Playing in the dirt....

Eva was helping the neighbor weed and Zac was just right there playing with the trucks in the dirt, little did they realize that he was into the little mud puddle very quietly playing like a good little boy!! He didn't start crying until he realized he couldn't walk because of the inches of caked mud under his shoes!!

Leandro let JayLynn ride on his lap in the Bob cat while he was grading the backyard. More work to do but we should have sod this coming week yay!!

The work we have put into the yard seems endless!! It is a big yard!!

Pet day for JayLynn's kindergarten class

We love our Dog Pulga!! She is part of our family. She is such a good dog, if only she wouldn't run off all over the nieghborhood to bless everyone's lawn!! We have had her for almost 5 years!!

JayLynn was so excited to have her at school to show her class her doggy on pets day!! She would stop talking about it all week!!

Mother's day weekend

We had a blast out in the desert for the weekend. We went out Friday night and came back Sunday afternoon. Tammy and her family hung out with us Friday night and Saturday day. When we got home we unloaded and showered then we drove out to my Grandma Giles house for her Mother's day party then we went to my Mother's grave.

My girls and I on Mommy's day

Our family riding around doing what we love best!!

Savannah on her 70

JayLynn on her 50

Tammy and I

JayLynn, savannah, Bella and Bryce cooking dogs at the fire

At Grandma Giles' house for mother's day Koleen, Josh and Zac at the grave

My Mother would be proud to see all of her beautiful family gathered together in her memory!! Not everyone was there at the same time but we all felt peace while we were sitting around her headstone together.

Everything but the kitchen sink!! Literally!!

We are done with the kitchen and the family room YAY!! We get the plumbing to the kitchen sink tomorrow!! Then Eva and her kids will have their very own kitchen. We are now working on the bathroom so they will have it all done within a month! Here are the pictures of the main area.

Finishing the countertops!!

Well we priced Formica countertops for the basement and they were pricey!! They wanted $600 dollars for stinkin' formica!!! So I decided we were going to do our own counters!! I loved the look of synthetic concrete counters because your color and style options are endless because you can color them your self!! We built the countertop base with MDF and then we bought a rope molding (the kind for cabinets) and nailed the molding onto the wood. Then I primed the wood with a polymer to seal it. I troweled on a synthetic concrete base caot (scratch coat) then when that was dry I troweled on the smoother top coat. I sanded that down then I painted the counter with a black base coat and then came the marbling and other colors. After the color was done we put a hard epoxy over the top. It will withstand 600 degrees of heat and it is scratch resistant. I love the way it turned out. The pictures do not do it justice!! Here are photos of the process :)

Our Cabinets

These are the before pictures

So I got a total steal on these cabinets on ksl.com for $140 for the whole kithcen !!! I sanded them down and primed them with a barn red primer, then I plastered on these beautiful raised relief fleur de lis' stencils. I then painted the cabinets black and distressed them so you could see some of the red showing through. I then bronze leafed the raised panel part of the cabinets with bronze leafing foil. They turned out absolutely gorgeous!! The pictures don't do them justice they are stunning in person!! I just love ksl!! I just love paint more!!

Easter Message

I love Easter and what it stands for, Most of all I love my Lord and Savior. I am so greatful for his atonement!

Our basement is coming along!!!

We have been super busy with the basement this past week and a half. We are all done with paint and we are now laying the tile!!!! We are so excited.

Eva and I textured the walls. We wanted an old world fresco type look so we did a glaze over it and I am stoked at the way it turned out. We inlayed raised Fleur De Li's' on one accent wall and they really stand out with the wall glaze.

Halo Mural in progress

Our friends, The Adam's family asked us to paint a Halo Mural in their boys room. I thought I would ask my 15 year old brother Spencer to come help me paint it because he is a huge Halo fan and also a genius when it comes to art. He is also making some of his own Halo Master chief stop animation videos. He was thrilled to paint master chief. Well I have been busy so I was able to go over and paint a little of the back ground and sky and just told him he had free reign over master chief. I went to help at JayLynn's school today and came back and he was finished with master chief.....I was amazed!! The boy is so freakin' talented!! We are not done with it yet but I wanted to post the picture of Spencer's Master chief...I am so proud of him...by the way, this is his very first mural work!!!

JayLynn and Annabelle the NOT REALLY twins, Twins

JayLynn ans Anabelle are "Bestest Cousins"...they were born 6 months apart.

JayLynn loves having Annabelle around. It has been a blessing for Annabelle to be around JayLynn so much to help her adjust to her new life here with school, church, new friends etc.. They are like little twins...except they get along better than most twins. They are constantly together, they really keep each other company. They are so cute to listen to while they are together.

Me and Eva always joke about how they were suppose to be twins but God knew that neither of us could handle having both of them so he sent them to me and her! No really though, they love each other so much they really are kindred spirits!

Basement update

The basement is coming along. We have all the sheet rock done now!! We finished the laundry room except for the baseboards and door, but it is all painted and ready.
We will be mudding, taping and texturizing this weekend and throughout the beginning of the week...next will be the paint, then the tile yay!! We will have it done in no time.
We got the most gorgeous tile for the basement for a great deal so it is going to look so nice down there. I'll keep ya posted!!



This is a view standing in the family room looking into the kitchen area Kitchen / Family room

Looking into the family room from the kitchen, you can see the master bedroom door

We Love Mimi's cafe'

We went to Mimi's last night to celebrate my sister Molly's birthday and my sister in law, Megan's birthday. My sisters Amy, Beth, Koleen, Bonnie, Molly and Eva were there along with Chelsea (friend of the family) Megan (my sister in law) and the little guys, Brigham and Zac.

I love going places with my sisters because we become instant nerds together, We really don't care what the world thinks of us!

As you can see from the pictures we really enjoyed ourselves!! The food was great too!!