The New Robbie

Working outside in intense heat calls for desperate measures! He begged me. I had no choice but to buzz it off. The smile says it all. I'm still his favorite mom.

P.S. Look at the load of hair on the floor. It's enough to make a wig!

Mothers Day Continues

Mothers Day is winding down. It was a wonderful day! I love being a mom. I have the greatest kids! I love having a mom! She couldn't be sweeter!

Holly surprised me with this beautiful figurine, cute card, and "Families are Forever" wall hanging when I walked in the door after church. Actually, she had to point them out to me, even though they were right in front of my face, because I couldn't take my eyes up off the floor! Thank you so much, Holly! I love them! I love you!
I finally have a "Families are Forever" sign hanging above the doorway into our family room!!

We went over to G&Gs for a tasty dinner. It was supposed to be a my home, but we're not put all back together again yet, after the floor project. So this is the THIRD Sunday in a row that we've had dinner at G&Gs!! It's getting to be a Sunday tradition and I LIKE IT A LOT!!!!

Afterwards, the kiddos konked out on the deck.

Mom showed me the quilt she made for Uncle Ted. It's beautiful! She and Dad will take it to him when they go on their Alaska trip. How exciting!
Here's mom and dad with some friendly flowers!

Here I am with my beautiful mom!
The kiddos in the mini-monster truck!
Mom and Dad, the sweetest parents on earth, in front of the Stevens Homestead. What a wonderful place to be.

Happy Mothers Day to Me!!!!

After pictures!

How many sons give their mom a new wood floor for Mothers Day? I think I'm the luckiest mom alive to have a son like Rob, who would give up almost a week and a half of all his spare time to my huge wood floor project! I dreamed of having this wood floor and he made my dream come true! Thank you so much, Robbie! I love you!!!! What a wonderful Mothers Day to wake up to my beautiful new wood floor!!!!
(With flash)
(Without flash)

Yay! It's done!!!!!

Floor Day 10

Saturday, May 12, our last day of laying the floor! We had taken a couple of days off, since I was working late and were so excited Saturday morning to finish! Here's Rob hard at work, again!

This show shows the fridge moved out and the cubby where it fits into. The fridge gave us some trouble, because the water line sprang a leak. Help!! Dad/Grandpa to the rescue!!!! He soldered it and got us back in business. He knows how to do EVERYTHING!!!!! Thanks so much Dad!!! You are one in a million!
Here's Rob finishing up in the pantry. Almost done!!
Nailing the next to last board of the entire project!!! Then my camera's battery died.

Lunch with April at Mazza!

I got to have lunch on Tuesday with my beautiful daughter April at my favorite little Mediterranian restaurant in SLC called Mazza. She thought the falafal (how in the world do you spell that?!) was almost as good as Jerusalem's! Now that's saying something!

Here is April with her adorable friends Shawn, Erin, and Kyra. They left Tuesday to go back to Vegas. What fun it was to see April and get to know her friends!

Floor Day 7

We're into the kitchen now and here's what's left to do. Our plan to have it done by tonight got delayed a bit. It's pretty hard to get a lot done in a just a couple of hours in the evening after work. But we're making good progress!

Here's what we got done tonight -- where the bar stools go and down the angled wall where the cat window is. Yay!

All the mess is now in the family room. We got the sectional moved back. And put the kitchen table in there too. You can hardly see the floor we completed last night!

Floor Day 6

Yay! We got the family room floor layed down! Here's the "after" picture (minus the furniture)! On to the kitchen floor! Then we're DONE!!! We can't wait. Especially Robbie! What a trooper he has been and what a great job he is doing!