My New Years Goal!

So for New Years my goal was to make my home more homely and so that is what I have been working on. For Christmas I got a Silhouette and I am in love with it! I just keep making things like crazy! I'm kind of addicted now! So I just thought I'd put up some of the crafts I made! 

 My cute little Valentines Day Crafts! 

 

Koop cut up the wood for me, I sanded them,

 painted them and put the letters on!

These were to add something to our plain bare WHITE walls!

They don't look quite as big as they really are. I think there 9x11 maybe 

I can't quite remember I know it had an 11 in it!

 This is my favorite! Its 16x20! I have been wanting a picture of the temple we got married but I haven't been able to find one and so recently I got this idea to make one! So I did! I Blew it up onto a poster, buffed up the edges with black ink, modge podged it onto canvas and then added the EST.2013! It was actually pretty easy and only cost about $15

This is the final products all together!

 I still have a few more Valentines Crafts I am working on 

but for now, this is the latest projects! 

Our Anniversary Adventure

So if we're not friends on Facebook or if you haven't seen my status updates the title might seem like it was a normal adventure and that we had this perfect plan go perfectly. Sometimes Koop and I can be very lucky while other times not so lucky. I would like to think that this luck made for quite the adventure and will always be something that we remember! 

Saturday morning we woke up, packed, made pancakes, and hit the road. So far so good, I mean the pancakes tasted great, we didn't forget anything and we were off to celebrate our 1-Year anniversary! To start the day we headed to Wyoming to Grand Targhee to go Snowboarding! It's something that we both enjoy and wish we could do more often, but Saturdays are the only day in our schedules that allow it. The lot was full but, we thought we'd check the front first for any open spots. Bada-Bing front row parking... so CLOSE! Talk about lucky! So we bundled up in our snow gear and headed for the mountain. One problem, the main lift was down. It was all iced over and they had been working on it all morning. (No big deal we'll just hit the other lift.) So we headed to the bunny hill and cut over to the other lift. Once we dropped down we saw it... the line is SO LONG. Which never happens, usually no one is even over there and you get right on. No turning back now, being a border you don't have poles to pull you a long so we waited. It took a good 20-30 minutes and so we thought we'd go to the lodge and have lunch and wait a little longer. 

They said it would be at least another hour so we thought we'd check in at our cabin(just at the bottom of the mountain.)  The lift wasn't going to be opening anytime soon. AND They just happened to have a big Jacuzzi and we couldn't pass up and hoped right in!

 After we got ready and headed to Jackson Hole for the night! I've never been to a Hockey game and the Moose were playing! So we walked around Jackson in all the cute shops and then got some pizza and flatbread at this fancy little pizza parlor! It was a little interesting, and different but good! 

After we headed to the Hockey game! Which if you haven't ever been to a hockey game, GO! They are so fun. Even though I had no idea the rules, or strategies I loved it. They play fun music the whole time which really makes the crowd fun, let alone everyone is drinking which means the crowd is crazy! Also the Moose is banging on the windows with shovels and garbage cans and is just NUTS. And then to top it off all the players are feisty little buggers who get in fights and is pretty entertaining.

After the game we head out to get back to our cozy little cabin, and our puppy Sampson only to find out we CAN'T. The Teton Pass is closed due to 2 large Avalanches.  We see a snow plow head up and think, ah we can just follow behind it, we will be okay. Then we get to the top and they have a crossing guard that says if you pass you can go to Jail or be fined $750. So, we wait. An officer see's us and stops to inform us to either find a place to stay in jackson, take the long route(which would be 2-3 hours vs 45min), or wait it out. The only thing about waiting it out was that is was 10:45 and it could be a few hours or it could be until morning(5AM.) Normally, no big deal we could of went the long route and been back home, or we could of got a hotel. However, 1. We already rented a cabin. and 2. Sampson was in the cabin. So we decide to maybe top the car off and go the long way. As we're pulling out of the gas station this truck flags us down and asks for a Jump. The kindly people we are, say yes. Only to find out the truck will not start and spend 30minutes trying. 

By this point we decide, we'll maybe stick it out. So we pull over in this random area. Tilt the seats back and try and take a nap, both being extremely tired. Luckily we had 2 travel pillows that we just got for Christmas and 1 blanket. We shared the blanket over the two seats, barely having enough to cover ourselves. We manage to fall asleep about an hour and then wake up. Koops parents tell us to go get a hotel, but we don't want to buy two so we try to tough it out longer.  Its cold by now and Kooper's legs are just killing him. I decided we should try and lay in the backseat, that way we will keep each other warmer. We lay our snowboards on top of the seats and squeeze in the small area, Kooper moaning his legs hurt, but some how we manage to fall asleep another 45minutes or so until he can no longer bare it anymore and we move back to the front. Then we wait and wait and turn on the car for it to get warm again and see the snowplow come back down. So we decide to drive back up and see if its Open. Almost there, we see the blinking lights again and get discouraged, only to find out it was OPEN! horray!! So we start down the pass, it was scary let me tell ya. Snow drifts everywhere, making it so we couldn't see a foot in front of us. However, we took it nice and easy and made it back safe and sound! (I wish I had more pictures, but it got dark fast!)

Can you say what a day! What a day! It will definitely be an unforgettable one!

Anniversary Gift: A Year Of Dates

When it comes to dates sometimes it is very easy to think of things and sometimes it is very hard! Kooper especially doesn't like picking, he'd rather me pick. So when it came to planning something for our 1st Anniversary I had no idea what I was going to do! No IDEA! So I started thinking about Dates and how many fun things we could do and I had seen something similar to this idea before and though hmm I can do that! So I started cutting and decorating and then thinking of dates for each month and then whipped this all together! It was fun to make and I really enjoyed it. I cut a piece of paper in 4 and then the rest I did all by hand! I hope Kooper loves it! 

Koop will be working in Island Park and so I thought we 

could take advantage of that and go exploring!

Here is the final results! I can't wait to do each one of these! I am very Excited!!! Each month no matter what we will have ONE date planned out!

YES FINALLY... New years goals!

HELLO 2014!

Lately I have been reading all these posts, and Facebook status's about people not setting goals this year. Which, I personally think is silly. You don't have to make HUGE goals that your never going to reach, haven't you ever heard of "Smart goals" Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, time bound?! Make goals that you think you could achieve, don't make 50 different goals, where you forget your goals, and don't make impossible goals! One or two is fine!

So let me just tell you some of our goals, we planned some personal goals and some marriage goals! 

Marriage:

 We want to read the Book of Mormon! A couple weeks ago I decided to make a little bookmark that would help keep us in gear. We have tried twice now and haven't got very far. So I have made this cute little hand out that is a bookmark that I see every time we read. I made two, one for us and one for my mom! (If you want one, let me know!) This picture is not very clear, but it says...

"There is a power in the book [of mormon] which will begin to flow into your lives the moment you begin a serious study of [it.] You will find greater power to resist temptation. You will find the power to stay on the strait and narrow path. The scriptures are called 'the words of life', and nowhere is that more true than it is of the Book of Mormon. When you begin to hunger and thirst after those words, you will find life in greater and greater abundance."-Ezra Taft Benson
It then goes on to January, February all the way till August! 
It also has a spot for that says Temple: Our next goal is to make it there once a month!

Lacey's Personal:

 I want to cook again! When we were first married I cooked all the time and then we moved to Malad and I got in the habit of not cooking. Well, now that I am graduated I feel as if I might have a little more time! So I want to cook at least 2 meals a week! AT LEAST! And not just regular meals, but try new recipes, be a little more brave with my choices.

 I want to find a job I like! I recently graduated, and feel as if I shouldn't just settle for something, but find something I really like. I want to figure out what I am good at and what I really want to continue doing! 

I want to care about the important things. Recently, after finishing school I got to the point were I get on my phone all the time. I just realize that social media is not going to get me anywhere, its not going to make me any cooler, its not going to teach me anything, and its going to waste my time. I need to care more about the people around me and do something useful! 

I want to make our home more homely! We kind of use just all the random stuff we had together before we were married and wedding gifts but now we have been married for a year almost! I want to actually get crafty and make cute things! I recently got a Silhouette Cameo and am so excited to start using it! 

Kooper's Personal:

Attend Winter Semester, Intern in the Spring, and graduate in December.

Swear Less :)

He really didn't want to make goals!

Here's to 2014! I have a feeling it's going to be a great year! :)