Why Hello 2014!

 i seriously cannot believe 2013 is over. so many things have happened this year. like seriously so many!! it was the best year of my life by far. just last night jeff and i were thinking about how much our lives would be different if we never went to that dumb movie {the hobbit} on new years eve with our friend chris. if i never would have went, jeff & i would not be the mr. & mrs. we are today. woah. i love my life with him & seriously am so happy!!! lots of people thought that we were crazy to get married so young & fast, but hey it worked for us. oddly enough!  me being the OCD person that i am, it seems fitting that we re-met in the beining of the year. haha yikes imma nerd. here's a recap of our crazy life that started 1 year ago exactly!

our first picture together...how cute

singles ward lovin'

go broncos. usually i go to the football ones, so this was fun to go to a basketball. even tho i don't know what was going on.

to the cabin! yes i do look like man. and jeff does not have a coat on. crazy!

i remember i thought jeff was so cool this night....what was i thinking?! haha jk love you!

super bowl!

i think i am crying. i wonder why.

oh yeah. i got a new fiancé, that's why!

thanks garrison for taking the pictures i just had to have!

this was my first engagement ring! {you can read the story here}

15 minutes later i got the new edition to the twisty tie :)

my good friend kim helped me try on wedding dresses. so many memories working here! need a dress? go to Margene's Bridal

we played with some rope

garrisons basketball game! go brodja!

hugs

fake picnic. real smiles.

a grassy field in Ireland. i mean by the Idaho state penn

im falling...for you!! ok cheesy.

jeff insisted that i learn to shoot a gun. i think it was a bad idea

so did he. i needed help

trying to be that cute couple in front of the slc temple

Jordan's birthday. we went bowling, as usual!

oh hey, that looks kinda important

my girl paris got murried!

so did we. that's pretty cool

we really liked it, as you can tell.

pardon that kiss right there!

Jeffery's friends are soo cool! they are from his mission and came all the way to Idaho to be there!

the coyle family. the best family out there.

the last decent picture of preston & i. all the other ones i am crying in. lame

someones birthday i guess.

family picture time? jeff said i was being bossy. so he taped my lips...uh ok

just another pic of us.

hey that's my family!

last trip to the boise temple with preston!!

baking with batman

we like snowcones

typical bike ride with jeff...we only did this once actually. 

Spent the weekend playing parents!

Date night burgers at the drive thru! Amazing burgers. NBD.

A morning at the Logan Temple.

Bowling at BSU!

Jeff bowled his first Turkey!

Date night near tablerock

Famous Ihop Pancakes! Yum.

Our first home together! Julia has made it beautiful.

Balloon Fest near the Grove 

Holderness family early morning outing! (Julia didn't like getting up at 6)

All the Holderness woodcutters falling some lumber for the winter

Davis Family Reunion in Utah

Bear Lake Trip with the Leavitt Family

Jeffery turned 22 this year and we celebrated at the corn field.

Spent the night in Vegas

Watched BYU run all over BSU this year in Provo

Completed the Temple work for Julia's Nana!

Relaxing at the Leavitt Home

Salt Lake Temple Lights with Pam and Kevin Holderness!

Welcomed a new nephew into the family. Doesn't he look cute with that adorable baby?!

Our 9 year old class! They were a joy to teach.

Our First Christmas Tree!

Bowling in Boise with the Leavitt's...again

Welcomed home some of our good friends! 

It's been a Christmas Jamboree! (All Julia needs is a flower headband)

2013 was good to us, & we can't wait to see what 2014 has in store now! thank you to all of our loved ones & friends! we love you all :). happy new year & make the best of it!

 

DIY End Table

i still can not believe that we found this awesome piece! remember when we went to that awesome yard sale and found that coffee table, well we also bought this other amazing piece! we got it for such a good deal, again $5!! i love a good bargain, and this one was a steal. so i have been researching this little gem of ours & it's been kinda fun. i remember learning about the designer & time period back in college. to have one in my home is so cool! yes i am nerd. but this beautiful end table we found dates back to the 1930's-1950's & designed by russell wright. i love the art deco period, so simple and modern for back then. some ways i knew it was from that time period was the simplistic design & the legs. russell wright had designed many things in his years and part of that being a line of furnishings named the contan ball. and he also liked to use blonde wood {in the before pictures you can see that it was still the origanl wood}. also another indicator of how old it was is the person that we bought it from said it had been her fathers and had been in the family for awhile. already knowing what i could by just looking at it and then her telling me that little bit of information i knew that i wanted it. so i got :). and this is what we did with it!!

 

 just like a coffee table we washed it down {you can read about that here}

 but since it was older the paint was chipping pretty bad, we had to sand it down to make painting easier.

 

 voilà! all painted {& completely dry!!} no just throw on some little cuties :)

 

 our house is plasterd with our wedding pictures, i cant wait til we actually have more people in this family of ours! then we don't have to constantly be looking at our faces haha.

 

and there you have it! another super cheap & fun diy project. be sure to check out your local thrift stores and yard sales! you'll never know what you might find. like i say another persons trash is another persons treasure. also something interested, i found out that people are buying these guys for over $200! glad i found mine for cheap ;). have fun & stay tuned for other fun projects that i have planned out!!! thanks for reading you special person ;).