I Have My House Back!!

Our home improvements are finally over!!! It's been about one month since we began getting the tile put in the house and completing all the projects that went with it. I am so happy to have my kitchen, bathroom and laundry rooms back. It was not easy living without a kitchen, but it was well worth the wait.

We also had the carpet removed from the entry and tile laid there too. It looks so much nicer and really defines the rooms around it. . Laying the tile on the diagonal was a lot more labor intensive than the workers originally thought, but the outcome is beautiful!! New tile meant new paint in the laundry room as well. The new color is a big departure from the pink that was on the walls. I will miss my cheerful happy room, but this color flows a lot better with the rest of the house.

My New Do

Well, here's the "new" me. I chopped about 5 inches off my hair yesterday. I went to the salon and told Michelle, my "stylist", that I wanted to look like a different person when I left. My motivations were: 1) Not have long hair for Amelia to pull and eat and 2) I had been letting my hair grow since Maddie was born! That's three years of only getting trims. Change was definately needed. How do I look?

Mosaics

Okay, so I saw these on a friends site and thought they were pretty neat.

Here is how you can play too:

a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.

b. Using only the first page, pick an image.

c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd's mosaic maker.

The Questions:1. What is your first name?2. What is your favorite food?3. What college did you go to?4. What is your favorite color?5. Who is your celebrity crush?6. Favorite drink?7. Dream vacation?8. Favorite dessert?9. What you want to be when you grow up?10. What do you love most in life?11. One Word to describe you.12. Where You are from?

1. Lori 2. Steak 3. BYU 4. Red 5. Mark Wahlberg 6. Cherry Lime-aid 7. Santorini 8. Italian Cream Cake 9. Mommy 10. Steve 11. Stubborn 12. San Antonio

I had so much fun doing this that I had Steve do it too. Here is his:

1. Steve 2. Salmon Sushi 3. BYU 4. Red 5. Megan Fox 6. Monster Energy Drinks 7. Alaska 8. Jello Poke Cake 9. Park Ranger 10. Family 11. Intense 12. Scottsdale