Catching up.....

Once again life has been too full to spend any time blogging about it! So here's a giant catch-up post!
First, we are starting a remodel of the 2 upstairs bathrooms! The master bathroom will be getting more work, with a new vanity, countertop, sink and new tile on the floor. We'll be painting, too. Here's a sampling of the new stuff for that bathroom:

The hall bathroom upstairs will be getting new tile flooring, the cabinets will be resurfaced and the walls painted. Possibly a new sink & faucet as well. We've been busy trying to figure out what we want and getting estimates and placing orders. The actual work probably won't be started for a few weeks as we wait for the materials to arrive.
Next, I'd like you to meet our family's newest buffalo, Barnes A. Noble. (Yes, the A stands for "and" - she named him after the store where she bought him!) Brynn has been saving her money for a Dora video that has lots of fire hydrants on the cover, but when she saw Barnes (or Barney as we sometimes call him to make Brynn mad) she decided she HAD to have him. Barnes is on the right. You'll remember Buffy on the left.

Callie has now won the "Worst eyesight in the family" award hands-down. She once again needed stronger lenses in her glasses and we went to get that taken care of. Kyra & Brynn had fun with the men's sunglasses section. Kyra was doing a little air guitar and asked for her picture to be taken. So Brynn just HAD to get into the act, but clearly has NO idea how to play an air guitar!


Callie has been cooking again:

And I put in several hours at the Baby Day Expo last Friday & Saturday, doing lots of free hand massages and talking to people about doulas.

Kyra and I had quite the adventure trying to go to the Young Women General meeting last Saturday. One would think that if you had a ticket and arrived 40 minutes early one could get into the conference center. One would be wrong. Or should I say, about TWO THOUSAND people were wrong!

They seriously turned away about 2000 ticket holders because the building was full. Here's a tip, church folks: Don't give away more tickets than you have seats. Because disappointing that many young women doesn't exactly create trust in the church - I saw many of the younger YW crying outside the conference center. We ended up missing the first half hour and sitting in obstructed view seats in the tabernacle. Phooey - should have waited for the rebroadcast at home!
At least the flowers were pretty:

But getting home was a nightmare! We stopped at a restaurant for hot cocoa & french fries and to let the traffic disperse. But sadly, when we got back to the parking garage, it was still backed all the way up to the roof (which, naturally, was where we had to park...) Apparently someone had broken down and until the owners of the cars parked on either side came, there was no way around it. So we had to wait and wait and wait anyway. Kyra took this picture of the Capitol from the car while we waited. It helped relieve the boredom.

We finally arrived home more than 2 hours after the meeting ended.
Hmmmmmm.... what else? Oh yes, my birthday! The actual day itself was kind of a bummer, since I woke up to SNOW and between school, estimators and measurers coming, and the fact that I had to work, we did nothing special that day. I had to wait until Friday night to open my gifts! Darrin & I went out to dinner at Market Street and to a party for a friend of mine that night. The wait at the restaurant was so long we actually put our names on the list, drove down to Alpine, spent 1/2 hour at the party, and drove back up here to the restuarant and made it in time for our table!
And finally, I did really have a birth yesterday! Only 2 more to go this month. (What was I thinking!?!)
And I think that pretty much catches you up on what's going on around here.