My favorite weekend

 General Conference weekend with the boys! Oh how I love them all! Bridger was so cute when I was teaching him about General Conference and how they were going to teach us about Jesus, he then started calling each of the speakers Jesus or "Eezus". Haha close enough

bridgers room

Is he amazing or is he amazing?!

 Here are the new furniture pieces that Taylor made for me in September. It took him about a week or so and wow can I say he is so talented! And speaking of talented, he didn't even follow any instructions but made up his own plans! 

here are the beginnings...

 here with the stain (I got to pick the stain and the hardware :) and the drawers getting put in...

 The finished product! Our console and buffet all done and so pretty! 

 I love that my husband can do whatever he puts his mind to...now on to making more furniture...I have quite a list for him haha

Photo Wall

 We've been busy lately with lots of fun projects so more future posts to come but here's one for now...my photo wall. I didn't like these bland pantry cupboards that are taking up half of the kitchen so I decided to turn them into a work of art. I had a lot of fun with this project and Taylor of course was again a great help.

 We first covered them with butcher paper (I am renting and don't want to ruin anything of course). We then mod podged a ton of black and white family pictures onto the top half. At first I was going to do the whole thing, but Bridger kept trying to peel the pictures off haha. So plan B turned out to be way better in the end...

 ...Chalkboard paint! We put it on the lower half for Bridger to draw to his heart's content and we can write fun messages on it to each other as well :)

 I love our photo wall! It's a fun way to keep many memories close by and I catch myself often just staring at it as I'm eating my cereal or whatever else I'm doing while sitting at the kitchen table.

 Last but not least we put up a little saying in Norwegian (where Tay served his mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). Can you guess what it says? If you guess Families are Forever you are wrong haha (the usual guess). It says, "Because two people fell in love"...

 Yep...a project we all ended up loving

Wahoo Zoo!

 The problem with taking way more pictures than is humanly possible, is that it's hard to choose which ones to put on the blog...therefore lots n lots o pictures :) Enjoy our trips to the zoo in Utah (before we moved of course) and here in Portland...

 We went with lots of family and had a blast. We were practically a zoo within a zoo. Bridger LOVED seeing all the animals! His first time to the zoo... and Mason's first too of course, but he mostly slept.

 Connor, Brady, and Bridger

 me mom and amber

 debbie bridger and steve

 Now whenever we ask Bridger what a giraffe says he sticks out his tongue haha

 The following pictures are from our trip to the zoo in Portland with the Harris family (Tay's mission companion) and had such a great time... we even got season passes!

 He was a little more awake for this trip :)

 A little tribute to our Alma Mater's mascot

 The zoo had so many fun things for Bridger to play on, including a fun tractor and wooden horsies

 I had to add a couple of his modeling shots for me...the boy is a natural 

 A little treasure Tay and I found...very pertinent to our lives don't you think?