The English fam: February 2014

Cathy and Greg's daughter Lucy got baptized. They asked me to speak, and I was totally fine with that thinking that it would just be my family and Cathy's family. It ended up being the whole stake! I was stuck in traffic and it took me a minute to find the building. I was about 5 minutes late and the Bishop announced my name to speak as I was walking through the chapel doors. Whew, that was a close one! haha This is us being silly waiting until it was our turn to go to the font to see Lucy be baptized.

Kitchen cabinets are being installed. The gray island didn't turn out quite the color of gray I wanted. Grays are tricky!! It is a little too light, and has a subtle blue tint to it. I wanted a little darker charcoal gray. Oh well, maybe I will paint it one of these days.

More selfies with my favorite girl!

Upper cabinets done! That cabinet with the double ovens was cracked and broken when they brought it in and is still giving us trouble. Our cabinet guy was not great to work with.

Claire's chandelier in her room got installed! She loves her pink walls and fun light.

Tile is done in the master bathroom. Hudson enjoying his view from my closet windowseat.

One of their favorite places in the house is my closet! I am constantly hanging up clothes that they have pulled down since they were hiding behind them.

I caught a precious moment between Preston and Claire one night before bed. He was reading her a book and she loved every second of it!

Granite goes on the countertops!! Yay! We were super happy with our choices for the granite!

We thought we would just get laminate in the bathrooms to save some money on our budget, but it ended up being cheaper to just get off cuts of granite in each of the different bathrooms. I am kindof glad we did it that way because now we have all different granite in each bathroom. Makes it more fun to have variety! This is the guest bathroom.

Master bathroom-I also love my square sinks!

My family room ceiling fan

My entry way chandelier

Countertops all on!

The winter Olympics were on and James and I always love a good rivalry between our home countries. USA definitely loses on the apparal! Those grandma sweaters are so hideous! What were they thinking?

My pendent lights above my island are one of my favorite things I picked! They were over budget but I just had to have them! So glad I splurged on them!!

Just another Saturday afternoon falling asleep on my bed.

Bath time!

BYU basketball game date night.

My walk in shower

Tub almost done

Square sinks installed and hardware installed

Master bath

Kitchen sink installed. I loved my open sink!

Rock put on the front of the house

Deck is getting installed. It is almost move in time!!

Preston is my little skinny boy! These are his sweat pants. He thought he was so hilarious. Now that is a major wedgie if I have ever seen one! haha

Front view

Valentines breakfast

Door to walk in shower

Hardware added

Tub just needs to be cleaned now. :)

Appliances installed. It's all starting to come together!

James bought some fun flowers for Claire for Valentines day. So sweet. That girl has her dad wrapped around her little finger!

This is in her closet. She thought it would be fun to pretend it was a bed.

James went shooting in Saratoga Springs with some of his work buddies Lance and Mike. He had so much fun. I am not a big gun fan, but he can use other people's guns and go without me!

Someone got a hold of the red stamper and looked a lot like the reindeer on her jammies.

We went and saw the Lego Movie for Carter's birthday with Claire, Preston, Ryan, and Carter. They loved it and I even loved it. Very funny and creative. We will definitely be owning that one.

Claire is helping to remind us all to buckle up.

A cute picture of my parents at one of their mission conferences. They finally hit their year mark. We have all survived a year with them gone. It's been really tough at times, but for the most part we have done great. I am very proud of them for all of the great things that they have been doing with the young adults over there.

Carpet installed. A view from the upstairs down to the family room

Front room and entry way

The trash can installed into the island.

Carpet finished. Looking from the kitchen into the family room.

Looking from front room into entry way.

Stair carpet.

Master bedroom

Isn't it so pretty?!!

Carter on his birthday opening his art kit from James' parents.

We got him the Ninjago 4 headed dragon lego set that he has been wanting for a long time!

We had a birthday lunch at JDawgs. It is a gourmet hot dog place. So delicious!

This was Carter's dog with onions and mustard. That boy will eat anything!

Hudson ate a ton of the hot dog but didn't want the bun.

Carter got to go to the BYU basketball game the night of his birthday with James.

James also made his favorite food for dinner-shrimp 3 ways. He was in heaven!

We found this awesome Harry Potter cake. It was perfect because this year his teacher at school has a Harry Potter themed room.

9 years old! I can't believe it!

Lots of lego building going on around here!

He had a great day! 9th birthday a success!

Claire got a huge gash on her chin from tripping up Melanie's stairs. Ouch!

On a different day she stuck this up her nose. I didn't know what it was and I could get it out either! She was screaming and would NOT tell me what it was for the life of her. I finally gave up and it dropped down and we pulled it out. Not my finest hour as a parent.

Somebody enjoyed his dessert! Here's a play by play...

Carter had the blue and gold banquet and was going to get a lot of awards for passing off lots of stuff in scouts. They were also asked to make a cake for dessert. Carter decided to do the scout logo (with a little bit of help from his dad).

Check out all of those awards! He even earned his wolf. Good job Carter!

Juan Pablo was the Bachelor and he was so entertaining to watch. English is his second language and he always would say "Is ok" to everything. It became a running joke between James and I and also my friends.