The Recap

Just to recap the week - quickly:

1) Afton played in her last basketball game a week ago yesterday. She should have had her season closer yesterday afternoon, but thanks to the broken foot, she was on the DL. We sure had fun watching her play this season, though. She brings so much energy and enthusiasm to the court. And it was kinda cool being back in the Kino Junior High Gymnasium after all these years. I spent many, many hours inside that gym playing both volleyball and basketball for the Kolts in the mid-80's. Good times. Good memories.

And here's our little jockette sporting the cast and crutches. She's ready for bed in this pic, staying up a little too late working her word genius skills on a crossword puzzle with Barrett (an ELP assignment, not for fun.)

2) Let the remodeling begin. The demo crew came out on Monday and removed our shower and tub from the master bath. Then on Thursday, the framer came and knocked out our bathroom linen closet to make room for the new foot longer 6' jetted tub and 2' longer shower. Hooray! We are super excited to get a new bathroom. After 5 trips to Imperial Tile, I think I finally have all the shower, floor, bath and trim tile procured. The granite is purchased. The cabinets are on order and should be here in a couple of days. After significant hunting, I finally found the 24 x 36 vertical opening window we needed since we are taking the existing one out to make room for the bigger shower. All the faucets and valves and drains are finally here. Who knew that you had to order the faucet handles separate from the faucet itself? What a racket. But thanks to overstockdeals.com, faucets.com, Lowes, Home Depot, and Farnsworth Wholesale Plumbing - I think we are finally set. The guys are hopefully coming back either tomorrow or Tuesday to finish the framing and do the plumbing and get ready for the tile guy mid week. Can't wait. It's going to be awesome!!!

3) Rowan lost her second tooth (finally). This time it was her front tooth, so she's sporting the ever-so-fashionable first grade look. And she loves it. The tooth fairy brought her two bucks - in quarters. Just like she wanted.

4) No pics for this, but we did lots of softball practicing this week. Ryan and I helped coach Rowan's team practices this week (her head coach was out of town and Ryan is the assistant). Afton squeezed one in before the break, and Barrett practiced three times. They are all doing so great - can't wait for the games to begin.

5) I realize that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but to me, this is true beauty.

This is our two-car garage that we finally cleaned up and fully purged yesterday after 3 months of full on garage chaos. I should have taken a pic of the one car garage too - it is equally spectacularly clean. We started right after we got home from Rowan's practice, then Ryan had to leave to work security detail at Lehi Days. I was on a roll so I finished it and was oh so proud. We've been parking the suburban in the driveway since early December when we moved a bunch of stuff out of the one car garage to make room for Afton's birthday party and the gingerbread throw down. And life has just been so busy that we haven't made the time to do the full clean up ever since. We decided that before we moved anything back to the one car, we'd purge and simplify. And it just felt so overwhelming that we kept letting other projects take priority. It was getting insane, though, and I am just so thrilled that it's finally clean. I took a suburban full of stuff to DI, threw about 3 big black garbage bags of stuff out, and voila! We're parkin' in again, baby.

Other than that and all the normal life stuff going on with raising four kids who study hard and play instruments and sports like all good kids do, and work work work work, and church stuff and trying to feel better after two weeks of being super sick and a great kidney transplant surgery for Bob & Lacey (both are doing great) and the school carnival Friday night and spending time with the family and squeezing in a great date last night to Mi Amigos and a movie (Unknown - which was super suspenseful by the way) and subbing primary in church today and a bike ride and chocolate chip cookie making and a little Battleship tourney after dinner, nothing much else to report at the Brown house.

Life is good.