I know that Christmas was a long time ago but I thought this would be a fun post. This year for Christmas I made these home decor frames for our sibling exchange. Now I just need to make one of these for our apartment.

Here is currently my favorite Jazz player, D. Will. It was great to have my favorites not injured and actually playing. The Jazz one the game against New Orleans by over 20 points. It was a rediculously awesome game.Christmas at the Olsen's always includes games. This year we played Taboo. My sister in law offered some beef that they had raised as the prize. I had a lot of fun and won. We came home with beef! We had a steak dinner to celebrate! It was quite gormet in comparison to our salad and roman regulars. Thanks Wendy and Rob!

Sorry it has been a crazy month for us...It feels like we've been going non-stop when we can. Here are some things that we have done recently:

These are some of my interior design projects for my theory class where we talk about the different principles of design. These are my abstract butterflies... One of our assignments was to create a 3D project displaying an emotion. My project was 'glamour'.

This project was to design a 'modern' teapot...Mine was lime green with black flowers.

Our first assignment of the semester was to design a tape dispenser within a certain time period. I did mine like a sculpture of a Russian designer in the Art Deco Era.

One of my favorite nights in the month is Stampin' Up! night. These are some of the projects that we made. I love to decorate for the holidays. One of my favorites is the spider made out of York Peppermint Patties! I think I need to make those for Halloween!!!!!

WARNING: This is a scary picture. My friends in the floral department came to take me to dinner to celebrate my birthday. We love to go shopping together at Ross. One time we were there we saw these horrendously awful moo moos. They bought one for each of us to wear and we wore them to dinner and to see 'Mama Mia'. It was a ton of fun even though we looked REALLY SCARY!

Sorry it's been a while since I blogged last. I pulled up all of our pictures and here we go!

A couple weeks ago we went to Bear Lake Raspberry Days. This is a picture of Craig wearing an $80.00 'Indiana Jones' hat. Needless to say with school getting ready to start there are many better ways to spend $80.00.

This weekend I went to IKEA. I know my brother in law hates it but I absolutely loved it! This was my first time there. I went with my step-mom and spent 3 hours there! I bought some really cute pillows for our living room and material to make a few more. When I have them all finished pictures will come. I am NOT having a baby but I loved this idea and had to take a picture of it. This is a wall from a nursery display. It has a family tree on it. I thought it was cool.

In the bottom of the candy mold you fill 3/4 way with melted chocolate almond bark and let it set up.
After that you color white almond bark and dip the top of the cake ball and decorate it however you would like. I chose sprinkles and m&m's. Here they are in a candy box. That's how I gave them to my dad.

I made 2 batches one with funfetti cake mix and one with devil's cake mix. We took a bite of each one so you can see what they look like. They are YUMMY!

This weekend we went down to Fillmore, Utah for Father's Day. Craig's cousin, Jeff, also had his mission 'farewell'. Jeff is going to Montevideo, Uruguay. This is really fun for us because one of our really good friends dad is the mission president for this mission! We were really excited to hear that he is going there. These pictures were taken in Jeff's family barn. I've personally never seen a barn before with several fridges, freezers and a/c. It was a lot of fun to have this get together.

These are just two of our Olsen cuties! We have Carrie on the left and Luke on the right. They are both soooooo cute! I wish I could've gotten a picture of all of our nieces/nephews on the Olsen side. It is always so fun when we have our famly get togethers and we can see them.

This is the present I made and gave to Craig for Father's day. NO I am not pregnant (one day, but hopefully not too soon) but I think that Father's day is still a day for me to honor Craig even though we don't have little Olsen's running around. This is a wallet made out of paper that we did at our Stampin Up! club activity this month. (Thanks Shelly! This idea was sooo cute!) I also made one of these for my dad and filled it full of pictures and other gift cards. They were both so impressed and it was so much fun to see their faces when they got each of theirs. (I seriously have to work on the picture thing though....why didn't I think about getting pictures of them when they were opening their presents?!?!?!?)


On our way home we stopped in Sandy and went to this reptile/fish store. There are so many different types of fish/reptiles here. It is almost like going to an actual aquarium but it's FREE! One day when we have our own home we'll have an aquarium! Craig really, really looks forward to this day!