For sale by owner

We have some things we (mainly me) are wanting to get rid of. I thought before we post them on KSL, (or at this point I just want to drop them off at the DI) I would offer them to family and friends. These are things we have replaced and don't need anymore, or gifts from our wedding that we already had. I'm not going to post prices or pictures just a list of the items and if you or anyone you know would want them let me know. The easiest way will be to leave a comment of what you are interested in, I will talk to the hubby. We will work out all the details and be in touch with you. If you want to see pictures of any of the items just let me know, and I can post them. I am wanting to get rid of this stuff asap (like 2 months ago). If I don't hear anything by the beginning of September, I will think no one wants them. And then I will post them to KSL. 

Used items:
     *Bunk bed futon/ sofa thing. We have the mattress still but, I would really rather not give it to anyone because its not in the best shape. So unless you really want that the mattress won't be included.
-This was what we used as a sofa right after we got married. It worked great for us, we just were lucky enough to get my sister and brother in law's sofa after they got a new one.
     *Bakers rack
-David bought this when he first moved out on his own, and his apartment didn't have a whole lot of cabinet space. It looks brand new and this past year it has just been sitting in our 2nd bedroom.

Never used items (still in packaging):
     *2 pack muffin tin, 1- 12 mini and 1- 12 regular size
     *Slow cooker, 4 quart (super nice I would keep this if we didn't have a slow cooker already)
     *8 piece acrylic tumbler set (I would keep these also if we didn't have a lot of cups)
     *10 piece glass tumbler set (same with these way nice, we just have a ton of cups)
     *Rice cooker (again we got another one that I use all the time)
     *White seashell clock (really cute just not my style)

Pin Crazy

Yes this post is about pinterest.

I joined pinterest about four months ago, and I think I'm obsessed. I have created 16 boards and pinned about 700 things. I wish there was something that showed what the average person pins just to see if I really am obsessed or if I'm just the average pinner. Its just so addicting for me. If I have a free second instead of doing things I should (like cleaning or laundry) I think, no I'll just check pinterest real fast. That never happens I'm usually on there for like and hour at least. Since I've joined pinterest I feel like I've become more creative. I mean there is only so much stuff my little brain can think of so to get all these ideas from other people is just great. I have gotten several new recipes some we will try again and others we won't but at least we tried them. And there are lots of decorating ideas I've gotten, I'm sure I won't even try half of them, but its fun to see how creative people are. Plus just to give you a little idea last year I only blogged like 12 things all year and so far this year I've posted about 30 things to my blog and since April its been maybe 20 posts. Wow that's nuts, maybe I should take a little break from blogger and pinterest. David thinks I'm on there way too much which from that little statistic seems true. I do have a board though that David really likes its my "Stuff to remember if we ever buy a house" (he thinks I should rename it to "Stuff to remember when we buy a house"). Anyways I love pinterest and I should have joined a long time ago. I really wish I had pinterest before I got married because there are some amazing ideas out there. 

My three favorite pins are....
   #1- I found a really easy way to cook corn on the cob. I use this all the time and its so much easier than the old way. Plus it comes out so juicy! The directions tell you to preheat the oven to 350 mine I preheat for 375. I put mine on a cookie sheet as well just to make it easier to take out of the oven. Cook it for 25-30 minutes, I do at least 30-32 minutes because it gets more tender. You leave the husk on and when you take it out of the oven it just peels right off. That's it, super easy.

   #2- I have a pin that gives you an idea for an alphabet of love book. I decided to do this for David's birthday. I tweaked it though from what I pinned, but the idea came from pinterest. I made mine a photo book with words too so not a lot different just a little. It was so much fun for me to make and I'm so excited to give it to him. Plus since I made it I was able to make it more personal, I think he's really going to like it. For some reason N, O and P were the toughest ones for me to think of. The best one I thought of was M- I said for all the Memories we have made, and all the Memories we are going to make.

   #3- This one when I told David the idea he loved it. We are going to take the same picture at the same location in the same pose four times. So each season, the difference is the weather your clothes and your hair. The place we David thought of  to take the picture is Ensign Peak (this is where he proposed). The days we are going are August 2nd (so yesterday). November 2nd, February 2nd (this is the day he proposed) and May 2nd. At the end of the four pictures I'm going to print them out and put them in our living room, right now we don't have any pictures on the wall and I couldn't really think of anything to do so this will be perfect.

March- July Book Club

 Fablehaven Series- Group pick (recommended by, Aunt Jo)

I haven't been doing my book club reviews over the past few months because we have been reading this series and I thought I would wait until we were done reading it and do one big post about all five books. I must admit I wasn't very excited to read this series, but I was pleasently surprised by all the books. When it was first suggested and they described the book I thought to myself  fairies, dragons, magical creatures, what? This is going to be crazy! It was so good though and really opened my eyes and let my imagination run wild (I guess you could say). I'm not really sure I can say which book is my favorite there were parts I enjoyed about all of them. And to be honest I didn't read the end of the fourth book (Natalie told me what happened). And the fifth book I read the first four chapters, chapter ten and the last two chapters. Then I went to Wikipedia to fill in the blanks and read about the new characters that were introduced in that book. Don't worry though I'm going to recheck it out of the library and read the whole thing, the normal way front to back. It was fun to read something like this that I would never pick on my own. Which is the reason I love book club, because most of these books I wouldn't pick on my own but its fun to read something so different and new. 

At this last book club we were able to meet the Author Brandon Mull (he's my Aunt's neighbor) so that was a lot of fun. Here are some pictures I took, enjoy.

An evening under the stars

David and I were able to go see a production of Hello Dolly the other night. Our Bishop's family owns Day Murray Music, and he is also on the Murray Arts Council. So he had some extra tickets and called us to see if we would be interested in using them (I guess that's a perk of being the 2nd Counselor). We of course said yes, we weren't doing anything that night. It was so fun and I'm so glad we were able to go. But now I have the little tune from the musical in my head (the one they play in Wall-E). At least it got the Les Miserables songs out of my head for a while : )

Why can't we just break out into song whenever we want, and not have people look at us like we are crazy?!

I wish we still dressed like this

I know you can't see it well, but I love her hat

Act natural

 K readers- AKA Mandy, I want your opinion on something. The other day I was doing my hair and decided I would try to embrace my natural curl wave. See it used to be curl up until about five years ago now its just wave. Anyways that's off subject, I was wanting to know what you think about how it. Is it OK or does it look like a rats nest? I sure hope its semi presentable because I actually went out in public with my hair like this. Please let me know your thoughts Hobson?