~bAtHrOom MaKeOvEr~

Over my spring break, Caleb and my dad did some work on our half bathroom. We painted and tiled. I absolutely LOVE how it turned out!

Before...

(I didn't get too many before pictures because Caleb was pretty excited to get demo-ing! He LoVeS destroying things, what a boy...)

Demolition...

Painting...

Tile...

And the moment you've all been waiting for!

After...

I'm super excited about how it turned out! We have the tile to do the upstairs bathroom, and I can't wait to start working on it! 





~ ZeKe tUrNs TwO ~

Our nephew, Zeke, turned two this May. For his birthday, they had a family birthday party at Riverton Park.

Our niece and all our nephews were there enjoying the park...

Hennessy

Riley, Albert's baby

Scott

And Zeke, the birthday boy! 

It was looking like it was going to be a beautiful day...

(my FaVoRiTe part of spring is seeing the trees in bloom!)

But then the weather started taking a turn for the worst...

And it started to rain. Bad.

So the party was moved to Caleb's parents house. Where Zeke opened his presents...

And had birthday cake...

Happy birthday Zekey, we love you so much! :)

~ cAn We gEt a LiFt? ~

My parents opened the cabin at Bear Lake on Memorial Day weekend. It was cold. Like snowing, freezing cold. Don't believe me? Here's proof...

For a breif period of time on Saturday morning it wasn't raining or snowing, so my dad and Caleb decided to fill that time replacing the side facia that had fallen off during the winter. They had to rent a lift out of Montpellier, Idaho to do it because it was too high to reach off a ladder. Plus it gave them an excuse to play around on a big piece of construction equipment, which I'm convinced is the reason boys become contractors in the first place...



At this point in the operation, I was freezing my butt off, so I went inside. Therefore there are no pictures of the finished product, but you get the idea, it's fixed.

The rest of the weekend we sat huddled up inside trying to stay warm and entertaining ourselves playing games, watching movies, and doing crafts. It was a lot of fun, but we can't wait until it warms up so we can play outside!

~ JaKe CoMeS tO viSiT ~

Caleb has been friends with Jake since grade school. He now lives in Rupert, Idaho. About once a year he shows up for a few days and  stays with us. This was a pretty quick trip for him. He came on Thursday, June 16th and headed home early Saturday, June 18th. The reason for this trip was for his youngest brother's wedding in Lehi. Here are some pics from his stay...

(On a side note, can I just say that I have hands down the world's most handsome husband! SeRiOuSLy!! Look at him, isn't he a stud muffin?! )

Anyway..

We enjoyed Jake's company and can't wait to see him again! :)

~ NeW bBq~

HeLLo!

:)

You don't need to tell me how incredibly behind I am on blogging. Trust me, I'm aware. :) I'm hoping that now that it's SuMmEr and I'm off work (execpt for tutoring and teaching summer school)for a couple months, I can catch up! So, I'm kind of going out of order here and starting with the most recent stuff and working backwards. Why? I'm not sure, I just feel like it, and I do what I want, gosh! ;) So here goes...

Caleb and I got a grill from his parents when they got a new grill about 4 years ago. It wasn't exactly in the prime of it's life when we got it and last summer it passed away. Tragic, I know. Really it was sort of tragic because we LOVE food cooked on the grill. There's just something about food being cooked outside with fire that makes it uber delish. Plus since Caleb is the King of the Grill, it saves me from actually having to cook- SCORE!

It finally started trying to be summer time around here and it has been warm enough to actually go outside, so Caleb decided it was time for a new grill. I didn't get a picture of our old grill before Caleb took it to the dump, but here's the new one. We've pretty much BBQed every night since we got it!

I'm sure we will be enjoying tons of BBQed meals this summer and for many summers to come!

~ wiNteR 2010 ~

Caleb and I forgot to take pictures of Christmas (horrible I know), so we only have a couple pictures of us from Christmas time.

We used this picture for our Christmas cards this year.

We saw the cat hat last year after Christmas on sale at Target for like $0.50, so I decided to buy it, because it's hilarious (obviously). Pepper was actually surprisingly good while we were taking the picture, but I'm pretty sure he didn't enjoy it much..

Snow isn't quite as enjoyable as it was when I was a kid, but we try to enjoy the snow as much as we can while it's winter time (since it's practically winter for 6 months in Utah).. Since Caleb and I don't ski or snowboard, we mostly have fun by throwing snowballs. This is Caleb throwing snowballs at our next door neighbor while he was trying to shovel his driveway.. Our neighbors love us, I'm sure...

Winter should be over in about two more months, and we hope time goes fast because we're both getting cases of spring fever!

~ HaLLowEeN 2010 ~

I know that Halloween was forever ago, but this picture is for my mom. She wants to see the awesome witch hat I got at Gardner Village at their annual Witches Night Out festival and I keep forgetting to show her, so I figured it would be easy to just put it on the blog. I have to dress up for work, so I wore my awesome hat and went as a witch! Easy enough costume for me. :)