Thanksgiving Blessing Mix

First you take a bag of bugles, add a couple cups of

M & M candies.

Then add candy corn add peanuts and pretzels

Mix together and place

in bags and add a cute tag that

outlines why each of these ingredients is important

to Thanksgiving.

all done

I can't wait to give these to my family.

They will act as placecards on the

Thanksgiving table.

I also made cute coloring placemats

for the kids. (pictures to come)

Jeana's Picture

My sister in law Jeana is getting married.

She saw a cute picture frame she wanted made

from an old window.

I just happen to have this window in my garage.

With a couple coats of paint, it ended up looking like this I talked her into letting me print one of her engagement pictures and I blew it up to a 20x30. It fit perfect. I just love how it turned out. It was a big hit at her bridal shower. I will be making my own for my house now but I can't chose between a family photo or one of just Jason and I. More to follow on this project for sure.

Carving Pumpkins

Destri and Bentley loved carving pumpkins this year.

Final projects glowing

Witchapalooza

This year I was able to go to Witchapalooza at Gardner Village with

a couple of my sister in laws and my mother in law.

It was a fun night out with dinner and

a show. I must do this again next year.

Jen, Jaclyn, Me and Nancy.

I was the only one who didn't dress up.

Every party needs a pooper.

Moving, Moving and more Moving

At least the kids love it

Coming Along

We have been so BUSY at our house this week. We found a renter for our house. Super good news. I was surprised at how easy it was. We pretty much had our choice of who we wanted to rent it. There were 4 or 5 families who really wanted it. I feel really good about the couple we chose. They will be perfect renters. We should be moving in to our new house starting on the 22nd. Jason will be out of town the 17th -21st. Which will be a super crazy week for me. My sweet babysitter Gay will be out of town and it is fall break, so no school for the kids. Between packing, work, soccer and kids I have decided it will be best to pay a company to come out and clean the new house and have it all ready for us to move in. I have some touch up painting and cleaning of the old house to do.

Fall Wreath

I like to copy cat craft.

So when I saw this cute Fall Wreath

I had to make my own.

I went to Robert's when they were having the

50% off sale and got all of these items.

And turned them into this I might need to add a grapevine wreath behind it to make it bigger. The door at the new house is bigger than my front door now. I love how it looks

Mantel Re-Do

I have been working on re-decorating my mantel

for sometime now. I am not one to use holiday

items, other than stockings, because I don't like

to change it once I love it.

Plus there are other places in the house for Holiday stuff.

I found this paper number 6.

To represent the Best's to the power of 6.

(Meaning 6 members of our family)

It started out like this.

Just the plain number 6 and some scrapbook paper

I traced the 6 front and back and cut out strips to

mod podge on the sides

I spray painted the 6 brown so that I could

file the edges to give the paper a torn look

then you could see the brown edges.

After she was all done I placed her next to our

family photo

I love the color she adds to the mantel

Half way done.

Good news is, this is practice for

the new house. The items on the mantel

all tie into the colors of the new house.

Less than a month, but who is counting?

BIG NEWS!

WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!! We couldn't be more excited.

Still Waiting.......

We have about 7 more business days

left before we will know if this will be our

new home. Fingers are still crossed that

she will be ours.

Waiting stinks.

It's that time of year again

We try to do family pictures once a year.

This keeps me up to date on the kids pictures and

gets me a family shot for our Christmas Cards.

I love the way they turned out even with 2 sick babies

Destri 12 1/2

Bentley 4 Sailor 2

Remington is turning one

My four beautiful children.

We are blessed for sure

It doesnt look like it but the shots we got

took a ton of work to get.

Rem is ONE!

I can't stand that this handsome little buddy is

getting so big. It is a bitter sweet moment for me.

I love this sweet boy and his sweet little personality.

We are so blessed to have him in our lives.

Happy Birthday Remington Tagg Best.

Mission Complete

Today my parents completed a 2 year service mission

with a Samoan Ward in Kearns, Utah.

Last night in honor of them and their service

the ward put on a big going away party.

Each group in the ward

(primary,ym,yw,elders,rs and bishopric)

put on a dance for my parents.

It was a very meaningful emotional night.

The member of the ward who have very little

themselves prepare tons of food and gave gifts to my

parents which included the puletasi for my mom and

the lavalava for my dad.

The memeber asked my parents

to wear these outfits to give their homecoming

talks in their home ward. I can promise you that

my parents will be wearing these outfits.

Our family has grown so much and have

felt the blessings of my parents mission.

There has always been a love for this culture and

it has grown over the last couple of years.

I know my parents are going to miss their Samoan family but

we are excited to spend more time with them.

New house

Jason and I found this little beauty the other day.

We have our offer in and our waiting for the bank to

let us know if it is ours.

So excited.

We have been looking for about a year now and

this one landed in our laps on Wednesday morning

with a deadline of Thursday at 7 PM to make and offer.

It has everything we have been looking for

4 bedrooms and 2 baths upstairs

Master and common areas on the main floor

and a large open unfinish basement.

it never surprises me when things happen for a reason

If this is the home we are meant to be in

I know our offer will be accepted.

We should know with in two weeks.

Keep your fingers crossed for us.

If we don't get it we will keep looking.

Labor Day

For Labor Day we went to Pineview

with my brother and his family.

The kids had a blast.

They loved playing on the boat and this sand hill.

Little Rem loved the water and sand Destri and Zach

Fun day at the lake that we will need

to do again for sure.

Remington's Party invites

I hate that my baby is already almost 1.

I finished his party invitations today.

I changed my mind. Originally I was going to do a barn party

but I thought I would wait until he is a little older for that.

Instead we are having a nautical/sailing party.

Soccer Tournament

Destri's soccer team took 2nd in this weeks tournaments

Destri played so awesome. She had a goal in every game but one.

For a total of 4 goals, So proud of my little soccer superstar.

Destri and Dakoda

"Double D"

Waiting for medals USA REBELS

Bring on the season. first game 8-29-11

Rem's first haircut

Rem got his first haircut this week.

Bentley was so excited to show his

little brother how to get it done.

I love how protective he is over his sisters and brother.

Bitter sweet day! My baby is growning up!

Shopping with Sailor

Sailor cried until she finally got the bag open.

She must have wore herself out.

You can't really see but her hand is still in the bag. Love this sweet girl

Jason's new Toy

Jason has been waiting for a long time for this toy.

Now that he is in good health, he can final ride.

Oh happy day!

more party pics