Remodel

Well, these are before and after pictures of my parents home. You probably can't tell you're looking at the same house if you've been in my parents house before the remodel. This has been a work in progress. My mom didn't have a kitchen for over a year. She washed dishes in the bath tub until my dad finally put in a utility sink. The opening down into the family room used to be a wood burning fireplace and door to the garage. Now it's a big family room with two bedrooms added to the east of it. My dad did cherry cabinets, and it's an all porcelain tile floor with wood floor in the family room. They just finished the stair area. My dad made all of the posts (yes even the medal decorative ones) and they just finished the carpet and wood on the sides this week. My mom ordered a fancy round table with 8 chairs to go around it which will replace the old table and benches you see there in the dining area. The kitchen is only about75% done. He will add a sitting area in the little breakfast nook and a huge cabinet area on the south side of the kitchen which is not in the picture. My mom didn't want me to take a picture because it was still dirty but if I didn't do it now I'd probably never do it. Anyways, my parents are AMAZING!!!!!!!!! and TALENTED!!!!!!!!! and HARD WORKING!!!!!!!!!!!! There is A LOT more things they have done in the house but I can't take every picture of the house. I've been blogging long enough. You'll all just have to come up to Idaho and visit my parents sometime!

Latest Wedding cake

My cousin Jake asked if I would do his wedding cake- I was happy to help. Their colors were brown and mint green so I did a buttercream cake with milk chocolate motif's around the cake. The cake itself was chocolate with cream cheese chocolate frosting in the middle and then coated with melted white chocolate. CHOCOLICIOUS! If I was doing the flower arrangement on the top I would have just used her wedding colors- but to each his own.

Winter Wonderland-AGAIN!*@&#^$%

So our latest storm brought another 2 1/2 feet of snow. It's so beautiful- but it better be- since I'm usually cooped up in the house staring at it out the window the whole time it's snowing and usually the next couple days after. Oh well, the kids sure had a blast jumping in it from the swing set and throwing snowballs at each other. My spring planting is probably not going to happen as soon as I'd like. I think I better start building an indoor greenhouse so I can get seed going sooner. I found one I really like from a Bird's and Bloom's issue. Just a note- I was notified Tuesday- the day of the storm that my old Junior High teacher Mr. Pearson was killed in a car accident on his way to school that morning. Some of my friends from Rick's College 48th ward will have known his daughter, Nancy Pearson. He was an awesome teacher. I think we were able to dissect like every creature known to man-well not really but a giant earthworm, clam, crawfish, starfish, frog, fetus pig, etc. I remember when I was in 7th grade and Melanie was in 8th. She was dissecting the pig at the same time I was in the office taking a spanish test. I remember concentrating on my test when all of the sudden I heard panting and heavy breathing. Here comes Mr. Pearson with this half dead girl(well not really, but her face was white and head draped back) cradled in his arms. I guess Melanie had accidently cut her finger open with the scalpel and all the blood made her faint- twice. The 2nd time Mr. Pearson I think caught her, but anyways, carried her to the office. That picture of Melanie draped in his arms left a permanent imprinted picture in my head. He had eight children- and I'm sure they can tell of a great legacy he was as a father.

Love! Love! Love!

-My SWEETEST LOVE's in the WORLD! I LOVE YOU! (Did you notice the giant snow valentines they made- and that hunk a hunk of burning love in the middle picture-Yup-he's mine!)

My actual post

If any of you noticed, my last post was made up of merely a title- that's it- and I think I got more comments from that than any other blog I've written. What actually happened is that I was at the library trying to update my blog and I accidently erased it, so I tried again and surprisingly
my computer logged off when I was helping Brooklyn in the bathroom. So- sick of trying- I gave up and just posted the title. What I was trying to blog about was my weekend with just the girls and I. Wes went to Cedar City to visit his brother and I opted to stay home with Hailey and Brooklyn. We went shopping, ate at McD's, put together princess puzzles, played princess card games, watched princess movies, and well, that was just Saturday. That night we hooked up with my brother and his date Meagan and went to the New American Philharmonic Orchestra in Ogden. It was awesome. They did a whole theme with Star Wars- the boys would have loved it. I kept the girls quiet with a bag of M&M's and a bribe for an ice cream treat afterwards if they were good- it worked. The night before we took the kids to the circus. It was fun. The girls were into the pink and blue dyed poodles that could dance and ride scooters and the boys were into the motorcycles in the cage of death. The rest of the weekend consisted of me vegging out on the couch with my lastest DVD from the library. It was the North and South series. I believe I watched 20 hours of romance and war. I spent most of that 20 hours telling the girls to close their eyes or throwing a blanket over their heads until the kissing scene was over.(I guess Wes watched it in his teens and so when I told him I picked it up from the library he was like- that's a great movie-I didn't know he was such a chick flick buff- when I reported to him of all the kissing fluff he swore he didn't remember it being like that- Whatever!) Anyways, the boys and the girls were sure excited to see each other that Monday night. They kept hugging each other and telling each other they missed them. The week before, one of my favorite roommates from college came down to go snowmobiling. It was fun! Next time we'll have to see if we can take a trail in the mountains somewhere. Have a HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATTIE next week! LUV YA!

Girls just want to have fun!