What we did this weekend...

In addition to the typical weekend household chores, this is what we accomplished:

Canned 12 quarts of Salsa

Random Organizing.  I went to The Container Store... It was my first time, and well I got a little crazy!  The whole time I debated, ask permission first, or forgiveness later, in the end I went with forgiveness later!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this rack!  Since we don't have a real pantry, we turned our coat closet (cause really who needs a coat closet in AZ) into one and this cleaned up stuff so much.

Also grabbed a bunch of magnetic containers to hold some of my most used spices (I discovered many that I had 3 containers of because I was almost out, bought a new one and then forgot I bought a new one and bought another!  Well no more!  All right there for me to view on the Fridge!)

Baked 2 1/2 dozen cupckaes... from scratch.. not one, but TWO kinds with not two but THREE types of frosting!

First ones were more practicing for the state fair cupcake contest - Orange Creamcicle Cupcakes! Orange cupcakes with orange and cream cheese swirled frosting.  The second was a first, completely Vegan Cupcakes!  My bro in law has a food sensitivity to dairy so I made these for him to eat.  Chocolate Cupcake with Strawberry frosting.  They were actually good and the frosting was amazing!

Went to our Sacrament meeting this handsom young man was sustained as a counselor in our Bishopric; then got to hear him be ordained to be a High Priest and set apart in the Bishopric.  

Then RACED to Mesa for another Sacrament meeting where this little lady was blessed.

And our big weekend project, Kitchen Cabinet Painting!

Heres the boring before pictures

And here is the After!  

 LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!   We painted the walls red about a  year ago, but didn't do the cabinets because I couldn't bring myself to since they were new when we moved in.  Well, I finally decided they had to go!   So happy with the way it turned out! 

 

What a great weekend!

Conference morning, how do we roll?

With Cinnamon Rolls!

And here we go - Part 4...

Of course I saved the best part for last!  This brought back some really great memories of crazy adventures!  I actually already have similar picture taken from either Alaina or Sara's camera, but we'll start with a few from my newly developed film:

Yep Skydiving time!!!!  Oh my gosh this was one of the funnest things I have ever done!

This one cracks me up... well mostly because I was cracking up at something when it was taken.. What was so funny?  We will probably never know but it appears to have come from Dan's mouth, so could be just about anything.

Alaina getting all checked and ready to go!  Nice goggles girl!

And I walk away to my death, err I mean adventure!

OK, since I actually do have more pictures of this, I thought it would be fun to share more!   First off, I must say Skydiving was amazing and it was so fun to do it with good friends.  The whole thing was part of a fundraising event that a friend was promoting.   Dive for Diabetes.  It was raising money for a group that plans activities for those with Diabetes to encourage them to get out and try new fun things.  Well since Sky Idaho had significantly reduced the price, and I couldn't stand the pressure I was getting to go, I finally gave in and signed up!   I am so so glad I did! (NOTE: there was something wrong with this camera and all the pictures have a fuzzy middle... don't know why!)

Here is our group before getting on all our equipment, Sara, Me, Some girl we didn't know, and Alaina.  All smiles before!

Sara getting all fitted up

And ready to go!

And my turn!

Here I am receiving instruction on what to do in the air!  Arch your back!!!

Thats our plain!

Getting up there!

And here I come

Nice landing!

This is me saying please get me out of this harness!  When you are in the air, they adjust the harness so your legs are up, only problem is when you try to walk back on the ground, it doesn't work so well!

And look!  All smiles after!!

And 1 year later I would do it all again!

This time Family style!

PS... I am feeling slightly nostalgic lately.. so just watch out, more flashback posts may be coming your way!

And here we go - Part 3...

Part 3 is a little more fun and a flashback of a more recent post.  I just recently posted about my Grandpa and the excellent fisherman he is; but unfortunately in that post I didn't have a single picture of him catching a fish.  But jump back 5 years and I have some good ones!

First off there is my dad!  Isn't he cute in his suspenders!  We Heck's are lacking a little in the back and sometimes a little extra is needed to keep the pants up... I'll trade suspenders for the alternative any day!

This is Grandpa's fish!  It was big enough they needed a net because it would have broke the fishing line!

Bringing it in.

Checking it out

Yep, Looks good!!!

And here we go - Part 2...

Alrighty, so Part 1, not so bad, nothing embarrassing right?  Part 2 will also be less than exciting. Only 1 picture:

Firebird Raceway...

Yep thats it, apparently this adventure was so exciting I only managed 1 picture... Actually, if I remember right we may have had a friend racing that night.   I can't really remember for sure though since I think I went to Firebird on a couple of occasions.  

Parts 3 and 4 to come soon... Part 4 is my favorite of the bunch!