Drab to Fab

It all started when I found this ugly door in our serial killer room in Kansas. (If you haven't heard about our serial killer room, it was sweet!) So I asked Caleb if he could take the door part off the window pane part. I wanted to make something cute out of it, and Caleb thought I was crazy, but obliged me.


There was more to it than you might think. It took some time to pry these babies apart, especially since there were about 5 coats of paint sticking them together like glue.


We hauled this ugly window pane with us to St. George. Then I got working on it. I had to knock out the glass, and chip away and the wood pieces holding it in place.


After all that, I sanded, primed (a lot) and painted it. It took many coats of paint since I couldn't sand down all that ugly green. Plus, when I thought I was getting rid of the green, there was all this red paint underneath it.


Here is a pic of my final product. Caleb told me later that he was impressed since he didn't think that ugly thing could turn out looking that great! (that is quite a compliment coming from a guy that doesn't care about decoration stuff at all.)


This is another view of the cute rose wreath I made. I love it! It took about 1 million hours to make, but at least I now have one cute thing hanging in my house.


A close-up of the wreath. Turned out pretty good, eh?

Aiden finally loses a tooth

Aiden kept showing me how loose his tooth was, and here he is wiggling it so that it is pointed horizontal instead of vertical. And if you are really lucky, you might get to see something in his nose.



Aiden lost his first tooth at school. He told his teacher that he needed to have his Grandpa pull his tooth because it was bugging him so bad. So she let him go to the office and talk with Grandpa. I think Aiden was a little scared to get it pulled, but wanted it out so bad! So he told grandpa he would have him pull it in just one minute. Then he goes to wiggle it again and show grandpa, when it just fell out. He was so proud to show me and Caleb when he came home from school. The tooth fairy came and gave him a whopping 5 bucks. I use to only get a quarter, so Aiden's rich. But the tooth fairy wrote him a note and told him that he got more for his first tooth. Two days later, Aiden lost another tooth. Now he wants to wiggle all his teeth and get them loose. It's an easy way to make some money.

Our new Home

I've had a lot peeps say stuff to me about taking too long posting pics on my blog. Sorry! We are doing really good in our new home in St. George. We love it! My parents tell me there is 2 feet of snow on the ground in Rexburg. Then we heard there has been a lot of bad weather in Topeka, that they closed down the law school. And I can't help but think, "Ah, I'm living the good life!" The temp during the day here is around 65 or 70 degrees. But then it snowed here too! It didn't last for long, but we made sure to play in it while we had it.


Cruiz making sure the tree gets some snow on it too.


The whole house.


The backyard.


More backyard, on the other side of the wall (and up against the freeway). But we do have an awesome apricot tree back here.


He's so dang cute!