We are so Proud of Luke and all his hard work!!

Little things mean a lot. . .

It is nice when something gets accomplished that has been needing to be taken care of for a while.

Saturday was a fairly productive day here. . .. at least compared to some Saturdays!! We started off the morning with two basketball games. Kennedy played at 8am, and Luke played at 9am. Kennedy made a basket, and Luke played like a beast!! When we arrived home a litttle after 10 am, we decided to get a few things done. I told the kids no playing and they were going to help clean!! Fun times. They helped pick up and clean the baseboards around the house. . . etc.

I have been telling Elizabeth that we would paint her dresser since last summer. It is an old dresser we bought years ago when Julia was just a college student living with us at our old Provo home. Elizabeth still uses it in her room. . . . but it needed a little face lift. So this is how we touched it up. It is not painted perfectly, but she loves it! So that is all that matters to me! Then David decided that I have complained long enough about the dripping sink in the bathroom. It has been annoying me for quite some time. So he took the sink apart and fingured out what was needed to fix it! It only cost us two dollars!! And now my sink no longer drips. WOOOHOOO!!! It is crazy how something so small has made me so happy!

We finished the day off with a dinner out to the Cafe Rio with some friends. It was a good Saturday!

G.N.O.. . . Young Ambassadors

David and I have decided to start taking out the kids for "date" nights individually. They will each get a turn to do go with either David or myself ,hopefully once a month on Friday nights. David and I rock paper scizzored who got to go first, and I won. Then the kids drew straws to see which of them got to go first, and Kennedy won!

So Kennedy and I headed out Friday night for a little time for just the two of us. I saw that the Young Ambassadors were performing at BYU and thought that would be a lot of fun, so I got us tickets to go.

The show was their 40th anniversary concert, so they brought back previous members of the group for certain numbers to perform. It did not dissapoint. Kennedy's favorites were the songs from "Mamma Mia", and "Hairspray" because she was the most familiar with those numbers. I can't choose a favorite. They did a great job. Performed numbers from Les Miserable, Wicked, Footloose, etc. etc. Lots of fun numbers for us to watch and be entertained. And of course we had to stop at the BYU Creamery afterwards for some icecream!!

The "good deal" seeker in me. . .

Some of you may recall the story of our heat a little while back. In December, our heat went out and took us quite an ordeal to get it working again (long story that I didn't even share at the time, but it was a bit of a nightmare). At the same time as our heat went out, the glass on our gas fireplace shattered. So we had no heat, and no fireplace, either! It was cold for a while around here.

I checked into getting the fireplace glass replaced and was quoted a price over $200.00! That wasn't in our budget. . .

So here the fireplace has sat. . .

. . . . . for the past two months, covered with a blanket and then with this christmas cover in front. The Christmas cover was fine for December, and maybe even part of January. But I decided I needed to look into some other options to get this in working order again.

So this morning I took out the metal frame that held the glass to the fireplace and took it to a glass company nearby. Come to find out that they can replace the glass for under $40.00!! So all this time I have sat with this "broken" fireplace, and I could have had it fixed long ago.

So I am saying goodbye to the Santa screen. .. . well I guess I will next week when the glass comes in (this is a special type of glass that needs to be ordered). I am willing to wait one more week, and I will be happy to have a working, normal looking fireplace again!

First Wall. . .

Ok,. . . we moved into our house last June, and I still have mostly empty, blank walls! I thought it was time to start to fill a few of them so the house looks like it is lived in. This is what I have done so far: We took these family photos last summer, and I have been wanting to get them put up somewhere, but just haven't gotten around to getting it done. So I finally went and developed a few of them and came up with this arrangement on the wall. I quite like it. The only thing is the family photo is slightly off-center, so we will have to fix that. . .

(it looks more off-center than it really is in this photo)

The kids were all happy to see recent pictures of themselves up on the wall. Aren't they so cute?

So this project only took me seven months to put together. . . maybe by September I will have something put up on another wall!!