A romantic night for no reason!

So my sweet husband has been working his butt off, so I decided to let him relax a little while I made dinner. I also made him go out of the room while I got it all ready....candles and all! I made pesto pasta with grilled chicken on top, rolls, and broccoli! MMM it was so good! He came out and saw the table all set and romantic like and had a huge smile on his face. He turned bright red...hehe :-D I asked him why he was changing color and he said "you're cute baby." Anyway...we ate and later made these decilous beauties! mmmmm good food!!!

haha I looked terrible that night but whatev!

I am so proud of myself!!

So I bought fabric for my "single" room back in February and I re did a lamp shade I had and covered it in some of the fabric I bought, but I still had extra green and extra black fabric so... I got to work on Friday before my Dave got home from school and made this....

 If you would like to know how I did it... keep following!

First cut your fabric to about 1/2' bigger than you want your pillow. (keep in mind that you're going to stuff it so it will be a little smaller than what you cut) then fold it in half with the side you want to see on the inside.

After you get the fabric exactly in line with each side then start to pin about 1/4' from the outside. Pin all the way around it. Leave about a 4' hole somewhere on it so that you'll be able to turn it right side out and stuff it.

once you are done pinning all the edges (except to the one with the fold) all the way around minus your 4' hole, then you will want to get your sewing machine ready with the color thread you want to use. Don't forget the bobbin!

 Then you start sewing! Your going to want to follow the 1/2' line and sew about half an inch from the outside, keep it straight or your going to have an odd shaped pillow. If my machine had a back stitch I would start a tiny bit going forward and then use the back stitch just to seal the sewing, but it doesn't so I had to tie a knot every time I stopped (don't worry about this since you all probably have a back stitch). Don't forget to take your pins out BEFORE you get to them. Also keep your fabric lined up on both sides.

 After you have sewn all the way around (minus your 4' hole and the side that's folded) you can start turning it right side out through the hole you made. I start with the corners and then pull everything else out. Be gentle because you don't want your hole to rip open more than it already is.

Once you pulled all this inside out, now you can start putting batting in. I just took little chunks at a time (I also used an old pillow for batting). Start in the corners and get them how you want them to look and work your way to the hole. The more batting you put in it the less bumpy it'll be. So stuff it tight.

Once you're done stuffing it then you can take a needle and some thread and sewn up the hole. Make sure you make it the least noticeable.

 I tied a ribbon around mine. And then display it! (yeah that's our room...kinda sad huh?) Oh but that's the lamp I mentioned earlier! Sorry for the dots on the picture I don't know how to clean the inside of my camera...

LABOR DAY WEEKEND!!!!!

So this weekend we basically dedicate to the Stanton Jones' family.... They are so wonderful and providing us with a stay at the homestead as well as their own home, lunch at Fanny's, and some amazing Italian (not joking Stanton has gone all out) food outdoor restaurant style. We absolutely LOVE them! We definitely had a much needed break this weekend, thank you SO much Stanton and family! Also before all of the activities we got to go to our niece's baptism...I didn't take too many pictures there because I totally spaced it that I had my camera until we were about to leave....take a look!

on our way to the baptism

 this is one of my nephews Benjamin

this is his oldest sister Amber

 And that was it for the baptism...was was fun for all the cousins to get together and also for mom and dad to come up! We always really enjoy seeing everyone (we missed Matt, Morgan, and brand new little baby Ava)

Also in between the baptism and the Homestead we had lunch with my best friend Lindsay and her husband (also failed to take pictures) we love them!

 that was a goofy picture lets try another one :-)

 lunch at Fanny's at the homestead

 the bee we found dead on our car!

now for the CRATER!!!!! it was SO cool!

 We laughed when we saw this sign in the showers

my camera doesn't have sound but it was so amazing! It felt like we were in the Caribbean and the water was like 90 degrees!

Here is our adventure to the top...we both about died, those stairs are steeper than they look!

We absolutely LOVED the homestead! And WILL be back!

Now to Stanton and Nancy's we go!

 Their cute little restaurant in the backyard!

 I really wasn't joking when I said my uncle went all out! (homemade PIZZA)

 And Nancy the great dough thrower...well...she's working on it ;-)

And to top of the yummy dinner we had all sorts of treats but the main one was the famous grandma Georgene's chocolate cake! MMMMM!!!!

oh and Connor figuring out how long his grandpa's hair is....

Was such a fun weekend. I should mention also that late Friday night we planned on going to bed around 11:00. Well all our toilets as well as tubs were backed up and filling up with water and debris. We didn't get it so we tried to unclog things and ended up calling the emergency line here and a guy came out at 12:30. It wasn't fixed by 2:00am and they said they would get it fixed in the morning when it was light. So we gave our neighbor a key in the morning and hoped for the best! We were SO tired but SO grateful we had such great people help us out this weekend! We also, with the help of Dave's brother Jon and sweet wife Kamarie, got to bring some more furniture out here!  Thanks everyone!