Handiman Matt

Ever since we got here on Friday, we've been keeping ourselves quite busy. Our house is 1000 times better than it was when we bought it. I'll do a before and after post later. Here are the pictures of us working and working and working. I'd also like to give a special thanks to my mom and dad for coming and helping! Without my dad our tile would not have happened.

We did take some time and go to a baseball game! Indoors! Diamondback vs. Phillies

Farewell Provo

In no particular order, here are some pictures of our final days in Provo.

Wind Caves

Last weekend we went up to Idaho Falls and hiked to the wind caves near the Tetons with my family.

Happy 3rd Anniversary to Us

Yesterday, July 14th was our 3rd anniversary. We went to The Melting Pot in Salt Lake and it was way fun. The best was the cheese fondue and the chocolate. I could sit and eat that cheese fondue for hours it was so good. Probably not good for me, but good nonetheless. Matt has been wanting to have lobster as of late, so he finally got to have some. I hate lobster, so he got it all to himself.

Camry Club

We've known it for a while now, but we needed another car. Our dear Ford isn't as reliable as we'd like it to be. In all the experiences I've had with Fords, they tend to blow up at 120,000 miles--something I like to call the Ford 120. (Sorry Tim, but it's true.) We found this Camry for a really good price, and it only has 13,000 miles on it. So far we've been really happy with it. We don't have to shout at each other when we ride in the car. Yes, our Ford is that loud, for those of you who have not ridden in it.

Red

I recently sanded down our cheap composite-board bookshelf and painted it red. It looks much better red than fake oak.

Our Big Amazing Renovation

This last weekend, we took a quick trip to our house in Arizona to do some work. The house was in decent condition--but needed a lot of cleaning and cosmetic work. We left Thursday afternoon, and worked 20 hour days to get our house cleaned up.

Our first incident as home owners came when we turned on the water to the house the night we got there. We woke up to this...




Clearly we should have turned off the pipes to the sprinkler system--which is broken. Obviously.

We made an early trip to Home Depot and painted

and painted


and taped


and painted


and pulled up the base boards with a hammer


and an awesome yellow crow-bar.


Alli broke up all the tile


and we pulled up all the vinyl floor.

We occasionally stopped to eat

We worked really long days, but we got so much accomplished--everything we had hoped to do. It's going to be so nice when we go down to move and everything is painted and our new carpet has been installed. Alli, Matt's sister, came with us and boy was she a lifesaver. She worked her tail off and was the best help we could have asked for. So thank you Alli--you are amazing. When we got back we were (and still are) exhausted. After 2 days of painting and moving furniture, we were pooped. It didn't help that it was 106 outside. We're very grateful to Jennifer and Logan and for the furniture and tile they gave us. The tile was super heavy, but it's going to look great once it's in.

We're excited about our cute house--feel free to come and visit us whenever you're in town!