Sunday, July 20, 2008

Only one more room to go!

So this weekend we put the finishing touches on our middle bedroom/study. It has taken forever, I would not recommend doing horizontal stripes on extremely textured walls. But now that it's done, we're pretty proud. I'm sure we could do just about anything after this.


We found some fabric for the curtains. They weren't what I had in mind, but they work great for the study. When we make a baby room one of these days, I'll get to make them a little fancier (if we have girls).



Also, this week we finally got the handles for our refinished dresser. We had to order special handles because apparently they don't really make 64 mm handles anymore. The original handles were too curvy to sand and refinish. We've decided we like these better anyway. There is a picture of it in a previous post if you can't remember what it looked like before. We're very proud.



We are running out of projects to do on the inside of the house. We have only the bedroom to finish up and a few things to restain, and then we'll be about done, just in time to do fall yard work! Very exciting.

This weekend was super busy for us. It was John's day off so he hung out with me and Lucy and Lawren all day, and then we cont. to watch them while Derrick and Alisa went out with some friends. I have a great respect for all moms with more than one child. You are AMAZING! And that is all that I will say about that.

Because we were babysitting on Friday, we went to see the 11:59 showing of "The Dark Knight". It was a sea of High School students with potty mouths and the lingering smell of smoke. However, the show was good and it has given us much to talk about.

Then Saturday we went to dinner in Houston at P.F. Changs with the Handly's for Elise's birthday. It was really fun! Then we went back and played games.

Sunday John was playing the piano again in Sacrament Meeting (he did it last week too and now he's done) and I led the music (I was supposed to play but was not learning 3 new songs very quickly) and then we both gave talks. We also had the Handly's over for dinner...again to celebrate Elise's birthday. We love Elise! So our Sunday has been quite busy, and now, we are ready for bed! Good night!

Monday, July 14, 2008

Lots to catch up on!

A few weeks ago John and I found ourselves back in the state of Utah for John's sister Chelsea's wedding. Of course we forgot our camera, but if you would like to see pictures there are some posted on Paul and Molly's page as well as Jessica and Mikes page. It was so much fun to see everyone. We were sad to leave, and sad we did not get a chance to visit Provo again before we left. It seems like such a long time ago since we were at school there!

Parting with family and our cute neices and nephew was hard, but lo, and behold, we got to see them again about a week later when we went up to Bartlesville for Chelsea and Matt's Reception and for the Fourth of July. It was nice to see almost everyone again, and the fireworks were amazing!

Before we made it to Bartlesville, we stopped in Branson to see my parents who were relaxing in a Condo they found on hotels.com. What a great deal! And the best part of the Branson trip was that we got to go to Silver Dollar City. I grew up going to SDC and was excited about this trip for a while and told John all about how great and exciting it was. John, thank goodness, was not disappointed. He enjoyed the atmosphere and we had a great time riding the rides! Fortunately my mother took some pictures, so you get to see how much fun we did have.

Me and John in a HUGE rocking chair.


John making creepy noises with a very hairy owl puppet


John got the Raccoon skin, while I got the Skunk. :-P


Us with my dad


Me with my mom