The hall when we moved in. The cupboards were dingy and had hardware circa 1956. We have since painted both the hall and the closet. 

Now

All we need is carpet! Woot!

Basement Bedroom 3

Then

Then

Then

Now (closet only)

David not only constructed a closet in this room, but he also created awesome built-in shelves to utilize some extra space in the sides of the closet.

Now

Soon he'll put up the closet bar and be done!

Now

Second Bathroom 

Then

Now

The bathroom vanity and countertop will be installed this week.

Then

Then

Now (ish)

David ripped out the old vanity and toilet and then we tiled the floor. I cleaned up the cement and grout while David did all the cutting and laying.

Now (ish)

The previous owners had removed the old tile and put up new backer board around the tub. The tub in the other downstairs bathroom had already been re-tiled so this was David's first time tiling tub walls. 

Then

It was kind of crazy hard work- gravity does not exactly work with you when putting heavy tiles on a wall. We probably listened to at least 5 podcasts while finishing putting the tile up. Yes, I now measure time by podcasts- haha.

Now

Room Under the Garage

Then

When I think back to what this room looked like I think, scary, cold, dark, disaster. Now it is exactly the opposite because of David's amazing transformative powers. 

Now

Now

Then

There was a piece of cardboard covering the broken window and a bunch of doors and random things in the cement room under the garage. 

Now David has replaced the window, put up insulation and drywall and has painted. He also bought a baseboard heater and insulated the garage above this room so it stays toasty.

Then

It wasn't a really inviting space, but we started calling it the den anyways. We knew this room had the potential to be way more than cold storage.

Now

Now

It's still kind of messy, but with stuff being used to construct the space.

Then

This is facing towards the back wall of the room. There were no closets or nice lights.

Now (ish)

David has built 2 closets and built in shelves (not yet pictured)

Here's an action shot.

The closet shelves going up.

Then

It's so pretty!

We just painted all the built-in shelves yesterday.

Out-Takes

At first David was cooperative with my many picture requests.

Then he was like "you crazy lady stop taking action shots" so I had to get a little sneaky.

And so I did some photobomb shots.

I'm basically a photo-ninja. 

September has come and almost gone already- the end half of this year is flying by! We had a fun month and we're closing in on finishing the basement (post about that to come). Here's a quick recap of the fun things from this month.

Brookie's Reception

I only snagged a couple pictures from Brookie's reception at highland gardens, but it was pretty and fun to catch up with family and celebrate Brookie's marriage. And can we just say, holy cheesecake. I've never seen so much rich, awesome cake in one place. 

BYU Football

My company was recently recognized by the Inc. 5000. We are in the top 500 fastest growing private companies in the US. As exciting as this is, for me it has meant taking gobs of calls and emails from a million businesses and agencies wanting us to advertise with them. One of those businesses is BYU sports marketing. As I was looking into opportunities there, they offered me four free tickets to the home opener versus Texas. David and I used two and had a fun time!

We felt very posh not sitting in the student section, with its backless benches.

The game was on 9-11 and our section of the stadium got to participate in a patriotic tribute to the day. We had cards taped to each seat with instructions on them. Here is a video of what it looked like. I think we were in the blue section of the "R" of "Never"

It even got a little chilly, even though it was a warmer day.

Midway Send-off

Having never been to a demo derby, I was looking forward to the smashing (said smashe-ing). It did not disappoint. Mike had everyone pick their car before the derby started so you had a car you were rooting for each round.

David was really good at picking cars each round. He had a car each round go to the finals.

This round there was a crazy car crash and fire.

This car's driver needed help getting out because the car was so smashed up.

It was fun to have the rodeo atmosphere with a different kind of excitement. It was funny how people really cheered for the scrappy cars that literally had tires rolling away from it.

We had a fun summer and now we're gearing up for fall and hopefully finishing up the house so we can have more fun times :)