Most of you know, but...

Most of you may already know, but here is an official announcement.
We are Pregnant!
We're due April 5, 2009 and are so excited. We have been able to see the baby once. He/She was bouncing all around and wiggling. It was so fun to watch. Finally he/she settled down, laid on it's side and we got to see the heartbeat. It was so amazing. We also had our first check up and heard the heartbeat. Only for a few seconds. The baby liked to hide. Everything is looking great. We are so happy and glad to share it with all our family and friends.

Duct Tape, Ribbon and Flowers!

Hello! Long time...I know I know

Many of you may know I have a calling in the Young Women's organization in my ward. I'm second counselor and have the wonderful opportunity to work with the Beehives. Today for our activity we are making Duct Tape Purses. I did some research online and found a couple of ideas. I then came up with a couple of my own. I proudly present my Fall inspired Duct Tape purse.

What do you think?

If you would like to create one of your own it is quite simple. 

You will need:

Duct Tape (comes in a large variety of colors)

2 - 12x12 sheets of card stock

Ribbon

Flowers

Brads

Instructions:

Cover the two pieces of card stock in Duct tape. Front and Back. Fold one piece about 8 inches down. Leaving a 4 inch flap. This will be the bottom of the purse. Then cut off a 4 inch flap from the other piece of card stock. This piece will be cut in half and used for the sides. Tape it all together (so it resembles a purse).

Add your own embellishments with ribbon, flowers, favorite pictures, etc.

The strap I took a strip of Duct tape and placed ribbon down the middle. Then covered the sticky edges with more Duct tape to reinforce.

This is a simple project, but my instructions maybe confusing. If so I apologize. 

Good Luck! And have a blast.

To Being a Quarter of a Century Old. Cheers!

Hi! Long time no post. Well turn those frowns upside down. I recently celebrate my 25th birthday. I'm officially half way to 50, in my mid-twenties and a quarter of a century old. It's odd really. I've never been to concerned with my age and to be honest I'm still not. This birthday was just weird to me, but my dear friend Amy celebrated her birthday the same day (she is a year older) and assured me that 25 was a great year. I'm certainly looking forward to it. Now for the sad news. Somehow I went the entire day without taking pictures. Shock! I will tell you that Richard made me breakfast. Yummy waffles. He gave me the movie Penelope and two paper racks for my craft room. We also went to see The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. He is truly wonderful. All in all it was a wonderful birthday. And thanks to all who sent birthday wishes my way. Love!

Homemade Goodness

So a couple of weeks ago I decided to try out a new recipe. Homemade Oreos. I even documented it for the masses to enjoy. Richard helped me with some of the pictures. The only thing I would change is the frosting. I didn't add enough powder sugar. Also I did two versions. One was the Weight Watchers friendlier made with applesauce instead of oil and the second with oil. The Applesauce made them very soft and fluffy.

Richard & Bre Go Camping

Scrapper at heart!

Most of you know that Richard is a graphic designer. He is working for a fantastic company called American Crafts. They create some of the most hip, stylish and creative scrapbooking supplies around. Now if you put two and two together you will see that I have fallen into the perfect place. I have a wonderful husband and a growing supply of scrapbook products. I'm in heaven!

Now as I mentioned before that my cousin Tracy is getting married. She had Richard and I take her engagement pictures. I am not really a photographer, but I thought that a couple of the pictures turned out sort of fun. Here is one that I decided to scrapbook (using of course American Crafts product).
What do you think?

A Blog in a Nut Shell or something like that....

I saw this on Jen and Somebody's blog and thought it was fun! Thanks Jen!
You can get your own Word cloud from Wordle too!