Out with the old in with the new

Dear Elantra,
I bought you with 24,000 miles on you in 2005 and we have had some Great adventures and some good accidents. You have been a good car and have saved my life 2 times. We felt it was time to put you to rest since we drove you into the ground putting 184,000 miles on you. Thanks for being such a great car but we had to replace you with.......................

THIS!!!!!

Dear Maxima,
You have big shoes to fill. You better live up to all your great reviews and we are excited to take you on MANY fun adventures. I hope all the pain and tears it took to get you was worth it because I NEVER want to buy a car again.

Little getaway

At the end of October Brandon had a Thursday night football game so we took advantage of having a weekend to do something and headed to Park City. It was a MUCH needed getaway. We stayed at Hotel Park City which I highly recommend. It was so nice! We Just hung out, shopped and just spent time together which we don't get to do very often with our busy schedules. It was one of the best weekend in a long time.
( no sling on because we just got back from dinner and I realized we didn't take pictures at dinner. hopefully the dumb thing comes off for good on Nov. 24!! if not I'm going to go crazy.)

We went and wondered around Olympic Park. Pretty cool.Brandon wanted to ride the bobsled but it doesn't open until the end of December. Wait that's around my birthday, we might have to make another trip up there. Hint Hint Brandon if you read this!!!!

Now life is back to being busy. This past weekend Brandon's football team won division and now on to semi playoffs, and I had my big primary activity I was in charge of. I'm so bummed I forgot my camera. It turned out so cute. (thanks again Jordan Whitney and Kenzie!!!)
We are keeping busy and have fun.

October

October has been a busy month for us. Brandon has been busy with football and I have been recovering from shoulder surgery. This past weekend my Grandma Gainey was out in pahrump with a bunch of her RV friends from El Monte so we made the trip over the hump to visit with them. It was fun seeing a lot of friends/family we haven't seen in a LONG time. They stay at a real cool RV park with a lake that has paddle boats. We had a blast. Its always fun to spend time with family.

Bruiser

Bruise is ready for Pirate football!!

( this is the only piece of "clothing" he will own)

Lehman Caves!

This weekend we took Zack, Whitney, Kenzie & Trevor camping up to Mt Wheeler/ Lehman Caves. We had a blast. We got there on Friday afternoon and started setting up camp and I got really sick. We think that I might have had slight altitude sickness. Headache, dizziness, nausea, vomiting etc, it was not fun. I wanted to die and come home. I felt so bad that I was laying in the tent and not doing anything. After about 3 hours I told Brandon I felt like we should leave. It started to rain and Brandon and the kids hurried and packed everything up, but the tent and air mattress I was on. I didn't want to leave because everyone was so excited and we drove 4 hours to get there. I was crying and all of the sudden I was started to feel better! I told Brandon I was feeling better and didn't want to leave. We went back and forth on whether we should leave or not. Brandon felt we should leave, but I was being a brat. I sat there and wouldn't get out of the tent so they couldn't take it down. Finally, I convinced Brandon that if I wasn't better in the morning we would leave. I'm SO glad I was better in the morning because we ended up having a fun time. I love spending time with my siblings and this time Trevor too.

If you look close you can see a double rainbow. Zack took this while Brandon was trying to get me out of the tent.

This is the campground we stayed at. I forgot to take pictures of our campsite.

We did the Lehman Cave tour. Not going to lie I was scared at first when they shut the door into the cave. I have a fear of being trapped.

We went on a hike to lake Teresa. It was a nice little hike. We wanted to do a longer one but didn't have time before our Cave tour. Friday Brandon also took everyone on another hike but they didn't know where my camera was so no pictures of that.

Saturday was also Kenzie's 12th Birthday!!! We had a little party for her.

All in all it was a great trip. Nice to get out of the heat and had a great time with family. Cant wait until the next camping adventure.

Bruisers new trick and Grandma Gainey's Visit

I went in to my room and found Bruiser has a new trick. He waits until you put a brand new roll of tp on then takes it off the roll for you. Next he hides half of it under the bed. I was so mad! But he is so cute.

Grandma Gainey came to visit for a weekend to plan Zacks graduation trip and we took a break from planning to play the Wii. Grandma was so funny to watch. She was getting way into it. I had to make sure she had the wrist strap on so I didn't have to buy a new TV.

My new Kitchen

In June I had this CRAZY idea to redo my kitchen. I couldn't rip everything out and start over so a few gallons of paint would have to do. We painted the walls yellow and I didn't like the look of the cabinets so thanks to all the DIY blogs I decided to paint them. Let me just say next time I'll will be more then willing to pay the thousand of dollars and have them done by someone else. Brandon told me I was crazy before we started and half way through I was believing him that I was. But I LOVE how they turned out. Pictures don't do it justice. I have always loved the old country look so that's what I went with. I forgot to take pictures of the whole kitchen before I started.

This is what all the cabinets looked like to start with.


Looks like I need to organize.

Paint drying then it started to pour and only lasted 5 minutes. I was so mad.

The finished project!

Probably one of my favorite thing. I found this way cool frame at an antique shop but it was broken. I took it to Grandpa and he fixed it for me. Now I have a cute magnet board to put pictures and you all know how much I LOVE picture! If you send me one this is where it will be displayed.(hint hint, send'em my way!)

Next project: the guest bathroom!