Painting for fun....Decorating Too!

So recently I get so bored on my days off work that I have been trying to find inexpensive things for me to do.

So bought these canvas things from Robert's and well I went a little crazy with them... I have officially painted each of these little canvas things three times. First they were brown and green, then they were just blue-ish with a marble look. And now they are this:
I believe I like them like this. So I have them up in my bedroom where I have this cool pottery barn duvet cover that is bright and colorful like this painting is...

The best part.... Stephen thought I bought them!!! I may be able to find a new profession... Not only would we be poor starving married students, but we would be poor starving artist students. But you know it could always be worse :)

the WORST daily question ever!

So lately I have been struggling with every wife's, mother's, or hungry person's daily question...

(don, don, don)

The question that haunts my days, the one that even when you ask it to people that live with you they respond with an "I don't know?", which leaves you still trying to find an answer to this horrible, never leaving the presence of my life, question...

When this simple question is given a response, and there somehow happens to an edible answer, even if it is "Meatloaf", will make the person living with this daily question SO HAPPY!!!

So the question I ask is, "WHAT'S FOR DINNER?"

Everyday I eat and I am a bit of a picky eater but in the end I will make whatever I am told and will eat whatever I make. But I am fresh out of ideas, fresh out of simple yet satisfying meals to make.

So I ask my few and mostly family member readers to answer this question for me... Please try not to give me a meal that will take more than 45 minutes to an hour to prepare and make, please try to keep Stephen and I from getting fat, and please keep in mind that I am simple and when I see large words in a recipe like "worchestire" I run....

I thank everyone who comments or calls or even gets a kick about this life's question. I thank Rachel Ray and Martha for making a meal look so easy but its not the making part, it's the deciding what to make part that is so very difficult...

I hate the Dentist.....

So this post has nothing to do with me but everything to do with Stephen. So he has this tooth that has been hurting him for a couple years and needs a root canal and a crown. So he finally couldn't take the pain any longer and well I found an emergency dental place in Provo that is open until 8:00pm Monday through Saturday (which is also good because Stephen refuses to miss to school.)

So he went last night and I was simply amazed at what they do to this poor kids mouth and the balloon type thing they put over his mouth...

This also reminded me about how much I hate doctors and dentists. It's not the doctors and dentists themselves... Its their choice of profession. Too bad my cousin Tim is a dentist, I hope I can still love him like I do now... Haha I know I will.

Christmas cards... Just make me Shutter(fly)!!!

So this is the story... My great sister had this blog post and it was all about these Shutterfly Christmas cards. So I went to go check it out and I found one I loved. It was so cute and I totally knew what picture I wanted to but with it. I really like this card that is only green and white and it says JOY on it. The picture I want to use is from the family pictures my family took in Cayucos, California this year when we welcomed Cameron home from his mission.

So this is my plan for Christmas Cards this year. Since I probably won't get all the cards out by Christmas the card I was looking at was Christmas/New Year's neutral. Here are some links of some of the cards I was able to choose from:

Christmas,
Holiday
Photo Holiday

Shutterfly prints are fairly high quality so you won't be getting a junk card, you'll be getting some really awesome prints and cards to send out to family and friends.... Keep your eyes out for a card in the mail from the Elms Family!!
The other great thing about Shutterfly is that you too can get Christmas cards like I am getting for FREE!!!! All you have to do is click this link. There are a few other tasks that have to be done but you can totally get them for free.

Beautiful Fall Color..... aka Flowers

So I work at this awesome Nursery in Orem, Utah and well we have tons of neat bulbs for spring blooming and some really good looking pansies. So I decided to get a pot and plant some bulbs in it and also plant some pansies so I can have some cheerfulness even in the dead of winter and also in the early spring when there is still snow on the ground. So here is my cute, cute, yet simple, pot!


In front of my our door, the flowers go with the burgundy color of our door.


A little closer look!