Home Sweet home

So, a while back (like beginning of May!) we moved to a bigger apartment and I started trying to "decorate" a bit to make it feel more like a home than a student apartment! I never posted again about it, however, because it is an ongoing process. But I got a bunch done last week and I'm excited about it so I thought I'd post about it!

My Living Room:
Colors: Cobalt Blue, Burgundy, Cream, Mahogany Brown
Found the pillows at Walmart. Loved them! :)
Middle frame is a mirror (you can see the pictures on the other side of the room in it though)
Kamryn gets framed twice because she is the only one (and I'm working on doing nice family pictures in the next couple of weeks) :)




Kamryn's Bathroom:
Colors: Bright Pink, Yellow and Orange; Beach Theme
Found the beach theme at Target! Love it!
Found frames at Ikea for cheap. Printed pictures at Costco.




My Disney Kitchen!
Disneyland kitchen...multiple characters and colors.
Frames have Disney scrapbooked pages in them. All Black frames.
Still looking for fabric to make curtains and tablecloth because right now the room is bare! But I was happy to finally find 12x 12 frames for some of the pages I had made!





(ignore the messy table!) :) haha

And my VERY FAVORITE and what I have been searching and searching for! (the perfect theme for my bedroom...)

Theme: Hawaii Beach
I found the bedding for our new large bed online at Domestications.com. It was on sale too so I HAD to get it! (Then I splurged for wall art and curtains!!) :) haha


I LOVE it though! It makes my heart and spirit just lift every time I walk into the room! I need to get an actual curtain rod still and I think we're going to paint one wall just to make it feel that much more "exotic" :) But for now, I have a great reason to make my bed every day! :)

Pictures I am missing: My bathroom and Kamryn's room.
My bathroom is still in the making. Nothing to show yet.

Kamryn's room, however, I am surprised I dont have a picture yet because it has been done the longest! In fact, I thought I had posted about it already. But it is also Hibiscus flowers and bright colors (like her bathroom). Bright green, yellow, blue, and pink. And I found a border that I put up around the ceiling. It is very cute! :) I need to take a picture ASAP!

It has been so fun decorating and creating rooms. Now the challenge is keeping them clean and adding little bits here and there that I find as time goes on! :)

New Posts!

I posted 5 new posts yesterday! One has the funnest video in it! So don't miss them all!! :)

(I know 5 is a lot...I had to catch up!!) :)

Kamryn's First 1st Birthday party!

This little girl is spoiled! (and very loved!) I think she is going to have 3 1st Birthday parties this year! What a life! :)

For the 4th, we got together with extended family for a BBQ and swimming and movies and just visiting, AND to celebrate all of the summer bdays within the family. Kamryn is the youngest this summer, so everyone sang to her first! She wasn't quite sure what was going on, but liked all the attention.




And then she got to open 6 presents! She was so excited about each of them too, so thank you everyone who gave her something! :)

Bubbles and a Water toy from Aunt Donelle.



Card from Great Grandma (G.G.)


Box of Board Books from Aunt Janice! (Kamryn LOVES these!!)




What is this next one, Kamryn?



Look Kamryn, it's a baby doll!



And some PJ's! (She didn't care too much about these...what 1-year-old would! These were definitely more for Mommy!!) :)


I don't want to put the baby down, but what's this next big one?!


It's a stroller for your baby!


Let's let Daddy put it together for you!! :)

Enjoying Ice Cream while Daddy puts together her stroller! :)


Look at me! I'm a big girl!

I can walk and push the stroller! (Since she's still just a little unsure of walking without holding onto something! This is wonderful for her right now!)

All cleaned up from swimming--wearing my new PJ's. My pants are a little too long though :(


Aunt Kelsey to the rescue! (Kamryn doesn't think to stop at all for Kelsey to fix them though!) :)

Thanks Kelsey! That's much better!


Kamryn...enjoying bubbles (from Aunt Bev) for the first time! She was so funny--belly laughing everytime she popped a bubble! :)


When it got dark, we all went outside to watch fireworks. Kamryn liked them at first...but then was just too exhausted! Sweet baby!



My sisters and cousin, watching fireworks (and being strange...like usual! :) haha)



Sorry it's blurry...but mommy and daddy watching fireworks!


Happy 1st 4th of July, Kamryn! We love you, sleepy girl!

Happy 4th of July!

Happy....umm...Kamryn! Look over here!




Ok...Happy 4th.... smile Kamryn! Smile!!




Kamryn...the camera is right here!

No...don't cry! Smile!


There's a happy girl!

Happy 4th of July!! :)

Fun Summer Times!

It is officially Summertime! (July...it better be!!) It is about 90 degrees everyday now and I just got my Seven Peaks pass last week! Yay! Now Kamryn and I can go play in the water whenever we want! My goal is to go at least once a week...and last week was our first time! We go with my friend Nicole and her little girl, Sammie.

Here are the girls playing before we went. All ready to go! (We had to postpone going for a little bit because it was raining at the time we were going to go!) They didn't mind though! (In a couple years they will!) :)

They had fun playing with eachother...



Reading books with eachother...


And going after the camera!



I didn't get any pictures at Seven Peaks because I forgot my camera and it isn't waterproof...(I really need a water digital camera! That should be next on my list of big purchases!!) :) Anyway, so you'll have to imagine fun pictures in the water for now! :)

Bathtime is Always fun!!

Kamryn has always loved bathtime...but since she has been growing like a weed lately, she doesn't fit in her blue tub anymore and now she gets to use the BIG BATHTUB!! :)

BUT that also means that she has found a new fun toy----the drain! :) She's so funny! She'll pull the plug and then when I tell her no, she'll drop it again. She'll take it out and put it back in over and over and over again. Then ...when the water is all gone--she STILL is happy and content to play in the tub! :) Funny girl!




Where's your water, silly baby?!!

Here's a video of our little drain game! :)

Oquirrh Temple Open House

Last week, Ryan Kamryn and I went with my family to visit the new temple in the Salt Lake Valley. It was Beautiful! Kind of a smaller LDS Temple, but very pretty. It was tall and skinny--and more cream colored than white. It kind of reminded me of the Los Angeles temple in California with it's coloring--but the LA temple is probably 4 times as big!

We went around 7pm so by the time we got out, the sun was setting and it was gorgeous for pictures! See what I mean?! :)






Ryan and I haven't made time in our busy schedules to attend the temple much recently, but this last Friday we finally went again and it was wonderful! The temple is so peaceful and so beautiful. It really is a heaven on earth! I'm so grateful I get to share that with the man I love!