More Home Renovation for Dummies....

So here is the latest.... We have had the wood laminate for a year and we finally decided to put it in the entry way from the garage. When we pulled up the carpet, the concrete was horrible. There were high spots and spots where they added the basement and the concrete was super low. So we used concrete level to try and fix it, but there were still high spots we we borrowed a grinder from a friend and tried to level it better. What a mess. Concrete dust everywhere... and just when we were about finished, there was suddenly smoke everywhere. The smoke alarms went off and so I ran to disarm the ADT alarm. Then we ran around opening windows and then I got a call from ADT. I explained that it was a false alarm and that the fire department wasn't needed. She said she would let them know it was a false alarm, but that they might still come. Fortunately they didn't come. But at that point Tim decided we were done and we would put down the wood and hope for the best! It looks good. Hopefully it is a good job and will last a while.

Finally I think we are done... with these rooms

They could use a bit of embellishments, but other than that... I think we are done! Whew....

Oh and a side note about Alex's room... When he saw the pictures of his room and saw that it was orange.. he said, "I was just kidding about it being ORANGE." Oh I wanted to punch him... but really we are glad that we had to use a color we weren't comfortable with... It caused us to think outside our comfort zone... and I think we did OK with it. Hopefully he will like it... if not... oh well, next time he won't joke about it... or we won't take him seriously.





























The wall is not as yellow as it looks, it is more like the ones above. Lighter, almost pastel, but definitely yellow.

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....