Here we are celebrating Stacey's birthday up at the cabin in Logan. The kids made this beautiful flower wreath for her head. We had strawberry shortcake and we didn't have any candles so this fireplace match had to do.
This is at the Cheesecake Factory where family and friends surprised her for dinner. This is her friend from work, Melody.


Here is my beautiful new headboard. The very first headboard Bill and I have ever had. I love it!



Here is our bed with the lovely Stacey posing on it.

Dad got an upgrade from the tv on the right to the TV on the left. He has patiently waited until he returned to Utah to get this 60" TV for our bedroom.

This is our master bathroom vanity and we decided to use a mirror that we already had and just have to stain the frame a bit darker. Lights have been ordered and we're waiting.

This is mine and Stacey's attempt at doing a little decoration on top of the china hutch.

I love the trestle legs that give you so much more room. I got a great deal on this, which makes it even better.

I decided neither one of my other two tables would do so now we have a third table. It is 9 1/2 ' long and is great. Now I just need chairs. Dad is going to make two benches for the grandkids to use on the side against the wall. I'm going to try to sell the one table and 8 chairs on ksl.com and use my teak table in my sewing room downstairs.

Here is the finished lighting in our kitchen. Canned lights and three pendant lights over the island.

We have a matching pendant over the sink. (No backsplash just yet)

These are the drapes in our master bedroom.

The sheers are light cream and the drapes are a chocolate color. They are on a double rod and are on rings so you just pull them open and closed.

Here is the whole Mark Porter clan.

Mark and little Bridger, how sweet!

Eli is all boy!

Look at that cute face on Miss Liela!

Our two sweet grandchildren, Eli & Liela.

Here's Matt and his family when we were in Australia in March of this year.

How cool is Adam on this old Honda 90? With gas prices the way they are it's the way to go.

Adam didn't think the Honda 90 was enough for him so he got this Honda 400.

Here is some of the family on the Susan G Koman, breast cancer 5K walk/run.

This is our master bathroom vanity. We still have the mirrors and lighting to finish.

After 30 some years I finally got a china cupboard to fill the space we had made for one.

Here's Bill putting in some can lighting in the kitchen.

One last picture just showing you the back of the house now that the siding is completed. Lots of siding, isn't it? Once we get a deck on and a deck cover it should break it up a bit. That's it for now!

Almost forgot to add this picture of our new front porch. We have had a problem with water and snow building up on the porch so this should help.

Here's the final view of the almost finished kitchen. I even took up the paper off the floor and cleaned up the wood flooring. Only the double ovens are hooked up and working. The frig, dishwasher, cooktop, microwave and the sinks, still have to be hooked up. I might actually have a working kitchen pretty soon.

This is the kitchen sink which is a large stainless sink (non-divided) and a single handle faucet with a pull down sprayer. I also decided to have a soap dispenser on this and the island sink just to eliminate soap bottles sitting around.

This is our new 5 burner gas cooktop. I've never cooked with gas before so I'm looking forward to trying it out, as long as I can do it without getting it dirty. Everything is so new and clean I don't like the thought of making a mess. I'll get over it soon enough.

Here is a view of the kitchen from the frig to the sink under the window. The only thing missing is the microwave oven that goes over the cooktop.

Here is a close-up of the finished island. They came and did all the granite countertops on Wednesday, March 12th. Isn't it gorgeous? I love it!

Here is that area just to the right as you go out of our bedroom. It's the master bath. Straight through the archway will be a double sink vanity then to the left is a wall and a shower and then another wall and the commode. We still don't have doors in our bathroom but this time we do have a few walls for privacy. The bathroom is the last thing we need to do and then just to carpet the bedroom and closet. I should clarify that because there are still a lot of electrical and lighting projects to finish up also.

This is our bedroom looking from the opposite end of the room. The opening is into an entry and the second doorway is into our walk-in closet. The next picture is just to the right where you enter the bathroom.

This is our master bedroom, minus all the junk.

I finally got all the construction tools and debris cleaned up and you can get a better view of the greatroom. There is still a protective paper on the wood floor that I won't take up until we get the master bedroom and bath done.

Here's another view of the kitchen. Of course the frig goes in that large opening, a five burner gas cooktop with a microwave oven above it is next, then a stainless steel sink under the window, a dishwasher in the space next to it, then around the corner and 2 double regular/convection ovens. The cabinets are a knotty alder with black on the edges. I love them!

Here is the latest picture of our new kitchen. Out front is the island which has black beadboard on three sides and the cabinet face on the other side. Granite countertops are coming on March 12th. Also we had a new window, casing and sill put in to replace the one you can see. The appliances arrived while I was in Ohio and so I haven't seen them yet myself.

Catching up on our renovation!

The furnace room with the storage room to the left.

This is the downstairs hall, with the theater room to the right

and the storage and furnace rooms to the left.

Here's a more finished look at our bedroom, with paint and moulding.

My closet is almost finished. I'm still not sure there is not

enough room. I don't know where Bill's clothes are going

The great room is painted and the crown moulding and base boards are up.

A view of the front door and the accent wall.

Here I am working. Yes I actually did some of it.

We've enlisted the top professionials in the field, well actually the price was just right.

Now the fun part begins, the wood floor.

The same with the sheetrock in the great room.

The sheetrock is up in our bedroom and it is starting to take shape.

Here's the framing of our walk in closet. My favorite room in the house!