Yes Yes I know.....we suck

Why has it taken us so long to write another post you ask? I'll tell you why.... we're lazy. Plus I guess we have been pretty busy getting ready for guests and stuff like that. That's pretty much it. OK anyway I'm not sure exactly what I'll write about, but I decided I'm going to start by just going through all our recent pictures and telling stories from that. Hopefully I can catch you all up. Sadly we haven't been very good with our camera as of late, so we don't have a ton of new photos.

I think I'll start by telling you a bit about our bathroom that is finally done and very lovely if I do say so myself. As I mentioned, we were frantically trying to get our remodels done so they looked nice for our guests. These first two pictures are of course the "before"... extremely ugly as you can see. The floor was carpeted, the toilet ran constantly and was most likely made when dinosaurs roamed the earth. There was this ugly fake marble stuff on the back walls. Not to mention the HIDEOUS flowery shower curtain left by the old owner. So ALL of it had to go.



As you'll see below we were not kidding. We ripped it all out. All except for the tub. The tub was in good enough shape, it just needed a good hard cleaning and some new fixtures.


Our next step was tile and new paint for the walls. Though I would like to claim that I did the tile myself.... I didn't...... Tiling is a skill I just didn't dare to attempt. Since we only use the best, we hired one of Kimmi's co-worker's brother who just so happened to be the guy who did the tiling at the new Twin falls temple baptistery! (no big deal) If its good enough for the House of the Lord, its good enough for our tiny bathroom!


I did however do the rest. This is me installing my very first toilet.

This is me trying to figure out how the crap to install in my very first toilet...

I think I got this figured out.....

HOLY CRAP ITS WORKING!!

And the finished product:





A special thanks to the our new friends Brad and Sage Hanks who are in our ward.I ran into Brad at Lowe's one night and after telling him what we were remodeling he informed me that he works for a pluming supply store! He gave me some excellent advise/help as well as a free shower head!! Thanks a million, you're awesome! We still owe you for helping us so much!

More posts about our recent activities are to come, but its late and I want to go to bed. Until tomorrow then.

How could I forget about this!

I'm all over the place with my timeline but lets talk about the fourth of July! (I cant believe I never wrote a post about it) Oh well, regardless we had a fun day. We've recently started on a quest to try to get Beatrice to like water. Mostly I want to see if she would like swimming. We thought we would start easy by getting her a kiddy pool to play in. As you can see in the picture she was reluctant to get even close to the little pool.

Plan B: we thought we'd take her to a larger body of water. The Snake River. Once again she would have nothing to do with it. Oh well, either we need to just throw her in water somewhere or come to grips with the fact that we just don't have a water dog.


Kimmi and I then decided to have a little BBQ before we went to watch the fireworks.

Twin Falls has a great fireworks show just north of the local college. We got as close as we could because I'm the type that likes to "FEEL" the fireworks. You know the kind where they explode and you can feel the explosion? Here we are relaxing in the grass watching the pretty colors.

Yeah for the Aspers

Our first guests that came and visited our newly remodeled basement were the Aspers (I'm sorry guys for taking so long to write a post about your extremely entertaining visit). Kendall Asper was one of my companions on the Mormon mission and he just so happened to marry one of Kimmi's kindrid spirits. Those two are like BFF's now. Megan also is the freaking cool girl who got us the hook ups allowing us to buy "Wicked" tickets WAY before anyone else. Here are some highlights from their trip.

Most native Twin Falls folk would run me out of town for admitting this, but for the first time since moving to Twin Falls we went and saw the waterfalls. TALK ABOUT AWESOME! I was extremely impressed. The water level was high and just plain looked cool!


Then we went and watched people almost jump to their deaths off the bridge. Luckily they were wearing parachutes. Its actually a weird sight when you first move to twin and while driving across the bridge you see people standing on the railing getting ready to base jump. Not something your used to seeing every day. The only down fall is that when people are actually planning to jump off the bridge to commit suicide no one seams to notice. This actually happened the other day. A guy was about to jump to his death for real when one of probably many drivers that sped past finaly stopped and tried to stop the guy while her daughter called the cops. The cops actually didn't believe the daughter at first. They just kept saying "its probably just a base jumper. Did you look for a parachute?" The lady took it into her own hands and pinned the guy to the ground until cops finally came after much convincing.

You most likely cant see it, so I drew an arrow pointing out the guy jumping in this photo.

We also went to the Temple open house! Extremely gorgeous. I'm stoked that now its open we can go whenever we want and we don't have to drive more then 5 minutes!!

The guy we asked to take this photo was the first person I have probably met that doesn't know how to use a camera. Believe it or not this is the best and the least skewed of the 3 photos the guy took.

Thanks for visiting guys it was a blast!!! It was also really fun to hear that you're having a baby!! Congrats.