Our newest project

I feel like my blogs often start out this way: Kory wanted something for years and begged and begged and we finally did it. Or vice versa. Well this was the case again. For almost as long as we have lived here Kory has been wanting a door in our bedroom. I was always adamant that we would not do this because with no other back door I didn't want our bedroom seen as a main trafficking route. Well, I started really imagining how nice it would be this year. I got sick of always having to herd the dog from the front to the back, and for awhile there every time I went outside to go to the back yard I had some people asking me: Where was I going? What was I doing? Why was I doing it? I started imagining more freedom. So, I started taking polls. I was texting people at random, bringing it up in conversations, asking people if it would be weird to have a door in our bedroom. The general consensus was very for a door. (What can I say? I am influenced by peoples opinions!) I started tentatively bringing it up with Kory and before I knew it we had a date set and a door ordered.

Kory's wonderful dad was very nice and agreed to come help Kory with the project. It took so much longer than Kory and I thought. We were thinking a few hours. How hard can it be to knock out a wall, insert a door. WaLa! Not so much. There happened to be electricity running through the part we knocked down so that had to be rerouted. Our little project took the whole day. Plus another couple days of just me and Kory fixing up the trims and making it look good.

I underestimated how much I would love it. It is sooo nice!! My trafficking concerns were all for naught as well. We have had friends over a couple times and we just lock it up and use the side door. NBD. (no big deal, which I have a funny, totally non-related, story about. Awhile ago, (like a year or two) Kory started saying NBD after everything. I asked him what it was and he told me it was "No Big Deal" and he had made it up and was going to coin it and become famous. (Kory does this a lot) Well a few weeks later we were out somewhere and overheard these college students talking. They used NBD a couple times in their conversation. I looked at Kory and he had his mouth hanging wide open and looked like someone had ripped the rug out from under his feet. It was priceless. (I may or may not have laughed hysterically.) Moving on, people started posting it on facebook, and we heard it in tons of other conversations. Kory still swears he came up with it, I guess we will never know. Ha Ha Ha. I still use it to tease him all the time. His brilliant, original phrase NBD became famous. Hee Hee Hee.)


Back on track people! Where was I? Oh, yes. We LOVE our door! I wish I had done it sooner. It is so nice for our family to have access to our backyard.

Here is our kind of before. It wasn't meant to be a window picture.

He looks confused, but he got it right in the end. :-) I only got a couple during the project. I was on home depot runs for a lot of the day.

And our After Shots. I just ran out and took them because I realized we didn't have any. So please bear with the lighting and dirtiness. :-)

Camping!

What a crazy summer we have had! I feel so behind in the blogging world. Unfortunately, I don't have too many pictures to go with our camping trips but I thought I should document them anyway. Our first one of the summer was with my sister Sarah and her family. Knowing that Kory comes from a camping family she called and asked if we would take them on a real camping trip. However! Kory was not very helpful and I ended up planning the whole thing! I am not from a camping family and this was HARD! I think I prefer the camping trips where I am not in charge.
We got up nice and early and reserved a campsite in Logan Canyon. (I learned how to do that from some friends. :-)) At 6 ish we headed up and got all set up. I had planned delicious pizza pockets in our cool present Kory received last year. (http://www.campchef.com/cast-iron-cookware/round-cooking-iron.html) Of course I forgot the pizza sauce but they were still delicious anyway. We had a pretty cool campsite with a trail to the river.

Kory, Boston, Sarah, Felipe, and Ferb at the river.

 We ate s'mores and played some games and then the real adventure began. Boston had had a little fever all day but nothing we couldn't control with tylenol. At about 11 he woke up pretty hot but we didn't have a thermometer with us. We gave him another dose of Tylenol and he seemed to take care of it so we went to bed. At about 4 in the morning he woke up and was very  hot to the touch. I woke up Kory, we gave him more Tylenol and we rushed home to check his temperature. (Our campsite was only 15 minutes away). His temp was not too high so we headed back to the campsite. We caught an hour or so of sleep, stayed around long enough to eat breakfast and camp up and headed home. It was a rough go but I think it was somewhat successful.

Poor boy in our tent. Not feeling so good.

 This started a weekend of crazy temps for Boston. This was the first time he had ever been sick so it was a little scary for us. I was able to snap this adorable picture though! Turns out Boston gets very cuddly when he is sick.

 Our second camping trip was with our good friends the Lauritzens. The actual planning went better on this one mostly because I asked for instructions and obeyed. We had a fun night eating and socializing and then time for bed came. Boston was TERRIBLE! We had stuffed the pack 'n play in the tent and he was screaming at the top of his lungs. Eventually, after I had visions of angry campers storming our tent with torches and pitchforks (yes, I really imagined this) we pulled him down between us in our sleeping bags. That made for one of the longest nights of my life. Boston is not easy to sleep with and was constantly pulling my hair and poking my face to see if I was still by him. After this night, I told Kory I didn't believe I really actually liked camping. I am so mad I didn't get one picture of this camping trip but we really had a blast camping with our friends.
In case you are worried we did try camping one more time this summer and it was a much better experience, but that is still to come...