Follow the yellow brick road

The finishing stages have begun.  The tile is being laid and grouted this week.  This is the front door.  

This is the master bathroom.  I'm thinking of keeping the orange on the floor as an accent color.  What do you think?

We've got handrails now on our stairs.  

The closets now have shelves and doors.  Luke fits so nicely in the closet, I think I'll keep him there.  

In the master room, we decided to do two small doors on the closets instead of bi-fold doors.  Much better looking! 
And that's the latest with the house.  The painters should be in this week and I'm hoping that the cabinets come soon.  I'll be sure to take more pictures and keep you updated. 

Salt Lake Temple

Congrats Steve and Lauren

My cousin Steve got married this weekend.  They looked so happy!  I love weddings.  The picture I wanted to use wouldn't load, so this will have to be good enough.  

Most of their family lives in Chicago and we don't get to see them very often.  If was fun to have them in Utah for a few days
My mom and her older sister, Markelle.

Hot Potato!

My cousin Nathan turned 7 on May 10th.  He was pretty excited about it.  For his birthday, my mom got him a ream of paper, a stapler and some colored staples.  Now this may not sound exciting to your average 7 year old, but he was pretty stoked.  He's really artistic and loves creating things.  Happy Birthday Nathan!

Luke surprised me last Friday by making a huge meal for us, all by himself.  We had stakes, yams, carrots, potatoes, salad.  I was pretty impressed.  The best part about it was that I didn't have to do any of the work.  I love my husband. 

These are flowers that my dad gave my mom for mothers day.  I thought they were pretty and worth taking a picture of.  

And the most excited part of the weekend was catching a raccoon.  He sure looked cute when he gave us those big puppy-dog eyes.  But when we tried to shove food down the holes he about took our hands off.  And since he was drooling, we figured gambling for rabies is probably not the best idea.  

House update

We now have a roof, windows and doors.  Too bad there aren't any stairs to get to the front door.  

Weekly update

I keep meaning to sit down and update our blog with some pictures and an update, but I couldn't find the time until now.  

I have really appreciated having a Saturday after a stressful week of work.  I handle the books and payroll for about 15 construction companies.  As if that wasn't enough, we took over a new company whose secretary quit this week.  They've been doing things very differently from what we've done so it's hard to learn everything and still keep up.  Oh fun.  

Thursday night I baby-sat for our friends, the Johnnie's.  They have a little girl named Cadence.  She is adorable and very well behaved.  It was fun to have a little one come play.  She loves Nemo. 

Thursday also had some crazy weather, as those of you in Utah know.  I personally like the snow, but some found it annoying since it is April.  
Luke and I rearranged our bedroom and found ourselves with a problem.  Since our bed is now under our windows, the light shines right in our faces in the morning.  I bought this material and thought it would make perfect curtains that would block a lot of the light, but still let some in.   

The other reason I wanted curtains was because the cat is constantly sitting on the window sills and breaking off the blinds.  We started pulling up the blinds, but I'd rather not in the bedroom.  I made the curtains a little short so the cat could still get in there.  
I felt very crafty since I made them.  What makes the whole story even better was that I almost broke my neighbors sewing machine twice.  Oops.  I think they turned out well enough.  They serve their purpose.  
My parents and Lindsey and Tyler came over for my birthday.  We had delicious cake with rainbow chip frosting.  Is there really any other way to make a birthday cake?  I didn't think so.  It's getting harder to blow out all these candles.  Man I'm getting old.  23!!!
Luke was going to make me an appointment to get my hair done for my birthday, but I ended up making an appointment for myself.  I was getting so tired of long stringy hair.  So I decided to get it chopped and colored for a nice change.  Here's some before and after shots.  
 

Here's the before and after from the front. 

Well, that's the latest with us.  And yes, Luke enjoyed his NLF Draft today.  He was very pleased with the turnout of his precious Kansas City Chiefs.  

THE NFL DRAFT IS HERE!!!!!!!!!

For all of those people who natalie has linked to us and those of you who have absolutely know nothing about me, I am a football fanatic. I love the kansas city chiefs, I will not change teams unlike my uncle dan or my brother Ster. Ster "claims" that he has been a huge patriots fan but no one heard about it until last year, how convenient! 

I hope everyone is as excited as I am to watch the entire first day of the draft. Yeah I said it "the entire day". If you happen to call me on during the draft I hope you don't expect an in depth conversation. If you want to talk about football you may come over and enjoy the silky goodness of the NFL draft. The only thing better than the NFL draft is the wait for the NFL Fantasy Football Draft to get on its way. I love football.