Home for the holidays

We had a very nice Christmas once again this year. This year we got to go up to Pocatello and spend Christmas with my family for the first time since we've been married. It was really nice to get away for a few days and we had a great time with family. We now have a photographer in the family (Shawn's so good at his hobbies) so there are some great pictures from Christmas and we did family pictures too but we had to leave before they were done so I'll have to post pictures later.
I just love this time of year. It always reminds me of how fortunate and blessed we are. Especially this year with how well everything went with Monty's surgery. We are so very grateful for our Savior and for the life he lived that makes the rest of our lives worth living.

Life returning to normal

We're slowly starting to get back into a normal life now. This week Monty went back to work full time. It's his third week back but the week of Thanksgiving he only did 18 hours and last week he did 30. He's doing so well and we are very grateful for that. We know how truly blessed we have been the past couple months. Last weekend was project weekend. My brother Steve and his wife came over from Rock Springs, WY and my parents came down from Pocatello to help us work so some of our projects that have been put on hold. They finished my shelves downstairs which is so nice. I was finally able to get our food storage out of boxes and grocery bags and see what we really have. They did a great job on them.

The next project was a much bigger undertaking and took much longer than we thought it would. That could be because I didn't have the right cutting tool, but I also come from a famliy of perfectionists so things just take longer to do, but that's ok because the backsplash turned out AMAZING!! Thanks guys for all your hard work.

Monty created the design for it and while it added a lot of cutting, I really like how it turned out. We still need to grout it but with working all week that part hasn't got done yet. Hopefully this weekend it will.