Sorry I've been gone for a while. I've been super busy! So I changed my background which I love! and decided to do an update that is 3 months long over due. The reason why I was so busy was I was going to school part time. The semester ended last week. I've been going to school straight since last april. I decided for the next semester I need to slow down to one class and then pick back up after that. I'm so close! I need to keep going. I almost feel like I've lost my momentum.

Besides doing homework, I've been making cards like crazy. I wish I could have done more. I think I have done a card or a crafty item every day since the semester let out. During school I think I did one once a week or less. Here is one I did yesterday. I haven't posted it on my other blog yet. I'm going to stretch myself and make a video of me doing a similar card as a tutorial to see if it is something I like. You can check it out on my other blog later today: http://www.tawnysdesigns.blogspot.com/ What do you think?

Let's see, what else have I been doing? Oh yeah I cut my hair. I had to because cassie kept pulling on it and it was making my head, neck, and back hurt. We went to Yellowstone. I went there when I was in my early teens and didn't remember much. We went camping up there. It was so much fun! Deven loved it! Cassie was just along for the ride.Oh man can you believe that she is 5 months? Time has just flown by! She is getting so big. Have I mentioned that we nicknamed her Sassy? Because that is how she is. If it's not her way, it's the highway. But she is so cute! And deven loves her. She thinks that he is fascinating. She wants so much to run after her brother and play with him. Deven wants this too. So much so that I have to watch him because he doesn't know how to play with her. Fun stuff huh? I need to get some new pictures of my growing family.

(mammoth hot springs)

(yellowstone national forest)

 (bear world)

 (At my sister-in-laws reception)

I almost forgot! my brothers came home from their missions!! It feels so unreal that they are home. I'm so proud of them because when they gave their talks on sunday I realized that they had grown up and became men.

(Elder Peavler)

(Elder Peavler)

Happy 3rd Anniversary

Today Cory and I turned 3 years old. ;) in wedding years at least. We were just talking the other day that it seems like it has been longer, like we've known each other forever. I can't even remember what it was like before Cory. I'm so happy that I'm married to him.

When Cory gets home we are going to watch our reception movie and have some ice cream. It isn't much. He has to work 10 hour shifts all week and he's on the swing shift. So he's going to be tired. We've decided that since it is in the middle of the week we are going to celebrate this Saturday. I'm hoping I can talk him into a temple session. You know be at the temple near our wedding

date... It has to be a little more special than today's activities. So far we woke up early. Got our kids up earlier than they are used to. crying, bawling, changing. Take Deven to the eye doctor. Get stinging dilating eye drops in his eyes. wait 40 mins. go to Burger King for quick lunch before Cory goes to work. Real romantic huh? By the way we did find out that Deven needs glasses. I wondered if he did. He's been having some eye problems. Some times when he is focusing he looks like he has a lazy eye or he goes cross eyed. The doc says he's far sighted and if we don't correct this now he will develop a lazy eye. So! glasses it is. Anyway back on track. I thought I would post some wedding pictures of that day.

This is one of the reasons that I got married here. The pretty fountain.

I was so scared that he picked me up while standing on a 2 ft ledge. If you look close I have a worried face.

Do you like my dress? I got it on my 20th birthday before I met Cory. My aunt found it somewhere at a sale. A blue tag special that cost $1.

My Father-in-law was saying all sorts of things to make me laugh for the picture. I was holding my tummy because it was sore from laughing so hard.

I DID IT!

I am now an alumnus at BYU-Idaho! yay! the funny thing is I just graduated with my A.S. degree. I decided to continue on to my B.S. degree. My anticipated graduation date will be 12/15/2012. Six days before the world is supposedly supposed to end according to the myans. I'm an online student and I'm going to up my credits to full time so I can finish faster. This has been an exciting and stressful ride. I've decided to really take a break. I'm not going to do anything that requires opening a book. I'm going to spend a lot of time away from the computer. There is much needed spring cleaning to do and I'm really excited to start!

Graduation was amazing! it was everything that I had hoped it to be. I did something really cool! I was the first in line and led the march! My family wasn't expecting that. So they didn't see me in the march. They were looking for me somewhere in the middle. I've never been so close to the stage before. It was fun. when they had a color guard everyone was silent and respectful. Except for my son. Which oddly I was grateful for, because of his barking I found my family quickly. my family eventually did see me when I was marching out in the recessional.

ok.. so don't laugh at me

I'm way over due for an update! just so many things have been going on. I'm not sure where to begin, so i will start at the main events and work my way around until i know that i've covered everything. first off, i think some very exciting news happened recently. We signed the papers to buy a house! YAY!!! personally i'm excited! We feel good about everything! and in my opinion I believe that I will have the perfect kitchen! I will post pictures later. I took pictures of everything but I don't want to jinx it. no i think i'm safe with just showing you the out side. Cute isn't it? so far so good. no hiccups which we've had in the past with other offers. But on to other news. a couple of weeks ago Deven did something bad. What I think happened is typical for Deven but he did not foresee tripping himself up. He was on the couch and he wanted down. so he threw the keys onto the floor so he could play with them down there. I was finishing school work on the computer and talking to Cory at the same time as he was coming home. I think what happened is Deven's foot got caught in trying to slide off the couch the right way. He ended up rolling off and falling on the keys. The car key which is narrow is the key he fell on and it punctured his face. I know! I was mortified! I tried very hard not to panic. I know this is very graphic but I had a hard time taking the key out of his face. It was like pulling a key out of clay. I did get it out and automatically tried to stop the bleeding. I grabbed the nearest object which was a grocery ad and wadded it up. So Cory's still on the phone with me. He calmed me down and I realized that news paper wasn't going to work well. Duh! So I grabbed the nearest piece of cloth. It didn't occur to me that I could use my shirt. I thought about that later. It happened to be shorts that deven was wearing earlier. I put lots of pressure on the wound, told cory to speed home, and called 911. She was able to calm me down more and said I was doing the right thing. As soon as cory got home we rushed to the hospital by now the bleeding had stopped. I wanted to make sure that the wound didn't go deeper. It punctured his sinus cavity but I wasn't sure. we took several xrays and they ended up giving us a prescription for antibiotics and put a band-aid on him. They told me if it falls off to leave it off. They like puncture wounds to heal from the inside out. I just wanted a band-aid on so deven wouldn't play with or scratch his wound. to entertain deven at the hospital, because we were there for 2 hours and we didn't get home till 3, I played music from my phone and took pictures and a video of him. Now a couple weeks later you can hardly tell that Deven's accident even happened. Cory and I were saying talking to each other about how it would be to heal from a wound like that now in our 20's. I'm so glad that he healed up nicely. I think it traumatized me more that it did him.
I got a cute picture of Deven playing at the play ground. He was playing in the wood chips. I wasn't feeling well that day so i took him some place i knew he would have fun. That same day I found out some good news!! I'M PREGNANT!! yay! I've been waiting so long to have another baby! I was so happy that I cried! So that is why I haven't been writing. I've been busy doing other things like tossing my cookies! Oh and this video happened last month but I love it! Don't laugh at me when you hear my "motherese". One of Deven's favorite words is tickle-tickle. Go ahead laugh at me. I enjoy laughing and playing with my son!

WE HAVE A WALKER!!!

FINALLY! I've been waiting for this day forever! Here is a video that i got of him walking!

In other news we've been so busy that I've been a bad blogger. look what we did last month.

Deven likes to watch movies from different angles.

We figured since Deven likes baths and water so much we decided to go swimming! He loved it!

We went in search for a house. Deven didn't like that as much but he smiled for the camera.

Deven found out that you can have fun with a slide many ways!

cory too! he he he

I scream! you scream! We all scream for ICE CREAM!

Deven found out what tires are and yes i let him play in the dirt while we were gardening

and we made messes!

Finish or Bust

YAY!!!! i'm so excited that something great happened that i've so been hoping for! After being away for 3 years....I reapplied and I got intoI'm so, so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm in the online program, as Rexburg is up there and i'm down here in Burley. I could do what one of the ladies in my ward is doing. She travels up to Boise everyday to go to school. Yah....NO! I love Rexburg, but i don't love it that much. I'm pretty sure my husband would have a few choice words. None in my favor. But this works! Did I mention that I'm excited! I plan on graduating in December or next April. It's been a while since I first applied back when i was an incoming freshman. you know, i don't remember it being so demanding of information. I don't know if any other married students have gone through this, but I'm pretty sure I filled out more forms this time around. I don't care though, I'm IN!!!

Beautiful Blogger

So, i was planning on doing a very important update when i decided to do my routine backwards. I usually post and then look at other blogs. And I noticed that I saw my name on my cousins page! hmm...I took a closer look and I was awarded the BEAUTIFUL BLOGGER award! yay! (j/k) Thanks Shelayna!


Terms of the award: Must list 10 things about yourself, thank the person who gave it to you and pass it onto 10 wonderful bloggers:

10 Things About Me:

1- I love to crochet! right now i have a side business crocheting baby booties

2-when cooking I make way too much almost all the time

3- I once took a snip too close to my eyebrow and i had to fill in the spot with black eye liner for a while

4- I think i'm the only one who celebrates May Day. (in a non pagan way) May Day is May 1st and it's the day when you give a flower. I'm growing flowers right now to give flowers away on that day!

5- if i don't write things down I will forget it 99.9% of the time

6- my favorite color is all RED family colors

7- I LOVE avocados! mmm

8- A new hobby i've picked up is geocaching. it's a high tech treasure hunt

9- I make homemade cards for all occasions but I always forget to take a picture of them!

10- i have a small fear of driving by semi trucks. i'm afraid that they will run me over


10 Other Beautiful Bloggers!
1-Linnie F.
2-Caiti L.
3-Cassie S.
4-Laura E.
5-Stacey C.
6-Laura N.
7- Brittany W.
8-Lisa J.
9-Laura H.
10- Jessica P.