Our Square-Foot Garden

Since Jared and I have been married we've always had some kind of garden. The first year our garden was at my grandma's and was semi succesful. Last year I was excited to have our garden in the back yard but all I got planted was 4 tomato plants that my dad gave me and I planted them WAY too late. All I got was green tomatos. BUT this year will be different (we hope). We have a square-foot garden! Jared's mom and I took this class a few years ago during education week and it was really interesting and seems full-proof and easy. So are giving it a go and I'm very hopeful that we will have a susseful harvest.

First Jared built our garden boxes.

(As you can see Ethan was daddy's little helper.) Next Jared mixed the dirt. Then we filled the boxed and made our gride.Then we planted carrots, peppers, 3 kinds of tomatos, strawberries, cucumbers, straight neck squash, & spagehtti squash. We also planted 2 rows of corn and cantalope out side of our boxes. I know it's a lot of stuff but just imagine all of the yummy things we'll be eating.

Easter

Ethan woke up bright and early on Easter morning and it didn't take him long to find his basket. He was very excited about it, especially the bouncy balls and the m&m's.

After church we headed to my Grandma Burch's for our family feast and Easter egg hunt. At first Ethan was a little unsure what was going on and why he had to put the eggs in his basket but it didn't take him long to understand that the name of the game was to get as many eggs as you can.

Yeah look at all of the eggs we got!

Look what's inside!

I really wanted to get a good picture of Ethan and my Grandma but I couldn't get Ethan to give me a good smile and when I got home I realized that my camera lens had a finger print on it! So this picture isn't what I wanted it to be but oh well.

Coloring eggs

Ethan really loved coloring his Easter eggs this year. As you can tell in the video he was really good at dipping his egg in and out of the color. We had a few spills and a few broken eggs but it was fun!

Trip to St. George

These are just a few pictures from our trip to St. George for our nephew's blessing.

Look at how handsome my two boys are!

All of the Vidoni grandchildren

This is Ethan and his cousin Fisher going for a ride in the wagon. They LOVED it and it was great entertainment for the girl cousins too. They took turns pulling the two boys around.

Big Shoes

On day while Jenny was at my house she taught Ethan this great new game...

Now when ever he finds my shoes or Jared's shoes he insists on wearing them around the house.

Mother's Day exchange

Do you need a fun Mother's Day gift? Well this month at ScrapMatters they are doing a fun printable hybrid exchange. Here's how it works... Purchase this amazing kit by Megan Turnidge (30% off this month) then create your own printable hybrid project. At the end of the month you will receive all of the hybrid projects that were created using Megan's kit.

Here is what I created for it...

Check out the forum at ScrapMatters for more details. I hope you'll join in the fun.

Blog Train...

Good Morning and welcome to your next stop on the GG digital designs blog train. I'm so excited to share my fun freebie with you. But first let me show you the amazing kit I used to make it. It's called "Celebrate" and it's beautiful!

Here is the page I made using her kit.

And now for your freebie...

Download HERE

Your next stop will be Allie's blog and just in case your a little lost you should have come from Rhonda's blog. And if your really lost check out GG's blog.

I'm out!

Well I didn't make to the next round in the Design Star but that's ok. It was fun and I'm going to keep practicing my designing skills. Maybe one day I can be a designer :) Here is the element pack that I created for round 3 with a few things added to it.

You can download it HERE

A few freebies

So as you all know I love to digi scrapbook. Well ScrapMatters is having a designer contest and I decided to give it a try. The first week we had to make a mini kit using colors chosen by ScrapMatters. There were well over 100 people who entered in this contest and only 24 were chosen to go onto the second round and guess who one of those 24 were? ME!!! I was so excited and so surprised because there were so many amazing mini kits. In round two we had to make a paper pack. We got to choose the theme and the colors. Luckily this week no one is getting cut we just get to have a little fun and learn some new tricks. Here are is my mini kit and paper pack free for you to enjoy. All of the mini kits and paper pack are free over at ScrapMatters but you have to join first, once you've joined you can see the amazing kits and download as many as you want. I hope you enjoy my little creations!

Download HERE

Download HERE

FInally it's done!

View Project at Shutterfly

Give a little-Get a little!

Making handcrafted items is a dying art, but they are so fun to make & get! So, here's a little game to encourage the handcrafting to live & thrive!! The first 5 people to leave a comment on this post will receive, at some point during the year, a super-duper handmade gift from me.

What it will be and when it will arrive is a total surprise!

The catch is that you must participate as well-before you leave your comment here, write up a pay it forward post on your blog to keep the fun going. Then come back, let me know you're going to play, and sit back and anticipate the arrival of your gift! Remember that only the first 5 comments will receive a gift from me, so be quick! This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2. It'll be done this year (hopefully sooner than later.)
3. You will have no clue what it is going to be.

C'mon, you know you wanna play!

A friendly visit

Last week was a good week. My good friends Leslie and Mandy came back home to Utah for a visit. I was able to spend a little time with both of them. I love them so much and I miss them dearly!

This is us at Mandy's baby shower. I am so excited for her and her husband. This will be their first baby and I hope that many more are to come :)

Look what I found

On Tuesday when I got out of the shower this is what I found...

Not only did he climb up on the chair all by himself but he also managed to open itunes and play himself a song. Now he's climbing on everything! I understand why Heidi has her chairs tied to the table.

Valentines Day weekend

This year for V-day we celebrated it early. We went to dinner and a movie. Not very exciting but to us it was. We haven't done that since our anniversary. We had dinner at Magleby's Grill and saw Coraline in 3D. Dinner was good the movie was a little weird. We'd never seen a 3D movie before so that part was exciting and cool but the the movie was slow and really weird. I don't know how else to explain it.

Here's us in our cool 3D glasses :)

The next morning we went to the temple for a very special day. My little sister and her hubby were sealed! We were so excited for them! It was a beautiful ceremony and to make things even better Jenny was also sealed to my parents. What a great day!

After Jen & Beau's luncheon we went home packed and headed to sunny St. George. Jared's mom was missing Ethan and Jared had Monday off so we went down for a visit. It was so nice and warm. I didn't want to come back to the snow.

Six-Burgh!

It was a very exciting and intense game on Sunday but the Steelers did it. They won their 6th super bowl and we couldn't be more excited. Jared's brother had a party at his house with lots of yummy food and lots of very excited fans. Here are some pics and videos for your enjoyment.

Here you can seen everyone wearing their 3-D glasses as we watch the commercials

Cheering on the Steelers and waving their towels.

This is me trying to entertain Ethan so that he doesn't get in the way of the 3 TVs.

Here's the crew cheering the players on. There's a TV on the wall next to the blow-up Steelers helmet. Any time something exciting happened everyone jumped up and got really close to the TV.

Almost made it

This is the video that you really want to watch. I was able to catch their reaction to the winning touch down. You can see Amy standing on the couch in the back trying to see the TV and then when the boys start cheer she runs for her life. At one of the games the boys got so excited that they fell onto the couch and almost broke it.

Yes we did it! We won!!!

I was only able to get the very end of them cheering cuz my camera was too slow.

Jared, Ethan & Chad

Beau & Jen

Our Little Steeler Family