More books and our remodel job!

I just finished a few more books.  I started a new author, Sarah M. Eden.  She writes in the eighteen-hundred time period in England.  "Courting Miss Lancaster" was a darling, light, and fast read.  I enjoyed it very much.  "The Trial" by Lindsey Phillip Dew was a great read also.  It is about upholding the rules of the law even if you won't like the consequences.  I recommend both books.



I worked the Orem City Primary Elections all day yesterday.  One of our ward members, Chris Nichols, is running for Orem City mayor.  He actually won be a landslide against the other candidates.  I hope he wins.  He will be a great mayor!  He is a good man!  He is the one who helped find and purchase our Springville town homes.  We made him a wealthy man when we signed on the dotted line.

Life just keeps passing us by.  My life is very full right now and I love it that way.  It could slow down a tiny bit, but life is treating Frank and I well.

We finally finished our remodeling of our kitchen, living room and bathroom.  I love all the improvements.  I absolutely LOVE my new kitchen!  It reminds me of Florida!  The countertops are the sand and the backsplash are the colors of Florida.  The kitchen is so bright and cheery.

Old kitchen

New kitchen

I LOVE our green wall!

The green wall

We saw this color in our newly decorated room at the Flamingo Hilton Grand Vacation Club that we stayed at in May with all our family.  I called down to the front desk and asked what the color was.  An engineer wrote the color on a paper and left it in our room.
I called Brandon Zollinger, our painter, and he was able to find the color and had it all painted when I got home from our trip.  I am not a green, brown, tan, or gray person, but these are all the colors in our new remodel.  So out of character for me.



I LOVE the tile!  It is so beautiful, and so easy to care for.  I went with the big 20" squares and they are so nice to walk on.

The new tile

I LOVE the bathroom!  I chose a rectangle sink, a faucet that looks like a watering trough water faucet, and we put in an old-people tub, a WALK-IN tub!  It is so much fun to take a "tubbie" now.  Frank and I picked out a beautiful frame for the bathroom mirror that we already had in there.  It is gorgeous!  We used the same countertop color with a dark brown cabinet.  Everything is so elegant.  We also used the same tile on the floor and around the tub.  I love this room!

Rectangle sink and watering trough faucet!

Our beautiful mirror!

The finished bathroom

Our walk-in "tubbie"

We carpeted the small area in the front room, down the stairs, the family room and hallway downstairs.  I really like the carpet I picked out.  At first I thought it was too light, but change is difficult.  I had to get used to it, and now I LOVE it!  Everyone who has come to look at our new house, comments on how good everything looks together.  That was not me alone.  I had opinions from Staci, Theresa, Tiffany and Katie, along with all the workers and installers along the way.  Our new digs all came about because of the help of many.  I couldn't have done it alone.  So, a BIG THANKS to everyone who helped make our home so beautiful!