The best week EVER!

So I haven't posted for awhile, but this week merits a post!





My uncle took some pictures of Reed in June when we were all in Colorado and yesterday we received a big printed photo montage of a few of the cutest pictures of Reed. I was so excited I couldn't sleep - seriously is was like Christmas Eve when you were a kid, but worse. I snuck down and took another peeked at them after I put Reed back to sleep in the middle of the night and got to work matting, framing and hanging it today. We love it. It will be treasured for years. Then, this evening we got a CD with the rest of his pictures and our family picture. We are thrilled and love every picture. Stephen was so sweet to surprise us and I'm so lucky to have such a talented uncle. THANK YOU, Stephen!!!!!!! On Wednesday Reed had gotten a box from them and I could feel that it was a frame and I was hoping it was one of Reed's pictures. I talked to Stephen today and the present was still wrapped, but after talking to him I got curious and unwrapped it (shh, don't tell Reed!) and it is the above picture in the cutest cowboy frame. Not only is the picture adorable, but the frame perfectly matches the cowboy quilt that I just finished... How did they know?!







After 8 years I've finally finished Reed's baby quilt! I didn't know it was for Reed when I started it, but I did the quilt top before Brent and I even met and last week Brent watched Reed for many hours so I could finish quilting and binding it in time for Reed's first birthday. I finished it with a week to spare!



Being a shoes-off house we sometimes accumulate quite the pile of shoes by the front and back doors. Plus, we don't have a closet on the main floor, so we have to hang everything on hooks. I found exactly what I wanted to solve the problem, but of course it was at Potterybarn and I couldn't bring myself to spend that much on a entryway bench. I tried to find look-alikes at other stores, but with no luck. We've had a black mirrored shelf with hooks that's been hanging by our back door, so we just needed the bench. It never goes on sale! So anyway, long story short I decided to try KSL.com (more widely used than Craigslist here in Utah) and there was someone selling theirs in perfect condition with the cushion and baskets for a steal! So we have the bench and now I just need to rearrange a little and make a new cushion for the top. Then we'll be ready for winter and the shoes and coats and hats and scarves and...What are the chances that someone would be selling the exact bench I wanted, living so close to us AND she hadn't sold it yet! So lucky.



We made the move from California to storage in St. George to Bountiful with only a broken bowl, a few scratches on some furniture AND two of my most comfortable sandals missing - brown 3-strap Birkenstocks and super comfy squishy-bottomed Teva flip flops. I convinced myself that I'd left the flip flops at someones house during an extended visit and I'd gotten rid of my Birkenstocks. I threw two other pairs of Birks away when we moved because they had been well loved, had been swept away by the ocean once and were crumbling. But this pair that I was missing I didn't remember anything being wrong with, but I convinced myself that I must have a faulty memory and I'd tossed them. There's a girl at church that has the exact same Birks and I missed them every time I saw her wearing hers. Anyway, I opened a shoe box of a pair of sandals that I didn't think I owned anymore and inside were these two pairs of sandals! I let out a squeal of joy and Brent thought I'd gone nuts, but they are my favorite, long lost shoes! I'm so happy to be reunited with them.

So many great things all crammed into one week and the weeks not even over yet! Hope you're all having a great week too!