The One about Great Buys from IKEA

Basically, Ikea is awesome to shop at.

They have anything and everything a person could ever need for their home. From living room furniture, to kitchen utensils, knives, pots, pans and dishes, to office supplies and home storage units, as well as bedroom furniture for all ages.

We went to Ikea this weekend for the first time in about a year and I was quickley reminded why I loved going to this store nearly every week when Hyrum was born. It's fun, a good exercise due to the size of the store, and they even have some extremely yummy soft serve, non fat, frozen vanilla yogurt cones.!

If you aren't sold yet get this; Ikea- a home furnishing store, is famous and known for their delicious Sweedish Meetballs!!?  

This next part is literally the icing on the cake...

After going there this weekend I needed to go back to grab a couple more things..

In all, my two day shopping spree at Ikea came to a whopping $50!!

Why is that so crazy that I'd like to share with you all? Because of what I got and how many items I purchased.

My list of purchases are as follows;

4- wall shelves

8-brackets to hang wall shelves

2- office document/paper/folder holders

2- pencil/pen desktop containers

2-dishwashing scrub brushes

1- deep skillet for stirfry type stuff

2-carving boards (1 large 1small)

1-Bookcase w/3shelves.

I practically got all 22items for roughley $2.30 per item!

documents are in the following pictures

These are two of the shelves that Ricky has hung for me. The items on these shelves wont be staying, will be full of office stuff.. I will add updated pictures of our little 'remodel' later on when I am done.

here are my pen/pencil holders, document holders, some brackets and the bookshelf I grabbed from the 'as-is' section for a rediculously cheap price.

and these items would be my kitchen supplies. carving boards, deep skillet, scrub brushes

Things Unmentioned

If I were to write about the last 6months all in this one blog we'd all be in trouble..

 Why? Because that would make for one extremely long blog and lots of reading that I am sure most of you wouldn't want to do.

So here is a VERY short rundown of some of the last six months happenings.

First of all, I went to Texas for 6weeks to visit my family and friends. While there we celebrated the wedding of my sister Adrienne Nicole to Corey Tatom. In fact, as soon as we arrived in Baytown, we showered, got dressed, and got back into the car to head to the wedding.

It was a very nice, small, and beautiful wedding. I am extremely happy for my sister to have finally found a great man to love and take care of her the right way! :)

While in Texas Halloween happened. Hyrum was little Luigi and cousin Aeden was Mario.

Maeli, Hyrum and Aeden enjoyed a healthy McDonalds meal before the Trunk or Treat got started at the church.

After Halloween, of course Thanksgiving came and went, along with 8hours of Black Friday shopping.

Black Friday was also the day of my very first 'mild' gall bladder attack that I just thought was some kind of aweful stomache ache/cramping.

After Thanksgiving we made it back to WA after an extremely long road trip back home that included an ER visit due to my first major gall bladder attack in Waxahatchie, TX. I thought I was dieing in the car in front of Hyrum and Ricky. I didn't know what was happening, I just knew it hurt like CRAZY!!

Any who, December came and went along with Christmas..

Not sure where the New Year went, but it was greated with a 2 1/2 week visit from my mom and a trip into surgery to get my gall bladder REMOVED. Hyrum sure was spoiled having MawMaw here to take care of him while I recouped. Despite recovering from surgery, it was a nice visit.

Mom and I watched all 6seasons of Grey's Anatomy on DVD and I got her hooked.

(my four incisions from surgery the day after)

After recovering from surgery I got brave... Hyrum really needed a hair cut and I had an itch to be the one to cut it.. I'd never cut anyones hair ever before in my life. I got the clippers out, stood Hyrum in the bathroom and went after his head.

I like to think I did a pretty great job for a first timer. Yes it came out very short, but I like his hair shorter. I think we will keep cutting his hair at home for now.

Other than that, we have been busy busy. Hyrum is talking sooo much and learns new words every day. And he is such a sweety when he wants to be. He is also very polite when he isn't in a horrible throwing a fit mood which is starting to happen more these days when he wants something and isn't getting his way.

The 'Terrible Twos' have definitly kicked in and taken hold of little man Hyrum, but we still LOVE HIM SO MUCH.!!

That is all for now folks. Check back in the next day or two for more. (bed time for now)

Cute Little Story

We ran to Costco Friday night with all of the kiddos after having dinner. Hyrum is getting to a point where we will allow him to walk freely in the stores instead of having him sit in the basket. Funny enough some of the baskets try to keep his little legs capture because he is such a big boy.

Any way, as we all know everybody is starting to put out their christmas decor in stores. Well, as we are walking through Costco, Hyrum is yelliing 'ALVIN!" (alvin and the chipmunks) I just kept wondering why he kept calling for Alvin. We haven't watched that movie in a while, and I was looking around to see if there was a poster or display or something with Alvin and the Chipmunks on it.. Then once we got to a certain area of Costco, Hyrum turns to go away from us and of course I call him to come back and stay by us.. When he starts yelling for Alvin again I finally put it all together..

Hyrum went up to a lit christmas tree on display and pointed to it and yelled again for Alvin. In the first Alvin and the Chipmunks movie the Chimpunks are living in a tree that get cut down and taken to an office building where it is decorated for and displayed in the lobby for Christmas. Christmas Tree.

Thats where the movie gets started. The Chipmunks leave the Christmas tree and jump into Daves fruit and muffin basket that he is taking home.

Hyrum was calling for Alvin, Simon and Theodore to come out of the Christmas tree.. :)

!HELP!

One morning this last week I was cleaning around the house and getting things ready for the day as usual. I heard Hyrum yelling his "help' cry so I went into his bedroom to investigate only to find him in the corner of his closet burried in a pile of toys..

He was stuck. He decided that being burried in a pile of toys wasn't so bad afterall and decided to stay and play for a little bit. :)

Love Him!

We Did the Puyallup

So, Ricky and I decided to be crazy adventurous and took 4 kids to the Puyallup fair. We ended up being there way longer than we had planned but everybody enjoyed themselves.

We rode lots of rides. The fair had plenty of rides for Hyrums height to ride. He was happy and excited about that. I didn't get too many pictures of everybody. Most of them are of Hyrum. We let the 3older kids (Elijah, Marvin and Tabitha) run off on their own for 30min to ride a few rides while Ricky and I took Hyrum on some rides.

Hyrum went on this slide about 3 times and had a huge smile on his face each time.

Tabi even had a lot of fun. :)

Hyrums first 'carnival' ride. He just chilled.

This smile was Hyrums reaction to the egg laying Chicken who happened to be cleaning it's feathers at the time. He found it rather runny.

Hyrum again was the center of attention and found himself to be quite popular in the 'lunch room.' We got him a bubble blowing gun to play with while riding around in his stroller. He brought it out at lunch time and all of these kids gathered round him to pop the bubbles while he shot them out.

It was an expensive trip to the fair. Ricky baught 4 burgers and 3 baskets of french fries for him and the kids to have for lunch and the grand total came to an amazing $62.50...  !?