.. it's saturday ..

in the spirit of fathers day i did this one quick. i liked the clean and simple look. happy fathers day, tomorrow!!

.. S. O. S. ..

here is a freebie this week. i teach laurels {16-18 year old girls} in my church. every week i spend time preparing a lesson for these girlies, and i love it. so this weeks freebie is from a lesson i prepped a few weeks back on family. it is a bookmark, but could be a print. comment or email for a copy!

have a great week!

.. a little man ..

so i don't have my own kids, i just have cute nieces and nephews. 3 nieces and 1 1/2 nephews, my sister is due this month with nephew #2. after the race last week we went to cody's parents house to spend time with the family. we had a BBQ, with ribs, chicken, salads, corn, rolls and friends. how can you go wrong? every year in the summer my in laws set up a metal framed pool in the backyard. my nieces love it. like love it. i spent about 2 hours sitting out by the pool watching them show me all their tricks and being pretend dolphins, whales and turtles since mermaids aren't real. my adorbs nephew decided to stand up against the pool and throw everything he could see in. leaves, shoes, his sippy cup, life vest you name it he tried and throw it in the pool. he is adorable, and i love him, even if i am just a big scary person to him right now. maybe one day i will be the cool aunt he wants to be around :). 

{ adorbs nephew c* }

love him

.. a race, a first ..

{my race number}

so a few months ago my mother in law talked to be about doing a 5k with the family. i told her i was game. it could be loads of fun. so i started training. my plan was to run all of it if i could. of course that is when work got the craziest and i got the sickest. my body was rebelling, but i was determined to try. on saturday the race was on, the whole week building up to it there was trash talk between cody and his brothers about who would win and all that jazz. it was bound to be a fun one. we got to springville high school on saturday at 7am. we stretched ate a granola bar and chatted, and the nerves hit. i was so nervous. but i was doing it. i plugged in my ipod and made sure i was good to go and it was on. i did great until about the end of mile one, where we hit a huge hill. i tried running up most of it and only got half way, cody pulled me the rest, but after that it was all good. i ran the whole thing, with only that small bout of speed walking up the hill. quite an accomplishment. i admit, i shed a tear - i was so proud of myself and being able to reach my goal. we finished in 38 minutes, not super fast, but that is okay with me. we placed 2 & 3 in the family competition. cody's little brother beat us, he did it in 23 minutes. It was fun and we have plans to do it next year. 

{cody and i after the race, i was pooped.}

{me, e*, mom}

{ brothers : c*, j*, r* and cody - one brother d* didn't come}

{boys will be boys..}

{ family }

{from left to right : beverly, kristy, j*, amy, mom, e*, cody, me, dad, r* and w* - there are 3 missing from this one, codys brother c* and his girlfriend e* and c* cody's brother j*'s girlfriend}

and don't you worry i was sore for about 3 days after, and took a 3 hour nap that afternoon. you heard me 3 hours. yum. 

.. an old man's celebration ..

over memorial day weekend i had the chance to go up to my grandparents house and celebrate my grandpa's 80th birthday. he is wonderful and grand, he is awesome and hilarious. we surprised him and told him we just wanted to come visit since we had a free day, little did he know that everyone - minus a missionary and my brother m* and his wife e* - showed up for lunch and a birthday celebration. 

we had pizza, salad and cupcakes. naturally cupcakes rule. 

{ here is the whole crew that came, big family huh? }

my grandparents have 5 kids, 12 grand kids and 1 great grand kid { soon to be 3. no i'm not prego, but my sister and my cousin m* are}

{ gramps, gg, uncle steve, uncle scott and my mom }

{ we tried to do a group hug picture, all my uncle could do is choke my gg and laugh! }

{ my handsome gramps and gorgeous grandma (hence the gg) }

These people are wonderful, I am so glad that I have such a wonderful family that I could share this with. so here is to you gramps, happy 80th birthday. hope it was great and wonderful to celebrate. the one great gift he got was the birth of his first great granddaughter on his birthday.

Happy birthday!!

.. steals on saturdays ..

alright, so i wanted to do something similar to freebie fridays, but that was already being abused let's be honest so we are going to do steals on saturdays. I will try my hardest to have something new and fun up every week, but for sure around the holidays. so this one is a chance to get the matching game i did at the baby shower so if you want to get your hands on this one - shoot me a comment or email and i will send it on over! 

happy weekend!!

.. le circus for bebe ..

so as you might have seen from my baby shower preview, a few weeks back my sil e* and i threw a baby shower for my sister k* who is due with a baby boy this month. don't worry there will be baby pictures here when he comes :). we decided on circus for the theme and went to work planning. we planned and worked on it for about 2 months. phew! but all the hard work paid off, the end result was so cute!

{ game at the door, it was guess how many circus peanuts go around her belly}

{ after the game, another game! matching mommies with babies. and part of the spread, cupcakes! }

{ chocolate cupcakes with buttercream icing, yum! }

{ pop of color with napkins }

{ fun little spot, we gave the suckers to the winners of the games }

{ no circus is complete without popcorn! }

{ drink bar, we had these little sodas and mini waters }

{ treat bar, we had little baggies and candies for them to take home, yum! }

All in all it turned out great, she got a bunch of cute clothes and goodies and we can't wait until he gets here. With any luck it will be in the next few weeks, she is already making progress - dilated to a 2 and 50% effaced. Almost baby time :)

congrats k*!