ADOPTED!

For any of you who don't know, we have adopted a beautiful baby girl! She has her own website http://worthwaitingfor.shutterfly.com However, you will need a password to enter the site. If you are interested, email me (celestebrower@hotmail.com) or leave a comment with your email! Thanks!

Domesticated!

I'm not sure if it's the change in the weather or what, but I've been busy trying new things lately. Whitney and I canned salsa (for the first time ever), and we made cute little Halloween lanterns with Mod Poge and tissue paper. Then I made some delicious apple dumplings tonight ... FROM SCRATCH! :) They are delicious and I'm quite proud of myself!

OLD Grandma's

So, as most of you know I spend an un-healthy amount of time with Whitney (my sis.) and her 2 girls. :) I use them as my proxy children so I don't get too sad about having none of my own. Whitney is nice enough to let me use them all of the time and invade upon her home daily.

Sesaly is always saying crazy things. Here's the latest:

Sesaly: Aunt Awest (Celeste), did you know that Jaq (her cousin) got stung by a bee?

Me: Yes

Sesaly: He's ok now.

Me: I'm so glad!

Sesaly: It didn't happen at Jaq's house, it happened on Grandma-with-the-puppies (my mom) birthday, but she didn't have her birthday at her own house, she had it at my OLD Grandma's house (my mom's mom), it's not the Grandma-with-the-Earl (Whitney's mother-in-law.. Earl is a dog). It's my OLD Grandma.

Me: I know, I was there.

Sesaly: Oh yeah.

So, apparently only Great-Grandma's are old.... the other ones aren't! :)

Stuart's Lesson

Stuart is the new Young Men's President in our ward, so he has to teach tomorrow (the 5th Sunday so it's combined YM/YW). He's doing his lesson on the theme for the year Joshua 1:9, he's talking about courage and standing up for what you know is right. So, I made these Back To School Survival Kits for the youth in our ward. They all started school this last Thursday, so it's kinda fitting. I think they turned out pretty cute though.

These are the magnets I made to put in the kits, they were super easy. Just some clear rocks, bright paper, magnets and mod podge. Super easy and super cute!

Save the Tots!

Today I was making Sunday dinner. While I was using a hotpad to help me drain the greenbeans, the steam from the beans must've gotten my hotpad wet. I then proceeded to get the tatertots (don't be jealous of our gourmet dinner!) out of the 450 degree oven, the heat from the pan went right through the wet spot on my hotpad and burnt my finger. So, I being the genius that I am, immediately grabbed the 450 degree pan with my other BARE HAND! And rather than waste a tray of tatertots, or grab the pan back with my protected hand, I held onto it until I set it on the counter (while yelling profanities). Needless to say, I have a very sore index finger on my left hand. :( The moral of the story is: BEWARE OF WET HOTPADS!!!

Little Lark

Stuart got me a kitten for my birthday!!! Here she is, Lark. I LOVE calico cats, and Whitney and Heidi drove all the way down to Ogden to get her for me. We recently found evidence of mice in our garage (which I cleaned out for Stuart's birthday), so we thought a cat is our best option! Lark is so sweet and she loves to be held. It's hard to stick her out in the garage already, but she has a nice little set-up and that's kind of the point. Thanks Honey!!!

Flowers

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Stuart's been gone camping for a few days this week, and I have been hanging out with Whitney and her girls. This is the project we took on, after cleaning out my garage (pictures to come). I think they turned out pretty cute. Sesaly wanted a picture with the flowers, it turned out a little creepy.

Cruise In

We went to the Cruise In parade with Whit and Paul (and their friends Brad and Brittany) on Saturday. It was a nice night, we saw some awesome cars, and some that probably shouldn't have been in cruise in. :) Isn't Sesaly so cute in this picture?

Happy 4th!

For the 4th of July this year we had a fun BBQ at Whitney and Paul's house!

This is the cute cake I made for the 4th! I wish I could say it was my idea, but I got the idea here. Still, I am very impressed with myself that it turned out!

Then we had fun with some fireworks while watching USU's fireworks. And a few people (Stuart and Paul) who were a tiny bit obsessed with the lighters! It was a very fun night!

Sticky

For the past week or so Stuart and I have spent a great deal of our free-time (and some of Stuart's work hours) installing wood floors in Stuart's mom's new house.


The wood floors are beautiful, but the job is very big... a little overwhelming. That's Helen in the above picture with Stuart.




Any guesses if Stuart's back hurts? :)



And this is my job.... I am the glue spreader. I should really come up with a more professional name, perhaps Professional Adhesive Applicator? But, yeah, basically I spread glue.... it's sticky and messy, I end up with glue all over my body and clothes. And soap and water alone do not remove this glue. It takes turpentine or rubbing alcohol and lots of cotton balls. :) And I've dipped the end of my ponytail twice now, so my hair is a tad bit shorter than it was - and now stays up in a bun!

Flying Airplanes

On Father's Day Stuart, Paul, Whit, Sesaly, Howie and I went up to USU to fly remote-controlled airplanes. Paul spent most of his time fixing his :) since it dropped like a rock everytime he threw it. Stuart had some long flights, but unfortunately also ran his plane into 2 buildings! :) It was lots of fun!

It's Done!

Paul was so great and came out and helped Stuart and me finish our rock wall! This is our version of a wheel-barrow. Of course the rock-wall is in the front yard and the extra dirt is in the back yard.

Paul looking strong and man-ish.

And here it is! It looks SO good!

Now all we need is another small rock-wall, more dirt moved around, a sprinkler system and then GRASS! :)

Knife Fight Anyone?

Today Stuart and I were in the kitchen and we both had some knives.... so naturally Stuart challenged me to a knife fight... below you will see our knives (mine is the smaller one)

I, of course, did not want to have a knife fight, so I quickly became unarmed :) Stuart grabbed my knife to show me how to clang the two together, and he dropped my knife. Luckily, he moved his foot in time, but my wood floor wasn't so lucky....
And the moral of the story? DON'T PLAY WITH KNIVES!!!

Landscaping!

We got some free rocks from some people in our ward, so now we are officially working on our yard! But, it's very hard work to do by hand, as Stuart can tell you! He worked on it on Saturday in the rain and got a row done! Yeah! Thanks Honey! :)

Sesaly's 4th!

Sesaly had her 4th birthday today! She had a great little party that was meant to be at a park, but got moved inside due to the rain. She got lots of great presents and even had a pinata! Happy Birthday Sesaly!

St. George!

Stuart and I went on a little weekend getaway to St. George this last weekend. It was a great little break! We were able to stay at my Grandma's condo and then we drove to Zion's every day to hook up with Heather, Justin and Helen. We went on some fun 4-wheeling trails and enjoyed the beautiful weather!

Heather, Luke (in front pack), Justin, Kaden, Celeste and Stuart (Helen is taking the picture)


This is an awesome lookout we found on one of the trails. It was beautiful!

This is looking up at where we were standing in the last picture.

We parked by this old cemetery to begin our 4-wheeling trip. There were tons of historic headstones and stories about how everyone died. This area was fenced off and had 3 graves in it. A husband/wife and brother. They were killed by indians. It was interesting to read the histories and look around the cemetery.

Some scenery from our 4-wheeler trip!

Helen, Kaden, Justin, Luke and Heather

Stuart and Celeste

Campfire Dinner

After 4-wheeling all day, we headed back to Heather and Justin's trailer to have some dinner around the campfire. Here's Heather hanging out.

And Justin...

These were what would appear to be delicious dutch-oven potatoes. They had all the right ingredients, however, we were very hungry... so Helen and I decided to stick the dutch oven directly into the campfire. I wouldn't recommend it. They were burnt. :( And although the rest of us were sickened by them, Helen ate a healthy portion!

These little beauties were made by Stuart! He makes the BEST roasted marshmallows!

This is the delicious smore I made with Stuart's perfect marshmallows! YUM!