What a Difference Curtains Can Make

We have the HUGE family room.  It is about 20 feet high.  I love the room, but it is HUGE and all white.  I have promised Brandon we will not paint this room with the condition that we will paint the rest of the house.  However, the room is very WHITE and the east sun shines really hard into my VERY tall windows. in the morning and warms the room.  Coupled with that there were blinds that were UGLY. 

We won't talk about the curtains on the top.  I'm still trying to figure out an answer to those.

With as hot as it getting we decided we really needed curtains so I went searching.  Since we want to refinish our couches with a solid microfiber eventually, I decided we needed a print on the curtains.

And I love them

I got grommet ones and the slide so easily which was a concern with the tall curtains.  Bonus, they look fabulous open.

My Favorite Room

For the first time I have Living Room furniture that I chose.  I love to just sit in this room and read, when I walk in I just take a deep breath and relax.

Originally it had these lovely lace curtains with antique gold rods.

But they are gone now, I painted the rods and got these great curtains that make me happy.

The other end of the room is equally wonderful

We only eat dinner in here.

Did I mention I love this room?  Here is another photo in case you forgot.

Family Reunion

Last weekend we drove to Salt Lake for my family's reunion.  It was a lot of fun.

We went to the Hill Airforce Base Museum and saw all the planes.  You could call it the "Boy" part of the reunion.  But the girls found a way to have fun. 

You can always dance.

Unfortunately,  we found it was colder and we only planned for it to be warm, oops!  Luckily, the kids were able to stay warm.

Here we (the photographer cut Spencer out) at the museum.

Here are the babies from last year all a year or almost

Then we went swimming, no photos because it was indoor and VERY humid.  On Saturday we started at the Salt Lake Cemetery where we did a scavenger hunt for graves.  My sister Stephanie was in charge and gave us a list of names and a map and we had to find the death dates. In case you ever plan to do this, keep in mind, the cemetery is on a STEEP hill. 

but is a great view

Also, a slight hint, Elder McKonkie's grave stone is flat and small.  It took us about 15/20 minutes to locate it.

Here are the kids by our relative Erastus Peterson

 This was a grave stone of a Francis Mack Matheson.  While my Mom didn't know how we were related, we figure he was blessed by our Great-Great Grandfather Francis Webster who named all the boys he was asked to bless "Francis" after himself even if the parents had chosen a different name.

Afterwards, we went to Brigham Young's grave.

Love the view from the parking spot.

In 2007 we got shirts for all the grandkids for my Dad's family reunion and numbered them in birth order.   At the time there were 9 grandkids. 

 2007

the two youngest were asleep so they aren't pictured

This year we did it again.

2010

the 4 youngest are not pictured here

2007

 2010

One baby is missing, she fell asleep on the way to Brigham Young's gravesite 

 Here's Andrew and his cousin Ya-Ya getting "hugged" by Brigham Young.

THANKS STEPHANIE FOR A FUN WEEKEND!

Food is Good!

Spencer is starting to feed himself and he is enjoying it.  Here is his first experience with spaghetti. 

Then he found he loves muffins.  (take note of the spanish book.  Alexis wanted Duck for President in Spanish and loved when Brandon would read it and translate it for them.)