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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Halloween Party

For the past few months me and Dal have gone over to my brother Jake's house every other Sunday for game night. Which is always a lot of fun! The attendees usually include, Jake and Becca, Jessika and Wade, Rachel and a guest, and Becca's brother Caleb and his girlfriend Bailey. Our game nights usually consist of lots of yummy treats, laughter, and lots of family fun! Our last game night was the day before Halloween so Becca and I put together a Halloween Party! We told all of the couples to dress up and to bring a pumpkin. The night included a Halloween photo shoot, cookie decorating, a pumpkin carving contest and ended with a scary movie. The entire night was filled with Halloween music, and tons of fun and laughter, I thought it was a great success! Here are some pictures of our awesome costumes, see if you can guess who we dressed up as.....
 Keaton as the Cutest Pumpkin ever.
 The Dettinger clan.
 Jake and Becca as Jim and Pam Halpert from the Office.
 Me starring as Flo from Progressive.
 Dal and I love the All-State and Progressive commercials and were so excited to dress up as Flo and Mayhem, I think we did a pretty good job!

 Dal rocked his Mayhem costume. Mayhem is from All-state for those of you who don't know, he is the running hot babe commercial. haha Way funny!

 I thought we did a pretty darn good job with our costumes!
 Caleb and Bailey as each other, love it.
 Jess and Wade as a cowgirl and cowboy.
 Rachel and Wayne as Barbie and Ken, on roller blades, so even better!
 Pumpkin Carving Contest

 Mine and Dallin's pumpkin. We hammered cookie cutters in the pumpkin to create the shapes and then carved of the outer orange layer, turned out pretty cute. and not messy! no carving out pumpkin guts required, it was pretty fun, easy and turned out great. Only default to doing this, it doesn't glow in the dark, because the middle isn't carved out to put a candle in it. But I think overall, it was a fun experiment and we recommend it for anyone that doesn't want a big mess from pumpkin guts.
 The final result.
 Jake and Becca carved the fish, Caleb and Bailey did the mummy, then mine and Dal's, then Rachel and Wayne's SuperMan pumpkin, and Jess and Wade's cyclops. They all turned out so good.
Photo Shoot. I am quite proud of the decorations, and thought it turned out really cute and Halloweeny. Thank you mom for the pumpkin patch in the bottom right corner, I love this decoration!
 I made this cute Witch sign with Dallin's family the weekend before, I think it is so cute!
I made this Halloween sign out of brown paper lunch sacks, scrapbook paper, ribbon and I cut out the letters with my cricut. It only took a couple hours and was pretty easy to make, I am quite proud of myself and can't wait to hang it in my apt next Halloween! 
Overall, I think the party was a great success! We had lots of fun, lots of yummy treats, some great pumpkin carving skills, and some awesome costumes to remember about!
Now that Halloween is over, it's time to get out the fall/thanksgiving decorations...hooray!!

Sunday, October 2, 2011

Crafts

So as most of you know, my hubby works a whole lot, and is gone ALL of the time!! Also to add to the equation, I now officially have tues and thurs afternoons free after 1:30pm, so being the busy body that I am I decided to fill that free time with craft projects and beautifying my home. ( Ha not that I actually have free time, I just decided that I need to spend a few hours a week doing things that I enjoy. Me time= Craft time!) So I joined www.pinterest.com, which I highly recommend to everyone. I absolutely love it! It helps me find fun and cute craft projects for me to do, which is great. And I have so many ideas as well. So combine that together and it equals an even busier, but happier Han. I decided that I will start sharing any cute ideas I create/make or find on my blog for anyone to try for themselves. Here are 2 that I did in between conference today. 

This table decoration I kinda just thought of it and figured out some way to do it. I love the end result. 
 I got a shower tile from Home Depot, like $6.
 I took the tile to a window/glass store and asked them to cut a hole in the back for me. $3-5, I guess that is depending upon where you go and what they charge. 
Then I stuffed it with some pine cones and little fall decor I got from Wal-Mart apx $2. and stuffed the tile full of it. Tied a ribbon around it, and wallah! A very cute fall table decoration. (This one was a little over the budget, but I love it and it will last me a long time.)

This cute pumpkin idea I found on www.pinterest.com. It's really simple and cheap to make. 
Materials: leftover orange scrapbook paper, and a green ribbon. 

I think it turned out pretty cute and makes for a fun Halloween decoration.

I am excited to find new, creative ideas and ways to decorate 
my apt and make it a nice little home for Dal and I.


Keep in mind that Dal and I are super cheap, "Hello, we Coupon!" so these crafts I am going to try out will all be under $10, or will hopefully be FREE! If anyone has any ideas they have found, please share!!

Also,  I promise to try and update my blog more often, I am quite behind...

Sunday, September 18, 2011

A few updates

I turned 22 this summer on July 17th, and I think my body is already feeling the age difference, haha. So something funny about my b-day was that we don't own any candles so look closely...
we used matches to make the other 2! It made for a good laugh. For my birthday I got some cute new clothes thanks to mom's, gramma and Dallin.
This summer went by too quickly, we only went swimming once, and only got to be in the sun a few times... pretty disappointing I think. But the few times we did spend in the sun were well spent. We went to the ropes course with some family and friends and had a really great time.





 As you can see, I'm not the biggest fan of heights!
 ....Will hopefully post more soon, lots to tell about new jobs, 2nd anniversary trip and other fun adventures.

2nd Year Pictures

Dal and I went up Manti canyon a few weeks ago with Jake, Becca and their boys and we took turns taking each others family pictures and they turned out so great! I'm really happy with how good they turned out, and of course Dal and I can't ever be serious so there are some silly ones too.



 The flowers up the canyon were so pretty!


 I love how good these turned out, thanks Becca and Jake for taking them for us!












Sunday, July 3, 2011

Update for June

We started out the month of June with a trip to St. George with Dallin's family for a last hoorah before Dray leaves on his mission. It was so warm and beautiful there. Dal and the boys all went golfing, while the girls got manicures and pedicures. It was my first mani and pedi ever, and I absolutely loved it! Too bad I couldn't get one weekly...

On June 11 my family had a big yard sale during the day that we helped with, and then that night Dal and I went to Provo to hang out with our friends Braden and Lyndsey. It has been so long since we have seen them and we miss them lots! We were so excited we got to finally get together with them. They took us out to dinner then they took us to Provo Beach, it was a really fun kinda "high class" arcade. It was a blast. We played croquet and I kicked some serious butt at it, who knew I was such a pro at croquet! We love Braden and Lyndsey very much and are very glad we got to spend some time with them.

For all of April, May and the beginning of June Dal has been studying and I have been stressing over his LPN boards that he has to take in June to get his LPN license. So finally the day came, June 15 was his test, it was at 8am in Draper, so he went up the night before and stayed at his sister's house so he only had to drive 10 mins to his test instead of 2 hours. We are very grateful that Des and Kel let him stay the night at their house. All the meanwhile I was at home stressing and not sleeping over this test. I don't know why I was so stressed, probably because the test cost $300 and because it determined whether he got his license or not. So Dal took his test and passed with flying colors! It was a quick process, we were able to see his license online at dopl.com 2 days after his test, and we received the license in the mail 3 days after his test. Quick huh! So he has his LPN license and hopefully he can find an LPN job soon so he can start to make a little more money. I am very proud of him and how hard he has studied for this test, and very proud that he passed it! So now he will work all summer and then take classes in the fall for his prerequisites for the RN and Bachelor's program.

I got another nephew, Keaton Russell Dettinger on June 19th and he is an adorable, sweet little baby and we are very excited that we live within 10 minutes so that we can see him quite often.




On June 22nd we said goodbye to Drayson as he entered the MTC to serve his mission. We are so proud of him for the choice he has made to serve a mission, the people in Mexico will be very blessed for his efforts.
 Me, Dal and his brother Dray at Dray's farewell.
 Dal's family- last photo of the whole family for 2 years.
 Right to Left-Dal, his dad, and his brothers Dray and Devin.
  Saying goodbye.
We will miss Dray very much, but we are very proud of him!

 So this month has been full of a lot of ups and downs... Probably one of the two worst downs would be my parents moving! I have never lived farther than 15 mins from them my whole life... My mom has always been here and now she will be in Tennessee for the rest of the summer and then she, my dad and Matthew will live in Milford. It's not so much that she is going to be over 2 hours away, its just that she won't be living in our home that we grew up in anymore, and I know that is really hard on her. She is very tough though and loves my dad very much, so she and Matthew will be living with him this year in Milford and I am very happy about that! And it will be fun to go visit them down there. It's bitter-sweet, mom, dad and Matthew won't be here anymore, but I am really excited to have my brother Jake and his family so close to us now! We love them all very much and are very grateful for how close my family is! It was just really hard saying goodbye to them, I will not see them until September and that seems so far away.

The other thing that is really hard is that Dal has 2 jobs right now, one is where he is an adviser at a boys home in Wales and the other is at the hospital in Mt. Pleasant. So remember in my last post how I mentioned that I am really excited that now that Dal is done studying for the summer that I am so excited to get to spend lots of time with him. Well poo, that sure went out the window! Ha well listen to how our past few weeks have been going, Dal worked at the hospitalfrom 10 pm til 6 am then crawled into bed at 6:30 as I was waking up for work, so I went to work all day, and he went to work at the boys home at 3pm til 11pm then drove straight to the hospital to work til 6:30 am then went straight back to the boys home at 7am til 10:30 pm then drove straight to the hospital and worked til 6:30 am then he Finally got to sleep for 2 hours but then we had to leave to drop off Dray at the MTC, we got home at 2 pm, he slept for a half hour then went to the boys home by 3pm and worked til 10:30 pm then went straight to the hospital to work all night again. So just repeat the all work, no sleep, never see his wife process for 2 weeks straight and what does that equal... an EXTREMELY exhausted husband.... and a Very Sad and Lonely wife!! I slept an entire week by myself without ever seeing Dallin. It was so weird, and I hated it. It was really hard not to see him, and I feel so bad for him. I have no clue how he even did it. He got less than 7 hours of sleep in an entire week! Poor guy, one of the very few times I have seen him this month was like this...
...Thrashed on the couch. Poor thing, he is such a sweet boy for working so hard for us, and I am very grateful for all that he does for me. I just wish that I could see him a little more often! Eating dinner and sleeping alone gets lonely, and I don't like it, it's hard that he is gone all the time. But July should be less busy and we should be able to spend some quality time together, I can't wait!! July should bring happier times that I can spend with my hubby!