Sunday, May 16, 2010

FRONT YARD LANDSCAPING

Before



After

We purchased a new hose holder for the side of the house but first Andrew had to untangle the mess.
We can now easily water the new landscape. But we have to plant it first.
We bought a tree and some bushes (roses and this other bush thing) and a bunch of seed. We'll see if any of these seeds spring up and bloom. We sure hope they do.
Andrew did a great job of marking out the area and we worked hard to dig it up, add edging and prepare it for plants. We learned quickly that we have really good soil! Hopefully that means lush and healthy plants!

We did run into a few roots that we had to tear out. Fortunately they were dead and came up easily.
Margie worked hard to level the dirt.
Andrew planting one of our wild rose bushes. They are supposed to bloom small pink roses all over. Cross your fingers that our plants will actually bloom.
Andrew planting the yellow flowering bush under the window.
Margie is planting pretty flowers around our new tree. Hopefully everything blooms and grows. We are so afraid everything will die. We are not green thumbs and this is all new for us. So we'll water it all and pray that something blooms!!

Saturday, May 8, 2010

There has been NO time

 For the past two weeks -- we really have had no time to do our dishes...
Our countertop looks like the above picture.....
 Our silverware drawer looks like the above...
We have used almost every bit of silverware in our house....eating cereal with serving spoons is always so much fun!
 And out plate/bowl cupborad looks like this....We even went over to our tupperware cupboard and started using those for bowls!  Why have we not had much time you ask....because we have been working on......
 The High School' Musical production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.  We have been the producers/directors and this week has been Dress Rehearsal and performance week.  It has been insane!  But, man is it such a great show!  Luckily, Thursday night we didn't have rehearsal or a performance.  Our first free night in about two weeks.  We decided to use our free time to do some much needed cleaning.  After 40 minutes and some great conversation our kitchen now looks like this....


Back to normal in the kitchen!  Things are looking good!

Sunday, May 2, 2010

May Day Festivities

This is how we spent our May Day!  How did you spend yours?
Leave a comment and let us know if you had SUNSHINE on the first day of May!
Because we had a BUNCH of snow!

I walked onto the trampoline.....











The second I stepped onto the trampoline...
I slipped and fell!
We had a great time jumping...BAREFOOT on a trampoline full of snow!

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Magic Show inspired by my dad who got his inspiration from Art Metrano...

Growing up, my dad use to perform this Magic Show all of the time!  Us kids....we LOVED it and have since started performing it for various audiences around the United States!  This time it was in front of the town of Ashton, ID!  It was the night of Mr. North Fremont (a "beauty" pageant for the Senior guys to raise money for their Senior Lock-In after graduation).  I received a call Tuesday evening asking me to fill in for a performance that had canceled on them.  They knew that only gave me one day to put something together, but I made sure to let them know NOT TO WORRY, I had the perfect thing.  A MAGIC SHOW!  I made sure to call my dad before the big performance to let him know what I was doing.  He was just so proud!  We discussed some acts that he has added and then my friends and I added a few more tricks before I hit the stage!  As you will notice in the video, I always considered this to be a POLISH MAGIC SHOW!  My dad was not sure where us kids got that from, but I am pretty sure it is because my dad always did it and he is polish!  But alas, it is from Art Metrano!  Well, we have wooed another audience! 
Enjoy!

I did have to cut a few tricks out of the video, because the angle of the camera totally gave the answer away!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

THE ROOM IS COMPLETED

BEFORE

AFTER: a lot of hard work.




We worked very hard and we love the way it turned out. We refinished the floors and painted them a Turkish Brown. We also added an extra piece to the floor molding. We also installed a new fan and new light.Thanks to Andrew Schauerhamer for his help with the demolition. Thanks to Dad Walker for all the help with the floors and the trim. Thanks Mom Walker for the bookshelf and rug and helping us pick out the vases. Thanks to Margie for putting up with the mess for the past month.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMBALINE

Andrew's Mom turned 50 and we had a big party for her. They rented out this cool game/media room and we had a blast.
Mom made sure to have plenty of great food and drink.

We all got her great gifts!

And she loved ours the best! (Well maybe not the best but she loved it)
Everybody was there even Andrew's cousin Aaron. So good to meet him. People had fun playing video games. This machine had all the old classics. Awesome!!
Carson and Dave came up from Orem.
Andrew killed everyone at Ping Pong except his brother Mike who schooled him.
Margie and Kate tore it up at American Idol Karaoke.
Even J got involved.

We played pool, ate good food and enjoyed good company.



Margie had a lot of beginners luck with pool.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!

Our Thursday at Sun Valley

We ate lunch on our balcony! This is the view from our balcony! Gorgeous.
Beautiful Margie! Gazing over the balcony!
Andrew enjoying his lunch. Notice his SLIPPERS! We got them free from the Inn!
For dinner that night we went down to the patio area for a BBQ!
When we came back the Room Service gave us these chocolates! YUM!
Our Friday night entertainment consisted of an African Drum Jam and Dance. There were drums in a circle and these guys taught us the rhythm and then after awhile they taught us the dance moves.
WE HAD SO MUCH FUN!
Andrew was REALLY good!
Margie was SO SO!


When we were done playing the drums we had a sweet tooth!
At the restaurant they had CHOCOLATE FONDUE!
MARGIE LOVES CHOCOLATE FONDUE!
We had them pack it up for us!
Before she went to go get the food, she asked us if we wanted to share a bottle of champagne.
We let her know we don't drink and she understood.
After a bit, Andrew said, "Do you have Sparkling Cider?"
She did and she gave us a FREE bottle!
ROCK ON!
We were able to enjoy Chocolate Fondue and Sparkling Cider in front of our FIREPLACE!


Now...Enjoy the videos of us playing the drums and dancing African Style!

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