Happy Anniversary!

5 Years down and many more to come!

Another singing video

This video just captures Molly in so many ways. She loves to sing and dance and what may seem like a random head stand in the middle of the song is pretty common in our house.

Good Ship lollipop

I have had a really hard time getting this video from Halloween up, but I finally got it.

Grana made the adorable Shirley Temple dress for Molly. I LOVE the costumes she makes. 

Warning: This is pretty much a video for Grand Parents.

The Proposal

As I posted before, our five year anniversary is coming up so I am trying to write down our courtship and engagement before I forget and it's too late!

Nathan took me to the gardens at BYU and as we walked up the switch backs he would stop, pull out a rose and tell me how the color of that particular rose pertained to our relationship. For example, one of the roses was yellow which stands for friendship he told me I was his best friend. It was a very thought out, sweet way to propose. It all seemed so surreal. I loved it!

Back at my apartment with all of my roses.

Because we were dating long distance and we had already decided to get married, I knew when he was proposing and later that day we went and took our engagement pictures. I know, weird.

Autumn

Lately we have spent a lot of time talking about trees as they have been changing colors. Molly has been concerned about the trees losing there leaves so I did my best to explain to her what is going on. Now she is fascinated with the changing colors and loves seeing the difference every day. So today I decided we should go down to a park near our house that has lots of trees and leaves for her to see.

We took a walk and talked about the leaves and acorns, but her attention quickly changed to the swings at the park.

Swinging is a big deal in our house. When we go to the park we spend the majority of the time on the swings. She has been learning to pump so she could do it all by herself. She has had a few moments of getting it, but about a month ago it just all sank in. Now she is swing independent. HOORAY!!!!

She saw the beam and said it was kind of like the beam at gymnastics. She never passes up a time to practice gymnastics!

I Can't Stop Sewing!!!!

On Saturday I decided I was going to make a quilt. Christie had taught me how to bind a quilt while she was here, so I wanted to try it out before I forgot how to do it.

I know it is a simple quilt, but I was really excited to finish it.
The next day I made a little messenger bag for a girl in our ward. (No pictures, sorry. I forgot to take one before I gave it to her.)

That was supposed to be all of my projects, but I had enough material left over from the quilt to make Molly a skirt.

I searched everywhere for a tutorial for the skirt in my head, but I couldn't find one. I knew I could probably buy a pattern, but I didn't want to spend money.

So, here it is...my first project without a tutorial.

I made a few mistakes like miscalculating the ruffle that originally was 3 inches longer, but after some picking, cutting and more sewing, it came out all right.

Flash Back Friday

Five years ago on general conference weekend I flew out to Washington to visit Nathan. It was that weekend we decided we wanted to get married.

 BEST. DECISION. EVER.

 Outside of the Portland temple.

After being teased by Nathan's siblings that we needed to concentrate on conference, we sent this picture to his family showing them what we did during conference.

We didn't get engaged for another month, but it was a pretty great weekend.