cute blog decisions.

It is probably weird to be blogging about my blog, but oh well.

So here I have two different signatures. I'm not quite sure which one to use. gah decisions. Any one want to help me out?

* turns out I need to fix the top one. :( My skills are not yet perfected as you can see

Tinkering around

I know I have not been posting lately, but as you can see, I have been doing something else. I had been thinking it was time to change things around on my blog. make it cute and such. First thing was my background. While looking for cute backgrounds, I decided that it would be cool if I could just design one myself...so I did! Its not bad for a first try, dont you think?

I cant claim all the credit to me. the cute bows and beads I got from here

Scrapping delights has a lot of cute little embelishments and papers. Great for digital scrapbooking!

Next thing- cutsy signature!

Christmas 2011

Not too much has been going on in the Huerta house...or shall I say apartment. You will see this in the lack of pictures. ok, so the lack of pictures is due to the fact that this girl left her camera at her big sisters housetill a couple days ago and hasn't been able to take too many pictures...that and my camera is ALL the way in the front room. haha

I will deffinately post more pictures soon (we took a bunch yesterday of freckles and his sister that my mom might keep... yay!)

We had a pretty fun holiday. Of course it is always fun with family. We opened the Hampton family gifts on Christmas eve, Luis and I picked Eric and Haleigh for our Christmas people. They joke that I won Christmas (by they, we mean Brent...and by Joke, we mean that he is serious.) I made Hals a sock monkey hat.

She is rarely seen without it. Mikey asked me how long it took me to make, and was amazed that it only took me 2 days. But what he didnt understand is that it took me 2 FULL days. I did nothing else for those two days. It was hard work, but it turned out super cute! Though I can hardly say I thought of it all by myself. I learned how to crochet by watching this channel.

http://www.youtube.com/user/DzCrochetCreations?feature=g-all-c

I watched her tutorials, and modified it to what I wanted. Mom thinks that that is still pretty amazing that I could modify it like that, but I really couldnt have done it without watching her tutorials! (she does a really cute bow tutorial, and a cute flower one too!)

My Best Friend and her husband came down from Idaho for new years. Of course this was while my camera was at Jill's house, so there are no pictures of us dancing and shooting zombies.(our favorite pass time)

So like that our holidays are over. But thats not to say that this new year wont be full of excitement...

Freckles Has New Siblings

They are so adorable! Especially this guy.

Barbossa is my little baby. I want to take him home. But we all know that I cant. And truthfully, I don't really need one....at least I keep telling myself that.

Too bad I named him already.

The brothers already get along.

If only we could buy a place before Christmas.

My day off the way I wanted

So last Monday was awesome. What did I do? Surf the Web (do people still say that these days?) clean my kitchen, folded my plastic bags (and while that sounds silly, I now have much more room under my sink) and made these beautiful things

Hair clips. of which i try to wear one daily. A friend of mine, Tausha, taught a bunch of us how to make the twisty ones for one of our girls nights. The poofy ones I found on Pintrest.http://www.rufflesandstuff.com/2011/05/no-sew-fabric-flower-tutorial.html

I of course added my own touches to them.

Also found on Pintrest are my new favorite thing to make. Pizza bites

http://penniesonaplatter.com/2010/02/15/pizza-bites/

They are super easy to make. All you need is pizza dough, mozzarella, pepperoni, and pizza sauce. soo good!

Then there are these guys...which i actually made them this weekend... but they are still cute. I got them from here- http://trulie-scrumptious.blogspot.com

Completely cute.

I have decided that to make our apartment feel more welcoming, I want to decorate for the holidays...at least a little bit.

Utah/Idaho adventures

Last week we went to Utah and Idaho to visit some friends. Did I take my camera? Of course. Did I use my camera? Sadly, no. I was too busy stairing at all of the babies! ...Well both of them any way.

We decided to go because I had a day off on Monday, and Luis really missed his Utah friends. He also drove me an extra 8 hours (4 from Utah to Idaho, and 4 back) to see my Best Friend too.

As soon as we arrived at our friend Gillberts, we took a nap. A much needed nap. Then we got to see Juliet. Gilbert and Sarah's baby girl.

When I went to look at her, she looked strait back at me. I know it probably sounds wierd, but whenever I see little babies, I feel like they all look back at me the same way. A lot of the times, they smile at me. Other times it is this very pointed look. It feels like they are trying to tell me something. Almost like a message from my future kids. It is kinda a surreal feeling. It makes my heart ach to hear that voice in my head saying "we are waiting for you. Hurry"

I digress. After waking up and seeing that beautiful baby girl, we went to see Harry Potter...for $1.50 each! We joke that we went all the way to Utah just to see Harry Potter in the dollar theater. (stockton or lodi...please get one of these!) It was fun though. We met up with Luis' other Friends there, Stephanie and Aleena (not exactly sure if that is how you spell her name)

That is also where I met little Tanner. My new love. He is Stephanies baby boy, and he is adorable! I actually met him before I met his parents. Luis was holding him, asked me if i wanted too, and I snached that kid up. He is such a ladies man too. he kept trying to grab at me, and when Gilberts sister-in-law, debbie, walked by, he started alternating between us.

We went to Aleena's for dinner that night...Which I discovered was NOT a restaurant. She made us Arapas. It was one of those things that sounds actually pretty easy to make, which is good because it was so good. It was some sort of white corn bun thing, stuffed with taco mean and mexican cheese. Delicious! I'm excited to make it for my family one of these days. When I do, I will definatly post it up here.

The next day Luis and I got up early in the morning and drove to Rexburg to see my best friend Janie. I missed her. I also was finally able to see some of her husbands paintings...and he is good. I told Luis that when we have more money, I want to pay him to paint us a picture of the Oakland Temple. I will try to get some pictures of his paintings to show you guys.

After church with Janie and Jeff, we drove back to Utah, hung out with Gilbert some more, then with Stephanie for a little, then got on a train for home. and by got on a train, I mean, RAN for the train because we were late. They luckily saw us running and decided to wait...but they were not very nice about it. never want to cut it that close again.

These are just some pictures that I had from weeks before.

Blue. Freckles, maybe, stepdad. Not sure though. Dixi was not too cooperative with him. He tried to sniff freckles, and she wasnt even allowing that. He was such a sweet dog though.

Kitty likes the outdoors...especially the roof.

I have the day off today so I plan on doing something productive with my time. We shall see.

HAVE A NICE DAY!

Holy Kuvasz!

We have a new dream dog. And it is huge!

It is really Luis new dream dog. I still have my heart set on an Irish wolf hound. Both are giant. All I know is that this is one "bodacious" dog...because his name, is bodacious! Get it!

Though no new dogs anytime soon. Freckles is enough cute for me to take right now. I swear he knows that I cant handle it when he looks at me with those big brown eyes.