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33 years young today! This last trip around the s

33 years young today! This last trip around the sun has been a doozy, but boy am I thankful to have you all supporting me through it!! Here are 33 things about me that you may or may not know! 1. I am the 15th of 16 children in my family. All biological, one mom, one dad, two sets of twins! (In a row, a year apart 😬)
2. I have the most incredible family in the world, and I got incredibly lucky again with my in-laws! Stuart is the oldest of 11 children.
3. My oldest sister and my mother-in-law were college roommates and good friends, which we didn’t find out until after Stuart and I started dating. I have pictures of my mother-in-law holding my older siblings on her lap in my family picture albums!
4. My husband remembers going to my house as a 10 year old kid and playing my brothers game boy on our couch.
5. I have 3 nieces older than me, which also means that I was an aunt before I was born and a great-aunt at 18!
6. I am a state champion Javelin thrower!
7. My athletic heart really lies with volleyball 🏐
8. I served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Los Angeles for 18 months
9. My husband and I entered the missionary training center on the same day and likely passed each other many times in the halls.
10. I speak Spanish (pero ha pasado un tiempo así que no me pidas que lo hable!)
11. You couldn’t pay me to watch a scary movie.
12. I LOOOOOOVE salt. But only the real stuff. (Looking at you @redmondrealsalt )
13. Nutrition is a second passion! I make my own fermented foods like kimchi, sauerkraut, beet kvass, homemade yogurt, as well as bread from natural yeast, and I feed my kids beef liver, homemade bone broth from grass fed cows, raw milk, free range eggs and cod liver oil on the regular 😊
14. Stuart and I both want to have a large family, as many as we can get! We both had such good experiences in our own big families.
15. I am a licensed hair dresser and lash artist. I don’t do it for anyone outside of friends and family anymore though. Not enough time between DIY projects!
…Continued in comments…

<img src="https://crystelmontenegro.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" alt="33 years young today! This last trip around the sun has been a doozy, but boy am I thankful to have you all supporting me through it!! Here are 33 things about me that you may or may not know! 1. I am the 15th of 16 children in my family. All biological, one mom, one dad, two sets of twins! (In a row, a year apart 😬) 2. I have the most incredible family in the world, and I got incredibly lucky again with my in-laws! Stuart is the oldest of 11 children. 3. My oldest sister and my mother-in-law were college roommates and good friends, which we didn’t find out until after Stuart and I started dating. I have pictures of my mother-in-law holding my older siblings on her lap in my family picture albums! 4. My husband remembers going to my house as a 10 year old kid and playing my brothers game boy on our couch. 5. I have 3 nieces older than me, which also means that I was an aunt before I was born and a great-aunt at 18! 6. I am a state champion Javelin thrower! 7. My athletic heart really lies with volleyball 🏐 8. I served a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Los Angeles for 18 months 9. My husband and I entered the missionary training center on the same day and likely passed each other many times in the halls. 10. I speak Spanish (pero ha pasado un tiempo así que no me pidas que lo hable!) 11. You couldn’t pay me to watch a scary movie. 12. I LOOOOOOVE salt. But only the real stuff. (Looking at you @redmondrealsalt ) 13. Nutrition is a second passion! I make my own fermented foods like kimchi, sauerkraut, beet kvass, homemade yogurt, as well as bread from natural yeast, and I feed my kids beef liver, homemade bone broth from grass fed cows, raw milk, free range eggs and cod liver oil on the regular 😊 14. Stuart and I both want to have a large family, as many as we can get! We both had such good experiences in our own big families. 15. I am a licensed hair dresser and lash artist. I don’t do it for anyone outside of friends and family anymore though. Not enough time between DIY projects! …Continued in comments…">

It’s donnnnnnne!! My DIY hood is done! Well, kin

<img src="https://crystelmontenegro.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" alt="It’s donnnnnnne!! My DIY hood is done! Well, kinda sorta. It would be done if I didn’t totally blow it on the last step 😬 (Watch my stories to see what that’s all about) But dang I bet it looks good from your house! 😂 This kitchen has come together SO nicely, even better than I had imagined in my head from the very beginning. I LOVE it! Follow along in my stories today as I paint the fridge, and then we can get to building that island! So let’s settle this once and for all. Is it a Range Hood? Hood Range? Hood Vent? Or something else? In case you missed the process for how I built it, it can all be found in my highlights on my profile!">

Baby Charlotte had her follow up today for the che

Baby Charlotte had her follow up today for the chemo plaque surgery she had two weeks ago to hopefully rid her eye of this awful cancer for good. We were told not to expect much change in her tumors from last time since it has only been two weeks, but if we saw that the tumors haven’t grown then that means it is working. Well guess what… her tumors have decreased SIGNIFICANTLY!! Apparently the peak performance time of the chemo plaque is at 6 weeks, but we have already seen a significant performance at only 2! Dr Rama said that there have been reports of it working up to 10 weeks even after the chemo plaque has been removed. This treatment is looking so promising!! It has been hard having to fly to Phoenix every two weeks but it could be so much worse and if this works as well as we hope it will then this could be the last of it! We are so grateful for all your prayers!! Thank you!

<img src="https://crystelmontenegro.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" alt="Baby Charlotte had her follow up today for the chemo plaque surgery she had two weeks ago to hopefully rid her eye of this awful cancer for good. We were told not to expect much change in her tumors from last time since it has only been two weeks, but if we saw that the tumors haven’t grown then that means it is working. Well guess what… her tumors have decreased SIGNIFICANTLY!! Apparently the peak performance time of the chemo plaque is at 6 weeks, but we have already seen a significant performance at only 2! Dr Rama said that there have been reports of it working up to 10 weeks even after the chemo plaque has been removed. This treatment is looking so promising!! It has been hard having to fly to Phoenix every two weeks but it could be so much worse and if this works as well as we hope it will then this could be the last of it! We are so grateful for all your prayers!! Thank you!">

Okay so… budget breakdown. Did you guess correct

<img src="https://crystelmontenegro.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" alt="Okay so… budget breakdown. Did you guess correctly which was the most expensive element?? It was the flooring! This entire project cost *roughly* $2800, but here’s the thing. I could have purchased the cabinet doors for less had I discovered the local guy who makes them for waaaay cheaper sooner. I could have got them for even less than that had I built them myself, or repurposed the ones I had, but I wanted a higher quality than what I had the resources to build. This could have been cheaper had I purchased a less expensive faucet or found one secondhand that I liked. This could have been cheaper had I picked a lower quality flooring or found a better deal somewhere. ******* This could have been more expensive had I purchased a brand new sink rather than buying it secondhand. This could have been more expensive had I not built my “marble” countertops and backsplash with paint and epoxy and gone with an actual natural stone. This could have been more expensive had I been unable to reuse my existing cabinets and had to build or buy new ones, or simply chosen not to build the refrigerator in. (But I think it was a good choice, don’t you??) And the list goes on! But the point is, you CAN make the kitchen of your dreams come true by being creative with your materials, borrowing or renting tools, and repurposing and reusing what you’ve got. It just takes a little elbow grease and patience! YOU CAN DO THIS!">

Budget DIY Kitchen Reno Reveal!! Can you believe h

Budget DIY Kitchen Reno Reveal!! Can you believe how good this looks?? I seriously can’t believe it. This has been so much work but it has been SO worth it! And the best part is… I’m not even done! Next up: Build the hood range and paint the fridge, then that will officially complete this side of the kitchen. After that I’m going to build the island! I will be posting a cost breakdown of this reno, but tell me first: what element in this photo do you think cost the most??

<img src="https://crystelmontenegro.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png" alt="Budget DIY Kitchen Reno Reveal!! Can you believe how good this looks?? I seriously can’t believe it. This has been so much work but it has been SO worth it! And the best part is… I’m not even done! Next up: Build the hood range and paint the fridge, then that will officially complete this side of the kitchen. After that I’m going to build the island! I will be posting a cost breakdown of this reno, but tell me first: what element in this photo do you think cost the most??">

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