Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Lisa's project!

Lisa & Barry have bought a house in Pinetop, which we are very excited about because that's pretty close to home! They still have their house in Gilbert, but hope to spend some time in Pinetop too. Lisa is now decorating it and needed her Dad's help building a massive headboard for the master bedroom! 
So Lisa came home and started going through her Dad's wood pile. She found some old, rough, HEAVY pieces of wood. They measured and sawed and worked all day in the cold!
Tami came over to help too. 
She had her Dad cut pieces of metal plate to bolt the big pieces of wood together. It was heavy duty and very rustic! 
 They pieced it together and it was huge, taking up one side of the garage! Since it needed to be hauled to Pinetop, they didn't bolt it together yet.

Once we got it to Pinetop and into their bedroom, the fun began! We had to move the bed so there was room to work. We had to re- measure and re-figure everything and found it wouldn't quite fit in the space they had. Lisa had to settle for it NOT quite being what she wanted, but its still pretty awesome! 
 Once the wood frame was made, we had to make the padded headboard part. We started with 2 pieces of plywood which we had to cut to size and fit into the frame. Because the wood frame was old and slightly warped, this part was tricky. When that was done, we glued on 1 inch foam to the plywood, then added 3 layers of batting and stapled that around the back.
 We covered that with tan fabric and stapled it on the headboard tight. We measured for the tucks to be 1 foot apart then started putting in the nails. This was all being done in the dark, since we'd been at it all day long!!
This is their wall the headboard had to fit on and... 
...here's the finished product. LaVerl had to screw it into the 
wall, if it fell, it would probably kill someone!
It will look much better
with the bed and all the cute bedding on. Between us working
on the headboard, LaVerl also installed 4 can lights in the 
kitchen that look awesome. However it was a messy job,
insulation went everywhere and Lisa had cleaned and dusted
everything before. We finished up 
about 10:30pm. It was fun spending the day with our daughter
and now she has a one of a kind, unique, awesome
headboard!!

More pics of the grand kids---


I found more pictures on my camera of when I had Bret and Becki's kids for a week, so I thought I'd better get them posted since I have lots of new pictures to post about my trip to Oklahoma last week.

 Cute Kingston playing with legos
 Baby Ivory is such a good little eater!
 When Blake came over to play, he and Dempsey liked the same 
TV shows on Disney Jr.
 We decided it would be fun to build a fort!

 Then they made a big bed to play on.
 Oh yes, bath time is always fun!

 London made some pretty cool things too
 Their last day here we finally got to spend some time at the park!

 Such a good baby!



So there you have it, a week full of lots of adventures with the grandkids. I sure have cute ones and love them all lots!!

Sunday, May 25, 2014

Adventures with the grandkids!


This has been a busy week for me and Gpa! We've had 4 extra little kiddos at our house and everyday is an adventure. Bret & Becki are in Hawaii enjoying Becki's Christmas gift together.  Here on the home front we've been dealing with a little flu bug that we ALL caught. I was sick first, then LaVerl, then each of the kids. (Its the 'throw-up - diarrhea kind) The baby, Ivory is still dealing with it, but she's a trooper, still smiling and happy most of the time. 

She's pretty adorable!

This next adventure was actually kind of funny, at least I thought so. Kingston comes running telling me that "London's arm is caught in the game." I went in the room to see London's arm stuck down the fooz ball hole.  He had tossed a lego guy down the hole and she was reaching in to get it for him. I tried to pull on it, I tried to rearrange her at a better angle, I tried moving it around, nothing seemed to be working. In the meantime, she is crying and carrying on, not thinking it was funny at all.
Finally I go get the dish soap and rub a bunch on to her arm and start pulling again. Nothing! I decide I better pull the drawer out so I can reach her arm from the inside. My arm can barely reach hers, but I manage to rub more soap on hers, then I push up! Success!!
It was a little red, but OK!
Kingston is really good at making things with the legos
They all love their little sister. I did manage to load all four up and take them to the library, the park and the grocery store a few times.


Dempsey showing off her boat?
Ivory has been the sickest, she threw up all over me one
day, but most of the time I go into get her from her nap, or when 
I check on her before I go to bed, and she's just laying in her
throw up. Poor little thing, but she's feeling better today.
The weather hasn't been real good for playing outside.
The wind has been howling all week and finally blew in
a little storm. We've had some rain and its been cold.
They were really excited about this sand castle they built.
This is a regular scene. It seems I am always feeding them.

To add to all the fun, yesterday Kingston wanted to earn some money so I told him he could vacuum out their van. Somehow I think he hit some buttons up front, because when he got out and shut the sliding door, everything locked and the keys were inside! Not Kingston's fault, mine, for leaving the keys in the van!  
We've had fun most of the time, they've loved gathering the eggs with Gpa, riding the 4-wheeler, playing with all Gma's toys, watching lots of movies (thanks to my kids for my new Roku and to Reed for all the movies he put on it!) We've gotten to know these little people a little better after spending a week with them.

Friday, May 23, 2014

Lake Powell Fishing Trip

Yep, just a week after going to Black River, Dad went on ANOTHER fishing trip with his buddies, Ron Cole and Bob Johnson, to Lake Powell. They left on Thursday morning and picked the boat up at Roosevelt on their way. They put in at Navajo Marina where they had to pay the indians $35 while the guys sat in the boat and let them back it up into the water. The indians unhook it and then go park the truck!   
 Bob Johnson and Ron Cole
 Its a long ways to launch, so them parking for you is a good deal! 

 Setting up camp
 Unloaded and ready for fishing!

 Beautiful lake!
 They caught stripers and crappie.
 Fish for dinner and...
 ...green chili with eggs. Dad went with two really good cooks.

 Two  nice ones!
 Fishing buddies!

 After two days of fishing and catching about 30-40 fish, they load 
up and head back.

It was a great 3 days, they didn't catch as many as last year, but still a great time. How can being at Lake Powell not be great??