Monday, June 20, 2011

Shelves in the garage 6-18-11

Clinton was very busy today. He built some shelves in the garage. It used to be a little room where the potatoes were kept. But now the shelves hold all of his camping stuff, gas cans and his dutch ovens. He has a dutch oven fetish. I can live with that because I have a salt & pepper fetish. Clinton building the shelves.
It looks so great and organized!
Then we went to Ole's, this little burger and shake place in Sugar City. The milkshakes are awesome! Clinton had huckleberry and I had chocolate. Great way to celebrate the new shelves. By the way, I can now park the car in the garage!

Friday, June 17, 2011

My first time painting!

First of all I must say, "I am awesome!" I spent one afternoon taking wallpaper off the wall. Then one afternoon painting my middle bathroom. I even had a steady enough hand to do the cutting in work. My sister-in-law, Paula, came over and helped me finish painting today. It looks awesome!This is the before picture of the wallpaper border that I took down and the white paint color.
It is all laying in the tub.
This is the difference in paint colors during the painting.
Just a little mishap during the painting. When I got the paint on the wall it showed that I didn't get all the adhesive from the wallpaper taken off. So I used the remover and luckily it all came off and didn't mess up the paint.
Here is the finished project.
I love the new color. It looks like a brand new room! Just what I wanted.

Thursday, June 9, 2011

More books I have been reading

I have been reading again. Here are my latest books that I have enjoyed. This book about Mother Eve was very fascinating. I will look at the things I learn in the Temple in a different way now. I enjoyed this book. This was a Mother's Day gift from Brock and Carrie.
This was our Book Club read for the month of May. It is a retelling of the Beauty and the Beast story. I liked how the author described things and I always like a story with a happy ending.

Garden update 6-9-11

It has been 2 1/2 weeks since we planted the garden. With all the rain and the sun last weekend, it has really shot up. Now the fun begins with the weeding. I can't wait!My nieces and nephews said they will help me weed. This will be more fun than weeding alone.

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

First Camping Trip - June 6 & 7, 2011

Finally, a nice weekend to go outside and do something. So we went camping up to the Moody Meadows area. The weather was great! It was so nice to just relax.Here is Clinton, he and Melvin gathered wood for the fire.
Mandy was lucky enough to hang out with us old fogies.
We camped with our friends, the Rudd's. Here is Melvin.
Clinton, just relaxing.
Gailiene and I are such camping beauties!
Clinton is bringing out his inner child with this little motorbike.
Max, the Rudd's dog, he is our body guard.
Still alot of snow up in the mountains. On Friday night it really got cold when the sun went down. You could see our breath.
A very unusual, artistic fire. Interesting to look at with all the branches sticking out.
And of course we had s'mores. This is just a staple for camping. We came out Sunday morning so we could go to our ward in Sugar City.

Monday, June 6, 2011

Owie!! June 6, 2001

Just call me "Grace"! I couldn't believe it. I went walking on Friday and the sidewalk tripped me up. Next thing I knew I was on the ground and my hand and knees were stinging. I felt like I was back in grade school on the playground. I guess Grandma's can get skinned knees too!

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Picnic at Moody Meadows 6-1-11

Today was a great day! The temperature was close to 70. We decided to go on a picnic and scope out a place to camp for this weekend. We drove up towards Moody Meadows. The closer we got, the more snow was on the road until we had to stop. We did find a lovely place to camp. We stopped to have our picnic, in the pickup. The water you see behind us is the run-off from the snow melt. What a wonderful way to end the day.as