Oops

I think it has been long enough ago that I can laugh at this. My co worker and I decided to spend last Wednesday completely cleaning out the storage room at work. It was the first time in three years that I could see the floor of that room. We spent hours going through everything and finding a nice neat place for it. It was beautiful!

We finished and were standing in the room putting a few odds and ends away when all of a sudden we heard a low rumbling sound. Before we knew it the entire wall of shelves CAME OFF THE WALL CRASHING INTO US! We didn't even have time to move (although I swear it looked like it happened in slow motion).

All our hard work :( So I was near the doorway when it happened and only got hit in the thigh by a box of play scripts. (The hole in the picture is exactly where I was. And the heavy box of scripts is on the left). My co worker was in the MIDDLE of the room standing right behind that metal dolly in the right side of the first picture. The dolly saved her! She would have been crushed by the shelf! She got pelted with many things and has some nasty bruises the poor thing.

I had to literally dig her out of there- she was covered to her knees! We were laughing to the point of tears the whole time (cuz if we didn't laugh we probably would have cried).

When I told Scott about it (with sound effects and re-enactments) he just laughed the whole time! He thought it was a little funny how traumatized I was by an "almost, sort of, could-have-been near death experience" (my words).

He just said, "Heather, do you have any idea how many times I've almost died at work?"

What? That led to a whole other conversation

crafty

We recently had our first fire of the fall season. We love our wood burning fireplace- there's nothing like the sound, smell, and coziness of it! It is one of those things that make the cold months more bearable.

A few of you have asked if I started doing craft projects on Fridays. I posted a week or two ago about my Fridays off during the slow season at work. I have done two projects that were very simple (for my simple skills). Emily C. suggested I make a fall wreath, and that was my first project! My sister Ash was here and made one too. We had fun walking the aisles at the craft store trying to decide what color flowers to pick. My wreath ended up costing just under $20 to make.

On Saturday I also finished up a project I started a long time ago. My sister in law Bri has a dry erase calendar on her fridge and I thought it was brilliant, so I made one for us. It is so handy. It is just scrapbook paper that Scott drew a grid on for me. I laminated it, and now I just fill in the month, the days, and our events each month. To finish it off, I made a shopping list to match, and made three magnets using the paper scraps .

So those are it for now!

Violins, Wedding, and Friends

So this is one of the new microphones for our violins...it's a band that somehow picks up the sound. I have no clue how it works but it is incredible! (Nice photography Scott!)

On Thursday, the Presiding Bishopric of our church had a luncheon on the roof of the conference center. There were people there from all over the country that had come for training. Bishop Burton wanted it to be western themed, so they needed fiddlers to entertain! Our name came up, and we were asked to play during the lunch.

It was a big honor for us, and we had so much fun! Everyone was so nice and the venue was beautiful.

Scott was our roadie! It is always neat to have him at performances, it is a great feeling to look over at him and see him smiling.



This is us talking to Bishop Burton. I have to admit I paid extra close attention to his talk in General Conference a few weeks ago...I knew I would be meeting him soon and wanted to be ready in case he gave me a pop quiz or something! Ha ha.



On Thursday night, we went to Scott's hometown for a wedding! We are so happy for Carly and Kyle, they are two great people. It was so so fun to spend time with friends all weekend! We also got to go to lunch with Grandpa and Grandma Hendrix.

This picture must be on a hill or something. There is no way I am THAT much shorter than everyone right?


This is Jason and Terrin, Gracie, Sean, and cute baby Gavin. And us. We wish we got to see everyone more often, because we have so much fun when we're together!

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Winter is our slow season at work, so we are closing the office on Fridays to save money. That means I have a three day weekend every week!!!! It has been going on for about three weeks now and I am loving it!

I thought it might be fun to attempt a fun craft project on these days off (I am amazed at the cute things you all make!) but I usually just end up cleaning or something. Our house and my car have been much neater this past month. It's a good feeling.

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We are looking forward to several things this week, so I'll probably have some more interesting things to post about next week. On Thursday my sibs Ashley, Luke, and I are the entertainment for a gathering in Salt Lake. We are very excited about it. My dad even went out and got us our Christmas present early- a SWEET sound system so we can all amp our violins. It's amazing!!! THANKS DAD!

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On Friday Scott and I are going to Reno/Fallon Nevada for a close friend's wedding! Love those! It will be great to see lots of friends and family. We were hoping to fly but unfortunately it would cost $600 for the two of us to fly to Reno!!! That is so crazy, it's usually a third that much. Darn.

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So...to wrap this up if anyone has any simple craft ideas, let me know!

OR...if you have a sweet name for Ashley, Luke and I's 'band' put it out there! Right now we are called Cutler Family Fiddlers, but we do more than just fiddling so we want to change that.