Christmas 2012

This year for Christmas, I didn’t really get a whole lot documented in pictures. It seemed like school got done, and the business just took off from there.

Here I am with our lovely tree before it got cut down…

 

I hate to admit, but this tree never got any decorations on it other than the lights!

This year for our neighbor gifts, we made sugar cookies. They turned out so fun, but ended up being a lot more work than I thought. Luckily, my smart, handsome man took over the frosting part, and did such a wonderful job. Brett is so amazing, and I would never get anything done if it weren’t for him.

This year, I was able to join a choir, and for two of our concerts we were privileged to sing at Temple Square in the North Visitors Center, and the Assembly Hall. This was a fantastic experience, and I enjoyed being in a choir again.  I even was able to sing a solo at the Assembly Hall which was so scary, but I loved it!

This pictures is at the Visitors Center performance.

After Temple Square, we headed down to Beaver to spend Christmas with my parents and Melodie, her last Christmas before her mission. It was an enjoyable time, but Brett and my Dad were both sick with a flu bug. I guess one nice thing about this was that we didn’t indulge too much into holiday treats because they weren’t feeling up to it. Even though we didn’t have the healthiest Christmas, it was still just nice to hang out at home!

Remodel

This post has been in the making for quite some time now… I keep promising it, and am finally getting around to it! This summer we were able to remodel a trailer home that we can call home. We started the beginning of May and got finished sometime in June. We are still making updates and repairs, so it is still a working project, but it’s nice and we like to call it home.

I'm going to post the pictures as before, during, and after. I tried to set up pictures as before and after to compare them... but obviously I'm not smart enough!

BEFORE

Front Room

Extra Bedroom

Kitchen

Our Bedroom

Our Bathroom

Now these next pictures show just a little bit during construction.  We had to tear up probably 90% of the subfloor and redo it which was tough work.

DURING

AFTER

Front Room

Extra Bedroom

Kitchen

Our Bedroom (I don't have one of the finished finished product)

Our Bathroom (same with the bathroom)

This project took a lot of time and effort, and moving is always hard work.  Brett snapped this picture during the moving process.  All I can say is moving is tough work!

After about a week of being moved in (for the most part), I really wanted to decorate, so we got all of our decorations out.  This is how we were able to decide what to put where. ;)

In the decorating process, I really wanted to make a special corner for Hailey.  We were able to use the whole top portion of this book shelf and make a Hailey corner!  Love and miss you baby girl!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween to all! Hope yours was as fun as ours! We even recieved the "Funniest Costumes" award!

Summer '12

So… I should be doing homework right now… but updating my blog sounded much more appealing, so here it goes! I know I have slacked all summer… and fall, but I will try and catch up our boring lives! To start off this summer, we remodeled a mobile home. I don’t have pictures of the remodel done, but hopefully will have it up in a week or so… don’t count on it. We had to totally redo all of the sub floor, plumbing, and the master bathroom. Now it is so nice, and we love living there! One weekend my mom and I went to a surprise birthday party for my Uncle Scott who lives in California. It was so fun to see him be so surprised, and enjoy his birthday with the family. My favorite part is the glasses! As most of you know, we had some fires down this way this summer. Since Brett is a volunteer firefighter, he got called out on some of them. On the Maple Canyon Fire, we got to tour this helicopter, and Brett thought it was so cool! One thing that we always like to do is go on 4-wheeler rides. These aren’t very good pictures but some of the only ones I had from riding this summer. My most favorite thing this summer, was this car at the car show on the 24th of July. This will be my car someday! The last thing I have pictures of is my Grandparent’s 70th Wedding Anniversary. Now they are both 90 years old as well. WOW! They are such good examples to all of us, and have left such a great legacy! I love them both so much. Aren't they so cute? Well that about sums up our summer, and pretty much life to date. Hope all is well with everyone!

Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday to our Little Angel Hailey June! We love you and miss you! Can't believe it has been a year!
 
We will be together someday!

Spring Time!

I know it doesn't feel like spring anymore, but as I was looking through some pictures, I found some of a hike we went on in the early spring.

We are very photogenic... or it was just very bright outside!

Brett being the protector!


Brett thought that this tree looked cool coming out of the rock, so he made me pose...

...then he decided he could pose better!

This was me attempting to rock climb up this rock.





This is after I conquered the rock!





One of my favorite things about Spring is all of the baby animals that are born. Every year I start going crazy and tell Brett that I want a baby lamb, or a baby calf, or even a baby llama (because they are so cute) whenever I see one. Well this year my brother in law's mare had this adorable little foal. She has so much spunk, and is so cute that I think I want a baby horse now! ;)

Cake Pops!

WARNING: Do not read if you have an empty stomach. May cause uncontrollable drooling and/or cravings.



So last night, Brett wanted to make something... but I didn't know what to make... until I remembered Cake Pops. I've seen them done a couple of times, but I have never attempted to make them before. Well looking up recipes, I realized that we didn't have everything we needed to make them... so they were postponed until tonight. But. They were so worth it. They were fun, fairly simple, and soooo delectable(using both meanings; delicious and extremely beautiful). You can find the recipe I followed here. Hope you have a fun time! :)