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.