Summer!

Okay so seriously were have I been all summer besides hanging out with Mater? Well let me tell you!

The last week of school so that was the first week in June, My mom came and spent a week with us. She came to spend some time at the DIY Bed and Breakfast aka. my basement. Really it was to give Josh and I our birthday presents. We asked for some manual labor to get some started projects done that we just couldn't seem to do between church callings, family get togethers, and helpful kids :) So we decided to finish muding and texturing the ceiling. Then we decided to paint... The entire basement! Well except for the toy room. So every morning we'd get up and have breakfast. I'd get Zach ready for school and then we'd ride bikes there leaving Mom to start working on the basement. For three days that's what she did but by the end the basement looked at 100 times better! Here's some before and afters ... Later I'll post about the decorating!
Okay so this is the only decent before picture and it's when we had to tear apart the wall to fix the drain pipe from my kitchen sink down.. way fun.. So anyway imagine that the wall is fixed and love seats (affectionately named Red and Wilma) are against the wall. There is just sheet rock on the ceiling and the wall is just patched but not painted.

Now here's with it all ready to decorate.




So really it's lots better huh. Thanks Mom! Hopefully the next post will come a little faster then the last few.