More Friday...

Friday was a great day... the wall was finished, the girls and kids came over and we had lots of girl food ... little chicken thingys, pasta salads, jello, cookies, muffins, rice pudding... and crafts... we made our favorite block craft.

Yummy food

Tv watching and Wii playing
The crafting begins

crafts everywhere

Cute guys visit our girls activities

Some finished crafts

Our bedroom wall is all finished and textured...

This project was easy. We had a great company, Matchall Drywall, that I highly recommend. But now the rest is up to us... flooring, painting, shower, moulding, tiling etc etc etc. Wow... I better get busy!

It's Friday...

It's Friday... AND... I have a day off!!!! Yippee yahooo Yay!!!! I SOOOOOOO needed a day off especially after a 13 hour Monday... YUK!! Mike took yesterday off and I took today off to be home while our wall is moved. So I decided since I'm home I should invite all the girls over to eat and craft! They'll be getting here soon. But in the meantime... Here is our wall progress:The great bathroom wall comes down.. you can tell how inky dinky the bathroom was

What a difference... just a couple feet makes it feel huge!

Starting to shape up

This is the bedroom side... Notice the outlet Mike put up high.... THAT'S for our future flat screen TV! Probably WAY in the future... but we'll be ready!

Free food...

I hope everyone has been taking advantage of all the free food promotions that have been going on. Yesterday Trent had several free tacos, (some things I won't eat, not even for FREE!) free donuts and free pancakes. We all know Trent can eat a LOT... so these freebies have been great for us! He will continue to be well fed this week with free burritos and subs. Who knows what is next! We are on a freebie frenzy at our house! Whoever said there's no such thing as a free lunch was wrong!

Basketball!

Well, it's the weekend and that means... sports! Trent had a couple basketball games... lost one and won one! Here are some amazing pics. Our ward is in blue jerseys....

Teamwork!

Tau Brian
Trent

Andrew

Strategy

Andrew

Brandon

Happy team!

It has started!

It has started and there's no turning back now! Saturday was the official start of demolition! Mike did all the work... but I supervised, took pictures and gave encouragement... Great job Mike!

Last week...

Last week love was in the air!!! ... But it always is in our family!... Trent got asked to MORP, we celebrated Valentine's day and we went to an absolutely lovely ward dinner. Our ongoing stuff.... was of course the eagle project and the remodeling "decisions"! Trent made chocolate covered strawberries... very yummy.... but they weren't for the fam, they were for Taylor. But since I taught him everything I know... I just made my own!

To keep up with tradition and to always keep Mike guessin about what to expect... I had to make a cute breakfast, so I made heart shaped pancakes.... awww how cute.... bacon, strawberries, chocolate covered fortune cookies and ....

... sparkling apple cider! way yum!

Trent was asked to MORP

The eagle project is well under way...

And the remodeling decisions... well... we ARE making a little progress... The boxes of wood flooring have been setting in the corner for a few weeks now... there is the beginning of a million feet of moulding setting in the garage... I think we looked at a hundred paint colors and came up with a lovely shade of BEIGE... we are still checking out toilets to find just the right 'fit' for our family... my "list" of project ideas for Mike keeps getting bigger with each home improvement show I watch... and after four bids, we decided on the company to move a wall... that was definitely NOT a project we wanted to do ourselves... but the rest of the stuff... well... we (mainly Mike) will be tackling those in our spare time! HA!! WHAT spare time?!? Wish us luck... and patience!

More from Brazil...

The first paragraph worried me... I didn't think there was going to be any english! Here are some excerpts:

oi famíliaPor que você quer o baneiro maior? Tudo bem em casa? Transfereiros foram esta semana e eu tehno um companeiro novo. O nome dele é Elder I. Silva. Elder Wardrop foi para Uberaba para ser o líder de zona la. Entao, ainda estou aqui mas é bom porque devemos ter 3 batismos esta semana agora. E eles estao bem firme. ...
Tranfers were this week and I have a new companion. His name is elder i. silva. Elder wardrop went to Uberaba to be a zone leader there. So, i am still here but it is good because because we should have 3 baptisms this week. And they are realy firm.There´s your portuguese for the week but elder silva is cool, he is brazilian and really small. My portuguese will be getting alot better this transfer because that´s all i´ll be talking. Our house went from being with all 4 americans to half and half now. Everything is going good here, time is just flying by i thought this tranfer went by super fast. Parabéns (congratulations) for zach and danny, that´s awesome they got their calls. Something i keep forgetting to talk about, mom, you would love it here in brazil because the avacados here are huge. The one´s you usually in america are about the size a baseball. the one´s here are about the size of a football. There are some avacado trees in are area that people always take the fruit off, but not me. And valentine´s day is not celebrated here. Well, thats about the news for the week the pictures are great and i´ll talk to you next week.Elder lewis