Payten's blanket

This is the blanket i just finished for my niece payten. I started it last weekend and i only had a week to do it. i really procrastinated on this one(hehehe).. but i got it finished last night in time for her b-day on sat. This one was alot quicker to do but it was more challanging. i am not good with angles and stuff measurments but it turned out really good.. i hope she likes it. it turned out way bigger than the other ones i have made. but shhhh no one will know... (j/k)

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Remembering the past part 3

Who can forget the mother in law.. i have so many moms to be thankful for. including my wonderful mother in law.. Donna is one of a kind. she is very ditzy, fun and very caring. A memory i want to share about her is about this one vacation she took all her daughter in laws on. Every summer she takes us to a concert that we all want to go to. This one we were going to was in Vegas. It was Kenny Chesney concert with sugar land. This one was way special because we were able to stay the night in i think it is called grand rio. it is out in henderson, and it is like a 5 star resort where alot and i mean alot of the celeberties stay. Walking in to the hotel was amazing i have never seen anything like it. Gold stuff every where. we all walked in wearing jeans tshirts and sandals. we def. felt very under dressed for this kid of place. everyone was very well dressed, even the guests. We get to our rooms and they had huge beds with white down comforters and a huge walk in bath room with stand up shower with a huge jacoozie tub and had two sinks and the toilet had its own door so you could be using the bathroom and some else could be doing their hair.... we all felt like royalty.( the hotel was booked by my sister in law jesse, she could get good deals at hotels cuz she worked at one and was able to get us a discount) we all decided to get ready for the concert so we could go tour around the resort and see what was around there and see the show... It was amazing this place has two hotels cuz it is a huge resort and had like 3 swimming pools it had its own little shopping town and casino. So instead of taking our car and driving around Las Vegas we took a LIMO.. (by the way had never been in one before this) We waited very patiently by the front golden doors for our ride, it finally showed up and we all let out a scream. people kept looking at us giving us weird looks. By the way donna screamed too... we ran out and made the bell boys take a picture of all of us in front of the limo. then we go in and waited for our adventure. We played with everything in that limo, opening this and that pushing this button and that button. We all laughed and had blast in there. the limo driver probably thought we were all on something.(hehehehe) it was a blast. We get to the concert and it was one of the most funnest concert i have been to and it was great that we got to spend it with our mother in law. the concert was way good and we had fun screaming and yelling, and every one covering their ears while i screamed my lungs out. after we headed back to the hotel in the limo and had just as much fun on the way over. Wishing the night ould not end. we dicided to go check out the casino so that they could gamble(by the way i was only 20 i am not allowed in there) we go in and they start to gamble and i just kinda stood there, there was like 10 people in there it was not very big. and i was like 12:30 at night the casino guys come over and started to check id's i didnt have one so he told me i couldnt over there so i said i will go sit over there and wait for you guys. well i got bored so me and Myla went for a walk throught the little towns streets. then Donna, shannon and jesse met up with us. Then it was off to bed. we woke up refreshed. got ready and went to breakfast and off to Utah we drove, the whole way we talked and laughed about the night before and talked about how much fun we had.. Thank you donna for such great experiences you give tous. you are the best mother in law in the world and i am so thankful to be part of your family... Thank you for all the great memories we have had in the past 5 since i have met cole and your family. thank you for having such a great son. very privleaged to be his wife. thank you

Remembering the past part 2

Fortunantly I have 2 moms to write about. I am going to write about my step mom today. This challenge i challenged people to do is very hard, there are so many memories. It is hard to just pick one. This one memory i am going to write about happened about 2 years ago. I think i was in SLC for my bridals. By the way was an amazing experience and i thank Benita for it. She made my bridal fun and very memorable. thank you for doing that for me. Benita had asked me if i wanted to register any where for the wedding and i had not really thought about it. She told me that it would be a good idea just because there are certain things you may want and if there is a list of things then people can choose something from your list instead of trying to guess what your style is or what you like.. so i decided to do it. So we decided to register at target! (love target) after my bridals, Benita, Aryn and I headed to target. We registered and they gave me this scanner gun and said you can scan what ever you want to. I was like sweet.. we all set off to go through everything and scan everything... I remember just having a blast not only with Aryn but Also with Benita. We would scan something way out of the ordinary and would just laugh about it. It was fun becuase not only were we acting like kids but benita was having fun to.. She would find things to scan and then laugh about it. We were in target for a couple hours. it was so fun to be able to something like this with a mom. i had a blast... it was fun because it was a whole day as the girls no worries about the boys. it was just us girls. starting in the morning with hair and make up then bridals,laughing at poses i was doing and then shopping. it was a very good day and very memorable. Benita is a wonderful and caring person. She is always there when you want to talk or need advice. She has been in our lives going on 22 years this june. She is not just a step mom she is more than a step mom. I just want her know how thankful i am for having her in my life and being there for me as a mom and a friend. Thank you for all you do. thank you for making that day really special to me.

Remembering the past challenge

I am challenging every one to post a memory from the past about a time you spent with not only your family but your MOM... Something you will remember for ever! i had a hard time thinking of just one good memory.

I remember back when us kids were little, mom would pack us in the car and we would head to subway... Mom would order a huge sandwhich that had lots of things on it. Yuummm. We then would all pack in to the white convertable car and head up the canyon. All the boys usually sat in the back, and i got to sit in the front with mom. Mom would have the top down and we would jam ou to the music. Usaully Indian music or Roxette(by the way i still listen to Roxette). It seemed like we would go around the twists and bends super fast(heck we were kids we thought we were driving way fast) and one of my brothers hated it. it was like you would hit one of the turns and you look over the edge of the road and was like you were going to fall over... We would end up stopped at a little meadow in the canyon, and eat our lunch and we would play for awhile. This one time we stopped at this meadow and there was this pond i remember we sat under a tree to eat and out in the middle of the pond was a moose. it was so awesome. when we were done we would head back down the canyon and head home, hoping for another adventure to come with mom. Mom took us for rides all the time it was so much fun and i will always remember the times we all spent together in the past. Mom always tried to make things fun for us kids, instead of spending tonz of money that she didnt have we would do simple things like go for rides and adventures... I am very grateful to my mom for everything she has done for us kids. We went through some rough times in our lives but mom was always by our sides to her best ability. Thank you mom for everything and i love you... I will def. be writing more about our child hood memories, there is more to come.