Big and Little News

Okay BIG news first...We BOUGHT a HOUSE! It is in Yucaipa, California which is right near Redlands. Redlands has THIS...



So we are VERY excited! Not only to own our own home but to be 10 minutes from the Temple. Pictures of the house will follow but for right now you just to have take our word for it that it is GORGEOUS. Not as pretty as The Lords House (pictured above) but we are going to make it our little slice of Heaven on earth! We are going to take a lot of "before" pictures of the house because the previous owners LOVED color. They loved deep, rich, three coats of primer to cover it, color. The good news is, after painting there isn't much else that we HAVE to do to make the house nice. Everything else was pretty much done. It is a 4 bedrooms, 3 full baths, 2500 sq ft house. Two car garage. HUGE. So our plan is to be able to expand our little family and have enough space for the two kids, the dog (one day... against Brandon's will) and of course any friends who may want to come for a visit and stay a while. There will be good food, great conversation, and many many memories made in this home.

Okay on to the little things....

We went to the beach for the fourth of July with some of our friends. We went down on friday, put up the tents, built a fire and had a great time! Saturday we went to the beach all day and I THOUGHT that Brandon and I put on enough sun screen...but we didn't. So we both fried. Thats okay though...that's part of the whole 4th of July experience right? Our campsite was literally one row of tents back from the sand so we could hear the waves rolling and it was just sooo nice. The campground was packed and there were kids running around like crazy and they would ride their bikes around and all the bikes were decorated for the 4th of July. It was cute. We learned how to make some new foods over campfires. One thing we learned and which I will never forget because it makes smores so much easier is the Fudge cookies. So you know the Keebler fudge striped cookies that have the whole in the middle and they have the fudge bottom with the cookie top? Well if you take two of those and add a marshmellow in the middle then you have a ready made smore! SO BRILLIANT I KNOW! Our good friends Jake and Grace taught us that little trick. We also learned how to make breakfast burritos by cooking eggs and veggies in plastic bags and boiling them. They were so yummy too and last but not least Pita Pizzas. Which were grilled over a fire and were so great! On Sunday the 4th we went to a nearby town called San Juan Capistrano to walk around a mission and an old Basilica. When we got our group there we looked at the price and they were charging to go in. Now I have a problem with this because at the LDS church sites you DO NOT have to pay to go in! So BOO for historical landmarks that make you pay. So we decided not to go in but because we are so tall (the one time this was something that I was happy about) we were able to reach our camera over the wall and this is what we were able to take a picture of...



The Basilica had just finished having Mass in it so we were able to go inside and this is what we saw...



Beautiful isn't it? Different kind of pretty than I am used to but beautiful none the less. So we did go to church on the 4th of July even though we all smelled like campfire and non of us had showered for a couple of days (just swam in the ocean which DOESN'T count) and even though it was a Catholic church and we didn't stay for mass, we were still there.

OKAY....I am closing up here and this is my last section because I KNOW this is a LONG Post. Brandon and I have been refurbishing old things that we find or buy on the cheap. A couple saturdays ago someone put this in their trash and so we stopped and loaded up our findings with great anticipation to fix up this "junk" and make it into a treasure and I think we have pretty much succeeded but you be the judge. So here is the BEFORE Photos....



Everything except the "H" that is a decoupage project that I finished! Came out cute huh?

Okay and here are the AFTERS....



So the little bench is just that... a little stool bench thingy and it just needs a coat of lacquer and then its complete and then the second with the cool fabric is an old school file cabinet that is completely made out of wood. We sanded it down, stained it again, and put fabric in the sections to give it a cool new feel to it and not just but a block of wood. We LOVE it!!

Our next project is this....



We will let you know how it goes! Oh yeah and we close on our house on Aug 15th so we will be moving in at the end of August!

3 comments:

  1. congrats on the house. We'll definitely have to stop by sometime when we go to the temple. We'd love to see some pics in the meantime

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  2. Love all of the refinishing of the furniture, I've been doing this more and more since we bought our home... speaking of homes... wow 2500sq ft! Nice! I can't wait to see pictures of both the inside and out! Sounds like all is going great and I'm so glad to hear that!

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  3. Congratulations on buying a house! How exciting!

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