Home Tag

I like to see where people live and how they decorate :) So in this tag you take a photo of the outside of your home or apt and at least two rooms in the house, and tell us a little about them. For additional motivation-it's fun for your kids to have photos of the place they grew up in an album or scrapbook!

I tag Jessie, Carlye, Shannon, Ursala, Steph, Michelle,
Mary, Jennifer and anyone else interested.

I like to decorate as my creative outlet, but with tight finances it ends up being decorations with what I have on hand, so it's not always what I wish it was, but I still have fun doing it. Luckily I have lots of fabric and thanks to my mom I can sew!


The outside of our apt, we live on top. Then you can see down the street (much of Calipat doesn't look this nice!)

Master bath with my Indian tree of life. Kitchen/dining room.

Living room-a little hard to see the colors, as the only lighting is a lamp and the window, which messes with my camera's focus. That is Fijian Masi in on the wall, made from bark and painted with stencils. The couches are slip-covered in chocolate brown, since Saki isn't a fan of black and I like to have a color that can match all the random holiday decor/pillows I may want to do. The little bookshelf is a big one that broke in half during our move :) The dresser with the TV (actually we don't have tv, but we use it for movies--thanks Tai :) was spray painted by Thomas and Lisa so it would match my bookshelves, I like to have things match, it makes Saki shake his head.

Mere loves fish, so her bathroom and room have a fish theme, and our friend gave us some fish shower curtain holders which matched perfectly!

Mere's room (notice the photo Thomas?) and the baby's future room/storage room which is in progress. Can you guess my favorite color from Glenn's room?

Stake Conference Weekend

After Stake Conference we went to our friends to eat :)

Praying. . .

Resting. I got the tent out to play with and Mere broke one of the poles!

Dancing with dad and cooking with mom.

Sandals and dress from Great Grandma & Grandpa Peterson.

Odds and Ends

Lately I've been posting photos others have taken, as I'm awful about remembering to get my own camera out and I'm not a fan of posing for or having people pose for photos. Today I got a chance to upload my camera from the three weeks and this is what we have:

Part of my Hoffman family (you're included in that Meiling) who came all the way out to Calipat to visit us during their annual Southern California family reunion :) It's so great to see these girls I used to babysit and I wish they could've stayed longer!!!

We celebrated their visit with Mexican food, peanut butter cake, and ice cream...

Robert Glenn getting ready for his blessing and our good friends the Verdugo's and Gow's.

bathing beauty :)


Some photos at Capistrono Beach taken by my cousin Carlye :) She does professional photos people in the Salt Lake area. . . www.carlyemorganphotography.com

Baby Blessing

This week we went to Indio-a little north and did some job hunting and played a bit. Mere got poked in they eye by a kid at the mall, but it's getting better. It was an interesting long day to try and be out and about and shopping with 2 young kids, but it went lots better than I thought it would! Can't browse in the stores much though. . .

Last week we had Robert Glenn's baby blessing. We met up with my parents and Saki's parents in San Diego. We were able to do the blessing in one of my old roommate's (Brooke) wards! So it was fun to see her and also be with family!

PS Mere is sleeping a bit better, thanks for the tips. She's now on a twin mattress since she can climb out of her crib, but Robert will need the crib soon anyway. What seemed to work best is laying her down and leaving the door open with a gate, though she can climb that too. She gets way to worked up to cry it out-she can go for more than an hour and she won't sleep too easily if you're in the room cause she wants to play... so she seems to be doing well and I hope she's back to her good sleep habits for good awhile :)

Here's some photos. . .

this is the life!







Elizabeth and Brooke :)

Those in the blessing circle, Brennan Loeffler (Brooke's husband) Saki Vakalala, Saki Sr, Jeff Bradshaw

Check-ups

Mere had her year and a half check up, though she's now 1 year and 7 months. She weighs 25 lbs and is 31 inches tall. Robert Glenn had a 3 week check up the same day and is 11 lbs and 13 oz. So he may just catch up to her. . . maybe people will think they're twins like me and my brother :) We are doing very well, though Mere is having a hard time going to sleep lately. She cries hysterically and I don't know what to do...feel free to give advice :) I know she's fine cause the minute you look in at her she stops immediately and starts to talk.