Grant's quilt

After a couple of purchases, I finally decided on bedding for Grant's bed. I thought I would post a picture so you could finally see the finished product. Now on to new projects or packing up a house (I should know in about a week).

Cement

Well, my new counter tops are done and I love them. We have been planning to redo my counter tops for a long time now, but they have been put off and put off. Then when we put our house on the market we thought maybe they never would get redone. The house wasn't selling and we decided that since everything had already been paid for we might as well go ahead and do it. So my dad poured us these beautiful cement counter tops and brought them up to us this weekend. We installed them and put in my new HUGE sink and my cool faucet. I love these faucets and bought this one last October. I'm even debating about buying the same one for my new house if we move because I love it so much. So I think my kitchen got a sexy new face lift and hopefully my house will sell in no time. I'm very grateful to my dad for all the time and hardwork he put into them, I think they are beautiful!

Here is a picture just shortly after we bought our house. My mom and dad have helped me so much with fixing up my entire house. They came and did my floors and paint (we have painted those walls a couple times) and helped me replace appliances and install hardware on the cabinets and now the countertops, sink, and faucet (and that is just what they did in the kitchen, the list goes on and on for the rest of the house). I think the only thing I did was paint the cabinets myself. I think everything is such an improvement, THANK YOU mom and dad!

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Crafty

I have been reminded that I haven't ever put pictures up of Grant's bed all put together. The reason is because I haven't found the perfect comforter to put on it. No one wants pictures of a bed with only sheets on it, I thought. Well after much procrastination, here is his bed with no cute bedding. I guess those will have to come later after I find or make the perfect quilt.

Oh yeah, I made the little ladder stand too. It is suppose to go next to his bed as a little night stand, but there wasn't room because of the closet. Oh well.

I've also made a couple home decor crafts this week for a friends birthday and a baby shower and I just wanted to post a couple pictures of what I've made. My mom has asked what they look like and so I thought I could put them on here for her to see and so I could document it. It is always nice to have a picture of something you make and give away.

Ali's new do

I have been begging Ali to cut her hair for the past year, but she wanted it long. I understand that, but the long hair gets soooo snarly and straggly. I would do her hair EVERYDAY before school and she would come home looking very, how should I say it, very undone. I've been very frustrated about it for the past couple months and telling her I wanted to cut it. She would always cry and say she wanting it long. Well this last weekend her dad was out of town and she out of nowhere she said she wanted to cut it and surprise her dad. So I jumped at the chance and took her and cut it off. I love it! It is so easy to do and it stays how I do it all day long and I think it is very flattering to her face.

Easter Pics

Here are a lot of pictures of our Easter. We had a great morning discovering what the Easter Bunny brought us. For the rest of the day we got to watch conference, have a nice ham dinner, and even go to a baptism. We tried to go for a little walk in between sessions, but it was FREEZING for an Easter day. We were able to get a couple of pictures of the kids outside once we were all ready for the baptism.

Here are the kids decorating their eggs the day before. Grant thought it was so cool to drop them in and see them change color.

Easter morning and the kids' easter baskets.

Easter afternoon with their Easter clothes on.

Grant is into picking dandilions for us. I caught this cute picture of him giving Ali her flower.

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!