home sweet home

first home <3

there were many friends and family and many hours of work involved

 our top 5 "1st to go's"
1. dish washer full of moldy water
2. the pink room
3. the massive hole in hallway wall
4. the  yellow counter tops and
 5. the sink

kitchen before and after

we got about this far before we realized that
we'd have to sand these works of art down,
with out doing so we would have a  braille version of these beauties.  

a before and a half 3/4 of the way finished living room!

props to aubree for the idea to display
 a painting on an easel above our fire place
in the deep and awkwardly shaped cut out! 

the master bedroom, minutes the bed frame and carpet! that will be coming shortly!

we love the openness of the living space!

this room is obviously not finished as far as furniture and wall decor but we still love it!

guest bathroom

finished living room :)

for time and all eternity

Mr. & Mrs. Thomas & Carolyn Talbot

Dallas's mom and fiance were sealed on January 11th. It was such an amazing day. We are so happy and excited for them.

our cousin, Kara, did all the temple photos, they all turned out so amazing!!

order

I am so behind with my blog posts, and although I have some super exciting ones I can't bring myself to not post them in order... So I'll start with some pictures from Christmas.

We went to SD for Christmas this year. We got to be there for a full week it was so nice to be able to spend so much time with my side of the fam. Although I wasn't very good about taking pictures I did manage to get some with my younger siblings and some at the cabin we stayed at for a few days.

christmas pj's- a must (notice the duke/unc rivalry)





this is the christmas card we got from my older sister and nephew:)

the view from the cabin at terry peak

the missionaries came up and spent their p day with us. it just so happend that jimmer was playing that night and so we sent them a little christmas gift once we got back.

it doesn't matter if it's an AZ summer or an SD winter, frozen snickers are the best kind of snickers

the guys decided it would be fun to go shoot guns, this is something i had never done before... this is apparent in the video below...smh!

We were also able to go see the temple lights with some friends, that will be a tradition for sure!