Coming soon...the cruise

I promise to get some pics of the cruise up soon. I just need to go get our water camera developed and on a CD. Give me a week...or two...

Our New Neice

Aftin's brother Kyle and his wife Katie just had their first child - Minnette Atley Willman. She was born over two weeks early but was still somewhere in the 7 pound range. She is such a beautiful little girl and we are so excited that Aliyah finally has a cousin on the Willman side.

Faux Fiasco

To address Lindsey's comment...

I was going to do a faux finish with the paint to make it look like subtle stripes. We figured we would practice it with small sample cans of paint before we bought all the stuff. I bought the faux brushes and sample paints but didn't have the faux gloss. Lowe's fauz gloss was REDICULOUSLY priced and Home Depot was closing in 10 minutes. So I sped to HD where I had to buy an entire gallon of the faux. I came home and we practiced and practiced it but my walls are too textured so it didn't look good at all. Then I had to choose one color to paint the entire thing and that is when I spent like 4 whole days looking at paint colors and trying samples.

So there is no faux.

Our Kitchen- Before and After

BEFORE

AFTER

Finally our kitchen is repainted. It was a longer and more difficult project than I expected, but thanks to my mom for many, many, many hours and to Bill for letting me change my mind a million times and repaint the ceiling twice, I love it.

We went from brown ceilings and purple walls to while ceilings and light green walls. I bought about 6 sample cans of paint before I found the right shade. We primed the walls before we left for our CA vacation and my mom painted all the green while we were gone. Thanks Mom!

Now I just have to work on window treatments, new hand towels, wall hangings...

California Trip

Aliyah and I flew out to N. California two weeks ago. We stayed with my Grandma Munns for a few days. We had a lot of fun with Grandma and my aunt Jen and uncle Derric. Aliyah's favorite part of the trip was playing with Grandma's dog Kirtzee.

Aliyah and I with Granma Munns and a stuffed animal that looks just like Kirtzee

Aliyah and my aunt Jen

Aliyah playing with outside Kirtzee in our homemade swimming pool

A few days later, Bill flew out to meet us and we went to his parents' house. It is so nice that my Grandma lives only 30 minutes from Bill's parents, so we get to see her often. Bill and I met Scott Morimune at an A's game while we were there.

Bill's entire family--parents and all his siblings and their kids--got together for an Aaron Familiy Reunion. We had a birthday party for our nephew Jackson, went to the lake, went to Columbia (a recreated 1800's mining town), had a talent show (Bill and I did the Cha-Cha that we learned in a BYU dance class almost 5 years ago), and just had fun hanging out with all of our family.

After the family reunion at the cabin, we were back at Bill's parent's for a day. On the morning that we flew home, we spent some time at the beach with Bill's parents, and his sister Evelyn and her family.

Father's Day

The Saturday before Father's Day our stake puts on a "Princess Ball" which is a Daddy/Daughter date for all the girls 18 mo. to 12 years old. We dressed Aliyah up in her pretty dress and she got to spend some time with Bill.

Utah Vacation

We went to Utah last week for Bill's grandma's 90th birthday party. We spent the rest of the week just relaxing and hanging out with friends and family.

Here is Aliyah playing with her cousins and friends:

Aliyah and cousin Rachel

Aliyah and cousin Ethan

Aliyah and Anna Sokol

Aliyah and Dawson Douglas

Aliyah and Dallin Guisti

Here are some other fun pics from our vacation:

Bill's family at Grandma Aaron's Party

Hanging out with Lindsey and her kids

Playing on a baby dinosaur at the Thanksgiving Point Dinosoar Museum

Family Pic at the Museum

Aliyah digging to find dinosaur bones