Vinyl Party!!!!

Welcome one, welcome all! :) I'm really excited about this. My cousin, Jenna and her husband Jon, have this awesome vinyl company starting up, and I love it. I am having a party...Super Saturday...thing for her.

So this is how it works: You pick out the things you want to make at the party, and we’ll get you everything you need to complete it!  Some are customized (ie: they use your name or what not) so you’ll need to let me know what names you want.

Here are some examples of things you can order to do at the party. Note: there are a TON of other options of things you can order from Jenna at the party and I will get them to you, but for simplicity’s sake, we’re only doing a handful at and for the party.

We have two boards. The Return with Honor is on sale because she’s already got a bunch printed in beige or black vinyl.

Families are Forever board (approx. 6’x 24’) with beveled/routed edges----$12

(paint color options are: deep red, black, beige, grey, brown, blue or green OR even just bring one of your own to try)

Return with Honor board (approx. 6’ x 24’) with slanted/routed edges ----$8

Two ceramic tiles. Both are custom. A big letter monogram with a name under, or your temple! I have one of the temples, and I love it!

Monogram letter vinyl & tile (approx. 12’ x 12’ tile)----$10

Temple graphic customized by choice of temple & names (approx. 12’ x 12’ tile)----$15

The rest are just ideas of quotes, for the wall, a board, a tile, or glass.

Wall Quotes----$.05 per square inch, so for example, if you wanted a 4’ x 36’ quote, then 4x36x.05=$7.20

Other Wall Quotes or for Tiles----range from $7-$12 depending on the complexity and number of vinyl colors wanted. The ones shown here---- $10 (vinyl & tile included ((see the R monogram tile pictured above for what our tiles look like, or you can bring your own and take a dollar off the price) or 2 for $15.

I’m going to be making the Live simply, Give more, Expect less like this family one below: putting it on the glass of a picture frame then I’ll put some cute scrapbook paper behind it. I’m so excited!

So I just need to know what you want, what colors of vinyl (options are black, chocolate brown, beige, white, navy blue, golden rod yellow, and red), what color of paints you would want if your wanting a board (options are deep red, black, beige, grey, brown, blue or green) and what custom names if any.

Call me, leave a comment, or facebook me with any comments or questions. Options are endless!! Can’t wait to see you there!

Sneak peek at a wedding!!

This is mostly for Neil and Karen. I’m not sure many more of you will care, but here you are anyway.  In April I had the fantastic opportunity to help out my brother in law with his wedding. It was SO much fun! And way more work that I anticipated, but totally worth it.  They were so happy, and everything turned out better than I could ever hope for.  And thanks to Karen (and a little to Mrs. Megan Mason) to helping me realize that yellow orange and pink aren’t bad colors. They are gorgeous. This was such a gorgeous wedding. I had so much fun helping and getting to know Karen better. I’m so glad she’s in our family now! And….I’ll be done now except for a bit of explanation.

This is a tribute to what beautiful colors Karen chose. Way to go! (her bouquet, a test vase, the real and finished centerpieces, bridesmaid headbands, and in the center-POMS)Here is some experimenting as we tried to decide which and how to make the centerpieces as pretty as possible.I had a lot of fun setting things up in the middle of my in-laws kitchen floor.I had never done a super fancy cake before, but always wanted to learn how. Thanks to Youtube and lots of practice I ended up making the wedding cake! It was SO fun! (practice piping, testing out rice crispies, a practice cake (Jon really enjoyed all the practice, because he got a lot of cake) different frostings, and in the center is the actual cake!)Getting ready. Me working on the cake, Ben helping with poms, Brian and Steve working on the gorgeous tenting. Hank and Grandma Ellen helped a bunch too. It took all day, but they did such an amazing job! It was really fantastic.More set up. Sarah and Grandma, Michelle and Travis (eats pretzels-Maggie still says that every time she is holding a stick pretzel. I don’t get it.) A messy work place. Neil and Karen stapling the screens together, and Kim prepping the sheets.Coming out of the temple, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph!This set is probably my favorite!  You can see how totally happy they are to have just been married in the temple for eternity, then to come out and see all their family and friends. It’s such a wonderful feeling. I love seeing it on their cute little faces.The obligatory family pictures outside the temple. Ralphs.Parents.Parents and grandparents.Burnells.A new happy family!All the ladies!Ralph sisters! How’s that for you Michelle? Two more sisters!The Ralph men.Lots of handsome men and one gorgeous lady!The beautiful ring ceremony done by Karen’s grandpa.And in some pretty sepia tones. FOOOOD. Yup. We even color coordinated the food. We’re awesome.Oh, plus delicious cookies in LOTS of varieties.Cake cutting. Cake cutting abbreviated.

And a last few to show off  the cakethe fantastic decorations, and send the happy couple on their way. Love you guys!  

Let me know how/when you want the pictures. You can have all the edited ones and ALLLLLL the rest. Warning, there’s over 500 pictures.

Circus, Pizza, and Zucchini

August was a little less busy. It’s so beautiful here in California, though.  We spend a lot of time outside, taking walks to the library, and spending hours on the swing. Maggie loves to play with the plastic Easter eggs. Since she discovered that she could take them apart and put them together again, she has enjoyed doing so.  This time was a little different though, she discovered that the egg halves fit perfectly over her toes! Funny girl.  So, you can tell by now that we love Jon and Jenna.  We are with them at least every Wednesday, when we bring our laundry over, make a new delicious dinner usually followed by a fantastic dessert and the boys go play basketball with Jon’s ward.  And we’re often together on the weekends as well.  It’s truly wonderful to have family close by!

So at the beginning of August we turned one of those nights into a late girls night with Tiffany and Becky, two darling girls from Jenna’s ward. Tiffany brought some fabulous cheesecake and sparkling limade for us to enjoy and we experimented with making felt flowers. Lots of fun all around, and Jon was very jealous of our cheesecake. There was a weekend that J and J were in Utah. Luckily we do have other friends! I know, amazing. James had found free tickets to the Circus Vargas and invited us to join their family. Neither James or I had ever been to a circus, so it was a real treat for us!  There were trapeze artists, crazy flexible girls, a man who balanced a shopping cart, a table, and a ladder on his chin, 6 awesome acrobat pirates, a man who defied gravity walking around the twirling pendulum – the Ring of Destiny, and a family, mom, dad, and 9 year old kid that did the crazy motorcycle in a ball cage thing. At one point when the mom and dad where in the top and bottom separated from the cage, leaving them driving horizontally in a 3 foot ring! It was so awesome! It was a surprise for Monica though she guess it on the ride over, Kim’s favorite part was the lemonade we bought because it was so dang hot in that tent and Maggie had such a good time she fell asleep. Yea, still trying to figure out how to make the circus fun for a blind kid. She liked some of the music, and I talked to her about what was happening.  It’s just not the same though. We had a lot of fun. I love the circus!! Thanks James! More fun times with Jon, Jenna and kiddos! There was a Zucchini Festival at the park a half block from our house! Me liking festivals, and Jenna liking zucchini, while the boys like neither, went by ourselves with Katelyn in tow. Plus it was $6 to get in. Lame. They went back to our house and played the Kinect, but not before we got a picture! There were such beautiful things there! A fun dress shop, tons of jewlery. My favorites though, were how popular feathers are now. Earrings, hair clips, even extensions! I really want to do that. Jenna and I ended up buying some sweet beaded belts for super cheap. After we had looked to our hearts content, and purchased none of the ridiculously priced zucchini, we used Jon’s corporate perks coupon and went to Straw Hat Pizza. Each of the kids had a small melt down while we were there, but it all ended in smiles, and the pizza was dang good, though too expensive. And we end the August review with a glance at what Maggie accomplishes around the house. She loves shredding mail, or really any paper she can get her hands on. I think we’ve pretty much established now that she only gets to rip Maggie’s mail, after she tore up an apartment application. Which happened a few hours after I commented that she was going to end up ripping up something important. Sigh. We also have the pleasure cleaning up after a little girl who loves the sound of food hitting the floor. She sits in her high chair and giggling says, “No throw food on the floor!” as she throws food on the floor. I hate sweeping. That’s my life though, and she makes it interesting for sure. I love my little family. We have a lot of fun together.