Floor Project

We are refinishing our dining room floor- Yikes we have never done this before.

Saturday I pulled up the carpet - LOOK What I found??? Wow that is NOT so beautiful. I believe that I am crazy!



Here is Shawn - look at all of the energy - trust me when I say that it was gone at Midnight.



Look at this finish from 1908 - WHAT DID THEY USE????? ARGH - It took us 12 hours of work removing this GUNK.



After 3 trips to home depot - this is our floor today at 5:00 PM - It was a process. Now all we have left to do is 2 days of Polyurithane. Can you hear the giddiness in my voice! No that is not the fumes - yet

4th of July Picnic

Here are a few pictures from our 4th of July Celebration picnic.



Here Dave is riding a car down a hill. He had so much fun. My children have never had a hill to play on - except at Gp & Grandmas. It is so entertaining!!! I just laugh.



Brotherly love! I think that I have a picture like this with Deb --- hummm



Shawn doing what he does best - listening or talking -



Dave LOVES watermellon. It i like a bug smile. He ate a cheeseburger - well the bun and cheese with ketchup - just so he could have Watermellon!



Here they are all lined up for fireworks.



Dave had a great time with sparklers.

Fireworks for GP and Grandma

Just a few fireworks to celbrate the 4th for some people far from home. But don't look to hard - there are no smoking black snakes like Dad used to have...

George Laub Home Restored.

I am sure that my family will remember the Nauvoo trip when I was about 12? (Sorry Vicki!) I found this picture on the Nauvoo web site - it is the restored George Laub home. Pretty Cool.

I also found, I think, a journal of his trip to the Salt Lake Valley. Really cool.

http://www.lds.org/churchhistory/library/pioneerdetails/0,15791,4018-1-10585,00.html

There is a book at the Harold B Lee Library (BYU) that I am interested in pursuing. Mom and Dad I thought you might be interested in this information.

There have been several comments about the emphamis "brick" - Yes it is a little ironic that it could be restored with a brick in Ohio! Maybe the hole is around back where it can't be noticed - hehe!

Girl''s Camp

Last week I was at girl's camp. I loved it as a kid, but as an adult it is not one of my favorite activities. Although, I did enjoy working with the stake leaders and teaching 2 classes, one on plants and the other on extinguishing fires. I also had an opportunity to be in charge of the “Solo” activity. I found a really neat story that I shared with the YW about Gratitude. It was really cool to watch them change from Self-Centered to thinking about others. Anyway, if you didn’t know where I was – now you do.

We went to a camp that had tranquilized and removed a black bear in the month prior to our visit. So we had to take precautions – locking the food up in our cars at night, and not leaving any food scraps around the campsite. The camp was beautifully situated near a lake. I had an opportunity to go on the five-mile hike. WOW did we climb a hill. 2,000 feet in 1/3 a mile! I was really tired.

Anyway - I am glad to be home! SORRY. I DON’T HAVE ANY PICTURES! I didn’t even take the camera out of the case. OOOPS! I will see if I can get some pictures from some of the girls, they took enough for everyone!