After months....Our MANY Projects are done!

So Adam and I started refinishing this table back in December 2008. We got the table from my Mom, it was the table that my family used when I was little. My Mom gave it to us to put in our house but first we needed to refinish it. We thought that it would an easy task to sand it down and stain it...but that was not the case. My Mom had covered the top with lin seed oil to help protect the wood, let me tell you it was a PAIN to get that stuff off. Once we got it off it was just fine. The reason it has taken us so long to get it done is because we have no heat in our garage. So sanding was just not fun! at ALL! Plus we had to do it by hand. This last week I decided that we needed to get it done...1st because it has been FOREVER since we started working on it. 2nd because Adam's cousins are coming up from Arizona and I would like to have some place for them to eat besides the coffee table. On Sunday we sanded for 5 long hours, stained for 2 hours and ended our day at 10:30pm. On Monday we started to put the varnish on, the thing with varnish is you have to wait 3-4 hours between coats. We we ended up putting the last coat on at 12:00AM.

BEFORE:

DURING:

AND...FINISHED!!!

Another project we have been working on we refinishing a bed frame we bought for our guest bedroom. I'm so excited that it is done! We now have a full bed instead of a twin bed in our guest bedroom. We got the quilt from Walmart and also the curtains from Walmart. It's pretty sad that a quilt like that you could only get if you made it yourself or pay a lot of money to get one. Now you can get one from Walmart for only like 40 bucks.



One other thing I have been meaning to blog about is my early birthday present my wonderful husband got me. Since Adam won't be here for my birthday he got it early. Since I will be turning 21 my present is to get my concealed weapons permit and a NEW GUN to carry. It took a while to find the perfect gun put I found it. I first went with a Taurus Millennium PT145 but decided that I wanted something different. I went with a Walther P22. I went with this one because is fun to shoot and it looks like it would shoot a bigger bullet than a 22.

The first gun

The NEW gun

Sad News

Well this last week in church our bishop got up and announced that he had some releasing and some callings to do. I was so happy when I heard that because I knew that they were finally going to call my partner for nursery. So he got up and said, "We'd like to release Crystal (my last name) from Nursery". I was like WHAT! That's news to me, aren't they suppose to come talk to you before they release you? Then they called the new teachers, and that was that. I went to nursery so that I could show the new teachers how we do things in our nursery. Well they didn't show up, and I know they were there in church I just don't know where. Our bishop came into nursery and said that he was so sorry he didn't talk to me before he released me. He said that he got up there and then realized that he had not talked to me. He said that they released me so that I could spend more time with the RS women. I personally would much rather be in nursery than up in RS. Little kids are just so much fun, especially when you get to play for 2 hours and have snack time! I'm going to miss every single one of those kids. I have been in the nursery since July last year.

On another note, I want to thank my mom for everything that she has done for me. I hope you had a wonderful Mother's day. I hope you know that you are loved by each of us. You have done so much for Adam and I this year and you never complain about anything.
Thank you mom for raising me to be who I am today, and doing all you do for me.

On Sunday mornings Adam wait to get ready til he has to. So this last Sunday was no different then any other, other an we had to be in Spanish Fork for our nieces blessing. So while I was getting ready he watched a show about crocheting (it was the only thing on at the time). He then went down stairs and started looking through boxes, he came up a little while later with a brown vest and some fingerless gloves. He was so proud to be wearing them, and wanted to wear them to the blessing. I told him he could wear the vest, but the gloves would have to stay at home. Turns out that Adam got them on his mission. Sweet, sweet Dorothy made them for him because she felt bad that he was always so cold. Dorothy was 80 years old when she made it for him. Adam didn't want to ruin them on his mission so he sent them home and had not seen them since and thought that they were lost. When my brother in law saw Adam he kind of laughed and told Adam he looked like an old man and Mr. Rodgers. I think Adam looked pretty good.

What do yo think?

Diaper wreath

So normally for a baby shower I make diaper cakes, but this time I decided to try something different. I made a diaper wreath! My friend is having her baby shower tomorrow and I wanted to do something different. They are so easy to make, and they DON'T take as many diapers to make them. I think I used like 20 total compared to the 80 some odd ones I use on a cake.
This is the out come of all the diapers, ribbon, and fun stuff!

There are a couple outfits that go with it, but I have it in a separate bag. I can't wait for her to see it!

First Time For Everything

So this last weekend was Adam's first drill. He got to wake up at 0645 hours and had to be to Spanish Fork at 0745. From there Adam got to enjoy a fun afternoon playing with air soft guns. Or as Adam puts it he got to play with the air soft nerds and beat them at their own game. When he got home he had a nice sun burn line where his hat had been, it was pretty funny.

While he was gone on Saturday I got to have my sister Megan over and we watched The Princess and the Frog and I did her hair and we took pictures of her at the park. It was my first time watching Princess and the Frog, and it was really cute I thought. We also had a fun time running around getting everything ready for my brother's prom night. It was his first time going to Prom and he had a ton of fun.

This is Megan my one and only sister. Everyone says we look a lot alike.

Oh, and her hair is suppose to be curly, but her hair would not do anything I wanted it to do. So this is what we ended up with. I still think she looks cute.

On Sunday I got to go to church all by myself for the first time, and what do you know, I still don't have a partner for the nursery and since Adam was gone I didn't have anyone to help me. I tell you what though, it was hard with 9 kids in there. Lucky for me someone from the bishopric came in to bring his granddaughter and I got him to help me for a little bit. I love the little kids when they get ready to go because they love that time because it's called Bubble Time!

Adam's Sunday drill he got to do PT which is physical training. PT consists of 3 areas which are: Running, push ups, and sit ups. He barely didn't pass each part, in the running he missed my 11 sec. 16 sit ups and 2 push ups. He was so close, but I know he'll do better and pass next time.

Conference Weekend...and a little Easter.

This past weekend was General Conference, and my parents were able to get tickets for the whole family. Well, Every one but Jason, we didn't know if he'd be home in time to come with us. When we found out that he would be home my parent's bishop tried to find an extra ticket but sadly could not. So my mom decided that she would give Jason her ticket and she would try to get in by doing the standby tickets. Well when she got to the line she told her story to one of the ushers and he told her if one of us would bring our ticket down to prove that she was telling the truth then he would let her in even though he did not have an extra ticket to give her. It was so nice to have the whole family there, I love listening to the speakers and what they have to say. It was Megan's(my little sister) first time going and man I could tell that she was so board out of her mind. I think she may have fallen asleep at one point. I remember doing the same thing when I went at her age. Adam sometimes still falls asleep, but can help it. They turn the light down, your sitting in a nice seat, and the speakers just have that voice that calms you,
I'm so happy that it did not snow while we were up there or even rain for that matter. For the past two years I have been lucky enough to go two or three times and every time with out fell it rains on us and it is always cold. Every time I go to conference there is always those people that protest against us and what not. Telling us that we are going to hell and that we don't believe in GOD. Well this time there was not as many as there has been in the past. About two years ago when Adam and I got to go together for the first time there was a man walking around in a devil suit. It was so funny to watch!

After conference we walked around Temple square and took a couple of pictures. and here they are....

This is our temple, in July it will have been two years since we got sealed.

Families Are Forever

I guess the SECRET is OUT!

I guess it 's now no secret anymore. Adam and I have had a secret since November and we have not told anyone about it. Even our own parents, and family did not know until yesterday. Adam joined the National Guard yesterday. It's been a long time coming and it's not just something we jumped into. We have researched it a lot, and prayed about it, and we both feel really good about it. Ever since we have been dating we knew that Adam would join, the question was WHEN? Back when we got married he had planned to join then and leave just a few months after we got married, but that fell though. Since then we have put it off because we knew we would have to be apart for at least 6 months and we both were not looking forward to that. Finally in November 2009 Adam took what's call the ASVAB, which is the entrance exam to enlist in the army. Adam has now taken this a totally of 3 times now since high school. He almost got a perfect score each time and this time is miss 2 or 3, I can't remember exactly. Any who on with the story, Adam had to lose 20 pound to even get started on joining and he did it in like 7 weeks. I'm so proud of him for doing it. The reason we didn't tell anyone about it was because we didn't want anyone to know until it was official and we had his leave date and everything.
Adam will be leaving for boot camp on July 25,2010, which is just before our 2 year anniversary. He will be going to Fort Benning in Georgia, he'll be there for 9 weeks and 4 days. I can't wait till he is done because then I can go down for his graduation and see him. Don't worry I won't be going alone, my wonderful Mom has volunteered to go along since she knows where she is going down there(She did it back in Oct. 2008 when my brother Jason graduated). After that Adam will head to Texas for AIT school and he'll be training to be a 68W which stands for Health Care Specialist. His training there will last a long 18 weeks I believe. Which means he'll come home at the end of February 2011. Don't worry though he'll get to come home for Christmas! When he returns he'll join his unit for monthly drills, he's unit is called the 1457th Engineer Battalion which is based in American Fork.

This is the uniform my wonderful husband get to wear....and I might add he looks pretty darn good in it! I always though he looked amazing in it while he did ROTC when we met.
I'm super excited to get this going on the road because now we have a way to pay for school and we are that much closer to starting our family. I'm so proud of Adam for what he is doing, he has wanted to join since he was a little boy, and as an adult he has felt very strong that he needed to join. I love him so much, and even though it's going to be super hard for the both of us while he is gone I know when can do it. Hey, and what's that saying that says "Time makes the heart grow founder", I think that's it. I will also have my friends and family to help out.


Oh, and one more thing we are hoping to sale our house by July before he leaves, I really don't want to deal with that on my own. We are selling just so we can save money and send me to school. We really have not told anyone about this either.