Linc Rock Climbing and FireTrucks

Linc loves to play on the rock wall when we go to the gym. He is getting pretty good!

It was the week of Fire Trucks. Story time at the library had Firemen and the next day he went to the Firestation with preschool.

Soccer Girlies

Hay and Bro had so much fun playing soccer this year! It was Bro's first year and she looked like a pro! Hayley's proudest moments were when our friend on the other team told us that her coach warned them "look out for #11!" (Hayley's #11) AND that awesome goal from the corner AND that goal from almost midfield........She had a lot of goals:)

Donut Falls Conference Weekend

The drive up Big Cottonwood Canyon was beautiful! The boys were sleeping, we were listening to conference and all the leaves were breathtaking in all there colors.

Brooke was our little mountain goat leading us on the trail.

Lincoln was excited to see the falls and throw rocks in the river.

Hayley took Seb up most of the way!

Then Daddy took over.....

Hayley and Brooke were so adventurous, maybe too adventurous.

Lincoln's Birthday Week
4 years old!

They celebrated at his preschool on Superhero day.

We made spider cookies for Spiderman! Chocolate Grahams, frosting, M&Ms and Twizzlers.

He chose to go bowling. He is a VERY passionate bowler. He yells and screams and gives everyone Hi-5s when he hits just one pin.

Gma came to celebrate and snuggle with Seb. Seb would get upset when the pins were knocked over.

Oh no will it hit the pins?

A Batman cake! Hayley was just excited as Linc because she got a day off of no sugar, per the rules for her getting $30 if she went a month without sugar.

Happy Birthday Lincoln! We love you!

Photo Shoot

Aunt Amber

Amber and I have been friends since I lived in Ohio, the summers in College. She now lives 10 minutes away and we have adopted her as our Aunt. She is wonderful to us. She comes and does crafts and remembers everyone's birthday. We just cheered her on while she did her first triathlon. She did awesome! She recently came to spend time with us and give Brooke a bday present. We love Amber!!

Ice Cream and Football

Today we got some ice cream because they were so "good" at the store. I looked back and found the looks of utter enjoyment so I thought I'd hose them off when they finished enjoying themselves.

Daddy left us for 4 days to go on a trip with his buddies to Texas and watch BYU play UT among other things. They played paintball, soccer with 2 balls, (Greg has talked about amping the typical boring soccer game up with 2 balls for years and finally lived his dream) ate a lot of BBQ, and I'm sure talked for hours about what BYU should/could do to win that game. It was a sad loss, I even watched the game--on FF. It's nice to have him back there were a few times I needed a "time out" and no one was there to give me one, poor kids. Single parenthood is REALLY hard! We did have some fun though. We got a movie from the library, pizza, rootbeer (always with pizza) and ice cream one night and went to Layton Surf and Swim for that LAST outdoor swimming day of the summer!! They had to close early bc of lightning.

Master Bathroom

This is the bathroom downstairs with the porta-shower and sink in a room with carpet??
These were pics taken and sent to HGTV to apply for any and every show that might have pity and come do our bathroom on TV............Didn't happen so I did it myself, well I called a great company who came and did it. I did do the floor tile.
Here is the after. This space was unfinished and the toilet stayed in the same place in it's own room (I believe in total privacy for some things).
My idea from the start was to have the master downstairs. Greg did not like that idea until he talked to a friend and saw his master downstairs. Modern Family did a funny episode on that very subject.

Renovation

This is what our kitchen looked like when we bought it in 2007. We didn't really understand what we were in for! Greg has said a few times now that we should have bought a house that we didn't have to "work on". And a lot of work has been done!



This is a different angle of the kitchen after the "first reno". We took out all of the countertops, old appliances and changed the layout without taking out the cabinets.

Good thing our kids take random pics with our phones bc I didn't get very good before pics so I will resort to a fuzzy pic with Greg doing his fav passtime in the background. Notice the wall to the left and the terrible church ceiling with swamp cooler vent. The table was a cute nook bench that I made by screwing 2 long sides of 2 separate nook benches together and then having a top made that was twice the size of the original top and fit right on top of the table.
This is a fuzzy pic of the living room. When we bought it it was carpeted with white paneling. I love the paneling and thought of ways to keep it, but in the end we went with drywall with some beadboard.
This was the corner where the table was.....I ripped those babies out myself and tried to sell them, they were destroyed so I took them off KSL. I saved a couple hundy doing it myself!
The upstairs bathroom wasn't even a shower so we had to do some plumbing and we tiled walls and floor. Then for the second reno we had to do a lot of plumbing. We moved the toilet over to where the sink was and as I was demolishing the built in drawers I found a pipe! So Drew rerouted that dumb pipe and we were able to have a sink with counter space. Good thing I found a deal on KSL for a 42" sink, granite counter and cabinet for $100 NEW!


So here are the wonderful AFTER pics!






Darren was the construction GENIUS on this. If you notice the peak of the ceiling it gives the room such a large sense of space. Darren built each truss one by one while the roof to our old living room was still in place. The beam that was in between the kitchen and living room he raised it and made the transition seamless. He was amazing, he took such pride in his work I felt like he was working on his own house.

I'm thinking of adding a large clock, mirrors and art work.

Oh how I loved dreaming, planning and working on this space! Greg teases me and asks what I'm going to do now? I have more projects don't worry.............