Surprises and Smoothies

Kayla  planned to come home for a few weeks this summer to visit.  We decided to tell Alayna she was coming a week later than she actually was.  It wasn’t easy to keep the secret, but somehow we pulled it off.  Her face when she saw Kayla walk in was priceless!  It’s like her brain couldn’t compute she was actually here!

She was telling us all about how she is doing and her day of travel. When she finised Tyler says, “Well, I’m still trying to figure out how you got those pants on!” (she had on skinny jeans)

We also hosted 9 people over night on Friday for youth conference!

Our fridge finally came after a bit of a nightmare.  Our kitchen is complete and I absolutely love it!!!

Living room done and looking gorgeous!

The carpet is super soft- can you tell?

We have been working hard on healthy eating.  We love chia seeds and even went to the fresh market this week!

Now we are just missing Marisa!!!

The work continues!

So on Monday, we started laying the floor

It was exhausting work!

Got gorgeous new curtains for my room along with 3 shades to keep shade the light when I go to bed!

Corey and I put together the new dresser and side tables for the master bedroom.  We rocked!

Corey made 3 new sets of curtains with the Chevron pattern to match our living room pillows.

Thanks to the Harts for all the help and wish us luck as we try to finish it all off!

My Girls

One step at a time

Well, the house and all the projects are slowly but surely getting done.  Hal and Corey arrived this week to help with the flooring and we are tremendously grateful for their help!

It’s hard to see but the branches are so low because of the hundreds of apples!

The garden is flourishing

We got the new counter in!

Celebrated shark week!

Started on the flooring.  Ripped up all old flooring and carpet yesterday.  Starting tomorrow we are putting in our new laminate flooring.

Guinea pics cause they are cute!

Got to see Tyler in action:

Wish us good luck getting the flooring, trim, and hopefully crown molding all done this week!  We are gonna need it!

How many shades of gray?

Happy 4th of July to all!  Tyler and Alayna made it back safely after an awesome trip to Arizona and California with the Hart grandparents and enjoyed spending time with cousins.  They had a wonderful time!  My favorite quotes from Alayna when she got back were "I was stung by a scorpion and I never want a chicken, they are too hard to catch."

 

We had a fun 4th of July with a family BBQ and watched Independence Day since Alayna had never seen it before. 

Clearly Marisa and Kayla are having way too much fun!.  Marisa got to do security for the Stadium of Fire last night!  I need to ask her if she had to body slam anyone into the ground.

The bad news this week was that my mom fell down some stairs and suffered a compression fracture on her lower spine.  It was a tough week as she couldn’t keep any food down because of the pain meds and the pain was really bad.  Mom, you are in our prayers.  We hope for a speedy recovery!

It was so cool, due to modern technology, that we could talk to all of our kids at the same time even though we were in 4 different states!

Bob and I worked like crazy on home projects.  It wasn’t a relaxing week, but it was a very productive one!

First, we finished most of the computer room.  The big counter we ordered will be here tomorrow.  Basically we took out the 3 old desks and will be putting a white counter along the wall instead.  I made a wall to display my blog books of our travels (I also finished my 2014 blog book and our cruise blog book this week!!!)

Here is the blog wall with my family history desk (where my desks used to be):

Here is the wall where Tylers desk was.  We put the shelving unit in and we still have some more painting to go.  The white counter will go below it.

We had a terrible time trying to come up with the right colors for our bedroom.  I can’t even tell you how many hours have gone into the color scheme and remodeling!  We sure tried a lot of shades of gray!

Heres a sneak peek at the master bedroom:

Here you can see the new colors of the bathroom.  Bob stained the cabinets and we got rid of the lavender after 11 years.  It’s a beautiful soothing color and I love it.  Plus I always get a kick out of the fact that Bob is always fixing toilets or things by the toilets on his days off!