The Reveal!

Well after lots and lots of hours of work, Uncle Monte and Dad Dick got our bathroom done. We even got a ceiling fan in and it is so nice! It was a pain to install but its done now! Dad said that we should never go into the attic if we can avoid it! Ha ha!

End of Day One Bathroom Remodel!

After a long hard day ripping out walls, cutting sheet rock, cutting tile, and everything else, this is how our bathroom looks thus far! I am so excited to see how it looks when its all said and done with new paint and towels and such! I know I'm a geek but its so cool! And I love my new flip video camera for uploading videos!

Bathrooms "R' Us

When we bought our house, I loved it and I was so excited to finally have 2 bathrooms. One thing I didn't foresee was the challenge that would come with our upstairs bathroom. It has a BIG window, and its not in the best place if you know what I mean. We have a pretty big tree in the backyard so it isn't like the neighbors can see right in but still its kind of creepy. Also the window track always got water in it from a strange shower head placement, and I could clean it every day and it still got mildew. Clint and I had moved downstairs to that bathroom and so the kids and guests used the upstairs bathroom. I have said several times that I would love to put in a smaller window and re tile that bathroom. Just a pipe dream, something to do in the future right? About 2 weeks ago my Uncle Monte called and asked if we would like to re tile our bathroom when he came up the last part of August. I was totally psyched but Clint was like oh man I don't know. So of course we are doing it! We put a pencil to it and we knew it wouldn't be too expensive and Uncle Monte was bringing his expertise to go along! So after a fun weekend visiting in Ft. Bridger, Dad and Monte came down to stay and remodel the bathroom. They came down yesterday (which happened to be my birthday) and we went to pick out the tile and needed supplies. Today they got started and this is how our bathroom looked last night.

A little trip to Mexico...

One night Anika was looking through an album of postcards and found a picture of Dad Dick with his marlin he caught in Mexico and the next day my mom posted the rest of these pics on FB! It was so cool that we were enjoying these memories on the same day.
When I was 7 years old I got to Mexico with my family. My grandpa and grandma had a time share condo in Mazatlan. I was in 1st grade and I dont remember being all that excited about the trip but now looking back I cherish the memories. It was almost like a family reunion because there were so many of us that went. Grandpa Phil, Grandma Lou, Aunt Teri, Uncle Roger, Delaine and Rick Oaks, my mom, Dad Dick and I went.

This is my beautiful Grandma Lou relaxing and enjoying the day.



This is my grandpa and I dancing in the red dress he looked all over Mazatlan for.




My mom... love the hair!



This is the marlin that my Dad caught when we went deep sea fishing, I have never been that sea sick before in my life!



This is me posing on the wall that seperated our patio from the beach. It was so awesome.


This is a picture that always makes me cry because I miss my grandpa so much! he taught me how to float on this trip, I was always begging him to go tot he pool!


Aunt Teri in the kitchen.


Rick and Delaine checking out this crazy girl drinking her virgin daquari. I thought I was so cool!


I was trying to hit the pinata but I dont think I broke it!