The Oler Family: Creative Outlet

Saturday, December 10, 2011

Creative Outlet

Finals week is coming up which means this past week was last for classes, projects, and assignments. Makes for a very rough couple of weeks, not only for Neil but for me as well since I get to play "single mom of 3".

Wednesday was just a rough day. By the end of it I was begging Neil to come home early (about 10:30pm).

Being the awesome man the he is he came home, took the sick baby, and played hall monitor while I ran to the store. When I got home the kids were asleep and Neil was watching Hook. I knew I would never get my mind to slow down if I just sat and half watched the movie.

So I watched the movie while I concentrated on cutting out these...

Snow flakes out of double sided wrapping paper. It turned out super cute if I do say so myself. It made me happy when Eve came out of her room and saw them the next day and said "Mom! It's snowing!"

Today was a "reading" day for Neil... really, a Saturday.

I hate when they do that!

So I made these.
I'd been toying with different ideas on how to display the Christmas cards we receive, and I landed on this one.

I really liked the snowflake wreath idea but felt it would end up too cluttered if I did it on all of my higher cupboards. So I used matching ribbon on the other cupboard door to tie it in with plenty of space to clip cards.

I'm pretty excited, I think they both turned out well, and I didn't spend a single penny on any of it. It was all made from stuff I already had on hand *bonus*!
- Angelica Oler

1 comment:

Cate said...: How clever!! How did you get them to look so good?!? I agree everyone suffers during finals week!; December 12, 2011 at 10:12 AM

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The Story

We found out we were expecting our first mid-March 2008, our little bundle of joy would arrive sometime early November. June rolled around, we went to find out if it was a boy or a girl. Much to our excitement, it was a girl, much to our surprise, she had a sister in there too. We were so excited, and shocked at the same time. And because there were 2 the doctor moved my due date up to early October. Mid-September comes up and I'm sent to the hospital, I'm in labor. Evelyn Mae and Adia Ashley were born the morning of September 23rd.

The Story Take III

We found out we were expecting #4 in early June, not quite ready to share the news we kept our excitement to ourselves for a while. We told the kids but were fairly certain they had forgotten when Neil's whole family came, visited, and left without a word about our bun in the oven. A couple of weeks later, we had some family over for a 4th of July BBQ. Evelyn was admiring Chavonne's 5 month old Emmett and decided to announce "Angelica has a baby in her belly!" Everybody was excited and I was very surprised since I had decided my kids had forgotten. I moving into the 2nd trimester now, and looking forward to finding out the gender of our sweet little love bun.

Ghost In A Jar

Neil sings and plays guitar in a band called Ghost In A Jar. With his friends Tom at the drums, and Peter playing the bass, they started playing together in April of 2006. They've played at a lot of different places including Starry Night, Muse, and The Loft at Ozz in Provo, Comedy Circuit in Midvale, and at various other places and events. Its been fun to listen to them progress and work on writing their songs and having such a great time together. Sadly in April of 2011 they went their separate ways.