One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Orange Fish

Since I don't have children of my own to brag about, I like to brag about my nephews. I had the opportunity to take Ryan and Tyler to their swim lessons and boy was it fun! They are both really good swimmers thanks to their wonderful teachers.

Ryan working on diving into the pool.

That orange thing is Ty swimming by himself!

 

Ry showing his excellent form.

                                        Both boys love jumping off the diving board.

During class yesterday, I heard a little voice shouting my name. I looked up and saw that it was Ty. He asked, "BJ, am I a good swimmer?" and I told him he was a great swimmer. I just can't help but love that kid!

I love that smile!

It is so much fun for me to see all that my nephews are accomplishing even though it still feels like they should be babies. These guys are the best!

This is so us!

My sister Hannah found this on etsy and thought of Jonathan and me.

I wonder why she thought of us?

This describes us perfectly! He's a nerd, I'm learning how to be crafty, and we love smooching {just ask my dad}! I want to make these!

This Kid

I love all of my nephews. They are the funniest group of little boys ever. I am especially close to Tyler because I was really bad at sharing him with the rest of my family when he was a baby. He comes up with some of the funniest sayings and ideas. He recently went through a phase with saying I never not. Everyone thought it was so funny, except for his parents of course! Tyler also wanted to name his baby sister Toilet Captain America for a while. He has since come to his senses and is stuck on the name Sharpay {yes from High School Musical}. I got to go to his preschool a couple of months ago because he was the star of the week. He could invite his favorite person, so he invited me! I got to look at his poster all about him. The two things I remember are that he wants to be a daddy when he grows up and that if he could wish for anything he wants a hot dog to eat.

Anyways, tonight I was babysitting him and his brothers. After getting everyone into bed, I gave Tyler a cup of water and he pulled the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from his bed. I asked him if he wanted me to read to him and he said yes. So asked him what chapter to read and he said 6. So I climbed into bed with him and started reading. This is the part when the first 2 golden tickets are being found. We laughed at the children's names. I didn't realize that he had fallen asleep while we were reading together. It was such a sweet and wonderful experience. I love all of the fun memories we have together. I can't wait to have a kid like him.

I just can't help but love this crazy kid!

Confession Time...

I need to tell you that I am terribly addicted to a new website I found. It's pintrest. People post pictures of things they like. They have literally EVERYTHING from wedding ideas to kids stuff to party decorations to food to home organization. I see things that I want and also things that remind me of some of my family members. Here's just a few things.

These would be my sister Amy's shoes.

Soon my other sister Amy will have a little girl to do this with!

My brother Chris would have loved these growing up!

I can't help but think of my sister Mackenzie! She loves chocolate.

This is something my silly brother Thomas would say.

If my brother Taylor was a girl, this would be his purse!

My sister Hannah would throw a book party like this.

My niece Mercedes would love to eat this.

Adam and Christina are so in love!

This is my dream tree house when I grow up!

If Jonathan and I ever have a dog, it would need to be nerdy and geeky.

This is just funny!

This describes all 5 of my nephews.

As you can see, there are a lot of different things to see. No wonder why I'm addicted!

Our First Big Day Trip!

Jonathan and I got married in the middle of the spring semester, so we haven't been able to make any big trips together. A few weeks ago we decided the first Thursday after school was out that we would go to San Francisco! Then we had to delay it by a week because I was playing at my 9th Roseville High School graduation. Thankfully Jonathan was patient with me and this last Thursday we took off to the city!

We're ready to go!

Every time I go to the city the first thing I do is go to the wharf and get a crab sandwich from one of the street vendors. This was Jonathan's first time trying one and he loved it!

This guy was trying to be sly and eat some of our crab!

 After lunch, we walked further down the pier and saw a WWII submarine and Liberty ship. The Liberty ship is still able to sail and it is the last Liberty ship that is around that was part of the D-Day invasion. It is so COOL!

The D-Day survivor!

I was somehow able to convince Jonathan to do this!

Then we went to an old arcade and played a game of pong and I won!

Winner!

We also went to the Exploratorium, but on our way we had to take a drive down Lombard! It was really fun and we saw a great view of the city.

The beautiful view!

Driving on down.

This was my first time to the Exploratorium and it was so much fun minus the one million kids there for a field trip. There were so many cool things there that I know my nephews would love!

That's Jonathan way over there and we were holding a quiet conversation thanks to Physics!

We can both fit in a chair that's 4x bigger than the average dining chair.

We took a nice little walk outside of the building and it was gorgeous! I love the beautiful details in that building.

Enjoying the sunshine.

My handsome man!

Then we went to Union Square and checked out the Apple store and my favorite fabric store Britex! Jonathan even found some great fabric for a little boy room! By this time we were both exhausted and knew that it was time to go home. Jonathan was pretty sure that he had never been on the Golden Gate Bridge before, so we drove home that way. It was a great way to end such a fun day!

We have an amazing store that happened as the day was going on. We started out our trip with a prayer that the car would function properly. Then Jonathan, being the responsible handyman he is, checked all the fluids and tires. He noticed that his oil level was a little low, so he added some. When we got to the Bay Bridge and could smell oil, but there were so many cars around that we didn't think twice about it. Then as we left the Exploratorium, the car made a funny sound, but it didn't repeat so we brushed it aside. We pulled into a parking garage in Union Square and the oil light starts flickering on the dash. Jonathan opens the hood and sees that the oil cap is not on. Apparently he had forgotten to put it back on about 120 miles ago! He's already thinking of where to buy a new cap because his mind keeps telling him it's long gone. A thought keeps coming to his head to look around the engine. Even though his mind is sure it's gone, he looks around and is able to see this little circle thing. He dug around and pulled it out. It was the oil cap, just sitting there for most of the day. Jonathan even had just enough oil left to put in the car and he made sure that he put the cap on. We were so grateful for this miracle and that Heavenly Father is taking care of us.

101 Projects!

So, ever since I got married there seems to be about a million things that need to be purchased, built, changed, and done. I have always loved making and installing things myself. I must be my mother's daughter! My mom has always been doing some sort of project around the house and sometimes I even got to help. Like the time when we installed a ceiling fan in my old bedroom. First up for me were the shelves and then the bed frame.

I love how the rectangles are all different!

Thank you Ikea for the shelves and great storage boxes!

Yes, those are my scriptures and various Church books keeping the frame level.

We now feel like grown ups with our bed off the floor!

Along with building, I've been painting and even SEWING! Yes, I can sew! I have always wanted to sew, but never really got into it until lately. I've been looking at a whole bunch of crafty blogs and decided that I wanted to make a few things. Starting with bunny bunting for Easter, but of course they weren't done in time for this Easter. 

Yep, I got to hand sew all of these cute bunnies!

Nothing like Easter decorations a month after Easter!

Two bunny buntings done for next year!

Then I got really ambitious for Mother's Day and made clutches for my new sisters Hannah and Mackenzie. My mom still has to pick out the fabric for her clutch.

These were so fun to make!

 One of our wedding gifts was a clock. It was really nice, but just not my style. So, I gave it new life by painting it purple!

Before...

After! It still needs a few finishing touches, but it already looks great!

I also saw the cutest streamers ever on my favorite blog! All you do is sew two or more streamers together with the tension on really high on the sewing machine and they get all ruffly! So, I just had to make some!

This is what Jonathan came home to on the anniversary of our first date!

My latest project, was a makeup brush holder for my mom's birthday. I made one for myself first so I would be less likely to mess up on her present. This was my first project sewing project with no help at all!! I was so proud of myself!

Our brush holders!

I even got fancy on my mom's and added some top stitching!

This is just the beginning of all the wonderful things I will be making!