Geneology, I am doing it

Yes, I actually am! It is soooooooo fun! I've always been interested in genealogy/family history but the past few months I have taken it to a whole new level. Seriously! It all started with some great young women activities where we all learned to login to familysearch.org and submit names to take to the temple. Then I went home and showed Justin how to do it. Now Michael is even doing it! It is so easy and fun. Justin & I have been to the temple several times doing tons of family names and it is so special each time. We have also been verifying that our family tree's are accurate. Which some are not. So, I have contacted my dad, my grandpa, my grandma, and several of Justin's grandparents about getting pictures and stories of ancestors.

My grandparents, David & Carolyn & their eight kids

It really took off from there. There was one time when I couldn't find pictures of one set of my grandma's grandparents, I asked several people who I thought would know and they had no idea. My grandpa said he thought he might have some pictures of them so I set a time to meet with him at his house to find the pictures. When I got there I told him the names of the people I was looking for and he took me into this back bedroom and lo and behold there were two gigantic 20 by 30 framed paintings of them!

After taking pictures of them my grandpa then told me everything he remembered about them and started crying, and I started crying, and it was a really special experience. For Christmas I made my brother, sister, & parents family tree's. It was a lot of work.

Lots of compiling, printing, cutting, and glittering

I also put labels on each picture

For my sister's family

For my brother's family

For my parent's ( I went back much further)

Here are Justin's grandparent, Carol & Dee over 50 years ago

Here are Carol & Dee now :)

A few weeks ago I attended Roots Tech in Salt Lake City. It is the biggest family history conference in the world. It was amazing! I'll have to post more on that later.

Budding Fashionista

You'll never guess who made Francesca's skirt.

Yep, it was me! I got a new sewing machine for Christmas from my parents and I am so excited to create a whole bunch of pretty little things.

Francesca Betty is sooooo lucky to have her own personal designer, me, Jennifer Trend to design her clothing. Couture for an eight month old? Yep.

 

Kitchen Makeover- After/Part 5

So there it is. Magenta Jewel and Paris Mint were the winners. I kept telling myself white cabinets were a cop-out but after painting them off-white I am really happy with how they turned out. The whole house feels much more open and clean and bright. Thank you Mark & Holly for helping paint the cabinets and thank you Justin for taking care of the kids while I was painting away.

Have I showed you our retro stove and double oven yet? It's at least 50 years old but works like a charm.  ;)

 I still want to tear out the carpet in the kitchen and put tile in or something. The projects are never ending. Any ideas for the kitchen floor?

Kitchen Makeover- Part 3

Bye bye wallpaper! Thanks for your help, Lisa & Vanna! Interesting peach colour we found. I was actually tempted to try and re-create the old kitchen but decided against it. P.S. I am well aware it looks like I am high on marijuana in these pics. I think the wallpaper stripper was gettin to me.

Kitchen Makeover- Part 2

Bye Bye cabinets!

Bathroom After Pictures

The entire bathroom remodel only cost about $75 total. It was fun, and good experience for my first room. I look forward to tackling many other house projects in the near future. Stay posted.  :)

Bathroom During Pics

Removing wallpaper is hard work. The paper tiger is now my friend. I actually liked the vintage aquamarine color I found behind the wallpaper. I wonder what year it was painted. Thank you Mark for helping install the laminate flooring.

Bathroom Before Pics

I don't think I'll ever understand the whole "carpet-in-the-bathroom" thing.

Chair Makeover

Me and my brothers girlfriend, Holly re-upholstered this chair that came with my house. Check it out:

Even Francesca is taking a fancy to it.