House Update!

We've had some requests to give an update on how our house is coming. Jocie and I haven't had too much $$$/time to work on our house lately, but the Labor Day holiday provided me with some time to work on smaller projects at my shop. I finished the crown molding on our fireplace and then trimmed out the fireplace opening. I also built and installed these killer custom bookshelves that we love! They look awesome and when we get rid of the light valances above the window and install our can lighting, they will look even better! What do you think of the bookshelves?




This is what it looked like when we moved in. It's just a little different...



And here are our kitchen floors. They are a vinyl laminate that comes in planks like real wood floor and you cut to fit. They look great and provide a completely waterproof surface! We love the lighter color. Now we just need a backsplash!

A Great Day Date (and night dance ;) )

Jocie had Saturday off so we took full advantage of it. I had been wanting to attend the "Monet to Picasso" art exhibit at the U of U MOA. Jocie happened upon free VIP passes and so we made sure to use them. It was an awesome exhibit, displaying original artwork and explaining the transition from realism into the impressionistic period. It was really a good time.



My favorite painting was The Red Kerchief: Portrait of Camille Monet by Monet


and Jocie's favorite was Woman with Cape by Paublo Picasso (sorry it's so small.)


Granted, the colors and exactness of these paintings was different and the story behind them also assisted us in choosing these as our favorites.




We then went to, as all good dates should, the Rocky Mountain Raceway to watch Jocies cousin Tyler race. It was really fun watching his "Hornet" division race around the track. Tyler drives the black and white Ford Probe.


They even got into a fender bender!!



Jocie and I. It was very windy and we were glad to have had our sunglasses to keep out the dirt.


Jocie playing "Race-o Bingo" at the track.


And I had never seen Figure 8 racing before but it got to be pretty intense!!

China Divers got Nothing on Us!!

Check out these sweet dives from our trip to Lava Hot Springs. (some were just attempts to dive and not real dives.)


Nic-a-bod. As you can tell he was the only one that knew what he was doing.



Travis had it down after a couple of tries like this one.




I never figured it out. This picture may look like I "photoshopped" my face into it, but it's legit...



All in all we had a great trip. We floated down the river twice and with the higher water flow, we didn't get too beat up. Travis kept falling off his tube, but we did pretty good. We also did attend Bingo Night on main street and I won 21 bucks!!! (and got the black lung from the chain smokers.)