HaPpY VaLeNTiNe's DaY!

For Valentine's Day, Jon gave me some pretty pink roses and a picture frame with one of my favorite sayings on it.  It's actually the one on the top of our blog.

Since Valentine's Day actually fell on a Sunday, we went out to eat the night before.  It was nice and low key. The way we like it.

On February 4th, my brother and sister-in-law found out that they're having... [drumroll] a boy! This will be my mom's (and Kristin's mom's) first grandson. 

Olivia even knows the sign language for baby (among other words).

Our project continued...

Our storage under the stairs is coming along.  Saturday, Jon and his dad sheetrocked the little space.  The next step is to mud it.

We even have a light in there now.  Jon's friend came over and helped him wire the light and put in a light switch.  We also had to move the power outlet that was removed with the wall.

So our little projects are coming along. 

Since I'm not much help with Jon's project, my current house project is repainting the cupboards in the kitchen.  I've been wanting to do it for awhile now.  I think they were painted white (from brown) 2 owners ago right before they sold it.  So I am suspecting that they haven't been painted or repainted in probably 5 years.  They definitely need it.

House Projects

So we've decided to start on a few house projects.   Our first one is a small storage area under our stairs.

Jon likes making holes in the wall.

This is a picture of some of the storage space we now have. 

We need to do a few finishing touches on it but you get the idea.

We've also decided to put in laminate flooring in our living room (the rest of our downstairs is tile). We've already purchased the supplies.  Eventually I want to do the laminate flooring upstairs too.  The good new is that the flooring supplies for downstairs and the storage space supplies were all purchased on gift cards!!

Oh, ya we also want to paint our second bedroom and put up another medicine cabinet in the bathroom.

Yay for house projects!

Christmas and New Year's

We hope everyone had a good Christmas.  We started out our Christmas Eve by going to my parents' house.  My entire family was together, despite the possibility that my youngest brother would not be able to make it. We had dinner and opened presents.  My mom is big into emergency preparedness so we got many additions to our 72-hour kits.  Good thing she thinks of this stuff, because we don't!  We also got a bunch of little things here and there like money, gift cards, smelly-good lotion, books, etc. 
We then headed over to Jon's parents' house where we participated in his family's gift exchange.  Jon received some Mountain Dew pajama pants along with some Diet Mountain Dew.  I got a cute fleece blanket from the unborn child of my brother-in-law and sister-in-law.  We then went home and opened presents from each other.  My main gift was a pair of new shoes that I had been wanting and Jon received an Ipod from me. We had a good time. (I'm waiting for other pictures so I can post them also).

 

Thank goodness 2009 is gone and done with.  There are so many things that went totally wrong last year.  The only good thing is that I graduated from school and passed my nursing exam.  Again and again I am reminded that the Lord is the one in charge.  His plans often differ than mine and I sometimes have a hard time accepting that. I am fiercely hoping and praying that this year is better to us than last year- physically, emotionally, financially, spiritually,... in any way possible. I am at my wit's end and can't handle anymore failures, let downs, or surprises.  But as of right now, my medical bills are paid off and we are both in good health.  I don't think I could ask for more than that.

Family

Exciting news for the DeMille family.  Brian, Kristin, and Olivia DeMille are expecting a new addition to their family in June 2010!  Olivia will be an awesome big sister!

The Buchanan Family

First snow fall of 2009!!

New Moon Premiere

On November 20th at midnight, we had the opportunity to go see NEW MOON!! It was AWESOME, of course.  We didn't want to choose sides- black (Team Edward) or red (Team Jacob)- so we wore both colors!

Olivia's 1st birthday!

Halloween

Lava Hot Springs, Idaho

We made a quick trip this past weekend to Lava Hot Springs, ID with Summer's brother and his girlfriend.


In the hot springs



The Chuckwagon, where we ate breakfast


This is where we ate some yummy pizza for dinner before soaking in the hot springs

Our room did not have a shower. It had a bathtub that had access to the mineral water. Apparently mineral water is hard on a regular tub. Needless to say, we did not use it. Good thing we only stayed 1 night!

Beginning of autumn in Utah

Dew it for Diabetes!!

This year was our 4th year participating in the diabetes walk. We always have a lot of fun and the weather has been good 3 out of the 4 years we've done it!

Jon's mom made this sign for our team.

We got to see the baby elephant!


And the baby giraffe!!


Thank you to all of those who participated with us or supported us in other ways.

Time for the Utah State Fair!

Yesterday, we went to the Utah State Fair with Summer's brother Garrett and his girlfriend, Ashley. We saw lots of cool (and weird) animals, ate funnel cakes, and rode on the Ferris Wheel, among other fair activities. Always tons of fun at the fair!