Halloween with Mario & Luigi

If you catch a glimpse of me in a stunning floral number,

that's just my 1989 bridesmaid costume

Before & After

Before...

and after...

I can't believe it took us 3 years to do this!!!

I couldn't NOT get the camera when I saw this...

Woodworking

This is our garage. First occupied by a boat-maker, then gardening tools, then spiders, then more spiders, then us (and the spiders). It used to creep me out, but as we gradually cleaned out the old musty junk, it became not so bad. We realized that big thing in the back with stuff that I didn't dare touch on it was actually an old conference room table and would make a perfect shop table. Paul ran underground power to it (and took out the old over-head wire) and made a few outlets and shop lights up top. Then we built shelves and started adding to the tool collection so we could build the wedding backdrop. And eventually it became our woodworking haven. I can't wait to see what comes out of there next.

This is my first big furniture building experiment. I had no idea what I was getting in to, but I was too excited to care, so I started drawing sketches. After about 3 months of on and off spare time and lots of experiments, it finally came together.

Zachary's high-tech homemade birthday evite

Zachary is one!
Thanks for all the fun presents!

Candy dive

All done.

Camping fun in Island Park, Idaho with Paul's family

We slept in the car, which would have been comfy cozy if it weren't for two extra bodies squishing us into the side doors. Next year we'll just stick with a tent.

Zachary was impossible to keep out of the dirt. Oh well.

FAMILY REUNION FUN!

The homemade slip & slide was a big hit - Tyson highly recommends it!

Happy Birthday cousin Stockton!Don't mind if I do...

Some fun projects

My first furniture building project. With extra pieces from wedding props and some other stuff I found out in the garage, I was able to add critical storage space to the boys' tiny bedroom without buying a single thing.

I've been wanting to make a pop-out ironing board for a while, so when I found a little ironing board at DI for $1, I couldn't resist. The engineering sucks, but I love the look of it. I got some hardware at George's Architectural Salvage to help make it look old.

Yay for a big frame DI find!

Brothers

First Post. Here goes. The Zoo -

Playing the drums and tambourines by the elephants

Tyson and his buddy Seth wait for the carousel.

Riding the Carousel at the zoo. At least I'm having fun.