HillHapps

About a week after we moved I started walking almost every night with my friend Cheryl in my new ward.  We  have recruited some more people since…my neighbor Rebecca and Cheryl’s neighbor Tanessa.  I love it.  We walk almost 3 1/2 miles every night.  Anyway, so when I got home from walking last night (we leave at 9pm and get back around 10pm), this is what I found:

Got to love it!!

The last block of the month class that I went to at Deseret Book they showed us some ideas of how we could put together our quilt tops.  They said that if we brought our finished quilt top(s) to the next class in February that our names would be put in a drawing to win a gift basket.  I bought all my fabric to do it, but I had a couple of blocks that I had to finish before it was possible.

Last Friday I was determined to finish one of the tops because Brad was at a camp out with his scouts and I didn’t have anything better to do.  After I put the kids to bed I started working.  I was sewing from 10pm to 4am.  6 hours straight…but I finished it.  Yesterday I started working on my other one, which seemed to come together much faster then the last one…maybe because it wasn’t so early in the morning.  Anyway, I’m really proud of myself because I actually finished both of them 2 weeks before they are supposed to be done.  WooHoo!!  Anyway, here they are:

This is the one that I finished at 4am on Saturday morning.

This is the one that I just barely finished.

Yes, the title is correct.  I have never cut Cailyn’s hair.  Yes…she is almost 4!  I’ve really been wanting to cut Cailyn’s hair for the last year.  Every time we’d talk about it, she’d start to freak out and have a major melt down.  Last week we were talking about it and she said that she’d get it cut on her birthday.  Her birthday isn’t until February, so I obviously was not for that…so I suggested that we do it on Christmas Eve.  She thought that was a great idea.  I really didn’t want to do it today, because I have way too many things to get done before my family shows up so I suggested that we cut it last night.  Cailyn persisted, “But it’ not Christmas Eve!!”  Then I said, “Well, it’s the Eve of Christmas Eve!!”  Then she said, “Oh okay.”  So I hurried up and got all my hair stuff ready so she wouldn’t have time to change her mind.  Here are the pictures from the blessed event.

He hair was almost down to her butt!!

Cailyn pretending she doesn’t like it.

Cailyn and her pony tail that we cut off.

My crazy child and her super cute new do.

Goose Egg!!  Cailyn was running and slipped and ran into Gavin’s bedroom door.  She takes after her mother.  :)

…is how Cailyn likes to eat Spaghettios.  GROSS!!!

Cailyn:    Can I have some of your rotten noodles?

Me:    Cailyn, they’re ramen noodles.

Cailyn:    Can I have some of your robin noodles?

I give up!

I should have been working on quilt blocks this week, because the class is tomorrow and I haven’t started any of them for this month yet.  I’ve had my eye on these super cute blocks that spell out Merry Christmas from Tai Pan the past couple months.  It wasn’t really a shocker when I went there last week and they were sold out.  There were entirely too expensive anyway, so I decided to make my own.  They turned pretty cute.  I think they are cuter than the ones at Tai Pan because the ones there were only white and green.  Anyway….here’s the process.

I bought a big piece of wood and measured out how big I wanted each block.  Kimball (Brad’s brother) is taking a wood working class at UVU right now, so he took the wood to school and cut it up and sanded the edges for me.  These are the blocks before I sprayed them.

I sprayed them with a tan color first.

I then took painters tape and lined it on a piece of masonite.  I measured each block to see how big I wanted each letter.  Brad helped me get the letters the right size.  I printed each letter off and taped it on top of the masonite then traced the letters with an xacto knife so it would cut through the painters tape.  I then pealed the letters off the masonite and stuck them to each block.

After all the letters were on I spray painted them green and red.

After they were mostly dry I went and pealed the painters tape off.  When they were completely dry I sanded the edges and sprayed them with a clear coat.  I also made a star but didn’t get any pictures of its progress.

This is the finished product.  They are cuter in real life because you can see the tan color through the sanded edges.  Anyway, it was fun and pretty easy and way cheaper than buying them from Tai Pan.

So today we had our final walkthrough and now our house has blue chicken pocks all over it.    Last night they poured our driveway, back patio and they started to pour our front walkway but ran out of concrete, so they finished it up this morning.  They were hoping to have all the concrete work done, the final grade, and the garage door installed before we got there today, but because they ran out of concrete last night it kind of set them back a little bit.  We also found out today that the builder wont install white garage doors for some reason, so they changed the color on us.  We were planning on having all white doors hence our front door being white, so we called up the builder and asked since they switched the garage door color on us that they would paint all the doors the same color as the garage door.  So they are going to do that for us.  Also I noticed that the attic vent on the front of our house isn’t the same color as the ones on the sides of the house so they are going to switch that out for us as well.  Anyway, heres the pictures from today.

We close on Friday and they say that we’ll get the keys at 4:30 on Monday.  We’ll see.

So I know I already posted today about our fine house, but we wanted to go out there tonight to make sure that they did the right patio size in the back that we upgraded to (which, they didn’t).  However, to my surprise, there was a ton of other stuff done.  When I went earlier today, it was around 11:30am and all that had been done since I had been there on Saturday was the closet doors being installed.  Well, tonight we found all the door knobs, closet shelves, vent covers and the “man door” was installed.  Oh…I mustn’t forget our gorgeous appliances.  Oh how I love my kitchen!!!!  It looks soooo beautiful.

Our appliances and cute, silly kids.

Pantry Shelves

Half of the Master Bedroom Closet Shelves

Gavin’s Closet Shelves

My Man and His Door

As of today, we have 10 days until we close on our house.  10 DAYS!!!!  We went out today to see more progress.  They were spreading the gravel for concrete prep, and the closet doors were installed.  Here are pictures: