Decorating the new house and such.

I've been so busy lately that I haven't been blogging much. Here's my latest attempt to catch up.We've had a couple of barbeques out on the deck. There's no view of horses, but the deck is great.
We seldom see Grant. He has a girl friend and he's always gone. He's very happy and that makes us happy too. (And we think his girl friend is nothing short of wonderful.)


Here's a few pictures of our house and what I've been up to.


There are wood floors all through the main living area and we really needed some rugs. I had a hard time finding a rug that had the colors I wanted, but when I found this one I really got lucky.

Cubby has had to try out every single new thing. This rug is one of his favorites.

I've bought several things from the consignment store. This pink bench was one of my finds.

I had it reupholstered in a cute decorator fabric and now I love it.

This chair was the right size and shape and was in good condition.

I refinished the wood a dark walnut color.

I had it reupholstered in my new favorite fabric.

I think it turned out really cool.

Recently Kevin helped us to hang some pictures.

I forgot to take a picture of this next chair before I had it redone. Let's just say the transformation was amazing.

Note the pretty white rug in the corner of this picture. It is the rug in our living room and it is sooooo soft. A really cool thing about it is that Cubby's hair just blends right in.

Today I finished my bed skirt project.

I hot glued some velcro to the box springs. Then I sewed velcro to the bedshirt (I cut out the whole center part that covers the box springs) and voila...

A removable bedskirt!! My mattress is so heavy that it was such a hassle to take the
the mattress off in order to wash the bedskirt. Now I'll never have to worry about that again.

I'm glad to have some of my projects done so that I can think about something else for a change. There's still lots of decorating to do, but I plan on trying to do something else for a while.

What a summer!!!

What a summer it has been. In my next post I will cover our move (yes, we've moved). For now I will just share pics of our trip to Denver for the birth of grandchild # 4.Ken went with me this time and it was so great to have him there. We started off with introducing the kids to silly string.



Michelle is looking while we play outdoors, not realizing that she would give birth that very day. Her C-section was scheduled for Aug. 23rd, but she went into labor and had her C-section and the baby a day early.

While Blaine and Michelle were at the hospital, Grandad and I took care of the kids.

We had snacks in the yard...

...played "wishy washy" in the laundry basket...

...played in the backyard.

Meanwhile, at the hospital, Michelle was doing an amazing work.

Welcome to Eve Elizabeth.

Grandad stayed at home with the boys while Kimberley and I got our first look at Evie.

Michelle and Evie were at the hospital for a fews days. One of Grandad's jobs was to assemble a new stroller. Of course the kids wanted "rides" in it.

A couple of days later Mommy and baby came home and each of the kids had a chance to hold their new baby sister.

They all loved her and wanted to hold her.

They were all so sweet and gentle with her.

Since Blaine works pretty much non-stop, Ken was mister handyman while he was there and did all of the odd jobs Blaine hadn't had time for.

After 1 week, Ken had to return home.

I stayed with Michelle another week.

Evie had her first doctor's appointment and she got dressed in real clothes for the first time.

After a very busy week with the grandkids, I had to say goodbye.

I tried to get one last picture of the kids before I left. Asher is into really big grins which makes his face look all squinty. Very funny.

Bims has the whole head tilt thing down pat.

Evie slept through my departure.


One last picture of the new mommy (with wet hair and not happy to be photographed).

The traditional picture of Grammy with the kids.

Corinne and Kevin came to get me at Michelle and Blaine's and we drove home the scenic route.

This is Steamboat Springs.

Estes Park, a tourist town just outside of Rocky Mountain National Park.

America the Beautiful.

Once again, I had a great time. I have beautiful grandkids and great friends. I am so blessed.

Never can say good bye

I really don't like the word good bye because it has such a finality to it.

So I think I'll just say, "See ya later..." Tiff and Kyle and the kids are moving to AZ so Kyle can attend grad school. It has been so wonderful having them here in Utah and we are going to miss them so much. Two years is a long time, but what's worse is that who knows where Kyle will find a job when he's done with school. Chances are it won't be in Utah. So, with sadness we attended a farewell party for them on Friday. Next time I see those kids they will have grown so much. Okay, I've just got to stop this because it makes me so sad. The end.

Happy Fourth of July

Saturday through Monday we went on a little road trip to the north. Our first stop was Tony Grove Lake. It was beautiful and we had a little picnic.

On the drive we saw many yellow wild flowers.

Our next stop was Bear Lake. Here is a view from the overlook.

The Malones showed us that the best thing in Bear Lake is the raspberry shakes.

We spent the night in Montpelier Idaho, went to church there, then we drove to Jackson Hole. We went on a long walk up to a lake. The walk was the prettiest I've ever seen. Everything was soooooo very green.

The walk took us along side a river.

This was the most beautiful lake I've ever seen. It was quite perfect. It is called Phelps Lake.

The next day the guys went for a drive while Corinne and I shopped downtown Jackson. We didn't buy much but we had fun looking.
We ate lunch with the guys before we left to drive home.

It was a pretty perfect weekend.