It's happening again: going private

...So leave your address if you want an invite. If you've given it to me before you wont have to again.

Present for Olive

I recently finished making this pillow for a friend. She is about to have a baby girl and they have decided on the name Olive. Oh how I love that name! But...with our last name that will never work. Olive Gardner. Yum, I love that restaurant.

Anyways. Its suppose to be read {olive} you = i love you.

I am actually pretty proud of this pillow and contemplated keeping it.

The olive is made of felt which I just cut out free hand, and then hand stitched onto the fabric.

To paint the "YOU" on I found a font I liked on the computer, printed it out the size I wanted it to be and then traced it onto wax paper. I then used a blade to cut out the letters from the wax paper so that I had my very own personal stencil. Then I just painted the words on. In total the present cost me nothing {but time of course} because I already had all the supplies! Sweet!

Another project I finished last week was revamping this cardigan. Call me old, but I love lace. This too cost me nothing because I got the lace from Jordan's grandma. All I did on this one is sew the lace in place.

Shark Reef Aquarium

Saturday we ventured to the strip and went to the Shark Reef Aquarium at Mandalay Bay.

Me and Jordan loved it; levi, not so much. All he really wanted to do was push the stroller around. He was interested in the fish for like 2 seconds. Its a little pricey to get in ($18 per person -kids free, $15 for locals) so I'm not quite sure how much I would recommend people going or if we'll go again, but it is really cool. I am glad we went, it was fun to see and it was another item we could knock off our Vegas bucket list.

Here is a picture of our happy boy!

Coming Back

WE ARE BACK! Not only back to blogging, but back to Henderson. Oh how I have missed you Henderson.We had a fantastic time in St. George. We were able to spend some quality time with family, attend many great weddings, camp, family reunions, cattle drives, plays and see a lot of our dear friends.
Here are a couple pictures from our summer:

Levi's first birthday (milk and cookies) was a complete success!

We went to the county fair

Celebrated Jord's (and meg and janece's) birthday in Pine Valley

Camping with the McDonalds. Me Cherri and the kids decided to "camp" in the cabin...

4th of July fireworks with the family 

Jord's bday again

Play dates with great friends

Surprise! Carly and Andy told us they are pregnant!!

Our cutie niece Sophie

We are fully back into the swing of things here in Henderson. Jordan is really enjoying his second year of law school. So far it has been a lot more relaxed and easier. Me and Levi have gotten back to our play groups with full force (we have one every day of the week!). I have loved coming back and getting together with a lot of our friends. We have had a couple great get togethers with our law school friends which included another pool party and intense pool basketball game. Levi is a full time walker these days and is a little bit of a trouble maker. His new fun thing to do is hide everything. I have found a couple pairs of my shoes in the trash, and the laundry basket and other things like lids and magnets in our clothes drawers and jordan's backpack. It is pretty funny, i'll admit. He is great at signing which has been awesome for us because I think it helps with him not throwing tantrums because he can't communicate. He also now folds his arms when we say our night time prayer. It is probably the cutest thing you have ever seen.

Levi: 10 Months, and STG

{10 Months}

This post is just a tad late..

-Levi can point to what or who he wants

-Says "dod"for dog,"nana" for banana and "mom" and "da" or "dada" 

-Doesn't like to eat baby food anymore. He only wants to eat what we eat. He especially likes Gramma Neece's garlic and onion black beans. 

-Cruises all over the place

-Can walk while only holding one hand

-Is down to 2 naps a day. It was hard work but is great because the naps last from 1.5 - 2 hours

-Wears clothes sized 6-12 months

-Loves to laugh

-Still no teeth!

-Isn't too interested in his bottle or formula anymore

-Can drink from a cup {assisted}

Boxes to Ishinomaki Update

I am so excited and happy to report that our box made it to Japan! and look, we even have proof! Mr. Oikawa from Be 1 Project in Sendai, Japan is holding a picture of our family and our box!

{I kinda feel famous for having him hold our picture, I won't lie...}

We loved this opportunity to serve. We helped someone somewhere. Someone we don't even know will benefit by this and that just feels good.

Want to do something for Japan?: my cousin created a website for people who want to help the relief efforts in Japan. Go to this website and just click "support." You can click once everyday for about 84 more days. Every time you click 1 yen {which equals roughly .o1 US dollars} will be donated by a company sponsor. Sooo...all you have to do to help is to click a button on your computer. How sweet is that?

Check out this link for the complete post on The Sleepy Time Gal's blog that included the pictures of our family.

Mustache Pool Party

Jordan and his law school friends decided to grow mustaches the last month of finals. Here are the results:

 {Eric Carson, James Clissold, John Peck, Jordan and Alan Miller}

{next pics add Joe Bowen,  Kevin Day and Michael Lum}

Here is our law school family. We have had many great parties and get togethers over the past year. We are so grateful to have such great friends!

And hooray for Jordan being done with his first year of law! This summer he got an internship with Gallian Wilcox Welker Olson & Beckstrom in St. George.