new bed = new room

December 2nd, 2012 — 9:30am

My friend Brian needed a place to store his super-nice, king sized mattress so I took one for the team and agreed to let him store it in my room. We drove all over town one night and gathered up the coolest looking pallets to make a platform bed. I had to sacrifice my dresser but let me tell you… this bed is WORTH IT.

Here’s the new configuration of my room. I still need to make a bigger quilt but for now it works.

New bed requires a new configuration in my room #nofilter

My new "dresser" #becausetherealonewontfit #nofilter
dresser became baskets

Different configuration of the same stuff #newroom

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Tangle’s Holiday Windows 2012

December 1st, 2012 — 9:20am

These windows took a whole team of crafters to pull off and even though they seem pretty simple, every single thing in them is handmade.

Christmas windows require worker bees.

Scheming #tanglewindows

Bubbles #tanglewindows

Scraping off the hand lettering. #timeforsomethingnew
scraping the lettering from the previous windows was SO much work!

Sneak peek #tanglewindows

Tangle's 2012 holiday windows!
the burlap curtain is my favorite. We handmade the entire thing.

Holiday windows.

Sometimes you just gotta knit a bunch of stockings
I hand knit the stockings.

Holiday windows

We also put together some pretty cute kits.
Holiday kits

Tangle kits

Tangle kits

And got in some really cute bags.

New bags at tangle

New bags at tangle

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Thanksgiving 2012

November 30th, 2012 — 2:15pm

Pie for breakfast #bestpartofthanksgiving

First we have pie for breakfast.

Pie!

Strawberry rhubarb

Pie!

Twinzie

Twin with pie

 

Then we go on a hike.

Thanksgiving hike

Cousins

Long legged children.

There might be a slight resemblance #momandsister

Happy hikers

@hoptocopter & @carringtonschaeffer plus the mini schaeff in her belly

Cousins

Sister and twins

Honor and E

Sisters

The lego snail joined us

Peter Pan

me

Seth Carrie and me

 

Then we nap.

 

Then we eat.

 Thanksgiving 2012

Thanksgiving 2012

Thanksgiving 2012

Thanksgiving 2012

Before and after
before/after

So, SO, SOO thankful. My heart is full.

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pics from the last week or two (or three or four)

November 29th, 2012 — 1:49pm

Dogs like pumpkin muffins too. #punkin
Dexter with his buddy, Memphis

Sweet Lisa @mooreminutes
flowers from Lisa. She’s so thoughtful.

I showed him a picture of a cow and he said "moo"
Gunnison being so cute

Boys and their toys #gianthelicopter
These boys nerding-out over their new helicopter.

Uniform
Some weeks it feels like I live in this shirt.

A hound dog and a grasshopper
her legs are SO long

Slopeside lodge looking up.
Ceiling at the Slopeside Lodge at Powerderhorn Ski Resort. We got to stay a couple days up there while Seth filmed a promotional video for the lodge. It was really rough.

VO-ted!
voted

Bed head
woke up looking like this

There's a wienie dog under there. #19degrees
dexter snuggled in

Green & black

Something about the phone book makes it all the more real.
proud

Baby Cal is already convinced that I'm his favorite.
Amy had baby #3!

Eden is the best babysitter
Eden is the best babysitter

Nothing like ending the of crafting with another craft project.

The clinic elves have been busy. #thistimesforty
late night making donation boxes for the clinic

Main Street is all twinkly.
Main Street all twinkly

So excited that we get to carry Light Gives Heat jewelry and bags at Tangle.
Excited to carry LGH at Tangle

Thanksgiving Eve Lego-a-thon @joshhudnall
Josh playing legos with the children

According to the children, this is a love couch. #newfurniture
new loveseat that matches my couch perfectly

Thanksgiving eve dinner with @carringtonschaeffer @hoptocopter @joshhudnall and the children
Bin makes the best Chai Lattes (along with everything else… my fav)

Honor learned to tie flies
Honor is learning to tie flies.

Screech owl just hangin out
This little guy was just hanging out on Main Street the other day.

Just hand painting a logo on some windows. #adayinthelife
I hand painted the windows for the church’s new coffee shop.

First coat done

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Halloween 2012

November 28th, 2012 — 1:41pm

This summer Honor’s friends told me that I looked like Katy Perry and my Halloween costume suddenly became clear to me. After hours gluing candy to my dress (which was floor length with a halter when I bought it at Goodwill), my costume was complete! It was definitely fun!

The kids had fun with their costumes too. Eden was a pirate – a cute, girl pirate. Honor was a storm trooper in a costume that was slightly too small for him… They had fun trick-or-treating with their buddies and came home with a HUGE candy haul!

Katy

Katy

Katy

A pirate and a storm trooper

Honor and his step brother

Eden and her BFF

Haul

Halloween hoard

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peanut honey carmel corn

November 27th, 2012 — 1:40pm

peanut honey carmel corn

1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup honey
1/4 cup butter

2 Tbs peanut butter (I prefer crunchy)

2/3 cup popping corn, popped with hard kernels removed

Set popcorn aside in a large, heatproof bowl. Combine honey, sugar and butter. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally until syrup reaches softball stage. Stir in peanut butter until creamy and smooth. Pour over popcorn and stir to coat. Transfer to a waxed paper lined baking sheet and let cool. Store in an airtight container.

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Pumpkin Carving 2012

November 27th, 2012 — 1:35pm

A month ago we had little pumpkin carving party. I served red chili and white bean chicken chili, cornbread, peanut honey carmel corn, hot apple cider and pumpkin muffins (thanks to Carrie for making them!). After we feasted, we cleared away the furniture and covered the living room floor with orange plastic. I’m always down for a craft, so it was so super fun to get to carve pumpkins with all of my buddies.

Thanks to Lisa and Josh for letting me steal pictures. Click any picture to see the whole set.

Pumpkin carving party

Pumpkin carving party

Pumpkin carving party spread

Pumpkin carving party

Pumpkin carving party

Pumpkin carving party

Pumpkin carving party

Pumpkin carving party

Finished pupkins #honor

bowls

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on being the Bravermans

November 9th, 2012 — 5:26pm

My darling friend Amy had her third child this morning, a sweet baby boy. Rickelle got to be with Amy and her husband during the birth, so I got text updates throughout the night as her labor progressed. As each early-early morning text came through, I was so happy to roll over and snatch up my phone, hungry for the news of what was going on. Laying in my bed, I could feel the sacredness of what Amy was going through at the hospital. And when Rickelle texted that it was time to push, tears came to my eyes. I was so thrilled for Amy and what another child means for her. When Rickelle sent the picture of this perfect boy laying on his warrior-mamma’s chest, tears came again… there really is nothing more special. This is the thing that I am most acutely aware of about living in community: we really do get to share what happens in each other’s hearts. Sometimes that’s really, really hard things… sometimes it’s the most amazing joy.

Rickelle has been talking lately about how our tight-knit group is the Bravermans. I laughed and nodded, but the other morning as I was waking up, I realized that we really ARE the Bravermans. I can’t tell you how much I’ve longed to be a part of a family like the Bravermans. It’s one of my life dreams and I’m actually living it. Sometimes that means that the fab-five gets together to have a pow-wow about my love life (much to my chagrin) and sometimes that means we get texts in the middle of the night about how labor is going. What I’m living in right now, this community, is truly something special and that fact is not lost on me. I am overwhelmingly thankful for it Every. Single. Day. I can’t imagine life without this community. It has saved me. I’m a better, more whole, more alive person because of it.

I’ll leave you with Rickelle’s words on being the Bravermans… so tender and true.

have you watched parenthood? we have eaten it up…best show since friday night lights.

the culture of the bravermans has struck me these past few weeks.

we are walking very closely with some friends who are dealing with really important things in very different seasons. and it seems that if one person knows something, then the whole community knows.
and the only way this works is because every single person is safe. and trustworthy. and FOR each other.
i think our community is embracing that secrets keep us in the dark……vulnerable to the evil one. and if we are brave enough to put forth our mess into the light, to lay it on the table, to invite other people to share in it, then Jesus pours over it in the way only He can. and He weaves and guides and speaks. we are trying to get better at listening to Him. which is a daily discipline. but we know He is beyond FOR us and cares about our stories and their outcomes even more than us.
so if sarah wants to keep a secret from crosby and julia, ultimately adam and zeke and christina find out and gather around that person and that problem and they just tackle it together.
i love the bravermans and i love the culture of such safety that we just lay it out and go to battle for each other as a tribe; as keepers of each others hearts.

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On getting my way

November 1st, 2012 — 2:27pm

In the day-to-day, I sometimes forget where and what I’ve come from. But I’m often reminded, especially when a friend holds a mirror up to my face and says, “Gosh, remember when…?” Carrie and I were just marveling the other night at what amazing change has been brought about in my life. I started telling her about a realization I had last week. I was talking to God about something that I think I really want and it seems like I’m not going to get it and I don’t understand why. And I just feel like God said to me, “Remember the last time you didn’t get what you wanted? Remember how many times you’ve thanked me that I didn’t give you what you wanted?”

OH…. RIIIIIGHT.

These lessons of trust are continuous and God continues to show me just how he has me in his hands. Things seem like they are going to be one way for a long time and then they go and change almost instantly. Sometimes I look at my life in awe… awe at what it’s become and who I’ve become. Awe at how tightly God is holding me and how safe I really am. I’m learning to draw lines in the sand with myself… to force forward movement when really all I want to do is wallow. And I’m learning to love this form of limbo… not knowing really where I’m going or what life will look like 6 months from now. But knowing that it will be good and that this is a really special time of life… one that is making me… well, more and more ME. Rickelle said to me the other day that I keep waiting to get THERE but what I don’t realize is that I AM there. That NOW is the time that I’ve been longing and waiting for. NOW is what God has been forming me for. So I’m working hard to enjoy it in all of it’s unknown-ness and awkwardness. This is special and I remind myself often that I will never have this time of my life again.

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pics from the last week or two

October 31st, 2012 — 11:56am

Why knit with yarn when you can knit with roving?

Knitting with roving
Knitting with roving

White beech mushrooms
White Beech Mushrooms

14 quarts if salsa #done
14 quarts of salsa canned!

Wearing my special ring didn't help

Long hair!
longest my hair has ever been

New yarn --> baby sweater
little sweater for a sample at Tangle

Look who says "al"
look who says “al” now

Out to lunch with two fifth grade girls and they are playing mash. #ohman
Eden and her BFF playing mash while we were out to lunch after church

I order fried zucchini and then peel off all the breading. #silly
I peel the breading off my fried zucchini

Ombré dishes #nofilter #fiestaware<3
fiestaware!

There is glitter all over my entire house!
glitter pumpkins!

White and glittery

Glittery white, aqua and gold. #love

Green and yellow and red and blue
tree in front of my house

The al/kel badminton tourney score is 3-3 #soclassy
Rickelle and I had to get the most ghetto drinks for our badminton tournament. Current tournament score is me 4, Kel 3.

Grammy helped the kids with a pumpkin carving preview
The kids carved pumpkins with my mom before our pumpkin carving party.

32 patients and we turned away at least 10. Great clinic today!
For the first time we had to turn patients away at the clinic.

H bomb

E-deene

This is happening #fallisthebestseason
carmel and pecans

This is what happens when you're involved in planning 5 parties in one weekend.... #cantstop
helped plan 5 parties in 4 days and this was the list for one of the days

Giant hamster  balls

Giant hamster balls
I need giant hamster balls in my backyard as a parenting technique

Silly
no bangs

Dane and I wearing each other's hand knit sweaters.
my friend Dane and I switched hand-knit sweaters

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