Painted and Staining!

Moving Forward! So we have got the whole upstairs painted and it looks great! The next day we went and got our kitchen cabinets and the bathroom vanity. To save on cost we got unfinished cabinets and bought some stain to do it our selves. The first coat was not the color I was thinking it was going to be so we went back and got an even darker stain and this is how it turned out! I LOVE IT! They are so rich and beautiful I can not wait to get them on the wall. Now trying to find some flooring and countertop that I like is the next step!

Below is what they look like before you stain them then the one on top obviously is what it looks like after.

Do you Love? Who cares I do! :)

Here is the Bathroom vanity, we also got our doors hung! Cute huh!

Doors are proving to be a bit of work since none of the walls in this house are straight! (Except for the part that Ty built, and I am not just saying that because he looks sexy in his toolbelt!)

Ok so here is the paint color in our Master bedroom, this is the closet. I thought the color I was getting was almost white with a hint of this seagreen in it...but what we got is a REALLY seagreen room! It doesn't look so bad in the pic and now I am getting used to it and actually really like it. But at first it was a little shocking!

From the bathroom looking in. Not to shabby eh!

The paint I chose for the walls is like a taupe/light brown. I wanted the walls to be light because so much other stuff in my house (cabinets, most likely flooring, furniture) is super dark brown. I want people to walk into my house and feel like they can breath and not feel claustraphobic, so I went with light on the walls to off set the dark stuff everywhere else. (Do you like Ty sitting there admireing his work:) )

More of the front room! I LOVE this room there is so much natural light and it is so airy. Awh I cant wait to sit in it and read a book!

Anyway so it is coming along pretty nicely and I am excited now because I can be more involved and help out a bunch more! Next on the list is

Hang cabinets

Pick Flooring

Finish Basement

and uh MOVE IN!!

WAHOO!

My boys! They are getting so big!

Maddex 4 years old
I can't belive he is getting so old and so big!

2 years old
Do you like his bruise on his head, nice huh!

Best Buddies for LIFE!

Are they adorable or what!
Love these guys SO much!

Maddex on the Mountain!

Our ward does a ski trip every year and we love to go! Last year Tyler and I boarded all night and it was so great! (my folks had the boys in the lodge) Maddex started to get bored so Ty held him and they went up and down the mountain several times and Madd LOVED it! So this year we thought we would get Maddex going on his own. I was a little nervous just because Maddex is pretty much fearless which is great sometimes and other times not so great. So in my mind all I could see was him skiing down the mountain and following the other teenagers off of the jumps! But I need not be so worried because my little man is a PRO! We stuck him up on the "bunny" hill and gave him the instructions on how to go, how to turn, and most importantly how to STOP! After about 4 times down the bhill and not falling he was like "Dad lets go to the big mountain" So we did and he was cruising down like he was born on skis!

Such a stud!

Ya I am skiing no big deal.

He was so funny and he loved when people from the lift above would yell "Go Maddex!" Or something to him. He thought he was pretty hot stuff but as you can see he did do pretty well! I am way proud of him, next year maybe we will see how Jett does!

Gettin Rocked!

We are finally getting some where! We have got nearly the entire upstairs sheet rocked! (these pics are a few days old so we have more now) My dad came in on Friday and Saturday and started tape and textureing so we are on a roll! Wahoo! Up next.. the basement!

From the new addition Ty built looking at the entry way to the front door! Cute huh! Question? The front room is going to be carpeted but the rest of the upstairs is going to be hardwood. Should the entryway be tile or hardwood?

Looking at the new addition from the dining/kitchen area

Looking at the master bedroom from the far wall, this room is now fully sheetrocked and it looks SUPER small! We are going to have to do some craftiness with our furniture arrangment in this room. We even expanded this room, how did the people before even get a bed in the room the way it was???

My nice master closet! Actually this is bigger than the closet in my house in Kuna! Crazy huh!

Dinning room looking to part of the front room and part of the kitchen. You can also see the master bedroom door.

My Huge kitchen! Oh isn't it lovely!! Under the window on the left is where the sink will be. At the end to the small windows is where the dinning room table with be. Those windows look out to a little porch. So I can see who is coming to my front door!

Kitchen/Dining room looking from those two smaller windows.

I had Ty build in a little linen closet in th bathroom so I can have a cute basket on the bottom full of toilet paper or something then shelves for Towels and up at the very top will probably be where the Medicines are hidden. Right now Maddex thinks it is a fun place to jump out of. Or scare me when I walk around the corner!

There you go! I love seeing the progress, even since I took these pictures more stuff has happend and so we are further and further everyday! WAHOO!

Christmas at the Poole's

So the Monday after Christmas we were able to get together with the Poole side to have our family Christmas and it was a blast! My mom and dad were ambitious enough for some reason to try and get the grandkids to do the Nativity Scene for the audience of their mom and dads. Lets just say that Grandma and Grandpa were a little red and a little sweaty afterwards. But Good Effort! :)

Little Rhett who was a wise man, he did not want to stand there so he sat on his moms lap.

Addison the little angel looking down from above.

Baylee as Mary and Jett as our sweet Joseph. These two were pros they sat there the whole time and were so good and cute to watch!

Maddex as Samuel praying. He had a duel role as a wise man also. He was so sweet he sat up there in this position while my dad read the scriptures about Samuel and Nephi. I was so proud he was not wiggling all over the place!

The whole crew, it was so funny to watch these little kids do this play for us. Some did better than others but hey for all of them being under the age of 5 it deserved 5 stars! Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for the lesson and the laughs!

The grandparents bought head lamps for all the grandkids. It was so funny to watch the kids running around in the dark with these on.

Jett getting his sweet monster trucks he thought these were pretty rad!

New spiderman Jammies! Grandparents got all the kids new jammies and it was a total hit! They loved them as you can see from the look on Maddex's face!

All the kids in their new jammies so cute huh!

Oh yes um this was gifted from my mom and dad to the boys, yes yes those are superman snuggies! Pretty hysterical huh!

Christmas at the Hone's

This year we were in Boise for Christmas and were able to spend the week at Tyler's parents house. It was so fun to have his mom and dad and brother Brian there with us Christmas morning.

This is the end of it all and we were worn out! I love that I am snuggled up to Jett's pillow pet (which he loves and calls it his babybug) and my adorable quilt that Tyler's mom made!

This is a bear Jett got from Great Grandma and he LOVES it!

Here is Maddex's pillow pet and he has not had a night that he has not slept with out it!

After "Santa" brought the boys their sweet gator tractor they had to take it for a spin! Maddex is actually a super good driver. Jett loves to drive too but he cant quite reach the peddles so Maddex will sit next to him and push the peddle while Jett steers. So sweet huh!

Driving his new remote control car!

Tyler's awesome remote control helicopter that he broke like a half hour later! (thankfully it came with spare parts and he was able to fix it)

Yes that is me holding a dozen cupcakes from none other than GEORGETOWN CUPCAKES in Washington DC! Yep Ty had them overnighted and he surprised me on Christmas with them! Can I just tell they were SOOOOOOOOOO GOOOOOD! I miss them already!

Oh yeah! He is a rock star! He loves this thing! However I am counting the days when the batteries go dead :) What was I thinking??

Look at their faces! Maddex was so confused/happy/scared/exstatic, he wasn't sure what to thing. The first thing he says is "What the HECK?" Nice huh! Jett just kept smiling and staring at it! It was so fun to see them so happy!

Christmas Eve we had family movie night it was so perfect I think I want to make that a tradition from now on. All the kids watched Despicable Me (by the way HILARIOUS a must see) they were so good and looked so cute in their Christmas Jammies!

So adorable huh! This is (from the left) Kendall, Jett, Cameron, Maddex and Jaxon. They had so much fun this Christmas with each other!

Going UP!

Sorry it has been awhile since I updated about the house but we have had a busy few weeks! However the house is coming along and it is going up nicely! Thanks to some remarkable help and I am still amazed at the things Tyler can do! Seriously he is amazing!

Also Maddex has been a huge help he goes into the house often and "helps"! He just like being around his dad and feeling important, he is acutally a really big help with pulling nails out that are low to the ground!

Ok so here is where we left off this is from the dinning room facing toward the soon to be master and the kitchen.

Now this is what it looks like! See how we have extended the Master bedroom wall out a bit and you can see where the door will be. Also there is a closet on the other side of that cement chimney thing that we couldn't take down but it actually worked out perfectly to extend from that to the bathroom wall and make it a closet!

Through the kitchen. About where I am standing will be a large island going out toward the boysish.

Now to the new addition! This is from the far corner of the addition soon to be living room. You are looking at the new front door area. Where Ty is standing will be an entry way with a cute bench and hooks and a place for every one's shoes!

New front porch and front door! The two big posts in the front will be pillars with cute fencing around. It will match on the other side but you cant see it because it is behind the plywood.

Side view, also if you can picture where the entry way is there will be another small window in that area.

What do you think so far? I am glad it is coming along and seems to be going rather fast! Thanks for the help from everyone! I am sure glad to have Tyler who can do it all and do it well!