Home Improvement Projects

For the past month around here we have doing some home improvement projects. Some voluntary some involuntary. Nevertheless all good things in the end. After living with flooring that I never really liked we finally got new flooring. I love it. Big thanks to my in-laws for coming down from Utah to help with the flooring one weekend and coming down again to do the painting and baseboards. So here are my before and after pictures.

This was my kitchen before. We had a textured linoleum that never looked clean to me.
Here is the hallway ready to have new flooring laid in it. Wade spent all day Friday getting our house ready for new flooring.

This picture is a little disturbing to me. I knew our carpet was bad but not this bad. The "white" piece underneath is from under our TV so it was never walked on. The pieces around it that our "gray" are what we had been living with. I am so glad I don't have to have that carpet anymore.

Here are the girls helping out.

After Pictures

Here is a picture of our new faucet. We discovered our old one was leaking. This was an involuntary repair but I do like my new one.

We painted all our walls a light tan color. After 6 years in our house and 3 kids we needed to upgrade our paint. If I tried to wipe the walls clean the paint would just come off.

We put in taller baseboards. We had to take our old ones off to do the laminate.

Here is a picture showing our wood laminate. We left a little area with carpet by our couches. In the back left corner of this picture is where you enter from our garage. We wanted to put laminate in our high traffic areas so the carpet would not get ruined again. We also had carpet under our table area before so it is nice to have laminate.

Here is the kitchen now. That is also a new dishwasher in the background. That was also an involuntary improvement but I am sooo happy to have a new one.

Here is our entry way now.

New Carpet !!!! Yeah!!! I am so excited about the new carpet. Our old carpet was gross. We do still have it in the bedrooms but they are not as bad. We will probably re-carpet those next year. Our new carpet is so soft and thick. I love it. I feel like I have a new house. Big thanks to my husband and in-laws cause they did all the work for the improvements. there are still some little touch up things to do but the major part is done!

Brandon's Wedding

My Brother Brandon got married on Saturday. We are so excited for him and so happy to have Melinda in our family. I am really bad at getting my camera out for pictures but at least I remembered it and got a few. I did not get any of her in her wedding dress. You'll just have to trust me that it was beautiful. It was a great day. We had a lot of fun.

This is Melinda and Brandon at their luncheon.

Here is our family picture before the reception. My mom made the girls dresses. All the nieces pretty much had the same dress.

For the luncheon Sarah made all the nieces and nephews shirts to wear. They all had different sayings. Caitlyn and Elsa's said " When I grow up I want to be a princess just like my aunt Melinda" Sam's said "I won't remember this day but I am glad to be at the Par-tay" All the shirts were so cute .

Holy Pictures!!!

I have not blogged in six months nor I have I loaded pictures from my camera to my computer. So now you have this huge post of cute pictures. I needed to document them for Family history purposes.

This is Elsa on Christmas day. She fell asleep in the playhouse tent that my mom made. It goes over our table. It is awesome. Elsa and Sam were pretty sick on Christmas this year.

Here are our pictures from Christmas morning.

These are our pajamas we got on Christmas Eve.

Here are the girls in their Christmas dresses. Sam was cracking me up in these pictures.

This is a random pictures. Usually on Laundry days the girls will climb in the laundry baskets. Who needs toys?

Here is Caitlyn at her Christmas dance recital. She is turning into quite the dancer!

Here is Elsa at her dance recital. This is what she did a lot of the time. She was easily distracted. She had tap step down though. Once she started she didn't stop.
I had to snap this picture because it is a rare occasion for Sam to crawl up on her dad's lap. She is a mamma's girl but we are trying to change that.

When I went in to check on the girls before I went to bed, this is how I found Elsa. Too Cute.

Halloween 2010

Random Cute pictures of Sam. She is a busy girl
I have pictures of all of my girls doing this same thing.

Aunt Angie gave Sam this cute dress for her birthday!
Here is Sam's first birthday celebration back in August. Better late than never! This was her first time ever eating cake or dairy because of her allergy. She loved it and had no reaction. We are grateful that she no longer has any allergies