Newest Home Improvement at the Nelson's

We added a shelf to Alex's room. I had planned on putting up shelves on the wall, but after all the work we put into patching all the holes in the walls, we decided a nice stand up shelf would be better. It doesn't have much on it now, but at least Alex will have some where to put some of his stuff when he gets home.

The other pictures are of the kids bathroom. The colors didn't come out looking that great. They are yellow. A nice soft yellow. The pictures look more bright and more greenish. But at least you get the idea. The lighter wall is textured because the original color I picked out was too light for Tim's taste, so we got a little darker color and rolled it with a texture roller over the top. It is much nicer now.... at least we think so. We are also putting that peel sand stick linoleum over the old stuff. We did it in our master bath and the original linoleum is so horrible that anything is better than it was. The peel and stick is quick and easy and looks tons better.

.... next is Marley's room and the floors in the front and TV rooms...... hopefully.....

Alex's room

So here is the story. Tim and I have been working on redecorating our house... mostly we have just painted some of the walls. But since Alex will be home from his mission in 4 months, we decided to redo his room. He had holes in all of his walls from things like a shelf, and a gun rack (used to hold his roleler blades) and a few pictures and things. A lot of the pictures were put up with push pins. And then there were the holes he made with his blow dart gun and his air soft gun. And the walls hadn't been painted in 14 years. So needless to say the room needed a face lift. I thought we could paint it a nice calm blue but decided that since it was Alex's room, he should have a say in the color. Tim said, "as long as he doesn't pick Orange." Well, we asked Elder Nelson and of course he chose the color Orange. At first he said he wanted it left the way it was, but we decided to do what we could before he was home. Since there is no one living in it, it would be a lot easier to paint and redecorate. So now our dilemma was, do we paint it orange like he wanted or just do what we had origionally planned. Well as you can see, we decided to use the orange color, but with a twist. We like the texture painting and so we decided to paint the bottom half orange (textured) and then the top a nice beige. We are putting a chair rail around the room as a divider between the colors. We like it and hope Alex will too. We will be adding new curtains (probably dark brown), a new fan (probably brown too) and some shelves and an orange bed spread. Let us know what you think...

Dec 5th... What a special day!

This weekend our family went to Las Vegas (Logandale, NV) to celebrate my Grandma's 90th Birthday. It was a wonderful celebration and great to see so many of our family members. The pictures are of the quilt that Kori made. It has family pictures on them and is so beautiful. Everyone was amazed by how beautiful it was. Then after the party we went over to my Grandmothers house and my mom and Mike Kentera got married. Mike was my mom's boyfriend in high school and they ran into each other at their 50th high school reunion. Several years later, they were getting married. They are both very happy and we are happy for them.

Halloween 2009

Tim and I usualy don't dress up for Halloween. This year however, I was in training and they suggested we dressup, so I did. I wore Alex's chef's hat and white chef's top from Dance Co. Tim bought a pair of blue scrub pants and a blue tee shirt and wore a stethiscope around his neck. Funny thing is that Tim figured he was dressing up as a nurse, since that is what the nurses wear. But when he got to work, everyone said he looked like a Dr. Then the nurses started calling him Dr McDreamy... from the show Grey's Anatomy. Of course I had to agree with him.. He is McDreamy!

Tim's Medallion Moment

You gotta see this!!! Not Tim's proudest moment.. but it sure was funny!!!

While we were on our cruise, they played a battle of the sexes game. Guys against girls. I went up for part of the game and Tim decided to go up for another round. This wasn't what I did. This was a game where he took a "medallion" and stuck it between his butt cheeks and then try and walk, or hop to the cup on the stage and drop it in....

What a week!!

Last Friday Tim and I flew to Miami, FL. In Miami, Tim realized he had left his shorts at home. We tried to think of every way we could get him some shorts before we left Miami, but we couldn't figure a way, There was no stores close by and short of calling a cab or renting a car, we figured we would have to wait till we got on the ship and hope they had some shorts.

The following day we boarded a cruise ship to the Caribbean. We had never been to the Caribbean before so we were super excited. Linda and Ken Hales and Linda and Kurt Brooks and Cindy and Keith Hales also went with us. Our first day was at sea. The water was so calm and blue it was amazing. The 2nd day we went to Cozumel. We took a ferry to Playa del Carmen and then took a van to Coba. While we were waiting for the Ferry, we met a couple from South Jordan. Their names are Lona and Gordon Graham. They were super nice and ended up joining us for our tour. While we were in Playa Del Carmen waiting for the van, Linda and Ken were in the shop arranging the van and they saw a Book of Mormon on the counter. Come to find out, the girl helping us was a member of the church and her brother was serving a mission in Mexico and she was getting herself ready to go to the temple. It was amazing to run into a member. She said she would love to come to Utah. Linda told her that is she came to Utah, she could stay with them and we would all take care of her while she was here. It took about an hour to drive to Coba and the driver drove very fast. There are about 7,000 ruins from the Mayan people there. Tim, Ken, Cindy, Keith, Lona and Gordon all climbed thetallest pyramid. Interesting thing is that the next day they were closing the pyramid so no one would be able to climb it. We were definately blessed to ge there on that day. After our tour, we were going back to where the Ferry was and a man on the side of the road saw Linda H's bag that said UTAH. He called her and Lind B over and asked them to send him a book. Linda B asked what kind of book, and he said, The other testimony of Jesus Christ. They realized that he was asking for a copy of the Book of Mormon. It was amazing that we could be missionaries any where we go!

Our next day was at sea and then the next day we went to Grand Cayman. It was beautiful and the people were very nice. We went to the Turtle farm and then to a town called "Hell" and then to swim with the stingrays. I thought I would be very scared, but they are really gentle creatures and so beautful!

The next day we went to Jamaica. It was very different there. Grand Cayman was totally flat and Jamaica was very mountainous. We went on a kind of historical tour in Jamaica and while we were looking at some of the unusual plant life we found some Marajuana.... yepper it looked like the real thing. LOL It was interesting, but very different. The roads are very rough and it wasn't the cleanest. I think I would like to go to Kingston or Montego Bay next time I go there.

Our last day seemed to fly by. We spent a lot of time playing cards. It was fun! What a wonderful 26th anniversary.

One more wall down... 20 more to go...