School, Work, Play...LIFE!

I haven't really given a recent update on what's been going on with our lil' family here in good ole Salinas! First off, Blake started school ( as did everyone else) and has a tough year ahead of him! Not only is he taking 18 credits (which includes anatomy and math...yikes) but he has been up every morning at 6 to go lift before school with the team and/or shoot, then go to school, and then they have like a 2-3 hour practice afterwards and then comes home to study!! Needless to say, the boy is pooped at the end of the day and definitely looks forward to the weekends! The team this year looks great (as the hubs would say) I don't see them play but they are a great bunch of kids! I say kids because I am actually considered "old" to them...they are fresh out of highschool some/most of them...which boggles my mind 'cause we have been out for 4 years! Blake is the oldest on the team and there are only 2 other guys there his age! There are alot of old man jokes going around! Blake said he thinks they will be very good this year and that everyone has a "team" mind frame so that will be a nice change! They are all really fun to be around and we've had some good times with them!

I have been super busy with work, working all kinds of shifts!! It's been crazy! Besides working I am preparing to launch my new online company called Paper Moon Crafts with a fellow friend where we are doing vinyl lettering wall art...really you can put vinyl lettering where ever you want since it can go on any flat surface! Later on we will expand it to more things but we are sticking with this for now. As of right now I am just making a bunch of samples and building/finishing up our website which will be posted up here any day now! It's a fun side job and since I love doing crafts it's enjoyable work! It's been keeping me busy and so if I'm not at work...I am at home working on business stuff!

On Friday we went to dinner at IHop and then to the Hartnell girls volleyball game, which they won, yay! They are 4-0 and so I am sure we will go more to there games...also we like harrassing the line ref's (his teammates)!! :) Saturday we hosted a woffle ball game at our park (not technically ours but we just say it is) "Oldies" vs. "the young guns" and after going into extra innings "the young guns" came back and won by one! I am not as competitve as I once was since I can't participate as aggressively but I am not a good loser! Ha! It was a lot of fun! I wish I had pictures! Then we went back to our place and I made taco soup and a bunch of treats and watched the BYU game...sad loss ( I didn't see the end of it since I had work but Blake said it was the worst game he had seen in BYU history and that the defense sucked!) but I have faith that the Cougs will bounce right back!

Newst project I made! I wanted something simple to decorate my small kitchen with and found the perfect thing! I love how it turned out!

You might have noticed this lil guy in the picture above....I found this clothes pin at Beverly's Fabrics and decoupaged it with some left over scrapbooking paper and added some ribbon and buttons and viola...it's a recipe holder! Thanks Mel for the idea!

Anyways I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend with family and/or friends!! :)