Fall!

I love fall! I think every year I fall more and more in love with fall. Especially this year because I get to drive up the canyon every day. Stunning changes of leaves on the mountains everyday!


This drive through the canyons was a very exciting one for me!


We were on our way to pick up FREE French patio doors that I found on ksl!


These are exactly what they look like! I couldn't be happier. I have wanted French doors forever but didn't want to pay the money for them. And then they popped up on ksl! Law of Attraction strikes again. I love fall!

Fist Like Tiny Semi Trucks

Push Play



That's my boy!

Lucky I'm in Love With My Best Friend

I love this guy! I love how I am living the life of my dreams, even though I never dreamed life would be like this. I never knew how happy I could be in a basement apartment, with over 300 lbs of dog.


How happy I would be to spend my birthday night sledge hammering at our bathroom floor. I LOVED it! I chose to go to the driving range for my birthday, I am the most surprised about all of this. All of these interests I have now, I wouldn't have discovered without Drew.


And look how cute he looks with a kitty on his leg! Adorable!


I saw this and thought if Drew. I'm always telling him, I wish there were something more special and meaningful that I could say to him, because love just doesn't quite cut it!


Even though he didn't bring me home one of these for my birthday, I am still completely wrapped up in him.


Maybe it's because he promised me one of these....


Maybe with a darling arm on it for hanging flowers or holiday decorations.


Or because he is going to build me drying racks like these, after he is finished hanging Sheetrock, cementing, tiling, painting, woodworking, installing lights and throwing up a coffered ceiling. Can't quite put my finger on it, but I know I LURVE him!

Plumbers...

If you haven't noticed neighbor Dave is going to be a blog regular. We are working out the contract agreement as we speak. There may or may not be a signing bonus. We'll see what our lawyers say.


Friday and Saturday were demolition derby days in our home. I can safely say my lungs will always have a good sturdy coat of cement dust in them. If I die mysteriously, tell the doctors to check my lungs. (Little dramatic!)


Our bathroom looked like a spelunking adventure. Truly it smelled just like Timpanogas Cave and Nutty Putty Cave all mixed into one. Lovely, (not dramatic at all!)


The hammered and dug, and dug and hammered. And only managed to make one neighbor upset! (I don't see what the big deal is about sawing into concrete at 7 AM on a Saturday! Haha.)


I got a few good wacks into the concrete. I can now claim to have remodeled our bathroom. I'll probably try to take most of the credit!


Drew thought since he was trying out plumbing, he should really get into the zone! Really try and embrace all that a plumber is.


However this is a family friendly site so we censor for everyones benefit! (Drew, don't you wish you new how to use our blog now? Muah ah ah!)


And here we are now! Concrete poured over the new plumbing, just waiting to set up and get the toilet and tub all ready to go! Then goes the tile!

Kitchen is Almost a Kitchen

Our little galley kitchen is slowly but surely becoming a functional room. Because we are just living in the basement and renting out the upstairs, our kitchen also has to function as our laundry room.


Before, we bought a mini stove, a 10 cu/ft fridge, downsized from a 17cu/ft. We were given a smaller/newer washer and dryer. (goodbye tear to my yellow painted white dryer). And voilà!


Space! The before and after were taken from the exact same place!


Look how much pretty linoleum can be seen now! Hopefully will be replaced soon! We can actually fit a table in our kitchen! Hooray!

Tile...

Ksl has come through again in a big way! We just bought these sweet custom ordered tile, for mere pennies.


These will be on our bathroom floor. Now the only tricky part is finding the perfect grout color. I want white, but I know it will be tough upkeep. A light gray may be nicer but not pop with the tile as much. Or a light cream, but I worry with these off shades of white it will just always look dingy.


Speaking of bathrooms.... Here is what our looks like...


It's hard to explain what we did here, but basically we are moving closets around. We took the closet in the second bedroom to make the bathroom bigger. The bathroom was tiny. When using the toilet your knees were underneath the sink. And the door opened right into the kitchen. Nobody wants that. So we are walling off the door opening in the kitchen and putting the door in the hallway. We are walling off the second bedrooms closet because that's now the bathroom as I said earlier. We will take the closet in our bedroom and open it up in the second bedroom. We will wall off the opening to the closet in our bedroom.


This is from the second bedroom looking in to the bathroom. The wall for the bathroom ended right where the tub was. We added so much space just by rearranging closet walls.


Oh.... And there's our tile one more time!

Little Bitty Baby!

Not much in our lives is little... Here's just a quick reminder of the beasts that we call dogs...


And she's the small one... But we just introduced the smallest, sweetest thing, you have ever seen into our home.


Yup, that's our new baby oven. No we will not be putting babies in the oven, it's just a little baby appliance compared to the iron lungs we had before! Now to learn how to use it!