Out of ORDER

ok so i took a little peak at my camera card and decided that i have a few pics that need to be posted and its all out of order a bit.

SO first things first (not in chronilogical order but more of an importance order)

Brock and I got to go to Coeur d' Alene with my family for state volleyball. Let me tell you that it is gorgeous there and I love it !! but also i am the worst person when it comes to taking pictures so of course i have far and few pictures.

So there are the very few pics i got of us actually out and about. there was this cute little boardwalk right on the lake so my sisters brock and i and my mom went and walked around it. it was a pretty cold day and the wind was blowing so that if you werent careful the water would come splash into you, it was kinda like walking to a mine field, but with water.

Now for the real reason we went up north was to watch edee play volleyball and my mom coach. let me tell you what Edee is a super star and i cant believe how good she is. Another thing that is suprising when you think that my mom was a cheerleader in highschool is that she is one of the best coaches i have ever seen. she knows how to get her players in, and when to pull them out and how to motivate etc. etc. As far as the team went not so great but the VanOrden women went and showed those northerners whats up !!! OH BTW eden has brown hair now-

(me and addi)

Also if you know anything about our sweet little maddi, you know that she is a water woman. as soon as we even mentioned that we were about 30 minutes away from the hotel she was already trying to get people into the pool with her, and insisted that once we got there we all got it. It didnt quite work out that way, but every chance maddi had she was in the pool. her friend Ashley went with her and even little addi got to go play.

also a while ago i finally got my break from school which consists of one week of freedom and then it is back to school and here are a few fun things that i got to do

THIS is the BIGGEST P-I-G i have ever seen i couldnt believe it !!!

DIY canopy bed

We moved in about 2 months ago and I am now finally finishing my bed. This is kinda what we started out with nice plain black and white.

I got brave and decided to make my bedspread and all of the pillows. and this is what it turned into.

I have always liked the way that canopy beds looked but I kneew that right now we arent able to afford the whole BED part of the "canopy bed" so I decided that i could make the canopy.

I got some PVC pipe and cut them the length that i needed them, put some of the corner connector thingys on them (the HOME DEPOT guy helped pick them) then spray painted all of it black. (inspired by my mother-in-law who is the queen of spray paint) hooked them together. and got black zip-ties that have holes in the end of them and put a screw through the hole and screwed the whole thing in the ceiling. then put my "canopy" part up (complimets of the leftovers of my moms curtains.) totally this project cost me $3 for spray paint $2 for PVC pipe. and about $25 for fabric. this $30 makeover turned out better then i thought !!!