My Cool Sista

Check out the picture that my mom just sent me on my cell phone. It's my sister on the front page of the newspaper! I love it!

Here is the link to a high quality picture

Sunday

Sunday is always a good day to update the blog.

Yesterday I got into a bad mood (I'm gonna blame it on the hormones) and Mike came to my rescue. After I dramatically flung myself onto the couch and began to freak, my awesome husband was right behind me to calm me down. He made me feel so much better! And then he drove over to Quizno's to get a HUGE sandwich that I could take to work. I really didn't want to go to the grocery store or make dinner that night, so it was such a happy thing when he did that. These are just a couple reasons I think he is the best.

Mike and I ordered our crib thanks to the generosity of his mom! It's supposed to be here this Friday and I can't wait to see! There is really no place to set it up yet, but you know how it is when you get something new, you just want to put it together and see the finished product.


I have been casually thinking about teaching some type of creative class since I came to Utah last year, but thanks to the motivating and inspiring ideas of Kaela it might actually happen now! How does a Refinishing Workshop sound? Pretty fun to me. I'm thinking early September. And just to add a little image to the idea, here are two chairs I've been working on.

Introducing Kara Enterprises

Here are a few of the wonderful pictures Kaela took of my watercolors. Please stop by my Etsy site to learn more about each painting! karaenterprises.etsy.com

My Etsy Adventure has Begun

First of all I want to say:

THANK YOU KAELA!!!!

She took the most amazing pictures for me. I won't post any on here because I want to let her put it on her bloggy first. But here is the link to my online Etsy store, Kara Enterprises. I've put up just a few of my framed watercolors and I would love feedback. So check it out!

Yaaaay! It feels good to get started on this.

baby news

Mike and I had our ultra sound yesterday and found out we are having...

A GIRL!!!

We are stoked. So are all the ladies in the fam because girls are super fun to shop for :)

Here are some pictures for ya.

3D baby face

See the open mouth here too?

The girl parts

Cute foot
The front of her face

Profile

Me at 19 weeks and 3 days

Wedding Series Pt. 2: Details

I had a great time obsessing over every detail of the wedding and reception. Really! Here is the result of my micromanaging :)

Crystals were hung from a tree on brown ribbon.

I designed this table and my dad built it!! Isn't he great?

I bought the cake stand off craigslist from a retired cake decorator. It was all old and whitish/yellow, but I just gave it a fresh coat of gold paint and it looked gorgeous! Cupcakes were designed by a lady from my home ward and decorated by her and bunch of other helpers.

The cake was decorated by my friend Jenna who is sooo talented! I made the hair piece from a fake flower, a button and beads. And I found the necklace at Decades!

I loved all the beautiful flowers! A friend from my home ward did all the flower arranging. When I got to the reception I was blown away by what a great job she did. There were flowers everywhere!

We took our invite pictures in a photo booth and I designed the invitation based on that. Here are my shoes and our rings!

So many people helped make this day perfect! Thanks everyone!

Wedding Series Pt. 1: Us

I have been meaning to put wedding pictures on my blog for the last 9 months. So here they finally are!