Painting.....uck!

Recognize this room?

 

 

I started painting a couple of weeks ago and then gave up until yesterday when I finished the new office/guest room. The color is Sherwin-Williams, Jersey Creme. More yellow than I thought but I like it. Took most of 2 gallons to paint the room. Found the bedding at TJ Maxx and really like it. Wish it came in different colors because I wouldn't mind it for my own bed! Also found some accent pieces in purple so I could keep the lamp. Now to get the computer and all the stuff that goes with it out of the sewing room and into this room. I'm tired, exhausted and sore but it's coming together and will hopefully be done before Joel comes home for the summer so he can have his bathroom back. Seems like most of the stuff ended up in there while I painted....

 

 

The campout that wasn't to be.....

Your dad and Brother Farrell Alleman had planned a campout for the scouts last night. We have been waking up to snow on the ground everyday this past week so I certainly wasn't too happy about them going! The plan was for them to leave their vehicles at the Church and then walk with their packs down to Ft. Bridger and spend the night. I'm not too sure of why they had to walk with packs but they insisted it had to be done. It is about 6 miles from the Church. So they would walk there and back the next morning. But when they got to the Church, only 1 boy had shown up so they cancelled the activity. I was happy to hear that! I can't see the reasoning in trying to do a "winter" campout if you don't have to do it! And that is what it would have been....temps were suppose to be around 32 degrees last night and with the ground already saturated, they would have been pretty cold. Dad had some lightweight tiny sleeping bag to take with him. It would have been a very cold night, especially since you can't have any fires over there at the Fort. Anyway, here is what dad looked like all ready to go!

 

Skating, Dancing, Ice Cream

Had a date last night with a gal from Midway. She's pretty cool. But what was even cooler was that I got to do three of the things I think I might enjoy the most: ice skating, dancing, and eating ice cream. It was sweet, at least for me. So even if the gal might have hated it (which I don't think she did, cause who could hate going dancing with me?), I still had fun.

The dance that we went to was a bit on the slower side, but I can a blast just dancing by myself. It was funny when I walked in since this is the first dance I've been to with everyone from my ward (it was stake dance). Everyone that was from my ward just yelled "JJOOOEEELLL!!!" It was pretty sweet, not going to lie.


As you can probably see, I got very sweaty. I asked the girl I was with when we went to Sub Zero after I was like "Man, I am gross! I'm sorry. You're not embarrassed to be here with me?" :D I felt like dad after one of his runs on the tread mill.....

Well, there's some more I'll put up from pictures we got at the dance from the photographer there.

May 17, 2011

Had one day of Spring and now this. We are going to have a very short Spring/Summer!

 

 

Easter Sunday

Trying to get a family picture....

 

Riding the lawn mower is always fun for the boys....

 

New bike for Tyson....

 

Everyone is going to ride a bike today....

 

More fun on the mower....

 

Mini Easter Egg Hunt....through the deer droppings....

 

and dinner with family! Made for a very nice Easter!

Wish you were here!

Easter Egg Hunt at Ft. Bridger

Glad we had some little ones to take to the Easter Egg Hunt at the Fort this year! It was pretty fun. The areas were marked for different age groups. Instead of taking Corbin to his group, he joined Tyson to get a couple of eggs. Dad was the big winner of the hunt though....he found a dollar bill on the ground. It took all of 30 seconds for the kids to find all of the eggs! Was a nice Spring morning. Not too cold and no snow! Yea!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tyson Spending the Night with Uncle Joel

It's always fun with Tyson comes over to spend the night! This particular night, Joel was home for a long weekend between semesters so he could be part of the fun! Tyson wanted to sleep in Joel's room with him so we blew up his little bed and shoved it in Joel's room. Joel read him a couple of books before turning off the lights. Tyson slept quite well until 6:30 a.m. when he woke Joel up saying he heard grammie in the kitchen grating cheese!!! LOL! Ummmmm....no I was still in bed but grampy was up being loud. Not sure why he thought the noise was cheese being grated, but it was sure cute.

Tyson's First Haircut in a Salon

The day Jessica left to go back to Idaho, she cut Tyson's hair in the salon she had been working at. He was a very good boy and sat so still for her! I bribed him with a couple of matchbox cars and I think his mommy bribed him also. :)






Poor Corbin's eye! I don't think he is ever without a bump or bruise nowadays!

Dad

I had a few photos of pops, and noticed he didn't have many on the blog, so I figured I'd post some up. One's a repeat, but that's alright.








This one is personally my favorite (notice the picture in the background):