Boys trip to Colorado

1 Doctor + 3 Dr. wanna be's + Winter Park Colorado =

Good times!

So Tyler pretty much got spoiled his first

month of 3rd year rotations. His first

rotation was with Dr. Rupp an Internal

Med Doc. at the VA clinic. After about 2 weeks

into the rotation Dr. Rupp invited "Randall" to

spend a weekend at his "cabin" in Colorado. Tyler

was so stoked to take his bike and do some Mountain

biking. He even talked Doug into coming down with them

and trying out some down hill mountain biking. Dr. Rupp

hiked with another rotating student while Doug and Tyler

went Mountain biking. These boys had a great time.

And they totally deserved it with how hard they work!

FREE Ice Cream!

Thats right...

FREE

Ice Cream @ Cold Stone Creamery

Sept. 30th

from 5-8 p.m. only!

Gotta love FREE ice cream!!!

Independence Rock,

Alcova, WY

Sept. 13, 2010

On our way home from SLC we stopped

at Independence Rock. About 1/2 million Emigrants

from the East traveling on the Oregon Trial

passed this rock by foot or wagon in

the early to mid 1800's. By the time most

of the travelers reached this rock during their

journey it was around the 4th of July. This was

when the rest of the country was celebrating their

independence, so they thought it was very appropriate

to name it Independence Rock. A lot of the Emigrants

inscribed their name on the rock and they date they

arrived there.

At this point of our trip home we'd been in the car

for 4 hours straight. We only had 1 more hour until

we would be home, but we all needed a little break

from the car. Addie and Trey were so happy to

be out of their seats and able to run!

We walked about 1/2 way around the rock then
decided to hike all the way to up the top. We had a
great view from the top.


Our view from the top
Clockwise:
North view, East view, South view, West view


Some of Wyoming's wildlife and landscape.
We saw A LOT of cottontails and Pronghorn
while visiting Independence Rock.

Temple trips

We had the opportunity to visit

2 temples while staying Utah.

The 1st Temple was the Mount Timpanogos Temple.

We spent our Sunday evening walking

around the temple grounds.

The 2nd Temple was the Salt Lake Temple.

We stopped here on our way home. While Tyler

was doing some work in the temple the kids

and I toured the Visitor Center and walked

the temple.

The kids were so happy to see Daddy
when he was done...and so was I;). Those
two were on one and that didn't really mix with
trying to be reverent. They totally wore me out
and I only had them for 45 minutes until Ty was done!
Over all we had a great time visiting the temple
and it was a great way to start off our trip home.

A weekend with Aunt Marie and Grandma and Grandpa McFadden

Tyler decided he wanted to make the drive out to Richfield, Utah

to go hunting with his Dad and Brothers. So the kids and I

joined him on the car ride until we got to Provo, UT where

he dropped me and kids off at my sister's (Aunt Marie's) house.

Aunt Marie just recently got engaged we we got to talk

and do wedding stuff all weekend long....it was so much fun!

Fortunately for the kids and I...Grandma Rosie and

Grandpa Dave came up for the weekend as well.

Grandpa Dave even surprised the kids with a trip

to Utah's Hogle Zoo, while Grandma stayed home

to work on (sew) Aunt Marie's Wedding Dress. After

the zoo he treated them to "Old McDonalds"

(as Addie called it) for lunch. What a fun morning we had

with Grandpa Dave.

Addie loved helping Aunt "Rie" in the kitchen.

While people were napping on Sunday afternoon

they were busy scrubbing potatoes, making zucchini

brownies, and taste testing the batter!!!

We also had a chance to visit my Dad's brother,

Jon and his wife Carol. Jon is about as farmer as

you can get. He's a sweet ol' guy with not a lot to say.

Addie and Trey loved seeing and feeding all the cows.

Yay!!! Aunt Marie is getting married!

Marie and Ian. The ring. The dress.

Can you say....BEAUTIFUL??

Needless to say both Tyler and I had a great weekend

with our families.

Remodeling the Basement Part: 2 The Finished Product!

Hooray for our new basement!

We can officially call this project D.O.N.E!!

Here are all the BEFORE and AFTER pictures of

all the rooms in the basement.

BEFORE/ AFTER

Top: BEFORE

Bottom: AFTER

(The kids room/ family room)

Top: BEFORE

Bottom: AFTER

(this is the wall and door we built and put in to separate the utility room/water heater/furnace room. It was only separated by that curtain...Ugh. How was i suppose to keep my kids out of there?)

BEFORE/ AFTER

This part of the furnace and ducts were also exposed so we threw a wall in there too! I love that Ty and his Dad just put up a wall here and there like it was no big deal!!

AFTER.

I can't believe I didn't get a BEOFRE shot of this room.

It had hideious curtains just like the room below,and non painted

cement floor. We tore down the curtains in hurry and put up blinds(in all the rooms)

repainted to room, painted the cement floor with a nice dark toupe cement paint and put

a large piece of new carpet in as an area rug.

BEFORE

Check out those curtains...blah.

We put up new blinds, put in new carpet,

and painted over all that yucky blue.

AFTER
Besides the kids play room...this is probably my favorite room.

Probably because its my very own sewing room! No more

sewing around the dinner table! Yay! I get to share

it with Tyler every now and then when he is studying at his desk...

which makes for nice company while im doing projects!

Our basement remodel Part 1: The construction

The tiling.

This was a new experience for me. Tyler's Mom

and I had a fun time tiling the bathroom. I highly

recommend the "stick on tiles" for lack of a better name.

They are just about as durable as real tile and look

like real tile but you don't

have to worry about grout and spacing and all that stuff.

You simply tear off the wax paper off

the sticky side and stick 'em down side by side!

How cool is that!

The painting.

Thee ENTIRE basement got a fresh coat of paint

from top to bottom.

It was so nice and smelled SO much better

Addie loved helping Grandpa Hansen paint.

He was so patient with her and would

take the time to teach her correct ways

to use the paint brush and how to

get the exess paint off after dipping it in.

The process of building and putting up the wall.

A HUGE Thank you to Tyler's Mom and Dad

for coming up to help us accomplish the

remodeling of our basement. Tyler's Dad

worked so hard everyday all day for a whole week

to get our basement looking good. The minute

Tyler got home from work a.k.a(rotation) he

would throw on his grubby clothes and join his

dad in the work. Tyler LOVES to do this kind

work, especially when he gets to do it along

the side of his "Pops." His mom and I would

help out when and where we could while trying

to keep the kids entertained and out of the way!