Thank You!!!!

My heart is very full tonight after our VERY SUCCESSFUL Grand Opening Party!!! Jeff and I were too busy helping our many supporters to take pictures but my dad is always on top of it with the camera and got lots of good pictures for us that we will post soon! I didn't however, want to wait and to tell all of you how truly TRULY grateful Jeff and I are for your amazing support!!! We feel so blessed to know each of you and to have your support in this venture. We also want to give a special thanks to the band- ENDLESS SUMMER and all the wonderful 'sandwich makers' we definitely could not have done it without you!!! And a very special thanks to Lesley (Jeff's mom) for staying late to make more sandwiches and helping us clean up!! Also to Lilian and Russell for stepping in the the middle of the CRAZINESS to lend a hand!

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!!

It's Party Time!!!

We have been talking about our

LEGER'S DELI GRAND OPENING PARTY

for months now and promised more details soon. The time and date have finally been confirmed and we hope to have a HUGE turnout!!

Please mark your calenders for this MONDAY, JULY 28TH from 5:30 to 7:30ish.

Jeff's dad's ENDLESS SUMMER Band will be there to entertain us and there will be lots and lots of DELICIOUS DISCOUNTED FOOD... need I say more?? Everyone is invited and we hope to see you all there!!! In fact, you might want to bring a lawn chair and come enjoy the band for a while!! We are hoping we don't have enough seats for everyone:)

Address: 120 N. Redwood Rd #1 North Salt Lake.
Directions: If you are headed south on I-15 take the Center St. Exit and head WEST. Turn RIGHT at the first light and then take your first RIGHT into our parking lot!!!
We are kitty corner NORTH of the Maverik gas station and directly across the street from a new car wash.

Leger's on Redwood

Ever since Jeff's grandma and grandpa sold their store and retired (last March-ish) Jeff and I have been talking about taking Leger's back down to North Salt Lake. I was in Kentucky at the first of Jan. when I received a call from Jeff saying that he had made an executive family decision...' We are opening our 2nd deli and it was going to be in North Salt Lake'. I was so happy that he finally was totally on board with this!!

It wasn't long after that Jeff got in contact with the real estate agent for the building we are in now (1 mile south and on the opposite side of the street from his grandparents old location) and it was been smooth sailing ever since! We really have been blessed to be working with great people through this whole process that have all gone above and beyond the call of duty.

We felt confident with re-locating in this area since people already knew our name and we have been hearing nothing but an excited buzz ever since we hung our 'Opening Soon' sign!!

After countless hours of hard labor and many LATE nights we finally opened our doors for business last Wednesday (7-16-08). We could not have been more thrilled with the response!!! We were thinking it might take a couple of weeks to get the business back but it was more like 2 days!
We have a wonderful manager and a great crew and are so excited about the possibilities of this store. It almost brings a tear to my eye to think of how blessed we are! I am so grateful for Jeff and all his hard work and for all of our family that has supported us in this!
Mark your calendars everyone for the evening of Monday July 28th for our GRAND OPENING PARTY. More details will follow so stay tuned!

Just as we thought it's a little girl that heating up my life right now!!! Is it just me or is it really really hot lately??

Busy Past 2 Weeks!!

It has been a very fun and very busy past two weeks!!! It all started with the arrival of my sister Kathryn and her 3 darling kids from Louisville Kentucky! Needless to say I spent a lot of time at my parents (where they stayed for the 1st half of their visit) house this week.

We played lots of games, visited with lots of people, relaxed as much as possible, and...

played a little dress up (notice the earrings, pretty bracelet, and ring on Megan) too!



I just can't get enough of these kids!!! (Unfortunately, Campbell was already fast asleep during this picture!)

Then on Friday my brother, his wife and their two cute kids got here from Oregon. On Saturday they threw a great party for Anna's 7th birthday and so the partying started.



From there we headed off to Bear Lake, for our annual family summer trip. And for the first time in I don't know how many years, everyone was there!

We were a little further away from the beach this year in a cabin that would fit us all, so we didn't spend quite as much time at the actual lake as we usually do! But that didn't stop us from getting plenty of water time in the cabins hot tub and club house pool (while the boys went golfing-no pictures)!

and during the dry times we all enjoyed some much needed downtime!

And of course what would a great vacation be without lots and lots of good food!!!

My dad brought the Wii and and Eric brought guitar hero... hours of fun!!

And anyone that knows us know that we LOVE to play card and board games.

Bless Skyelie's heart, she was the designated hair stylist and spent I don't know how much time braiding and re-braiding all the girls hair.

I can't end this post without at least mentioning what a FUN uncle Jeff is... He had the idea to do a mini Deal or No Deal with each of the grand kids, with REAL $$$! Unfortunately, we were both busy during the whole game (Jeff was Howie, I was the assistant and my dad was The Banker) and so we personally did not get any pictures. I am hoping that as soon as my dad get pictures from everyone there with be at least a few that I can post. It was super fun and a great memory, especially for Makenna the big $20 winner of the night (and first one out of the gate:))!


Needless to say we had a WONDERFUL time and all left completely exhausted! Dustin, Tamra, and kids left for home straight from Bear Lake. Kathryn, Trevor and kids stayed around for about 5 more days and then off they went back to Kentucky.

We miss them all but are so glad we got to spend just a little bit of time with them this summer! I am so sad that all my fun summer plans are already over:(!! Jeff and I are going to have to come up with somewhere else to go! Anyone up for a getaway??

My Latest Crafty Projects

These are the first of many headband/bows to come especially if we are pregnant with a little girl! I have had the stuff and been wanting to make them for ages and finally just decided, 'I am not waiting to see what we are having, I am just making cute girly headbands anyway!!'

I saw these and many other darling appliqued onsies on my sisters friend Traci's craft blog and just had to make some of my own. I think hers are much cuter but either way they were easy and fun to make! I still want to make the ducky and little birdie and have one more project in mind. More show and tell to come soon:)

Behold the SEWING MACHINE

I grew up with the most talented woman I know! My mother was especially gifted (and still is) in the sewing department! I cannot even begin to recount the hours we spent in fabric stores growing up . Then Her and her sisters would get together to decide which of their craft items would be the biggest seller (oh my goodness Kathryn, we have turned into mom and the Auntie M's). We would go to every craft boutique within driving distance and they would figure out how they could make the cute things that they saw there. I don't know if my mom ever bought anything from a craft fair that didn't come home and get un-stitched to use as a pattern.

Why do I tell you about these quirky things that I love about my mother???

Because I have turned into her!!!

Lately, I LOVE Hancock fabric! And my mother will be glad to hear that the sewing machine I am quite sure she was inspired to give me for Christmas about 5 years ago, has been serving me well. I don't know if this is the baby factor that has me suddenly unable to purchase enough fabric, but whatever it is... bring it on!

I think sewing runs in our blood. My mother tried to teach my sister and I time and time again how to sew but I ALWAYS lost interest the second we had to cut out a pattern. I wanted to do the sewing part not the pattern part. Frankly, I am still scared of patterns! But I do feel like I have a gift for sewing (simple things right now!!) and crafts in general (thanks mom). We lack the creativity part (or at least I do) so lucky for us there are plenty of cute ideas out there to copy!

I am so so grateful for a mother that raised me to appreciate homemade!! It is so rewarding to me to make something with my own two hands. It has just been ingrained in me to see something I love (cute baby blankets lately) and go straight to the hem to see how they did that.

THANKS MOM, you taught me way more than you realize!!

Tagged

I am always a little slow on getting to these tags so here is me finally getting to the one my mother-in-law left me a while back.

*How to play this game of tag. Post these rules on your blog. List 3 joys, 3 fears, 3goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

3 Joys
**My husband and family
**the gospel
**my days off

3 Fears
**having enough money for retirement
**lately... the economy (time to start heeding the years and years of counsel from our leaders to have food storage. and I have been begging Jeff to get a Hybrid that runs on natural gas, $.64 per gallon, need I say more?)
**Jeff dying young.

3 Goals
**to have a better food storage
**to read my scriptures more regularly
**to find great deals on all of the upcoming baby stuff we will need to be purchasing:)

3 Current obsessions and/or collections
**I love to collect scrapbook supplies (disclaimer: I am not a collector!! However, I have had to come to terms with the fact that I am really not a scrapbooker like I used to tell myself I was, I am just a collector of scrapbook supplies! so sad)
**sleep (I am both obsessed with and a collector of!)
**Before pregnancy... a clean house

3 Random surprising facts about yourself
**I absolutely LOVE to get rid of stuff! Be it old clothes, mine and Jeff's;), when I use up the last of the dish soap, or returning something I borrowed. I love to take a load to the DI as much as I love to empty the garbage! I just want it all out of my house!!
**I love to hear about where people work and what they do for a living, it is so fascinating to me all the different job and types of work that are out there!
**I love to fly!! Whenever I go see my sister I get so excited that I get to fly and hang out at the airport. When I am on the plane I try not to go to sleep because I just want to be awake and enjoy it... well sometimes I want to sleep.

A Little Pregnant

Well, the cat is out of the bag, the rumors are true, the milk has been spilt and the proof is in the puddin'! We are a little bit pregnant! What else can I say?
We are only 9 weeks along and due the end of November. That will make three November birthdays for our family.
Jeff and I are both anxiously awaiting me feeling better and capable of cleaning the house and cooking a meal once again. We are beyond excited to join the kid club but realize now more than ever that we need to enjoy every last minute we have pre-child.

Southern Cal with Danny and Darcie

Darcie and I decided to surprise Jeff and Danny with a trip to Los Angeles. It was a whirlwind but now we are home safe and back to the grind! It was a lot of fun and a trip we will not soon forget!
WE LOVE YOU DANNY AND DARCIE! Thanks for being such great friends!

Update

Hello all my blogging friends and family! It has been a while since I posted and well, I don't want you all to quit checking on us! We are presently in the beautiful, warm and humid Southern Cal. I will post about that soon.
For those of you that were interested in instructions on the previously posted crafts, I will get to that too! But for now, I am off to the beach!

1 year and 3 months in the making

For Christmas 2006 my sister-in-law and brother-in-law gave me this nice 'plate' holder and shortly thereafter Jeff and I hung it. It has been hanging empty in our dinning room/kitchen area ever since. I have just not been able to decide what I wanted to put on it. I kept waiting for the perfect plates that I loved to come along and well that just wasn't happening. So then one day my sister told me about a friend of hers that put picture frames on hers and so it came to be that that is what I was going to do too! Thanks Melissa from Kentucky and Kathryn for the great idea.

BEFORE:



AFTER:

This picture does not do them justice, they really are so cute! (Not to toot my own horn because I am NOT creative just a good copy cat!)

Hair Clips:)

I saw my friend Savannah wearing a one of these darling hair clips the other day. I thought that it was so cute that I had to make some immediately!! I purchased the supplies right after and made a few with my friend Darcie over the weekend. And have decided that they will be the next craft for Chantel, Ashley and my monthly craft day!!

I don't know what it is about them but I think they are just so so cute! I will post more pics after craft day!

My Jeff, My Jeff Incarcerated (with a british accent)*

Jeff and I had a REALLY BIG miscommunication yesterday and therefore he missed out on a really fun night with some of our best friends. I was so sad that he wasn't there with us and I was so sad that sometimes we don't communicate like we should!

I am however, grateful that he has been trying hard latley to make sure our disagreements don't go on forever! Neither one of us deal very well with contentious feelings these days!

I am so grateful for my wonderful husband even though sometimes I want to ring his neck and he mine!!

I LOVE YOU HONEY!

*Jeff wanted me to explain where the title came from. When Amy Winehouse won album of the year or some other award, that is what she said (except she said Blake) and we thought it was so funny! We say it all the time (with her strong accent of course). She is crazy!

A Question For All My Hygiene Padres

Random but I am wondering if you guys do tissue checks following SRP? If so, when? 6 weeks? 8 weeks? at their 3 month? Just wanting to know what you all are doing out there!

Thanks for your feed back!!

Tag you're it!

A- Attached or single: Very Attached
B- Best Friend: Jeffrey and my sister Kathryn
C-Cake or Pie: Ice cream cake!
D- Day of Choice: Thursday night. Work is over for the week and the WEEKEND is a head.
E- Essential Item (s): Contacts, chapstick, and lotion. (I have nightmares all the time that I left the house without my contacts or glasses)
F- Favorite Color: lately... Brown
G- Gummy Bears or Worms: Gummy watermelon slices
H- Hometown: West Point, Utah but I also grew up in Indiana, Germany and Texas.
I- Indulgence(s): Ice cream from Cold Stone (but only if we have a coupon)
J- January or July: JULY!!!
K-Kids: 1 boy, Jeffrey:)
M- Marriage Date: October 20, 2004
N- Number of Siblings: 3 older brothers and 1 older sister
O- Oranges or Apples: Clementines
P- Phobias or Fears: Being the center of attention and speaking in church... only because I know I will cry and I HATE THAT!!!!
Q- Quote(s): "Take a deep breath" what I say to Jeff every day when he needs to CALM down! Oh, and "SSSSHHHHHHHH" he can also be kinda LOUD:) (I love you honey!)
R- Reason To Smile: My Jeffrey! He can be funny too! and At the realization of the many blessings I have!
S- Season: Spring
T- Tag Six: Darcie, Emily L., Emily P., Sivi, Amber, Jen B.
U- Unknown Fact About Me: I have NO self control when it comes to diet and excercise! And I LOVE to get rid of stuff!
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: I eat meat!
W- Worst Habit: Laying in bed while I say my prayers... I am currently trying to break this one! Please don't judge me! Oh yes, and I burp really loud in front of my husband and family!
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: I would like to have an ultrasound someday but currently I take probably 40+ x-rays every day!
Y- Your Favorite Food: Mexican and anything sweet!
Z: Zodiac: Scorpio

Random Recipes

Ice Cream Cake

I made this for my mom's birthday. I kinda just made it up but it turned out pretty good. It went something like this...

• I used 2 spring form pans (highly recommend).


• Crush up some Oreos and mix with a little melted butter kinda press into the bottom (I didn't use very much butter and my Oreos were kinda chunky they were actually just kinda spread across the bottom and not really pressed in).


• Layer on a carton of SOFTENED ice cream (I used cookies and cream in one of the spring form pans and chocolate chip cookie dough in the other. You can use what ever kinds you want!) Spread the ice cream out to fill the pan and try to make it mostly flat on top.


• Cover with plastic wrap and freeze (put your plastic wrap right on the ice cream).


• I made it the night before but I think about 5 hours would be good too.


• To put it all together: take apart one of your pans and put the 'cake' on your platter (Oreos down) spread a thick layer of Herseys Hot Fudge Topping (or some other brand of thick chocolate topping. Do not warm it up! Do not use chocolate syrup!) on the top of the ice cream and then take out the second 'cake' and put it on top of the chocolate topping (Oreos down) .


• Frost with Cool Whip and sprinkle with broken Oreos.


• Don't be scared by my crazy recipe, it really is SO SO easy to make! --and YUMMY!

Spinach Smoothie
(I got this recipe from a fellow blogger and thought it was pretty good)

1 1/2 frozen bananas

Several spoonfuls of frozen orange juice concentrate

A handful of fresh spinach leaves

Put in the blender and then EnJoY!

Utah Dental Convention

Last weekend was the annual dental convention, filled with lots of classes, friends, free samples and FOOD! A few of us that were available went to the Macaroni Grill on Friday for lunch, YUM! It was so great to run into some of the old class mates and catch up on life after school, and of course the faculty at WSU and hear how much they miss our perfect class;)

Ashley, Lindsey, and I got a hotel room right by the Salt Palace and partied it up (Jen and Ryker joined us for the party too) all night on Thursday. Well, by party I me we got pizza delivered and we sat and visited and played with Ryker and then went to bed at about 10. We are party ANImAlS!!

It was another succsesful year at the UDA Convention. I look forward to spending many more of them with my dear friends! Next year we want all the girls at the hotel with us!