A Visit from Grandma and Grandpa Wright

Grandma and Grandpa Wright came up for a long weekend to visit us in our new home here in Centerville. We had a great time and Grandpa worked hard on projects too!! We got a lot done while he was here! Here's the kids with G and G...

Pam and Heidi...ok, so we didn't work quite as hard as Jim and Scott, we took more time to play, as you'll see in the following posts!!

The Wrights, Wrights and Mc Combs got together for family dinner...it's great living closer to them!

Scott and the boys at Cabellas...more info in the following post. They had a fun time with Dad and Grandpa this weekend!

World of Dance!!

Saturday Kaylie, Pam and I drove down to Provo to attend the World of Dance at BYU. We stopped to see Amy and the girlies first, then went to the mall and ended up at the Cougareat for Lunch. Here is Pam and Kaylie.

Then we went to the afternoon World of Dance show. It was fabulous!! There were tap dancers, ballet dancers, ballroom dancers and the international folk dance ensemble--my favorite!! It's great living so close to BYU so we can attend these neat performances.

Kaylie enjoyed shopping at the bookstore and we got BYU shirts for everyone in the family--except Scott since he already has several--so now we can get into the BYU football season here!

Here's Kaylie and Mom at Mom's Alma Mater!

We met up with the boys for dinner. They had spent the day building the swingset and then they headed up to visit Cabellas. Scott hadn't been there the last time I took the kids so he enjoyed spending a few hours there. It's a man's paradise!! After their activities and our activities we met up at Zupas for dinner...yum...that is my new favorite place!! Wish there was one closer than South Jordan!! =( We then came home to watch the BYU game, which they lost, so that was sad...but all in all it was a great weekend!!

From Dim to Bright!!

About a month ago we took down our boxy light fixture!

A few weeks later electricians installed 5 recessed can lights and boxes for 3 pendant lights. One week ago our drywaller finished the repairs and Friday our ceiling was painted....progress!!

Saturday my father in law hung these great lights!! Three creamy gold light fixtures with black rods. I LOVE THEM!

There is so much more light in our kitchen and it seems more open and spacious without the big boxy light. Next week our kitchen painting will be done and then I'll take a photo of the final look!! =)

A Swingset!!

I'm so excited to have these pieces of wood off the patio and my kids are so excited to have their swing set back!!

Scott has to build a different angled platform for the slide to go on, but otherwise TA-DA! The swing set is up and the kids can play on it..at least until it snows!! =)

Family Dinner

This weekend we were lucky enough to have Dad and Pam visiting from CA. Friday night we invited Lisa's family up to enjoy some dinner with us. The cousins had a great time playing together!! Here is Kaylie, Dallyn, Sandra and Brittney playing school together!

Cameron and Zach enjoyed all things Star Wars and Legos together!

Here's part of the group at dinner...

And the other half of the group at dinner....plus the three older kids at the island..It was great to be together. Thanks to Lisa's family for driving up from Logan for the evening!!

My New Stamping Studio!!

Well we are almost finished with my Stamping Studio in the basement so I decided to post some photos!! In CA it was called my Stamping Room but here it has been renamed to "The Stamping Studio" because it is an amazing space, too big to really be called a room!! So it has a wonderful new name!! Here is a photo of my cubby storage and my workstation.

Then the wall with my paper storage and my desk. Scott still is going to build my display shelves between the cupboard and the window.

Here is the back wall and you can see my desk, Kaylie's desk and the extra desk that Scott built on for the boys to use for crafting, homework, etc. It's nice to have room for three of us to sit at a time!

The end of that desk. Again..we need to do some small shelving on this side and figure out the under cabinet lighting situation since its different than in CA...but with the extra 6 feet of counter space and one more drawer unit--this is an even better space than in our last house. And I didn't think that was possible! Kudos to my amazing hubby who re-designed this space! I LOVE IT!!

Our Fence is Done!

I've posted lots of before and during photos from our new fence but the gates didn't get done till Saturday so I haven't posted photos of the FINAL look yet! Here is the right side fence and gate.

This is the back side of the fence on that side. This is where our swing set will be as this is our side yard!

Then the back view...it's nice to have some privacy from the house behind us. I just LOVE it!

Then on the other side of our house we have the double gate onto the basketball court. We can drive our camping trailer back there when we are preparing for a trip, etc. so that'll be nice. For now we have too much stuff on our basketball court...but we are working on getting it all taken care of!!