New Family Room Floors

I know that both of you who check this blog every once in a while aren't checking it to see photos like this one, but humor me...

On Christmas Day before we headed out of town I got the first coat of polyurethane on and due to the fumes we spent the night at Marta's family's house. Then yesterday I went up and sanded, cleaned, and applied the second coat of the poly. Here is the finished floor when I finished yesterday. We used a satin polyurethane so it won't be shiny like this when it's dry.

It has been a lot of work - the sanding took three times as long as it's supposed to - but I think they have turned out great.

Christmas Photos

We had a very nice Christmas. Beau was very excited to see that Santa had eaten one and a half of the cookies he and his mom made on Christmas Eve. We spent the morning at home seeing what Santa brought and Beau was stoked
to find a Tonka dump truck and the Thomas the Train roundhouse. Blake and Emmett are almost too big to hold together so I have to take advantage while I can. We spent the afternoon with Marta's family in Orem and as you can see Beau was so tired he fell asleep mid-bite of his quesadilla.

Two Laughing Boys

Hidden Message

This was kind of cool. We took up our flooring in our front room and found this message: MCA 4/12/31. Our house was built in 1905, so it's fun to see real indicators from past inhabitants. We just put in a fireplace and so this has motivated us to leave some markings of our own inside the wall we're putting up around it.

Got Foot?

It has been a while. The boys are getting big. Blake's hair is getting better and better while Emmett has started rolling over a bit and found a fond enjoyment in eating his foot.