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The Schramm Boys!
Charley helping Gabby walk...
the Ben Schramm Family!....so cute!
Charley loves Grandpa Schramm....
The new Mr. & Mrs. Calvin Schramm!!!

The last Schramm.....

....got married this weekend! Ben's younger brother, Calvin, got married to Courtney this weekend in the Boise, Idaho temple. It was beautiful!!!....and I must say the girls looked darling!

~the pictures will be out of order because I didn't want to spend time organizing them!....so enjoy!

At the reception with Schrammpa!
They are so cute!
Charley with Schramma at the reception...I love how she is like a little lady!...trying to be all grown up!
Gabby....I'd like to point out that I made the girls little jackets!! I'm pretty proud of them. And since I had to trim Gabby's dress...the excess material I used to make hair bows!
3 of the 4 girl cousins!...
My little model!
At the hotel....
Charley got her own bed at the hotel....as we were driving back home she was crying and wanting to go back to the hotel....I guess I can't blame her....that huge bed all to herself! She was in heaven!
The girls with their new aunt!

Ragnar....

What is a Ragnar Relay you ask?....well, let me tell you. It is a running race that is 188.2 miles long! Ben and I were on a team of 12 people. We were able to have 2 vans. We each were assigned a leg, and then Van 1 would run all 6 runners, then Van 2 would run all 6 of their runners. After each van went, we did the same process 2 more times. We each ran a total of 3 times with various miles depending on your leg. All legs were pre-determined, and we had check points/hand offs along the way. Since it was a long race, we ran through the night....while the other van was running, we were sleeping and eating....or trying to sleep!

Leading up to the race, it was a bit crazy and stressful. But thanks to my wonderful sisters, who watched the girls, we were able to enjoy running without worrying too much about the girls!

It sounds like it wouldn't be that much fun, but I can honestly tell you it was SOOOO MUCH FUN!!!
Van 1 team members "Running Native"....Laiza, Me, Ben, Tevita, Kyle, Anahi....us at the start. We met up with Van 2 at exchange 6.

Ben and I at the starting line.

Ben waiting at his exchange point for Anahi to hand off the slap bracelet, we used as a baton...

Running my first leg...I ran a total of 23 miles!

Our whole team..."Running Native!"....at the finish 34 hours later!

Ragnar Relay Series ~ Wasatch Back 2010

just for FuN!!!

Cal & Courtney's wedding is in a few weeks. I pulled the girls dresses out because I needed to see how much I needed to hem Gabby's dress. We got her a 2T, it was the smallest size they had, and it hangs to her feet! But since Gabby got to try hers on, Charley wanted to as well. Courtney's mom founds these dresses for the girls...they are so cute! .... cute dresses for pretty much the cutest girls ever!!! (I'm the mom, and it's my blog, so I can say that!!! :) )

Charley kept waving her hands all over, so I finally told her to just fold her arms like a princess...and it worked....no hands in her face!

Charley came up with this pose all by herself! ....I guess she wanted to show off her muscles!

This is Charley's dance pose!...but I think it looks more like the crane kick!
Pretty Girl!

Her dress is going to have to come up about 6 inches!....however, I'm debating on heming it or not....it kinda looks like a really formal dress long, but the other girls dresses arn't going to be so long....but I if hem it, I can make matching bows out of the leftover!

Isn't she an angel!?

Now back to my sewing!....

Summer is here!...

...and we love it! However, the pool at our clubhouse wont be open until next. There was some "winteriztion" problems, and it had to be fixed. But it should be up and running next week! But in the mean time, we've been heading over to our favorite place...Thanksgiving Point! They have the coolest children's gardens. They have this huge Noah's arch thing that squirts water out...and water fountains coming out of the ground for kids to play in, and caves, and a lighthouse, a sand pit, and tons of other cute little things for kids to play on! We were there for 4 hours the other day...both girls were out for the night by 7pm! It was great!

Tinkerbell Room....

Here is another one of my projects!....Charley & Gabby's Tinkerbell room....it isn't done, but it is getting closer!
So after my last project, I wised up and invested in an electric sander!....So we all know that Memorial Day weekend has tons of sales everywhere! Welp, guess what I was very excited to buy?...yep, a sander. When I told Ben he just laughed and said "You're just like your Mom!" I took that as a complement! But it made sanding the dresser sooooo much easier!
I bought this dresser a few months ago on KSL....for $20!!!! It was a perfect size for two little girls clothes! However, it was not the prettiest....so I decided to paint it! I asked Charley what color she wanted it painted, (thinking maybe she would say pink or purple) and she said she wanted it green and blue. So I decided to paint it the tinkerbell green and blue!
Here it is sanded thanks to my new handy dandy sander! I eventually took the knobs off to sand them down better....and primed and painted!

And the finished product~
Notice the lamp I finished on the dresser! And my sister Brooktynn made those little blocks on the dresser for the girls....one set says "Gabby" and the other says "Charley"...
Notice the teal curtains....I would like to thank Char once again for having her wedding colors Teal and Thanks MamaS for giving me all her leftover fabric/table clothes from the wedding! Yes, those were the lace they used for the tables!

I still have lots of projects I am anxious to get done around the house, but they will have to wait until after the wedding...I now have to get sewing! (Cal and Courtney's wedding)

Sneak Peak....

It's another week, and another project......This week it was the girls dresser.....however, it is still drying, so I am posting this lamp.....

I had this lamp when I was single. I had the whole animal print thing going on in my room. However, it doesn't really match anything anymore.....so I primed and painted it...and added a cute flower! Now it will match the girls Tinkerbell room!!!....pictures of the dresser coming soon!

New Addition....

We've up-sized again....we sold my beloved Jeep Jogging stroller (it was gone 3 hours after posting it on KSL). I really did love that stroller...and I used it quite a bit. I was a little disapointed when I discovered that Jeep didn't make a double jogger. They really need to start looking into that.

With the weather warming up I really wanted to start running during the day instead of waiting until after the girls went to bed. We found a double stroller on KSL (I told you we were addicted!). It is a Columbia. The lady bought it a year ago, used it a few times, then decided that it was too hard to get her kids ready to go out running, so she bought a treadmill. The stroller had been sitting in her garage for the last year. It is pretty much new, and runs like a champ! And I got it for half the price if I were to have boughten it new! Score!

I took the girls out in it today! Charley said she missed running with me...it was nice to be able to take the girls with me. And Gabby seemed to like it!

Rosenthal Blood!

More and more lately I have become my more like my mom. (Don't worry mom, it's not a bad thing! It's a good thing!) Last week on KSL (I think I may be addicted to that site!) I bought a little dresser I thought we could use as an entry table (to replace our bookshelf). We got it really cheap, and I spent this last week sanding and staining! I think it turned out pretty good!This is the dresser when I first got it. The picture does not do it justice on how bad this thing looked. It was previously in a little boys room...they scratched letters in the door, and it looked like they took a pencil and jabbed the side of it.

This is the dresser after I HAND sanded it.....yep, it was a pain and a half...It took me 3 days to sand it all down! On the third day a neighbor came by to see what I was doing and offered me her electric sander....so I used it to do some finishing touches on it. After I stripped all the old stuff off, I filled all the scratches and scoffs with wood filler....then sanded that down.

I put two coats of stain on it, then put a few coats of the gloss coat stuff on. We took the knobs off and founds some new ones to put on. And lucky our home teachers came over today, they ended up help carrying it all up so I didn't have to!

And the finished Product.......

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Ben wanted me to tell everyone he helped put the last gloss coat on and put the new knobs on. This was my first attempt at doing this. I was really excited to do it....when I was younger my mom did this all the time. I didn't know why she liked doing it so much....but for some reason, it is fun! I can't explain it, but I can't wait to do it again...I'm totally gonna redo my dresser in our room. And I bought a dresser a few months ago for the girls on KSL, that I am going to redo as well!

The title is refering to my mom's side of the family. My grandfather, uncles, cousins, my mom, and even some of my other aunts are all handy with everything....literally.

1st Hair Cut!

Before

After

I am a little weird about our girls hair! I want it long! Charley didn't get her first "trim" (she hasn't ever really gotten a cut) last summer. I was trying to hold off on Gabby getting one until she was older, but I couldn't control her hair anymore! Charley was easy because she had curly hair, and it was easy to hid her random long strays! ....However, Gabby has straight hair, and her hair is just plain CrAzY!!!! She had these long tufts on each side of her head over her ears. They were literally longer than her shoulders, but the rest of her hair was still by her ears! As I was looking at her last Saturday, I decided it was time!

The Cruise....the Birthday Boy!

Last year when Ben turned 29 he was a little depressed that he would soon be 30. I told him for his 30th birthday I would throw him a HUGE party! He did not like that idea one bit! So I asked what he did want to do for his 30th Birthday? He said he wanted to go on a cruise. We talked about it all this last year, telling people that we were going to go. A few months ago, as I knew his birthday was approaching, I asked if he really wanted to do it?....we talk about doing a lot of things, but never really do them... But he said he really wanted to. So we went on line and found a cruise that was during his birthday weekend....and where he didn't have to take too much time off of work....and was a good deal! Thanks to our tax return....we went!!!! We were even able to fly my mom out to watch the girls while we went! I knew they would have much more fun with Nana then with us anyway....as it was, Charley was pushing us out the door to go....she had a long list of things she and Nana were going to do while she was here! Even though Gabby, Mom and Jordan got sick, I think they had fun! I was more worried about Gabby, she's more attached and a lot younger than Charley, but she did great!

A few days after we came back, Charley was asking when dad's birthday was. I realized she didn't know it was Ben's birthday because she wasn't there. So we made a cake, and surprised Ben when he came home from work!

Happy Birthday Ben! We Love You!

Love, your Girls!

The Cruise...Mexico

Off the boat in Ensenada, Mexico....they had the biggest flag I've ever seen!

These were official signs that they had in Spanish on one side and translated to English on the other side....so the English translation is hilarious...makes you wonder how bad we translate things from English to Spanish?!
Our boat docked....it looks huge compared to the other little boats....and we are like a mile or so away from where we took the picture.
Main street had lots of little shops!
I'm not sure who these heads are supposed to be of....but man, they are some big heads! (to clarify I am talking about the head statues behind us...not our heads!)
Ben had to get a fish and shrimp taco. he heard they were really good here!