Brick Face Lift



Before




During




After. (Still working on it)

 From yellow brick to brown. The siding is new so the brick needed a face lift too. It's a cement stain, not a paint, so it looks more like regular natural brick.
More pictures to come of the complete finished product, hopefully we can finish before winter!

Food Storage

One cool feature of our house is the underground storage room. Thanks to all this canning and case lot sales, I have filled up a few shelves. It's awesome to look at your receipt and it says your total savings is $118. I'm just a little bit proud of myself. ;) I have a lot more work if I want to get a whole year's worth but it's a start.

What a Doll!

I may or may not be breaking copy right law by putting these up...I don't know????? But Here is a sneak peak at Emilee's 5 month old photo shoot. This one above was my favorite- the thinker pose.

Check-up

Next sunday the "Emster MaGee" will be 6 months. She can sit up unassisted for the most part. She can babble up a storm. Smile back when I glance at her with a smile, I love that. Boy, time sure flies. Seems like I barely took Emilee to her 4 month well child check and here we are on 6 months! I just can't believe how fast it's gone by and how big and strong she is getting. Everytime we go to the doctor, and I mean every time, she has had massive diaper blowouts on the way there and we get there in the doctors room and get her out of her seat and it's just everywhere! It happened again, like clockwork! Poo was nearly up to her arm pit and got all over the car seat. It was pretty bad but we got her all wiped off and cleaned up. I guess that's what she thinks of going to the doctor.
She is growing right on track and is
17 lbs 9 oz and 25 inches tall.
Still kinda short, only in the 30th percentile, and of course fat. Poor girl had more shots, but the nurse gave her a sucker to make it all better. Pretty funny to see a little baby trying to get the sucker in their mouth and then when she figured it out she just loved it and got all sticky and rainbow colored from forehead to fingers. She even got a new book from the dr. that is in spanish and english to encourage reading. I really like children's books though so she has got a good collection of books already.

Craft

After 6 months I finally got my little project done. It was pretty easy so I don't know why I slacked so much. I painted the letters first and it was ugly so I covered them with 3 different patterns of scrapbook paper and glued the ribbon on the back. But I got a wicked burn from the hot glue gun when glue got on my hand and since it's glue it stuck to me and burned and burned. I have a big blister now. I will forever be weary of hot glue! Dang you glue!

Not perfect. I notice all imperfections, but it'll do.

One hook came off the wall and broke an E that we had to glue back together, but at least it's done and pretty cute up on her wall!

Red Canyon Lodge

The hot hunter

Grandpa Dan

Daniel and Emilee with his deer.

Just a little two point buck.

I was trying not to freak out that my dear sweet innocent baby girl was

touching it's antlers! Ah! Conflict of intrest happening right now. Daniel insisted

that she loved it.

Ta-dah! Family hunting picture 2011. 

Forcing a smile. I'm all for camping and looking for deer but I'm less then 

thrilled when he actually gets one. Maybe one day I will get used to it. That's 

what I get for marrying a hot hunter.  

Red Canyon Lodge

Well Daniel's Colorado hunt didn't yield any deer but they still wanted to hunt, so we decided to go Red Canyon Lodge- "The civilized way to enjoy the great outdoors." It is up near Flaming Gorge, we stayed in a little cabin and the boys hunted in the mornings (if you can even call it that) and in the evenings my mother-in- law, Em and I came along for the ride. We hung out in the cabin all day, rented a paddle boat and went around the lake and tried to fish and fed the ducks. One night we ate at the restaurant and enjoyed watching this chipmunk stuff its cheeks over and over again with bird seeds and had the most rich, pure, dense, chocolate-heaven cake! Oh, I want more of it! Camp fire hot dogs are also a favorite.

I dressed the part in my camo and really enjoyed the beautiful mountain hills and sunset.

We saw a few deer and Daniel even got out and stalked some and I was terrified I would witness the massacre, but luckily they ran away! ha ha. He did kill his deer the next morning though but at least I wasn't around.  

The cabin. It was like a duplex. Our last day we got neighbors from Pennsylvania and they were mountaineers and made it clear they have been all over the world climbing mountains. They were nice though. They came all the way to Utah to climb Kings Peak and said it was one of the hardest mountains they have ever done.

Emilee wearing Daniel's hat.

beautiful view from the porch.

Are we cute or what?

Canning

Daniel and his Dad went on a hunt to Colorado. While they were gone I stayed with his mom (so we didn't have to be all alone in our empty houses.) We decided to do some things to keep us busy; canning was one of those things. It took a few days for us to finally get things going and we were ready to can- got peaches one day, picked apples another. Daniel's cousin Melinda was helping too, and we all went to the store to get more jars and we came back to my in-laws house and the dogs were outside, and her car was moved. We were all a bit freaked out until we went around to the back and Daniel and his dad had returned from hunting. Their trip was planned for ten days but they were back after four. It totally shocked us! So they lucked out and got (or had to) help us in our adventure. Turns out Colorado have a severe lack of deer, and they damaged the truck and had to return while they could still make it. So learning to can for my first time was pretty fun, and we got alot of apple sauce, a few peaches and bottled apples. It seems like alot of work, when you can just go buy a can of fruit at the store for some change, but I liked it anyways.

peeled, cored and botttled apples. They looked kinda pretty in the jars.

Finished porducts!

jars and more jars.

a few peaches