4th of July

For the 4th of July, my mom's family always had a little reunion up at our cabin on Kolob. One of the little traditions is that the boys (and sometimes a few girls) go shooting. They shoot clay pigeons off a ledge on some of my grandpa's property.... and they've sort of made a little game/competition out of it. Anyways, this was Mitch's first year shooting with the boys and he did great! He doesn't have much experience shooting, but he actually won the game a time or two!

My brother Curtis getting ready to shoot a clay pigeon...

My nephews picking up shot gun shells for a penny a piece..

Mitch


My brothersTyler and Curtis, Mitch, and my nephew Blake

Tyler, Curtis, and my dad

Mitch and Tyler

My nephew Blake brought his BB Gun and shot at a target while the big boys shot their guns

A little elbow grease can go a long way!

As I mentioned in the previous blog, Mitch and I like doing projects together. When we got married, my sister in law MJ gave us her old kitchen table and chairs. We decided that we wanted to refinish them... so after A LOT of sanding, we repainted the legs and stained the table top and seats of the chairs. It actually turned out WAY better than I thought it would and I really love them now!

This is what the table looked like before....

And here is the finished product!

This is a bench that's supposed to go with the table... but we use it by our door to put our shoes under :) Maybe one day when we get our own house, it'll actually be with the kitchen table haha But yeah, we refinished this too. Better, right?!

Andy's House

Mitch and I enjoy little projects... so we decided that we should paint our doghouses. Of course, the colors had to be Braves colors! Mitch also had the great idea to put Andy's name on her house... using the Braves "A" as the first letter in her name. We didn't worry about making them perfect, but they actually look a lot better than they did before :) Anyways, here are the before and after pics!

This picture is a little old, but it shows the doghouses... plus Andy likes to jump on her house and look into our bedroom window! Kinda creepy huh?

So this is the before....

And the after!! Don't mind the dead grass....


It actually turned out better than I thought it would! haha