Monday, July 26, 2010

Slack-master

Sorry that I haven't posted for so long. School has really put a damper on my posting! I did get a 4.0 for the summer semester, so I'm pretty excited about that! Well, I'm going to tell you a little story about a boy and craigslist. This boy's name is Jaran. He is now obsessed with craigslist. He found some campers online and decided that we really needed to get one. We were in touch with a few different sellers, and finally decided upon this beauty in Colorado:

And here is what the inside looked like before the boy unleashed his awesome remodeling skills:

This is the upper bedroom

Close up of the kitchen region

The "living room" area

a wider shot of the kitchen area
There was painting, carpeting, vinyl flooring, tongue and groove and a lot of small things to be done. Taking all the faces of the cupboards off, all the knobs and hardware off of the cupboards, taping and things of that nature were very time consuming.

First order of business was ripping old carpet out and putting in a new subfloor, but this is up in the loft where the bedroom is after Jaran put the tongue and groove on the walls that had water damage.

The floor and the mess

Awesome purple and white... camo?

Blue and white camo in the bathroom... and the awesome wood paneling that is in all the camper

There used to be nothing here. Jaran fashioned a way to make a couch that pulls out into a bed... and we got a futon mattress for it... we will make some cushions later on when we have time.

The plethera of cupboard faces and drawers

Ansleigh chessing it up

finishing before painting

Sideways bedroom

Primer in the kitchen

The bathroom

primed bedroom

getting the paint on

The cupboards outside

The semi-finished product

The main area


With the cupboards on

new vinyl floor

new carpet flooring

The bathroom

The Bedroom
And that's it folks. I'll post more about our summer later. Take Care!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

It's Time

I guess it's time for a new post. Sorry that I've been kind of AWOL... I have had a busy life lately with school, dance, the musical... and my latest thing: I've been asked to be one of the dollies of the follies. For those of you who don't know me well, I have an inability to say no. It causes problems in my life, and I get super stressed and spread thin, and yet I still can't tell people no. Good times! Anyway...

My sister-in-law Vanessa got married last Thursday, and we made the trip to Utah for it. She looked great, and we're so glad that we were able to share her special day! Congrats Nessa and James! They got married in the Draper temple, which is one that I've never been to, so it was fun to go to a new place.

Just came out

entrance to the temple

So cute!

Their silly one... the regular didn't turn out real great

Sis and I

Friday we were able to go to Salt Lake and take the kids around temple square. We went to the church history museum and then took in a viewing of the testaments. Brens was a little confused when he asked if it was a movie theater, we said yes, and he said- then why can't I have popcorn? Ha ha ha! The flowers at temple square were beautiful, and I probably overdid it a bit, but I did love it!

The temple from the conference center

Daddy and Sis

Mommy and Kies

Kids and Jesus

One of the cool flowers in the visitor's center

Checking out the grove

Ans

Brens

Kies

Kies liked this flower, asked if he could take a pic- good job!

The cabin... take number 3

checking things out

the wagon

Kies in the bulkhead

printing press

Looking at Gma Baker's piano

In front of the fountain

A pretty tulip

Beautiful temple

So pretty!

Kies

Brens

Ans

Mom and Dad... thanks Kies

The whole fam

mini tulip





Saturday night we had Nikki's bachelorette party, and it was so much fun!!! It was 80's theme and boy, did we go all out. I thought it made it twenty times as fun to get all dressed up and crazy! Nikki said it was a blast, so that made it that much better. I won't go into all the details, but we embarrassed her a little, got some free popcorn, and had a personal fashion show! Good times!

Camary and I... yes we are sexy

Kendra and I had some awesome bangs!

Love the sunglasses

The Bride to be

Yes, I know I'm cool!

the whole gang sans me

yes, we are rockstars

Being afraid of Camary's driving ha ha ha j/k

The 6 of us crammed into the truck

The end of the night... no we weren't drunk... wait- Nikki- were you?

Sorry about the picture overload! Well, I need to go, I have to clean up and shower and then go to the musical... then right two papers and study for a quiz tomorrow!!! Take Care!