busy for me. Then Scott got super sick and I was popping Vitamin C like a crack addict in hopes of not catching whatever he had. Well my attempts were futile. Last Wednesday I came down with a horrible cough and then a fever. Thursday I was feeling even worst but I just couldn't miss any of my classes so I pressed on. 101 degree fever and all. Thursday night I didn't sleep a wink and was coughing and super sick. And yet again I couldn't miss my Friday classes, so I bucked it up and went to class, and...passed out in my chem lab! How embarrassing!! And being BYU-I they can't let anything go so they called the campus cops, called campus security and then an ambulance. Well I decided it would be a good time to call Scott. Long story short I made a trip to the medical center here on campus and was told that I had strain A of the flu, which was last years Swine Flu I had a fever of 104 and so they hooked me up and gave me two I.V.'s. Well 4 hours and 320$ later they let me go home. Now for the real point of this post.

Wednesday night I was browsing KSL. That horrible site that it is, I always see puppies that I want and can't have! But I torture myself anyways and dream. So I was browsing, and found the most honest to goodness cutest puppy I have ever laid my little blue eyes on. I HAD TO HAVE HER! I quickly informed Scott that I just couldn't take NO for an answer. I then proceed to make a really convinsing and funny PRO CON list. I begged I pleaded, I faked a few tears. I ran around the house screaming and then I begged somemore. My poor husband lol ;)

Scott told me to think about it somemore but that I knew I wasn't allowed to have a dog in our appartments and so on and so forth. So I proceed to text the owner and ask her questions and had her send me a few more pictures. For the second time in my 2o years of life it was love at first site. Scott told me that while I have been at school he's been selling extra car parts online. He went to our money jar and pulled out a few hundred bucks and told me that he had been saving up for my puppy. (The deal was I could get one when I got my associates and we moved back to Seattle) Well at this point it was all down hill. I had to have her!!

I called the owner and Scott and I had planned on driving to Utah to pick my little baby up on Saturday. Fastforward a few days...I was on my death bed, had no voice and coughing like a chain smoker. Well I couldn't be stopped so Scott and I met up with the owners Saturday afternoon and I bought my little baby girl.

Shuga (pronounced sugar) Snooki (yes I love Jersey Shore) Gray Her mom is a Maltese shih Zue mix (6lbs) and her dad is a tea cup yorkie (2lbs) The vet said she wouldn't be anymore then 5 pounds and that she might not even get that big. She is 1.75 pounds of fluff, attitude and pure puppy love!She isn't yappy or an annoying ankle bitter. We love love love her and feel like we're actually a family now! And even though we have to hide her because it's against our appartment rules....so far so good. She thinks shes tough as heck but she is honestly one of the whimpiest puppies ever! She wakes up in the night and wants to play so she licks our faces and bites our ears. But she is healthy and beautiful and doing so well on her potty training....well enough said I'm a puppy momma and love it! And I don't care what you say she is the cutest puppy in the whole world! And the best part?! She'll always be this cute and small!!

HERE'S THE PICS

Our top moments from 2010!

Kirsten and Scott's 2010 Adventures

Kirsten started college

Scott graduated from college

WE GOT MARRIED !!!

Kirsten went to Washington for the first time

Scott visited Wyoming for the first time

We got engaged in March

We were blessed with 2 new neices

We went to Seaside Oregon for our first the Fourth of July together

Kirsten's first trip to Oregon instead of always just driving through it

We went to Canada for our Honeymoon! Kirsten's first time outside of this Beautiful God fearing Country!

Kirsten went to the Puyallup fair for the first time

We both went to the top of the space needle

Kirsten rode a ferry (Not Scott) a real ferry

We rented our first married apartment together

we both went throught the salt lake temple for the first time

Spent ourbfirst married Christmas together

went to our first hockey game

I went to my first pro baseball game...

I know this is a little late but hey it's still January right? Anyways these are some of the high points of our year!! We're hoping that this year is just as exciting as last!!