Back to school

Well I am NOT going to Idaho but I am doing their online courses! Its a new program called The Pathway program and the best part is that the credits are onle $65 a piece and I can go all the way up to a bachelor's for half the cost if I went to a university. I am excited and nervous but I have been puting this off for tooooo long and when the opportunity came up there was no way I could pass up. Go here if you want to read more into it.

My sister Rebecca and I are doing this together and its going to be a great learning experience! One of the requirements is that you have to attend Institute one night a week and take a Religous course. I am excited for that because I didn't really attend Institute when I was younger and when I did go I didn't have my whole heart into it. I am happy that I get this chance to grow both spiritually (which I NEED) and mentally!

Homemade

This year for Christmas I decided I was going to try my hand at being crafty and make most of our gifts this year for family members. For my 2 nieces that are around the same age I found a cute idea on a blog for ABC blocks. Bear already had the wood I needed for it and I already had the paint and paper and mod podge. They were WAY easy to make and I think they turned out so cute!

I used 6 different patterned papers and painted the blocks with the coordinating colors.

The one other gift I made was an apron. I found a cute tutorial on this website and decided to try it out! I have never sewn in my life so I knew this was not going to be an easy project but with the help of my mom I was able to do it! I made one for our girl gift exchange with my dad's side of the family and made one for my SIL.

I had a lot of fun making these gifts and think they turned out good for being my first. I am sure I will be doing homemade in the future so if you get a homemade gift I hope you don't mind :]

Rebecca-The Artist

My sister Rebecca has been drawing since her freshman year of high school. I think going in to it she didn't know much about but as you can tell from this she is pretty dang good! She sure did find her hidden talent! She does painting, pencil drawing, oil painting, etc. and does them on the side. I will post more of her drawings soon...