Living Room Before/ After

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After- We added the stair banister, added walls so the banister could go into the wall and not the ceiling. We painted walls, trim and ceiling!

Future: We are putting hard wood through out the downstairs and we are gutting our kitchen!

Dinning Room Before/After

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After- We added a door to our garage and added a pantry. Painted the walls, trim and ceiling!

Wedding Cake!

Eric and I made Kevin and Jessica Mithcell's Wedding Cake! It was a chocolate cake with raspberry filling. We hand rolled all of the pearls and had to put each one on individually. The roses were made by Eric out of Marzipan.

The Grooms cake was a human heart that was really Boston Cream Pie. The story behind this cake is their first Christmas together Kevin gave Jessica a cow's heart saying he was giving his heart to her. So Jessica gave her heart in cake form to him!

The Past Few Months...

The past few months have been really rough on our family, and it has been mainly caused by me. Dealing with Eric losing his job, a miscarriage, my grandfather's death and my father forgetting my birthday completely brought out a lot of issues I had never dealt with. I went into a very depressed state where Eric and I were questioning me seeing a doctor about it.

That was when I started to figure thing out on my own. I have always compared my worst self to everyone's best. I always felt not good enough. I would set such high expectations for myself that hardly anyone could reach. Through that past few months I have been slowly learning a lot of stuff about myself and letting things go.

Looking back on these few months it makes sense for why Eric didn't have a job. He needed to be home so I could go through this. I have grown to love myself for once! A few weeks ago we went to the temple and I remember hearing all of the blessing that are promised and for once I felt I am one of those people that are talked about. Before I felt they were talking about everyone else.

I also had a hard time with thinking that I had no great talents and that the ones I did have were just ok. I have come to realize I have a very big talent and I have a whole paragraph just for it in my blessing. That is strength. And I am fine with having "ok" talents too because I am a well rounded person.

I figured I should share this because sometimes on blogs it is easy to say things are fine when things are not. Oh and Eric starts his co-op (internship) on Tuesday!

Kids Room!

Here are the before and after pictures of the Kids Room. This stripe took forever but it turned out! And no more pink walls for Aiden!

Grandpa Paul

Last Thursday my Grandpa was given 1 week to live after being in diabetic coma, a heart attack and a seizure all at the same time. We were able to go up and see him on Friday with the kids. Grandpa was stubborn as ever and would not eat.The kids brought a smile to his face which was nice to see.

On Sunday I felt I needed to go up and see him. This time it was just Lily and I. He was only about 25% there mentally. My plan was to go up on Tuesday but I just did not feel like I was meant to go that day. On Wednesday Morning about 7AM my Dad called to tell me he passed away at 1AM. And also Tuesday would not have been a good day to go up. He was not mentally there and was just repeating everything that was said in the room.

He was a sweet little old man that loved life. He worked for GM as an experimental engineer. He also served in the Military. My Grandparents were married for 54 years. He had 2 children, 8 grandchildren (6 biological) and 2 great-grandchildren.

Not everything is Perfect

This semester Eric was to start his co-op (internship)for Pastries. But the person that was communicating to the students and the businesses quite and wrong information was given. Well Eric already had his notice into the country club and they already had him replaced. So we are currently jobless.

Oddly enough we have felt really good and calm about all of this. For some reason it kind of feels like this was suppose to happen this way. Since I am in school too we get Financial Aid which always exceeds the amount of my schooling and books. And this time around was a lot more than expected.

Another thing that we have had to deal with this past week was a miscarriage. We were about 3-4 weeks along. I was really emotional due to hormones but Eric was a trooper. He had to deal with me crying over the stupidest things. The good thing was we were not attached yet since we were not very far along.