90% DONE!

Our brightly colored room had been outgrown by the girls.  With Marissa and Jacquie off to college, Andrea wanted to make the room all hers.  It was a big job, but we hoped we could someday get it done.  Painting was a HUGE job.  It took some great primer to hide our bright orange, turquoise, hot pink, and lime green walls.  But is was worth it...

Boy those girls had A LOT of stuff!

Slowly the calm, peaceful grey took over the room....

The grey walls turned out great!

We LOVE the vinyl tree branch we picked up from a great groupon deal :)

Jacquie found the perfect mirror at a yard sale in Provo...

It turned out to be just what we needed.  We love the shiny dark grey! Much better than the nasty gold it was previously!

As for that white dresser...

It needed some cheering up too!

Sooooo.......

Wait for it.  Wait for it.

And POW!  Here's the new room....

Here's the mirror and the lovely ombre dresser.  Pretty cute, yes?

And holy. The purple dresser with grey handles turned out awesome.  We are in love with the new decor.  The curtains aren't quite done.... Hopefully I'll get those done on Monday!! Then I'll post pics of the rest of the room.  Andrea worked so hard redecorating.

She did an outstanding job!! Don't you agree??

Best 2012 Purchase

Warm drinks from Starbucks make me happy. Too bad Starbucks is so blasted expensive!! As a teacher I always get gift cards to Starbucks from students.... People still think that teachers always drink coffee. (which is kind of funny because not many of my colleagues drink coffee every day--- iced tea and diet coke is what you usually find in their hands....)

Anyway-- I love me some hot vanilla milk. Soooo good. For about $10 I bought a WHOLE bottle of sugar-free vanilla syrup! And yes, I'm addicted. Andrea loves the cinnamon dolce. It's mighty good too. You can add it to hot milk OR hot apple juice.

I'm saving all sorts of money. :)

And I'm super warm in my tummy!!

Happy New Year!

Sorry my New Year post is a little late. It is still the first week of the year, so I figured it was still good!

I saw this cute little idea on PINTEREST (my new addiction!)!  I thought it would be a cute little neighbor & friend gift to celebrate the new year.  They turned out pretty cute-- even if I say so myself!

Happy New Year!  I have a feeling 2012 is going to be a GREAT, yet busy, YEAR! We Wagdogz have many, many things to look forward to this year.  I predict there will be future posts on lots of great events like these:

a WEDDING

a 1/2 Marathon

a Reunion

Soccer Games

Swim Meets

EFY

completed projects ;)

and much, much MORE!

projects, projects, projects!

It's a Brand NEW Year!

That makes it the perfect time to complete some projects. I've been working hard to finish some projects that are LONG overdue.  Lucky for me I had a helper. Kevin was so kind to FINALLY finish painting these doors. I'm not kidding around about the 'finally' part. Seriously this project has been needing completion for about 8 years. I'm quite the procrastinator. And, I never go in the computer room-- so it really didn't bother me. LoL.   BIG thanks to Kevin for getting this bad-baby DONE for me :).

Yes, it's true.  The hall closet got a thorough cleaning.  Too many people (yes kids-- I mean YOU) just toss stuff in this closet when they're done with it. After awhile, I even join in on that bad habit.  But NO more. :) Its spic and span and HIGHLY organized.  Don't even think about using stuff and not putting it away correctly. I promise to hunt you down if you do!

Marissa and Jacquie both moved into new places at school. Marissa shared her super cute color coordinated bookcase. I love it! What an easy way to decorate in an apartment :)  

And these little drawers....

Ahhhh. This is only a sneak peak.  Get excited because the unveiling of the finished project will be coming soon. It is looking super good so far. I can hardly wait to get it all done. Neither can Andrea :)

Rest assured that I am completing many projects before school resumes on Monday! It feels great!

Bell Helicopter Bowl

 Jim and Riley were lucky enough to fly to Dallas, Texas and go to the Bell Helicopter Bowl. They watched BYU beat Tulsa. It was a great game (we watched on TV at home)!  Although we were excited that Jim and Riley got to go, the rest of us were a little jealous.

 They got to hang out with Uncle Russ, Aunt Suzanne, Keith, Kelsey, and Linsday.

Super jealous :)

 They even flew in some cool helicopters for the game.

Riley watching the Cougars warm up!

 Ha. I love this picture!  I like to think the shadows are Keith and Kelsey (even though it is just some random people who were willing to take the picture!)

 Pregame.

Very cool.

A great Bowl win for the Cougars.

A great trip for 2 big Cougar fans!

One more little moment of Christmas cheer.

Kevin really enjoys opening presents :)

Christmas Day

Warning :)  Lots of Christmas Cheer!

Santa came :)

 The 'Arrested Development' Series for Kevin!

 A new Mac cover for Marissa!

 Riley got some new kicks.

 So did Andrea :)

 Jim got some crackers and cheese!! (He got more stuff too-- lol) 

 Kevin is a straight up G!

Awwww. Jacquie got a cute hat from Marissa :)

And we all received lots, lots more.  The best gift of all...

Being together! :)

I hope your Christmas was as Merry as ours!