Rollerskating

A couple of weeks ago, we got invited by some of our friends to go rollerskating.  It has been years and years since I've been rollerskating.  I didn't even know there was anywhere around still open, let alone that it was still so popular.  We went and had a great time.  The kids loved it and have decided that it would be a fun birthday activity.  So we may be going every once in a while.

My pictures aren't great because all I had was my phone.

It's the wannie hat

My husband was Scout Master for 9 years.  During those 9 years, he camped almost 12 months every year.  He isn't the scout master anymore, but somehow he ends up going on all the campouts anyways.  The last one he went on, he was in charge because the new scout master couldn't make it.  He couldn't find his hat so I jokingly gave him this pink one to wear.  He wore it and it was then named the wannie hat and is going to be given to whomever is being whiny or acting like a wannie on the campout.

Guess who got a hold of my camera

This is what I got

Ryan made me a new kitchen table for Christmas.  The wood is reclaimed from the old Teton Merc here in Teton.  We figured the wood has been in the building for about 100 years.  He made it big enough to comfortibly fit 10 people around it with the leaf in it.

My table turned out so beautiful!  What a talented and sweet husband I have.

Christmas

We had a great Christmas this year.  We were a little worried because we weren't going to have a very big Christmas.  We kept it simple this year.  The kids got 2 gifts, one from us and one from Santa and their stockings with a few essentials and some goodies.  And then we got a family gift. 

Even though it was a smaller, simpler Christmas, it was so nice.  The kids didn't even notice the lack of gifts.  We spent a lot of time with family and friends and just had a great Christmas.  I'm thinkin we're gonna keep things simpler from here on out.  Kaylee got a guitar, Bo got an Optimus Prime transformer, and Raegan got a dollhouse.

Bathroom remodel

Wow, the holidays were busy. I'm gonna try to catch up on all the stuff we have done lately.


Our most recent project, which happened this past week, was a bathroom remodel. 

We went from this....

to this...

...in 3 days.  It was somewhat of a forced remodel.  Here is the story:

A week or two before Christmas, we had a really cold spell go through here.  The night time lows were in the -20's and the daytime highs didn't make it out of the negatives for about 3 or 4 days.  On one of these days, we noticed we had no water to our tub, which usually indicates that the pipes going to that tub are frozen up.  This happens on occasion, but is usually easily fixed with a little warm air.  Well, after an hour of warm air and still no water, we kinda started to panic that maybe we were frozen up enough that we would end up with burst pipes.  So Ryan tore our tub apart to get underneath it better and get more warmth in there.  After getting it all torn apart, we realized that nowhere else in the house had water either.  It had actually frozen in the garage where the boiler is.  So long story short, we got it all unfrozen, got the pipe insulated better and now had a torn up bathroom we had to fix.

We built our house in 2001 and went really neutral and boring on everything.  So we are slowly going through and painting some color and changing and updating stuff.  We were going to get to this bathroom eventually, but now we just had to do it.  We removed the rest of the tile from the walls, tub, and floor.  We replaced a bit of sheetrock, repainted, replaced the fermica counter with a new granite one and rebuild the surround around the tub and retiled everything.  We are so happy with how it all turned out. Now all that is left is to get new towel hangers, toilet paper hanger and get some new rugs that match our new bathroom.

If you are in the southeastern Idaho or western Wyoming area and need some tile work done, Ben is awesome. Here is a link to his website. Give him a call.

Boys and their toys

I found these pictures on the camera.  Ryan must have taken them.  He's really just a big kid and he loves his big kid toys.  Apparently enough to take pictures of them.