Summer Work

Well some of you might be wondering, what in the world does Stephanie do during the summer time to keep herself busy? Don't you worry, because I made a summer list of things to do. Most of the items on this list included many things that I neglected to do during the school year because I was way too busy. But I had to share some of my favorite projects so far.

So when we moved into this wonderful old house, this piece of poorly put together book shelf came with it. As you can see they decided that they should line it with chicken coop wire for some reason. I thought that we would bring it to the dump immediately, but it ended up that we just kept putting more and more stuff in it. So I decided that if we were going to keep it there, I might as well make it look somewhat descent. I painted it and got rid of the wire. I like it much better.

Next was our HORRIBLY colored bedroom. I have hated this bedroom since the day I moved in. I don't know what the previous owners were thinking with the ceiling color and border. And believe me, these pictures do not even do this room justice to how utterly ugly it really is. I finally convinced Brett that we should paint it and I absolutely love my new room. It is so much more bright and refreshing. The after pictures are first on this one.

After

Before

Off to Camp Reed

This week the girls are off the Camp Reed up by Newport. We just dropped them off today and they were both so excited. This is Makenna's first time, and Kyra's second time going. Here are some pics of us dropping them off. If you are wondering why they are mostly of Makenna, you just have to remember that Kyra HATES taking pictures. So no, I do not favor one girl over the other, Makenna just lets me take her picture :)

Getting ready to leave!

Makenna in her cabin. Doesn't she look so cute with that hat!

Kyra in her cabin, already claiming the top bunk.

Final picture of dad and Kenna before we left.

Happy 4th of July

I don't really have many pictures of the 4th because both the girls were sick ALL day long. I felt so bad for them. But we still did manage to have fun. My family came over to our house for a BBQ (you can look on my mom's blog for those pics) and then we went down to the park with Kim and Ben to watch the fireworks. These are all just pics while we were waiting for the show to start.

This is Kenna playing her air guitar, rocking out the the music!

WHAT?!

Yes, this is what I woke up to Saturday morning. My lovely step daughter Kyra woke up early on Saturday and had nothing to do. So what else do 11 year olds do when they are bored? That is right, she decided to make me breakfast in bed! Can you believe it? Life just gets better and better every day with these girls and I am absolutley loving it. Thanks so much Kyra, I love you!

Picnic in the Park

We love Jen and Joel! They always call us to do fun things and this Friday they wanted to have a picnic in the park. We had a great time with them there eating, talking, and playing a little football. But I think our favorite was going to the Hannah Montana movie the next day with them. I konw you are all jelous because it was such a rockin movie. Thanks Jen!

The Next Tiger Woods

Ok, not really even close. But I have been way into golf lately. It started when Brett got the Tiger Woods video game and I played one round with them. Now I will have you know that I absolutely HATE video games. It was quite the struggle for him to even get a play station into our house. In the six months that we have had it this is the first time that I actually played a game with him, and when I did....I LOVED IT. If I didn't think video games were an absolute complete waste of time I would play it more often. However, since I played with him I have been interested in watching all the tournaments and have really wanted to go golfing. Well this Saturday we finally went to a driving range. I foun out that golfing is SO much harder in real life than in video games. But I did still love it and can't wait to go again. Not to mention that we played around on a putting green and I beat Brett 3-2! Mom you can tell Logan to take me out now!

Congratualtions Kailee Fredrickson

I had the wonderful opportunity of going to Kailee Gross' wedding last weekend and it was absolutely amazing. It was the first sealing that I had been to since Brett and I got married so it was really cool to be there and have a different persepective on it. I don't really remember anything from my sealing except when I said "I do." But it was also really cool to be there to see this amazing couple and the love that they had for one another. I am so proud of Kailee and how far she has come. She is such and example to me and I am so grateful I was able to be there for her. The sun was very bright that day so I didn't get the best pictures, sorry. But believe me she was a beautiful bride!