this week

This week Molly finally learned how to drink from a sippy cup! I've tried giving one to her for a few months and she's had absolutely no interest. Maybe she suddenly loves it because the cold juice feels good on the FOUR new teeth she's growing! Ya, four teeth are threatening to peek through any day now which means we've had a cranky girl on our hands all week. Luckily, "cranky" for Molly means she just wants to be snuggled all the time and we're happy to oblige!

conference

I love conference weekend. There's just something great about wearing jammies while watching church at home. Being down in St. George in the 85 degree weather sure doesn't hurt either! We had so much fun being with family. It was gorgeous weather and so hard to come home to snow!

big girl

Molly is getting so big! The straps on her baby car seat were getting pretty tight and wouldn't go any bigger so we got her a big girl seat this week. She was thrilled! She still can't face forward for another couple of months but she's so much more comfy now. She had to climb all over it for a while to test it out and make sure she liked it!

spring break

For Trevor's spring break last week we decided to go to St. George. We were lucky enough to be able to spend the entire week down there. It was such a nice getaway. We had some friends join us for parts of the week and we shopped, golfed, hiked, went on walks, swam, watched HGTV and basketball, ate good food, relaxed and took pictures of Molly - of course! - she was in heaven with all the attention she got!

smile

Don't you love Molly's cute smile?! It's so goofy we crack up every time we see it!

Molly is getting pretty good at standing on her own. She's gonna be walking before we know it. She recently learned how to give high five and clap. Each morning when we go in to get her she starts clapping because she's so excited to see us! Love this girl!

windows.

Repurposing old windows is so in right now. If you look in magazines or in boutiques they are all over the place. You can make them into picture frames, chalkboards, furniture, etc... I love the charming look of them and have wanted one for awhile. Unfortunately, I don't have any old windows laying around [weird I know!] and the ones i've seen for sale are $50+... I can't justify that! Instead, I thought I'd get creative and see what I could come up with.

I started with this plain frame that I got for $.99 at the thrift store.

I took a hammer and a screwdriver to it and banged it up a little to make it look old. I then painted it brown.

I needed some window panes so I just cut up a cardboard box and improvised with some hot glue...

After the brown paint came a light coat of green paint. Then I distressed it with some sand paper. I wanted the brown to show through and I wanted to see the brush strokes, I think that it makes the window look older and cottage-y and thats the look I was going for. If you wanted a bolder look then you could just do a thicker top coat of paint.

Here's a close up so you can see the scratches and distressed look.

And here's the finished product! I love how it turned out. Trevor said that it doesn't look like a window but it looks 'cute.' I'll take it! I think he's just happy that the entire project cost less than $3. Eventually I'll probably take off the burlap and star and add some cute pictures or something but for now I like the look, what do you think?

random.

Here are some pretty random pictures of what we've been up to this past week!

This is how we catch Molly sleeping lately - notice her feet up by her face. She sits up until she's ready to sleep then just collapses forward. Poor girl! I wonder if she wakes up stiff?

Molly loves to help me with the laundry. She really likes playing with the basket, if I leave it out she'll be entertained for hours!

We fed the ducks at Sugarhouse Park the other day. We couldn't even get two feet away from our car before we were swarmed, they definitely aren't afraid of people! Molly wasn't quite sure how she felt about them, and neither was I.

Last night we had a birthday party at my parents house for Alst and my dad. Ally brought about 20 girls from school up and Molly loved all the attention she got!