Winter's Here...

October has been an interesting month with visits and projects and hopefully this will update our activities. Andrew and his children, Jane and Reynolds arrived on the 21st from Salt Lake City, where they had dropped off Sarah who was heading north to Calgary, Canada with a friend. We were happy to have them for the rest of the week. Andrew and I got to play a couple of rounds of golf and the weather was perfect. Jane and Reynolds got used to us (we think) and had the run of the house. Here are a few pictures of a few minutes before bedtime in our bedroom.








Andrew left for Denver on Sunday after sacrament meeting and Jane and Reynolds were with us for a couple of days and did very well. They certainly liked the nursery in Primary. On the following Monday, a member of our stake came and began a project of installing our new counter tops and back splash in the kitchen. We made the decision to do this last month and are finally around to it. The end result was beautiful and I hope you all like it. Pam does for sure.







Monday evening, late, Sarah and Erin and Kate arrived from Salt Lake. Sarah had spent all day Monday coming from Calgary to Salt Lake. She had a great trip and we were happy to have her with us for the week. Jane and Reynolds were happy to have their mother back. Unfortunately the weather didn't cooperate too well and it was quite cold. On Wednesday a huge storm rolled through and resulted in snow, the first snow of the season. The kids wanted to be out in so much that after breakfast we let them go and they had a little fun, although they were pretty cold and didn't associate cold with snow. But they soon found out.








So that's our hectic schedule. Andrew is going to meet us in Grand Junction this week end and we will give him back his family. Other than that we are doing well and I am preparing for Stake Conference in November--will be glad when that is behind me.

Early October

In late September, early October, Pam and I began a project of renewing the look in the front entryway. For those of you who know about the tile purchase, this is phase I. But the fireplace is still intact!! Anyway Brother Holmes from our stake was visiting me and we talked about the project and that is what he does for a living and with times being tough for construction I offered him this project. It took a couple of days to tear out the old and put down new sub-floor and then lay the time. Actually the tile looks wonderful as an entryway and really looks great with the carpet.
Well since that went so well we talked about the kitchen. Our counters are just not acceptable anymore and granite would look so cute. So here we are with the ground work of that project. Brother Holmes is doing that project for us also and we will have beautiful granite counters and a very attractive back splash all the way to the upper cabinets. The first thing we needed to do was remove the wallpaper from the kitchen and while the paper was strippable, it really wasn't and took quite a bit of work to get it off. But we ended up cleaning all the walls in the kitchen and kitchen nook, and then we painted the walls that are not tiled and light shade of green and it looks great with the flooring in the kitchen and the kitchen nook. I also moved several of the electrical boxes to make them more useful and put the cable outlet behind the TV on the shelf as well as an electrical box up there. With the wall exposed I could cut and adjust without concern for the wall since it will be covered with tile.




Last weekend while all this work was being done, we had the privilege of having Kate with us. Erin and Weston made a whirlwind trip to Sacramento for a friends funeral and we got to play host to Kate. She was such a perfect lady and made the three days perfect.





And finally, yesterday we celebrated Pam's birthday with a little trip to Fillmore for some golf and of course a visit to Carl Jr's. I know it's not like going to Olive Garden, or Cafe Rio, but when you live in Central Utah it's pretty special. Boy that $6 burger was pretty amazing. Anyway we had a great time and Pam played very well and the weather was just perfect. We hope everyone else is having good weather and enjoying this Fall time of year. We love you all.