~ My Beautiful Trees ~

Our trees had to be removed...

After the mean tree remover guy took them away!!
 Unfortunately they had to come out so they wouldn't end up in the neighbors yard or take out the power line from our house! The trees just kept growing in the wrong direction.
We do have plans to replant new trees next summer but first we are going to put in a cement retaining wall then we will put in new trees and white vinyl fencing and it will look nice again because right now it looks so trashy!!! Plus I feel like we have opened ourselves to the world now when we used to be closed off.

Now we are forced to look at the ugly blue house next door!!! UGH!!!!

Dayton spending some time with me & Gordon one day after work so mom & dad can have a little break and go for a hike and some fishing.

On the Move

Dayton is on the move!! He been crawling for a week now.  He pulls himself up and hold on with one hand then plops down on his bum and does it again!!

~Road trip to Cascade~

So on August 4th I got in the truck and headed to Cascade to see the mom's & sister!!  Cascade really hasn't changed all that much...it's still a small town.  Every time I drive there it always is a rain Storm in the Twin Falls area...I mean down pour!! Let's not forget about the freakin road construction...seriously it was ridiculous. Utah is not the only state under road construction...driving up the canyon was a joke!!  Anyways I finally get to my mom's and man she really has done a lot of work on the house!!! It looks so good!!  I stayed the night there and the rest of the time I stayed with Kelly.  I helped Kelly with her food stand at the fair for the Rambler Cheerleaders which was fun but a lot of work!! I didn't have much time to take pictures but I did take some of the work my mom has done.
              This is the view from the front porch!!



 The porch used to have stairs going straight out but she closed it off in the front and opened the ends of the porch which so much better. There are stairs on both ends and the pine poles are now enclosed.

She had the pine trees trimmed up so you can actually see through them instead of them blocking the view.

New windows through the whole house which makes it so light and airy plus she drywalled most of the dark wood which made such a difference!

The kitchen is the biggest change for sure. It used to be very dark and not a lot of counter space. Now the windows are bigger and she added 2 new ones plus there used to be a old cook stove that took up so much room she had it removed and added counters and put up bead board as the back splash...it looks so good! Love it!!!

There used to be a wall between the back door & frig which was totally blocking all the light so she ripped it out and what a difference that make too!!

This used to be my old room and the windows used to be really small and it was so dark all the time. She had new bigger windows put in and drywalled the wood walls and painted it a light yellow.