Another funny invitation

I finally looked up the High School activity calander and found out that they have a dance every month during the school year! They have equally as many girls choice dances as they have boys choice dances.  So, Stephen got this invitation the other night to the Sadie Hawkins dance.  What a crack up!

Stay tuned for his reply!

Falling

Went for a drive up Payson canyon Sunday evening. 

It was beautiful!

These certainly were not the best pictures I could get.

But they sure did the trick.  It was absoultely breath taking!

I love the season changes here in Utah!

I hope you are enjoying the Fall as well.

The answer

Had to show you what Stephen's homecoming date did to answer him when he invited her to go with him to homecoming.  We were reading scriptures one night when we heard something hit the front window.  We opened the front door and found this little package.  Which was full of confetti and peices of a puzzle.

So, Stephen sat and tried to put the puzzle together but could not and then he discovered that the puzzle did not even have four corners.  That is when he realized that this was NOT a doable puzzle.

Then we heard something hit the back window and the all the boys got up and ran outside the front door again...thinking that the girls must not be far. I ran out the back door and found this.....

This was lead up to by a long line of resees pieces....

Here's a close-up of the package.  And then Michael, Adam and Stephen came back

into the house carrying one of the culprits!

That was too funny!

Sometimes it's fun to get caught!

BTW....they had a good time at homecoming.....and

Elsie is just as beautiful inside as she is on the outside.

Good choice Stephen!

We got stone...no, not "stoned"....STONE!

Well, here's the latest development on the house. 

 We finally got stone!

Here's the close up of the front door area.  So, what you need to know is that the door will be painted a dark brown.  And the front gable will be stained a dark brown also and there will be two extra pieces on either side of the middle beam at the point.  And they wont be sticking out so far.  Anyway, it's looking more and more like a house and we are dieing to move in!!!

 Just about another month!

  Yay!!

How many men does it take to lift a piece of granite?

We got our granite installed yesterday!

Well, apparently it takes 6 men to lift this piece!

Here's a great picture of one of the slabs!

Here's the cutout for the cooktop.

The sink.  Glad we chose to go with a color instead of stainless steal. 

Here is one of the master bathroom counters.

I love this view of the countertops next to the tile floor

in the master bath.

Keep in mind that all of the wood cabinets will be stained

a dark brown color.  Which will really make the grantie stand out!

So pretty:) I love granite!

Stucco color and a special invitation

Last week they applied the colored stucco to our house!

I really like the color.  Don't you?

Next they will be applying the stone to the front.

The other night Stephen dropped this can of flour at Elsie's front door.

He knocked on the door and ran back to the car and we drove back home.

This is what the back of the can said.

About a half hour later we went back an he dropped this vase and flower

off at her front door with this note "Oops! Wrong Flower!

And a stack of paper spelling out his name!

Cute eh?

Tile

My brother in law has been working on the tile in our house for the last few weeks.

Here is a view of the front entryway tile. Mike and I chose this particular style because we liked the variety of color it offered....just to liven things up a bit.

Here's a closer look!  Dont you just love the multi-colored look?

Well, we do!

And here's the half bath upstairs next to the entry.

Here is a portion of the tile in the kitchen. 

Here is a veiw from the laundry room into the kitchen.

And here's a veiw on the other side of the kitchen where the kitchen table will sit.

This tile will also be in the laundry room and the master bathroom.

Lovin the master bathroom so far.

Here's another view of both the tub and shower.

And there's My Man (what a Stud) downstairs in the basement working on baseboard and trim.

The dark stained baseboard and trim will be going upstairs in the kitchen and living room.

Next up will be installing the hardwood flooring and granite counter tops!

Soooooooo excited!  Stay tuned!