Melissa, Andy and the kids' Blog

On Wednesday, August 10th, my sister Trisha and her family came to visit for a few days. I got out some fun stuff for my little nieces to play with. First we had princess time. Ava and Mya sure make adorable princesses. It also happened to be my birthday. Do you like what Andy had put on the cake? Dork is our pet name for each other! The next day we enjoyed some time outside with water guns and bubbles. On Friday we went to the Lindon pool. I was trying to get Mya to take a little nap, but I guess she didn't want to. However, she fell asleep for her mama. Mya is under the blanket on Trisha's lap. Jeremy and Ava were swimming like crazy. I think the girls had a blast! This is what happened to me after spending 3.5 hours in the sun. (I'm sorry about the amount of skin I'm showing.) I had so much fun with my family. It was really nice to have them staying with us. I miss them!

Here is our main living room. This is a picture of how it looked when we bought the house. The room was red and green, and made me think of Christmas. I do love Christmas, but I don't need a room to look like that all year long. Andy hated the red wall, and it was very splotchy. We decided to get rid of the red, so we used porcelain skin color on that red wall. We are both pleased with the way the green and porcelain skin goes together. Here is what it looks like now with decorations and all: Andy already had the couches and the TV. The little coffee table used to be my TV stand. We did have to buy a new TV stand to fit in the corner and to hold his giant TV. The door on the left goes into our office, and the one on the right goes into our bedroom. The door on the left is for the guest bedroom, and the one on the right is for the bathroom. Before we moved in I had told Andy that this room can be his man cave, but since I was in it for a good deal of the summer, I took over. ...