It's been a long time..I should've left you!

wow ok this is the catch up to speed post, so sorry it has been crazy for the bshaw family the past month. so much has happened!

items that will be featured and discussed:

1. mesquite family reunion
2. tiff's shower and blanket making
3. graduating and various school projects
4. craft night with the bshaws
5. the big move to the big city ;)

#1 let us begin with the annual mesquite family reunion shall we? it seems like forever ago since we went but better late than never right? we had a super great time, a big shout out to my mom for being so awesome and letting us stay with her, and for letting us blot her bingo cards for her. ps i won bingo twice baby $50.00 went straight to my momma! we also ate at the famous seafood buffet and ate crab, lobster, and chocolate dipped churros to our hearts content!

happy as a clam ;)

steve a little too into the crab
this actually looks kinda gross now that i think about it
breydee with his ice cream..looking awfully suspicious
too much seafood doesn't do a body good!

#2: tiff/lil b's baby shower! i had an absolute blast planning tiff's shower! the shower was a garden party theme, i made center pieces, paper lanterns, cute napkin holders, lots of decorations, and paninis! also i made tiff a baby quilt for her cute little one, i think it turned out adorable! it turned out so well i am making my cousin mel's twins their bedding for their cribs! i am so excited (pics will follow once i finish them!).

putting the quilt together

don't mind my big belly in this shot ;) (wish i had the excuse that i was pregnant not for wanting a baby just for the big belly situation)

the finished product!

the girls and ash ;)

making bibs for lil b

the decor (i would've taken more pics but i wouldn't give up holding lil ash!)
tiff opening the quilt!me and lil ashtypical erin ;) jk love love you

#3: graduating school was so sad i miss everyone there and getting my daily dose of interacting with humans besides nate (since i work at home on the computer i just mainly interact with it...sad i know). i took some final pics of the projects i left up there and slaved over might i add ;). hopefully i can go back and visit really soon! ps these projects believe it aren't even the tip of the ice berg of all the projects i had to do there is way way way too many to even put on here!

ysl shopping bags for designer report

european visual merchandising display

perfume packaging and bottle project (this took forever! i spent many a days with an exacto- knife slaving over this project!)

sorry for the crappiness that is this pic! it's the free gift with purchase for my perfume project it is a tube of lipstick that actually is a small vial of the perfume! genius i know
magazine ad for perfume project
bf kandace not letting me take a pic of her!

bf kandace, colette (teacher), kadee (teacher)

#4: a couple weeks ago nate and i decided to make crafts one night for something to do. so i went to my fav store hobby lobby and got a jewelry box for me to decorate, and nate got a B for our front door to decorate. it was way fun being able to be creative with my hubby, i think that they turned out just great!

#5: thanks for hanging in there till number five! well we no longer reside in logan! we moved to bountiful about two weeks ago and are loving it. nate received a job offer with a company called zaag, they make the invisible shield for electronic stuff. he and two of his friends were hired to work on a secret project they have yet to release yet, i pretty much work and decorate our house at the moment, looking forward to starting school again in the spring, also i am looking forward to having a replenished bank account so i can get a membership to the bountiful bubble and work out...i need it lets just leave it at that! all in all we are happy campers and would love any and all visitors ;)

ah if feels good to get that all off my shoulders! thanks for hanging in there again it was long but well worth it right ;)! more is to come like nate turning 25 in a week and a half! stay tuned for that ;) love love

spot pop zit zap

so I have a lot of really important blogs that need to be posted but...i think that i will post this instead.

WARNING!
THIS IS UBBER GROSS AND HAS SOME FOUL LANGUAGE BUT WELL WORTH IT
you may want to have a barf bag near by, again well worth it!

Then someone will say what is lost can never be saved

dear stupid head butt munch japanese whalers,

i hope that paul kicks your whale killing loser butts
hatefully not yours,
MoB
(yeah that's a name of whale you probably killed too, stupids!)

nate and i just finished watching this week's episode of whale wars and i am SICK! completely sick to my stomach, like i could probably blow chucks if i would let myself. for those of you that didn't watch the japanese continued to kill whales in front of the sea shepherds. the helicopter for the steve erwin actually caught the japanese in pursuit of catching a whale. how they kill the whales is just so so so inhumane, first they harpoon them in the head which does not instantly kill them they proceed to choke on their own blood for up to 20 minutes or more trying to get away until the harpooner shoots them with a GUN several times. i just hope with every fiber of my being that captain paul rams their ships and totally takes them down (even though that probably won't happen because the hippies are completely worthless so i will try not to get my hopes up. stinking hippies)! i mean in the 30 something years he has been doing this he has never witnessed the japanese killing whales right in front of them. all i know is this those horrible horrible horrible japanese fleet workers and owners are of the devil and will not be going to heaven!

The world is a vampire

is it wrong to get emotional when i watch whale wars? is it wrong to want captain paul to go all crazy hippy ballistic on the japanese whaling fleet? i personally think not. i so cannot believe that the japanese had the brass ones to kill a whale in front of the steve irwin crew! it looked like multiple whales from the previews of this week's episode. nate and i think they need like a grenade launcher to shoot metal eating acid onto their ships! this whole throwing smelly stuff bottles at the japanese boats isn't cuttin' it for me. THERE ARE INNOCENT WHALES DYING HERE GET IT TOGETHER YOU HIPPIES! maybe i will enlist and join the crew and smack some sense into the hippies. look for me in upcoming episodes friday nights on animal planet :)! love love

Bear Lake part 2/Best week of the YEAR!

We went to Bear Lake this past weekend for 1. Juliann's Bday and 2. Raspberry days! I love it up there I wish we could have stayed longer :(. We went to the Bear Trapper in for Juliann's Bday dinner where Natey and I had crab, salmon, and shrimp! No worries we shared ;). Saturday we spent at the beach, and on the sail boat, it is so so pretty out there the water was so blue, and we saw fireworks! On Sunday we went to a way too early church and then nap and then more beach! On Sunday I made a new friend her name was Heaven and man she sure did love to talk, and make me mud pies with watermelon ice cream (the ice cream was more water mixed with sand not too complicated of a recipe!). It was a great great weekend I hope we get to go one more time before summer is over!

Happy Birthday!

My man

Hubba hubba!

Extreme close-up!

Raspberry Days fireworks!

Nate hiding under the camera sock

There he is!

Fish lips

Happy ;)

N+M 4eva!

Now onto the best week of the year....SHARK WEEK!!!

I first watched with my bro bff Stephen, then with my bff Kess, I wrote letters to Nate my bffe (best friend foreva eva) while he was in Florida for a summer about shark week, sooo needless to say I am in love with shark week! If you would like to be obsessed like me tune in to the Discovery Channel all this week!! Mmmk?! Love love