New picture!

We went to a young womans fundraiser auction tonight and won a picture of the Timpanogos temple. The cool thing, other than that being where we got married, is that when you get up close to the picture, you see it is made up up thousands of tiny temples. It's really a one-of-a-kind piece and we both love it.

We live in a somewhat small neighborhood, about 50 homes. So today we went to the 11th annual neighborhood bbq. It was pretty nice. Out of those 50 houses, there are only 10 that aren't members, so it seemed like a church activity, but our non-active neighbors were there too. I think it's pretty cool to be a part of such a close neighborhood. We are trying to get ready for our trip, so not much is happening with the house. We did do a bit of painting today and I let the kids help. They were excited at first and after a while declared it was boring. haha I've been feeling down about myself lately, buying clothes in sizes I never thought I'd have to. For a long time I just wouldn't buy clothes and would stretch out my other, so now that I decided I needed to get past my pride and get clothes that fit, I am several sizes larger :( I have my endo appt Monday to go over my results, not that I think it's going to point to anything. I did manage to get an appt. with Dr. Brown while I'm in Texas, but think I might cancel it. I don't want to waste hundreds of dollars if it doesn't give me the results I hope for. I have gotten Dave to agree to do the eat to live thing when our house is not boxes and we actually have a kitchen, but I know he doesn't want to and he will cheat when he's out of the house. lol Sometimes I wish I could just leave for a couple of months and go to a fat camp or something and come back 50 pounds lighter. I really hate complaining about this, but it's really weighing on me - no pun intended...

Tea party

Tea party with my girl.

It's the little things

I had high hopes of having the front room tiled before vacation. Day after day I sort, piece by piece, all 1140 tiles. I still have almost a whole pallet left to do and I'm running out of places to stack them. Realistically, it will take 3 more days for me to finish, so I'm not so sure any tiling will get done before we leave. Because it is slate tile, I have to go through and sort each color into its own stack so when I tile can mix them up and won't have one area be mostly grey and another area mostly maroon or another color. I didn't think it would matter, but the last pallet has a lot of dark green ones and the other pallets had none, so I guess I'm glad I followed their advice. The tiles are beautiful though. I can hardly wait to have everything done. Dave cut up one of the pallets and we had our first bonfire in the backyard. It was nice because it gets a little cool in the evenings. We made the neighborhood smell wonderful ;) The kids have been playing outside daily for the first time in their lives pretty much, since we finally have a backyard and a kid-friendly neighborhood. It is so cute to have Will and Maddy ask if they can play at people's houses. Anyway, the point of me bringing this up is, I have noticed Will is better behaved all of the sudden and the only thing I can think of is he is out in the sun - not cooped up every day. One day last week I was looking out the front door and saw a hummingbird, so the next time I went to the store I got a cheap little feeder. I made the "nectar" and put it by the front door and have been seeing hummingbirds quite frequently. In fact, in the last day or 2, they have drank over a cup of what was in there. I was excited and told Dave, "It's the little things that make me happy." He rolled his eyes and said, "The little things, huh... Expensive kitchens and tile floors..." lol well, he got me there, but honestly, the kitchen is a fraction of the cost it could have been because I shop around and we are doing most of it ourselves. Here's some pictures of some tile and in case you missed on fb the master bath I spruced up.