6 Years!

 

6 years ago today I married the best man ever!  It was a crazy fast courtship/engagement but I loved every minute of it (except when we broke up for a week)!  I think it feels like we've been married for so much longer.  We've experienced so much together and I'm so grateful to have had him to go through it all with! Love you Anth!!

(Hope you love the shower head:)

More Demo...

Here's a lot more pictures! And I can now say that it's almost all done, like it really is all done but a little rubble from the rock fireplace downstairs.  Thank you, thank you, thank you to all who helped!  I was in tears with all who came to help this past Saturday.  Thank you!

Benson loving the demo work

 Lucy also wanted in on it

 No more mural or tree :(

 Other wall through to the 2nd bedroom

 Just the fireplace and built-in left.  Oh and the popcorn ceiling

 Wall between living room and dinning room cut in half.  Also the stairs are being moved to the right side of this picture.

 Exposure to the stairs.  (Soon stairs no longer)

 Mantel coming down.  But keeping the rock.

 Cut off wall between the rooms and most of the kitchen torn out.

 Tearing it out!

 Saturday's help!

 Carrie heading down the stairs

 Upstairs and master bath (with the very cute sweeper)

 The men taking turns hitting the rocks off the walls

 Hall downstairs

 Almost all done!!!

 Front of the house.  Receiving a new roof this weekend.  For sure new columns and door.  The green turf also goes. 

 Backyard (I love it).

 Back of the house

 This porch will be in closed in for a pantry and mudroom 

New House!!

So we closed on a house here in Utah about two weeks ago.  We're gutting the house.  In my hind sight, we shouldn't have.  But we are so there you have it.  I hope to document the process here.  Here's a bunch of pictures of the house before the gutting began and then some when we first started.  (Remember the house was built in 1961 and everything is original.)

Walking to the front door into the living room.  We are keeping the mantel, I really love the rock (and apparently the original owners did too).

 Current front door

 Dining room/glance into the galley kitchen

 Upstairs hall bath (we are keeping the yellow tub!  I'm super excited to decorate around it!!!).

 Second bedroom upstairs, it's huge.

 Master bed and bath

 Galley Kitchen

 Stairs behind kitchen (they are being moved into the center of the house in the dining room).

Family room, complete with rock wall, water feature, and "clouds" coming down off the ceiling.

 18 ft mural.  With a "Y" and "V"

 Dry bar and you can see the tree.  Also the shag carpet and tiles ready for a pool table. (We are closing off the dry bar area as a second bedroom downstairs.)

 Another shot of the awesome family room.

 Downstairs hall/door outside

 First downstairs bedroom

 Downstairs bath

 Laundry/storage

 Start of the demo, so fun!! And messy!

 Looking into the bed and bath downstairs

So I need to add a picture of the outside and backyard.  Also now we've demoed the whole downstairs and half the upstairs :)

1 YEAR OLD

Our little Lucy is 1 year old!  That sure went by fast!  We are still loving this little girl to pieces and can't get enough of her little personality!
1 year stats-
-15 lbs 10 oz (still in the 3rd percentile)
-27.5 in tall and head is 17.5 in round
-lots of blond hair
-takes a handful of steps alone but nothing constant
-is the best eater in the world
-sleeps the night though
-loves to throw tantrums (it's hilarious and I have to admit I love it when she does)
-says "hi" "dada" "mama"
-loves to wave and blow kisses
-loves to crawl after benson
-love to crawl up the stairs
-loves to pick up and put toys away
-knows how to push benson's buttons
We love you little Lucy Jo and feel so blessed everyday to have you apart of our family!

Birthday Morning

 Loving the streamers and balloons

 Not so happy that I wanted to take some bday pictures

 Loved the cake and candle until she burned her finger :(

 Loving the cake cones with ice cream

 Tired birthday girl

Grandma Weston

My grandma passed away this past friday.  Vernetta Coombs Weston.  She was the last grandmother I had.  She was my fathers mother.  I knew her the best and longest of any grandparent.  I can't really believe she's gone.  She's been sick for a little while so I know she's happy to be gone and with my grandfather.  Growing up I have a lot of memories of her correcting me.  I know she was trying to make me a better person but I didn't always realize that.  And I like to think that maybe I reminded her a bit of herself so she wanted me to be better.  I was the only grandchild kind of named after her.  I'm pretty sure deep down I was her favorite.  Some of my favorite memories of her are when she'd come every Sunday for dinner and bring a seven layer dip or artichoke dip. Or at Thanksgiving when she'd bring creamed onions. 
Last year, a couple days after having Lucy, my sister drove us up to Utah by way of Farmington, NM so we could show my grandmother her newest great-grand child.  I'm so grateful we stopped.  It was the last time I saw her alive and I love that I have a picture of her and Lucy. 
I was able to attend her funeral.  I was most excited to see a lot of family that I haven't seen in years.  It was neat to reminisce about her life and be apart of saying goodbye to her.
I will miss my Grandma Weston but I'm so happy that she's been reunited with my Grandpa.

She loved twizzlers

 Grandma Weston and Lucy Jo 

July 2012

11 Months

Lucy is 11 months today! Wow, time goes by fast!  I can't believe its almost been a year since the whole bedrest thing, crazy!  But we're loving every minute and are excited to celebrate 1 year next month!
Here's her latest...
-about 15ish lbs
-loves to wave and say "hhhhhh" (her version of Hi)
-cruises around the furniture and will stand without holding on for about 2 sec
-loves all food except bananas
-loves to point
-loves when Dad comes home
-still loves Benson to peices
-can just about say "ta da" and "uh oh"
-loves to jabber/talk/scream/sing
-makes the cutest smacking lips sound to give kisses
-can crawl up the stairs but not down