Sorry!

I'm sorry to those of you who are just dying to see my finished product of my bench. I'm sure the suspense was killing you. I have been really busy!

After I finished my bench I decided to start right in on a bed for Grant. I did it ALL by myself and am very proud of my work. Right as I was trying to paint it and finish it up Danny and I got the itch to either build or buy a new house before the intrest rates go up. I have been wanting a new house for the past year, but he put me on the 2 year plan of saving every penny so we could have a nice down payment on the new house. Well, we have been looking for land and house plans and all that when we decided to go take a look at a new construction that was already built. Well, to make a long story short today we have an accepted offer on a new house and I am trying to get my house ready to go on the market Monday so we can sell it.

This is the only picture I took of the building process. This is the beginnings of the headboard and footboard with them all primed and sanded.

This is kinda the finished paintjob. I took this picture with my phone so the coloring is really bad, but the headboard and footboard are all finished. I brought them into Grant's room to put it all together and then I had to start cleaning the house to show sho they got taken back outside until I can find some time. P.S. I love the new bed. I think the finished product came out beautifully and I can't wait to make more things from the website knockoffwood.blogspot.com

I also painted Grant's room to this color and hopefully a bed will be in this cribs place in no time.

Projects

I'm sorry to all of you who had to look at my Hawaii pictures over and over because I haven't posted anything in over a month. I thought I would post some pictures of what we've been up to. First I had to make some gifts for all the women for our relief society birthday dinner coming up in a couple of weeks. I wanted to make something that the women could display in their home and that went with the theme. So here are what 100 of those look like now that I'm done.

I think because of this, I decided I liked working with the wood and wanted to do more things. I found a blog called knockoffwood.blogspot.com and it really got me excited to make things. So my great husband went and bought me a chop saw so I could pursue my new hobby. I think it will be our new hobby since he has been having some fun working with me. For our first project we chose something pretty easy, a bench to go at the end of my bed. Here is a teaser of what it looks like now as a work in progress. Just need to paint it and it will be done and time to move onto something else. I'm thinking either a bed for Grant or an end table. I'll post a pretty picture of my bench when she is all painted.

Then what is a post without some pictures of my cute kids. We took them to the driving range a couple of weeks ago to get ready for spring. They had fun, but I think we need to teach Grant to use some real golf clubs :) Also, when I look at this picture I think my little girl is growing up!

HAWAII!

I'm so excited to put up a few pictures from our fabulous Maui vacation. I have wanted to go to Hawaii for a long time and just started telling Danny about a year ago that he needed to take me there for our 10th anniversary. Well, it worked. We booked us a trip a couple months ago and just got home. We decided that we need to vacation there a lot. We mainly loved the weather there. I think it is amazing that it is the perfect temperature there year round.

So we left the kids with Grandma and headed out for a week. We stayed at the beautiful Wailea Marriot resort in Maui. We definitely got spoiled there and loved the immaculate grounds and the awesome infinity pool overlooking the ocean.

We were able to do a lot of things while we were there. We went snorkeling a few times, we took surfing lessons, we went out on a whale watching excursion, we took the road to Hana and hiked up through a bamboo forest to a waterfall, luau's, lots of eating and lots of lounging.

This is a picture of Danny riding some waves. It is a cool picture because if you look close I caught a whale jumping in the background.

One day we took the road up to Hana. It rained on us the whole way there, but once we reached Hana it started to let up. We went to the seven pools (that were all dried up) and then hiked 2 miles up through a bamboo forest and to a waterfall. We goofed around a lot and had a lot of fun.

We were even able to drive home from Hana with the top down and enjoy a little sun.

We took surfing lessons while we were there and they were a lot of fun. Here are a couple fun pictures of real surfers.

And here we are riding the waves. Not quite the same, but we will be there soon I'm sure.

On our very first wave, Danny came out of the water with what he thought was a blue fishing line wrapped around his hand. Come to find out the "string" was connected to the blue jelly fish on the end of his surf board. I guess it was a Hawaii Portuguese man-of-war. It stung for about 5 hours and then went away.



Our whale watching trip. We got quite a show. We saw a teenager, a momma and her baby, and the most fun was watching two males chasing and fighting over a female.
This is a picture of our two males. One has his mouth out of the water as the other one is pushing him. It was really cool.
This is the tail of our female, we named her Sassy, because she was definately playing hard to get!

Dangers of McD's

I took Grant to McDonalds to play last Monday. He came screaming to me when he got hurt. This is what it resulted in. I thought he hit his head until about an hour later I realized his nose was all swollen and he was all stuffed up with blood. It looked worse and worse as the day went on. Then the next day he was all black and blue between the eyes. I don't know if he broke it or not, but I felt bad for him and had to take a mug shot of it. (Excuse the messy face, he just finished a snack.) The other picture is one of him today. He just wanted me to take his picture and I thought it was cute. The nose is now pretty much back to its normal color!

Holidays and Snow

This year we went home to Pocatello for Christmas. We had a lot of fun and made some great memories.

We got to go to Grand Targhee skiing one day. Ali did great and mastered all the beginner runs.

We were so excited for Christmas we couldn't wait.

We put in our requests to Santa.

We got pj's on Christmas Eve.

Santa found us.

We got to hold the baby.

Our family in our new Christmas duds.

Our family was very spoiled this year and we are so grateful for this wonderful season.

We don't get snow very often up here so when we woke up to snow this morning I decided to take the kids out to play in it.

Grant's 2

Grant had his 2nd birthday on Sunday. He was very excited to open presents, but we made the mistake of giving him these 2 shake and go cars first. He was soooo excited for them and loved them so much that he didn't care about any of his other presents. I included a video of him just after he opened them. He was so excited every time they would talk. He really loves the Disney movie Cars lately and loves cars so that is what his birthday was full.

We didn't have cake until after church and a little nap so he is just waking up in this picture.

Grant didn't care about his cake at all. All he wanted were his cars.

This is the only video we got, but it shows how excited he was.