My bestfriend's mom told me this once when I was little. Amen. We went to Roger's Pass over the Christmas holiday and wowie, God took my breath away! We had a great crew of friend this day touring up Grizzly shoulder to Grizzly Mountain. Photo by Garret Grove.

team bennifer

(UPDATED) So it's been awhile.

I've been busy and sadly have had no time to sew. Since moving into a new place, I have not yet set up my sewing machine. So Sad. But life is great and we are pursuing other adventures! We've been working diligently at our new jobs, snowboarding, traveling and cooking. I have plans to post my creative projects on this blog weekly, so stay tuned!

Thanks for the support!

Thailand trip!

As some of you may know, my husband Ben and brother Mike went on a mission trip to Thailand a few weeks ago. They took some of the youth from our church and helped out an organization called Remember Nhu, more info here. I had a purse party a while back to help fundraise for the trip and through other generous donors, every child and leader had their trip paid for! PTL!

The trip overall was a huge success, totally life changing and wonderful. The stories are still trickling in and plans to go back are being dreamt up. Here are a few pictures from the trip...enjoy! And thank you to everyone who support Ben and Mike!

four years of fun

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MY LOVE!!!

I had to yell because he is in Thailand. If you can hear this....

YOU ROCK MY WORLD!!!

Woah, we look so young!!

r.i.p. forest andrews

It's been awhile since I last posted because tragically our friend, Forest Andrews was killed in a longboarding accident Friday, June 10th, the day of his high school graduation.

We've been very sad and somber, his death has rocked our community, especially our youth group. Forest was highly active in our church and youth group and was planning on going on the Thailand mission trip (which they flew out today). He was nothing but a joy to be with, always smiling and positive as well as a talented artist and skateboarder.

It's robbery that Forest passed at such a young age but we have hope in our grief. God has brought a lot of good out of this horrible situation. Time is healing everyone's wounds. Our prayers go out to the Andrew's family, we love you guys!!

Please check out this amazing song "You make beautiful things" by the band Gungor. They played it at Forest's celebration of life last Saturday.

china trip

I went to China a few weeks ago on business and had a blast! Here are a few pictures I wanted to share.

ahnu women's shoe line

Not sure if you know this, but I have my Industrial Design degree. I used to do freelance and this is a project I did for Ahnu shoes for thier women's Summer 2010 line. I worked with the design firm, Modaliti, in Salt Lake City on design concepts. It was a great project, I enjoyed working with the team and love designing shoes. A few months ago I finally scanned in my sketches for my personal records and that I thought I would share them with you all. What do you think?

weekends rock!

What a delicious weekend we just had!

Ben started the weekend off right by sending me "just because flowers at work". I love it when he does that!

Ate yummy food all weekend. Saturday breakfast sausage, eggs and tartor-tots (above picture is actually my roommate's breakfast, it looked much nicer than ours). Slow cooker cook off with my brother, which I won! Tons of raw veggies and salads. And homemade cinnamon rolls from a local diner topped with 2 dark chocolate raspberry truffles from See's candy. I love good food!

I also spent a ton of time sewing my new zipper clutches. I'll post pictures of them this week. I'm super excited to get them up on Etsy and start raising money for Thailand! Below is a process picture sneak peak!

{thankful thursdays}

I'm so thankful for my best friend and husband, Ben! We loving doing pretty much everything together, whether it's making pancakes for breakfast, snowboarding in the backcountry together or just relaxing. We love spending time together!

So thankful for my brother Mike, actually brother-in-law but that is a mouthful to say. Mike is just rad! Great story teller, fun to go on adventures with and is super encouraging!

So thankful for the chapter of life I'm in right now. We are flexible to play whenever (well almost whenever) we want. Above are pictures from our Saturday Mt Adam's adventures. We ride our snowmobiles out the 12 mile logging road, park them, and then tour up to epic pow lines! So much fun!

(Mike is in the black jacket, Ben is in the blue jacket. All pictures taken by me and I played with photoshop to try to make them look cooler.)

i love long weekends!



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 3 day weekends are the best! I'm planning on going splitboarding with Ben and friends at Mt Adams, drinking hot chocolate, relaxing around our bonfire and trying my hand at making bread. I'm so excited!