Weekend project laundry room

This weekend Chelsea and I decided to add shelves and a cabinet to our laundry room. This was decided around 5 pm Saturday night, sooo Joshua was up until 12:30 am getting everything finished up. It was a fun project and makes a big difference.

Weekend project for my grandpa

So my (Joshua's) grandparents just moved to Utah from California this week. My dad and I thought that it would be great if we built a work bench for my grandpa to work at in his garage. So we did. This is what we worked on Friday afternoon and all day Saturday. I think it turned out quite nice.

Weekend project

This weekend Chelsea and I decided to finish off the crown molding that we started three years ago on our main floor of our house. We thought that we were being smart by going to Home Depot on Friday night to get our materials so we could start early on Saturday morning to get the job done quickly. Little did we know we bought the wrong with crown molding!!! Oops. So we went back to the store Saturday when we figured this out and exchanged the molding for the correct size. We were then able to get the rest up with out issue, well without too much issue. Crown molding is not fun to cut. Anyway it is done, all we need to do is fill in some nail holes and a few gaps and then paint.

Weekend project: Dining Room

So this weekend we decided to add a few decor elements to the dining room. This was made possible by a Christmas gift from grandpa Mark Jennings, thank you Mark!

We weren't able to get it all done on Saturday though, we underestimated how much material we needed but we will get it done next week.

Monday: We got it done! It only took a few more pieces of wood, a pneumatic nail gun repair, and a few boxes being repositioned to get the job done.

We took our sweet time with this project for once and it paid off big! We thing the finished product looks great!

New food rotation system

Thanks mom for the new food rotation system.

Cute thing today

Today I asked Avalinea to say her ABC's backwards. So she started to say her ABC's while walking backwards.

Another big fat check!!!

This is the third check that I have received from Ebates.com. This is an awesome website that gets me money back for shopping online. If you would like a referral let me know.:)

Birthday surprise

Today Chelsea, Avalinea, and Olivia came to my work to give me these delicious cupcakes! They were yummy!

Then they took me to lunch, and on the way we saw this herd of deer. Avalinea was soooooo excited!

Carving pumpkins

Tonight we carved our pumpkins as we do every year around Halloween. The kids were so excited to do this, they were asking us all day long when we were going to do it. Here are some pics. Enjoy!

 

Avalinea and Dad.

  

Ewww, yuck pumpkin guts on our little princess' hands!

Joshua sure does love his pumpkin guts!

And so begins the many faces of Dad... the "I could be watching TV Right now."

The "I'm rolling my eyes because I can" face.

The "I'm smiling because Mom threatened me" face. :)

Avalinea and Mom. How cute!

Joshua wanted to carve his own pumpkin this year, so he did... some of it.

Brother and Sister, love to carve pumpkins! And now begins the crazy eyes of Joshua!

I LOVE CARVING PUMPKINS eyes!!

Avy says "Mom he's doing it again..."

Ooohhhhh spooky pumpkins.

Ooooohhhhh spooky people!

Aaaaahhhhh Really Scary!!!!

Our pumpkins are on the porch.

Our littlest pumpkin Olivia was too tuckered out for all this mayhem and retired to her chambers early. She sends the cutest booo! to every one.

Weekend project: Flower beds

This is what I have been doing these past two weekends. I ripped out all the old flowers and plants replaced some dirt and added lots and lots of bulbs. I also added the small retaining walls to keep the grass from growing into the flower beds.

Close call

As Chelsea and I were heading to Ventura, CA to visit Eric and Rachael Danielson we were wittness to a pretty bad accident. We were driving south on highway 34 when a car passed us on the right. This was stupid, because highway 34 is only a 2 lane road and to pass on the right means to be on the dirt and gravel shoulder. So the driver lost control of the car goes across the road and up and over some railroad tracks and ends up flipping the car! Amazingly the driver walks out and says that he is fine. Obviously he wasn't. He was taken away in an ambulance. Here is a picture of his car.

Fire in Eagle Mouintain

Here are some pictures that I took of the fire that has been going on the past two days in Eagle Mountain / Saratoga Springs, Utah.  Some of the are a little blurry, despite using a tripod, because the wind was blowing.

 These are just pictures of the starry Sky, in Eagle Mountain, One of the reasons we love living out here. We can actually see more that just the north star!!! :)

Starry Sky through to top of the community Pergola.

You can see the fire between these houses. The shot didn't come out like we wanted but I thought it was pretty cool anyway.