Before & Almost After

Before:We decided to give tiling a try. We have a bathroom/laundry room downstairs. When we moved in it had that peel & stick tile, but whoever put it on didn't concentrate much on the sticking and it ended up looking like this. . . As you can see not super attractive yet. But Murphy loved helping.











So here's how is has turned out so far, not too shabby. But we still have to seal it, put on the baseboards, put in the new vanity, put back the toilet & washer & dryer, etc. So we have quite a weekend ahead of us. Luckily we have fun doing these things together. And we even remembered to turn the water off for this project, long funny story from when we replaced our dishwasher. Let's just say we've gotten a bit smarter over the past few month, Thank Goodness! But still a lot of work to go, we'll give you an update when it's done. Hopefully it will be gorgeous and worth all of the work.

I Faced My Fear. . . And Survived

Well I did it, I faced one of my biggest fears, anesthesia. I was such a baby about getting my wisdom teeth out, I had decided that I was going to just get laughing gas, well simply because I didn't want to die. I had heard all of these horror stories of people dying under anesthesia, and even had a friend whose older sister passed away so I was concerned to say the least. But I prayed a lot about it and this morning Bryan gave me a blessing and I felt at peace. I am so grateful for the priesthood in my home, what a blessing.

We headed to my doctor's office which is called Surgical Arts Center, so I was a bit concerned I might come out with a new nose or an enhancement :) but no worries, they stuck to the teeth. Then before I knew it I was stuck to machines they were asking me if I wanted to go to Disneyland or Disneyworld. I was telling the surgeon how I had never been to Disneyland and then off I was to LaLa Land. I don't even remember coming out of it, it was a pretty great way to go.

Now Bryan is here being wonderful, taking care of me, not your typical Valentines Day but he is giving me a great gift.

So which fear should I tackle next. . . maybe I should lay in a bed of spiders or become a professional speaker. Well it sounds like the drugs may be kicking in I better go before I get super loopy.

Surgery Tomorrow

Well, I've put it off as long as I can. I have to get my wisdom teeth out tomorrow. I'm actually really nervous. There was a girl in my hometown who died while getting hers taken out, so I have this irrational fear of the anesthesia. Wish me luck, and maybe say a little prayer for me.

The American Dream?

After Bryan graduated we decided it was time to move out of Grandma Kaye's Apartment and buy a place of our own. So we started house hunting (well I had actually been doing it for years, its a sick little hobby of mine, I still do it, I just love shopping for homes) But then one day Bryan went out and played football and tore his ACL, so we figured we would put the whole house thing on hold. But life never goes quite like ya think, and a house sort of found us. So, pretty much right after his surgery we moved in. This Bryan he's no dummy, I did all the packing and our families did all the heavy lifting :) It was crazy, but its nice to have a place to call our own and we are in a nice little family neighborhood, with plenty of room to grow.

But what I haven't mentioned is all of the true joys of homeownership. Replacing appliances, redoing bathrooms, turning the "massage parlor" back into a garage yea kind weird, but knocking down walls is a good way to release some aggression.
Bryan & Mark - Breaking down the wall to find the garage. That wall is now gone and who would never know our garage once looked like this. (That's right our garage was carpeted, sorry didn't save any remnants)

Hey Baby Lets Go To Vegas

Here are some pictures from our trip to Vegas in December. We have a tradition every year to go to one away game and the BYU Bowl game. By the way we is sort of an interesting group of people; Me and Bryan (of course) Bryan's Grandma, My little sister and brother Kimber and Mark. We have a blast. This last trip mark thought he would show his spirit by giving himself a Mohawk and dying it blue, we got a lot of looks and he even got interviewed on t.v.

We got there really, really early. You can only stay at a Vegas Buffet for so many hours. but I do highly recommend the Rio. The have these chocolate cups filled with custard and fruit, mmmmm to die for. Anyway we killed time by snapping some photos.Well they game got CRAZY in the end and we won by a miraculously blocked kick. The stands went crazy, we could barely believe it, and of course there was only one thing to do rush the field. (Grandma Kaye is a great sport, I think she wanted to just as much as we did, if not more so down the five of us went




















The top picture is just Bryan and me in a mass of humanity. The picture on the right where I look incredibly cheesy is me standing by the guy who blocked the field goal. I didn't want to ask for his autograph or picture or anything so I took a picture with the back of him, pretty random. Looks like we are going to try to go to Washington State next year. That will be a long roadie, but it will be Mark's last depending on when he gets his mission call. We hope he makes it to that one, but of course first things first.