Rocky is 2

I can hardly believe 2 years has passed since Rocky's birth.
What a joy and a bit of a terror he his, we are so lucky to have this boy in our family.
Happy Birthday Baby!

Good ol'weather

Crazy but true

So, today I am 30. It's not yet hit me how old I actually am and I don't know that in a conversation I'll be able to tell people my age without fumbling over the word thirty but alas, I am 30 years old. I can say however 'old' that I feel I am in "real world" standards I should be 40- That helps...but not much.

For my birthday my dear Hubby and my dear friend gave me the most wonderful party ever. If you'd like to see the pic's click here for the link.

F.Y.I

If you can't get a hold of me, this is where I'll be from here on out!

Light it up!!!

I'll tell you what- I'm so excited about my chandelier I can't stand it!!!

I've been looking and looking for a chandelier for our dinning room, I even bought one that ended up not being big enough (I put it over the table in the kitchen). Anyhoo, on Monday I went to an antique mall and found a ton of chandlers that I LOVED but they all cost well over a grand, and I'm just not willing to fork out that kind of money for a light fixture!!
I became very discouraged that once again I would leave empty handed, but low-and-behold I came upon my chandelier it was exactly what I wanted and on sale!
The Hubby got his huge ladder out added more chain & wiring and Voila I have the fancy dinning room I've always wanted!

Just a few pic's

My Grand at my folks place.

Lulu Bean

My boy sure loves to fish!

Baby Berg

Every night I have a ritual, I Check my etsy shop, my face book page, e-mail(s) and then my blog. If I have time, I start going down the list and I check on what's new and I really like looking at design blogs to get ideas for decorating my house - but tonight they didn't intrest me and I found myself checking out one of my favorite blogs, Nienie. I usually can't read it because I cry each and every time, you see a few months back she and her husband were in a plane crash where she was burned very badly. She's been in and out of the hospital for surgery and is in a great deal of pain and I can't help putting myself in her situation as a Mother, daughter, sister, friend and wife. Tonight though her post put everything back into perspective for me, you might read it and not think much of it but for me it was simply powerful.

Read it. I would love to hear your thoughts.

http://nieniedialogues.blogspot.com/2009/05/big-plans.html

Have I told you lately that I love you?

I know that these pic's can be currently seen at the sisters blog but I wanted to give tribute to an incredible weekend filled with friends, fun, movies, shopping, food and laughter-lot's and lot's of laughter. Thanks for the visit Kristy-Pooh!

Fishin'

Last Friday, my sweet boy had a fishing trip with his pre-school, he had been looking forward to this all year!

We met his class at a cute little park where each child was given a cane pole and cutup hotdogs (which was a good thing, as I don't touch bait). Some kid's ran around, some cried at their parents and some wanted to play at the park, but not my boy he was ready to start catching those fish! He ended up only catching 2 baby catfish (he's used to catching the big one's at his Grandparents) but he had a good time and I was glad I could spend the morning with my boy.

Counting down the days...

We are so excited about our new pool and are counting down the days till it's hot enough to swim.

We're Moving!!!!

I am happy to say that we sold our home of 8 years and will be moving the end of this month!
This is actually the 2nd home we put an offer on. The first was a big, fancy home that we loved. Upon researching the schools we found that they were BAD and we quickly backed out of the deal. I didn't feel it necessary to do research before we put an offer on it because the neighborhood was so nice...it was a good learning lesson for me.

The good news is that within 10 hours, found the perfect home/neighborhood/schools for our family.

We will live very close to our school (no more carpools woohoo), we have a nearby trail, a quiet neighborhood, but most important we have a pool and hot-tub (no more going to the public pools or waiting for pity invites from Farrah to swim). We also live 3 miles away from one of my sisters and are in the same ward (look out new ward!)

I'll certainly miss being so close to my friends and the kids school, but I'm excited about our future in this home...mostly I'm excited I don't have to drive to run on a trail!!!

So send me good thoughts as I'll be packing a family of 6 and moving in 2.5 weeks...not to mintion all of my normal wife/mommy/business owner duties!

OK People

OK people, I need some help!
I'm at a total design block and I need ideas.
What I'd like is if you have any suggestions for a unique decal I can make for my shop please let me know and if I choose to make the decal you suggested, I'll send you one.

OK people, let's hear the ideas!

I just wanted to toot my own horn for a minute, so bare with me!

Last fall my shop was in a Australian wedding magazine.
when I was asked to do it, I just thought that it would be a little publication and maybe I'd get a few sales from it... really I just thought it would be neat to be able to tell people that I was published in a magazine.
Well, I got the mag. a couple of weeks ago and it's not a little publication, in fact it's very "Martha Stewart weddings", hopefully this will be one of many for me. I'm attaching a pic of the page I was on, it's better looking in person.

I'm the top right picture.

The Killers Concert

My hubby and I went to The Killers concert last night and let me just say that was one of the best concerts ever!!! Enjoy the pic's.

I just love this man.

Gordon looks a little crazy. Sorry babe for posting the pic but I don't look half bad.
You know how it goes.....

I'm going to try and be better about actually posting and not just putting pictures up- I am a Mother of 4 with a booming business so I deserve a little slack....

What a year.

Last night while I was checking up on my shop, I realized that I've been open for a whole year (It seems like longer and yet it seems like 2 months ago). Never in a million years did I think that my little just for fun business would be doing so well, nor did I think that I would have someone working for me 3 times a week. It's been a crazy year trying to juggle: kids, husband, house and my shop, but I'm so grateful for the opportunity I've had to be able to be so busy.
I've said this before and I'll say it again that my hubby is the most patient, loving, helpful man and there is no way I could do this with out him. I'm also grateful for my dear friend that has given me advice, listen to me complain about the insane people that I have to deal with almost on a daily bases, and that we have been able to combine our ideas and link our shops together.
I'm so excited for this next year and I hope that I can continue creating new and fun decals and that my business will continue to keep growing in to something even more wonderful.

Oh, how I miss these babies....

Oh, how I miss these babies....

I was just thinking today how it's been an absolute joy to be these kids momma and I just wanted to share some of my joy with you.
I know the youngest isn't included in these photos, but he's still a baby.