Thanks SOOOO much, Mom!!!

I have to give a HUGE shout-out to my mom! She came up and stayed w/us for a few weeks to "help" me reupholster our couch and loveseat. (And by 'help' I mean I sat and talked to her while she did all the work). But she did an awesome job and we love them! I still have to redo the pillows so we're not completely done yet, but I thought I better show off my mom's handy work before they're all stained up. I forgot to take pics before she redid them so I found some old ones so you can kind of get the idea.

Before

After

Thanks, Mom!! It was so fun having you here and we really appreciate the work you did!!!!

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Baby D is one! Our family came into town last weekend to celebrate his birthday and it was so fun to have them here! Donovan was so happy and loved having so many people around. He loved his cupcake and his presents. Thanks fam for coming and helping us celebrate!!

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as per chanel's request...

New pics!! Seriously it's been a while, eh?? So this post is FULL of random pics from the last two months.

I went and visited my mom last month and Easton was supposed to be sleeping in my mom's room and came out like this. Makeup on the eyes and chocolate on the face.


And we got this walker from one of my mom's friends while we were there. Donovan LOVED it!!



Two brothers relaxing at grandma's house.


Jonny and my dad made a book shelf for our play room. Easton thought it'd make a good place to take a nap.

Jonny built the boys this sweet fort. He was just trying to one-up the one I made that was about 1/6 of the size.

Easton in the fort.

Our fantasic friends were awesome enough to take us along on their annual family Easter egg hunt. They had this sweet tractor that Easton loved!

And this even sweeter wagon that they both adored!!

Then later we went to the Durrant's house for some egg dying.

Enjoying some ice cream...

...and french fries.

JENNIE came into town w/Tori last week and we stopped by the temple.

Easton loved these 3D glasses Aunt Jennie let him borrow.

D on the tire swing.

...did I catch a "niner" in there???

Donovan's 9 months old now! I can't believe it! I know everyone says that about their kids no matter how old they are, but seriously! Part of me feels like it was just yesterday that we brought him home from the hospital and the other part can't believe that there was a time when he wasn't part of our family yet. We had my friend Mandie take some pics. Thanks, Mandie!

[In case you're wondering, I had to make them all black and white because Donovan apparently eats too many yellowish foods and it has made his skin look yellow in bright lights].

Too excited not to share...

One of the designs I made for my fam's etsy shop was featured on the Etsy Storque today (along w/other cool wedding stuff)!!! I seriously am SO excited that I had to share it! (I mean, I can only tell Jonny so many times). Go here if you want to see the full article. This is the design they featured.

Our Christmas!

We had tons of fun for Christmas this year! We were spoiled cause we got to see both sides of the family this year. Easton was in Heaven! Jonny's fam came up a few days before Christmas and then I took Easton and Donovan to my parents house after Christmas (Jonny had to work). I forgot to take pics at my mom's house, but here are some from Christmas Day at our house. Jonny's fam opens presents on Christmas Eve and since they were w/us, we did it their way.


Here is Easton opening his first present on Christmas Eve. He was so funny opening presents. He was just ripping open every present in sight...it didn't matter who it was to.


Donovan opening his first present...kind of.



Easton helping Donovan out.

Christmas jammies!

Easton on Christmas morning w/his present from Santa.

Christmas Cards!

So my family has an etsy shop. I don't remember if I've ever blogged about it before. But it's http://www.deanworks.etsy.com/. It's kind of a compilation of a bunch of people in my family's work. They sell journals and custom photo cards. In case any of you are looking for some last minute Christmas cards (not really last minute if you're me. more like 'right on time' haha), you should check it out! I've been helping out w/them and it's been a lot of fun! My brother Preston did a blog post about it here if you want to check it out! But since you all are my friends, if you mention that you saw it on this blog, you can get your cards for $10 instead of $15! Just send an email to theperfectoccasion@deanworks.org and they'll set up a custom listing just for you!

This is one of my favs!