More Before & After Photos

Here are a few more b & a pics of the house:

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

Happy Birthday To Me

We celebrated my birthday by going to Moab for a trail half-marathon (Todd) and 5k (me.)  Avery stayed with Grandma for 3 days and for the first time ever we didn't sleep in the same place!  It went really well, except for coming home early with the flu, and picking up Avery who also had the flu, and giving the flu to my mom and sister.  That part was awful.

During the 5k I felt my love for running re-ignite and I'm planning on training for a half marathon next Spring.  I felt kinda wussy (OK really wimpy and wussy) for only doing a 5k when Todd did the half and Mark and Van did the whole marathon.  But at least I did a running event, right?

Since our trip was cut short I only took a few photos.  Here's the best one:

Here are the 31 things I almost completed in the last year:

1. Take swim lessons - check

2. Learn to ski- check

3. Ski back country (I've always been afraid of this!)- check- and I kinda hated it!

4. Hike Lone Peak- didn't make it.

5. Hike Twin Peaks- didn't make it.

6. Do a duathalon- check

7. Take a cooking class- didn't make it.  But I did cook a lot of pie crusts!

8. Buy my dream home- check

9. Fix up my dream home because I'll probably have to buy a less expensive scummy house and make it my own- check

10. Visit my sister in Vernal every couple months- check

11. Take Avery to the beach- check

12. Take Avery desert camping- check

13. Kayak down a river- check

14. Learn to install hard wood floors- check

15. Mountain bike a marathon distance- check and this one lost me 5 pounds! I'm not kidding, it was hard!!

16. Learn to make a pie crust that doesn't taste like concrete- check (see #7)

17. Use apples from my yard to cook with- check

18. Actually truly FINISH this darn house we've been working on- check

19. Compete in another bike race- didn't make it

20. Do the Dirty Dash- check

21. Backpack somewhere with Avery- didn't make it. I was really sad about this one.

22. Learn to build furniture out of wood- check

23. Run a trail race- check

24. Plan a trip- check

25. Take a trip!- check (no where too exciting, just Moab but I loved it.)

26. Take a trip without Avery- check

27. Become comfortable with power tools- check

28. Bring someone dinner who needs it- check a few times

29. Throw a party in our new house- check

30. Figure out why I'm dizzy all time time- this one is in the works.  I'm wearing a heart monitor right now.

31.  Forgive myself for not completing this whole list- check!

Coffee Table

What a difference a coffee table will make!

 

   

   

   

They call this the 20 second tidy up coffee table, but it took me 2 minutes to toss everything inside. Not bad!

I made the coffee table myself. I bought bare pine from Home Depot and followed the instructions on ana-white.com and made it! I'm hooked on this wood-working stuff, it's really fun. :) For my birthday I got a kreg jig, air compressor, and 2 nail guns.  So cool!

The ironic thing about this table is that I actually stained it with coffee.  The coffee-stained coffee table, get it?