Transforming our House

I know my mom already blogged about Richard and I painting our house, but I'm still going to blog about it anyway. I knew she would beat me to it. She is just WAY to fast for me to keep up with. Anyhow, on Saturday we painted our house and both of our parents helped us. We are so spoiled with all the help we get, but truly we are blessed and we are grateful for that. So technically this house isn't "ours" but we are renting it from Eric and Becca. Part of the deal is that we fix it up while we live here so we picked a color pallet and started working. I was so happy because we got two coats on the house in one day. I really didn't want to have to get the mess back out to finish, so it's good we did it all in one day. We love the color and how good the house looks with just a point job. The next step is to bend white aluminum around all the window and door frames. Then we will be getting black shutters, door knobs, and step railing. We are also going to get the doors spray painted white with car paint. So it is a work in progress and we are excited to see the finished look.

Here are some before and after pictures of the house:

Now here are some pictures of us painting the house:

My dad, got to love 'em

Labor Day Weekend

For Labor Day weekend Richard and I went camping up on the Big Horns. We camped with Craig and Careen, Becky and Greg and their kids, and David and Jenny Rael. We went up Friday night, ate a great dinner and sat around the camp fire and talked until bed time. On Saturday we had some breakfast and took all the kids on a four wheeler ride. Richard and I took a nap and then we all ate smoked ribs for dinner that David made. They were really good along with potatoes and corn on the cob. We went down that night to go to church in the morning. After church we all went back onto the mountain and stayed until Monday night. We had another good dinner on Sunday night and stayed up talking around the camp fire. On Monday the girls went with David and Jenny so the rest of us went on a four wheeler ride without the kids. In the middle of our ride Richard and I stopped and hiked down to see the Porky Pine falls. The falls are really pretty and we found some raspberry bushes so we had a little snack. The hike back up was a lot harder then going down. I'm really out of shape and it pretty much kicked my butt. Richard was very patient and waited for me every time I had to stop. After we finished our ride we went back to camp and had a sandwich and cleaned everything up and come down off the mountain. Richard and I just want to thank his family for letting us tag along and also letting us stay in his parents camper. It was a fun time and a nice little break.
( I don't have the best pictures because my camera kept dying)

Everyone around the camp fire

The kids waiting to go on a four wheeler ride.