The Only Thing Constant is Change: Fail with a capital F!

What is happening to me? Not that I am like a DAILY blogger, but come on Steph. Get your head in the game and get back on track!

In the months of August, September, October, and now NOVEMBER, we have had a ton of fun, did a lot of work, and taken so many stroller rides that we blew the tires on the stroller so many times that I'm considering purchasing a brand new stroller that doesn't have inflatable tires.

Oh wait, now it's JANUARY. Um, so, from August until January, we did the following:

-Took an AMAZING vacation to Sun Valley.
-I turned 32
-We celebrated our 5 year Anniversary
-Simon learned to sit up on his own
-Simon started eating solid food
-Simon started sleeping through the night
-Simon started crawling on New Year's eve
-We made a trip to Idaho Falls for Thanksgiving and had a blast
-We made a trip to Utah and attended the annual Anderson family sing in and visited family
-Celebrated our very first Christmas at home
-I put on a Super Saturday craft extravaganza for Relief Society
-Dan and I were in charge of the Christmas breakfast for our church
-I was in charge of the Relief Society Christmas dinner so that was a learning experience!
-I was released from serving in our Relief Society presidency and made the Primary pianist
-Dan was made the Elders Quorum President
-I refinished my GREAT GREAT grandmother's table and chair set and it was a NIGHTMARE
-We rearranged our furniture more times than Dan would like to think about
-We officially kicked off our goal to start paying off debt this month
-We have mapped out our year and have financial, spiritual, family, and fun goals
-Dan and I have both been reading our scriptures almost daily since August and plan to continue that in 2015
-We sold our trusty old Buick Century
-Charlie our cat ran away (mega sad)
-We have made friends with people from church and we hang out with them regularly.
-I have been seeing a chiropractor for several months now and am starting to recover from a very messed up pelvis and sciatic nerve pain from pregnancy
-I have 6 piano students and we had a great Halloween recital
-Dan has been excelling at his job and has been given many responsibilities that are usually reserved for nurses who have more experience

The beginning of a project that took months of sweat and tears to finish.

The gray stain looking NOTHING like my vision

Let the stripping begin! (of the wood you pervert)

Beautiful hand carved roses were not fun to strip and restain! but the end result was worth it

just an old filing cabinet I wanted to spiff up

Living room in shambles, my mom and I were trying hard not to wake up the house when we finally brought our projects in

Getting closer to the vision

Original seat covers. I kept them on the seats because it seemed like the right thing to do? Am I nuts?

Thought this label from the original chair factory was pretty cool

Can we talk about how huge that foam is? It was $40/ yard. Thought I was purchasing $11/yard foam. Nope. bought the 2 inch!

Very happy with the covers

Love a sweet little baby right after a bath

Cute little chubby cheeks

From 5 lbs to 15 lbs! He has tripled in size!

A normal day in the life of Simon

Best friends with Dad!

Weeeeee!!!!

Rocking some cookie cutter bracelets

He got those on his arms by himself

Most of our solid food moments ended like this for about 2 months

He hates it. Every minute of it!

Giant bike helmet on a baby, so cute

First ride in the bike trailer ended in two babies wailing and screaming to get out

Every baby needs a cape. and Batman ears.

Working on homemade Star Wars puppet collection

Double plaid

First time getting spikey hair

Such a sweet little boy. Slept all the way to Idaho Falls

Oh the table. Yes. Somehow the end result turned out awesome!

Such a tedious process to fill in the wood, sand, paint, etc.

Extra happy to be to the Sawtooths. We missed a turn and drove 80 miles in the wrong direction, which means we added 160 miles to our already fairly long road trip. Oops.