Things that make Daniel happy

Okay so below is a slide show of stuff that makes me happy. In case you don't know the first picture is Lacy, then Winston, then Ashley, then my new redneck white trash sprinklers in the front yard. Yup their not buried.
Who would of thought that sprinkles would make me happy. I must be getting old.

Ian's talk

Ian gave a great talk in Primary yesterday. He had pictures to remind him what to say and he said almost all of it with no help. He talked about being reverent. He had a great time practicing at the make shift podium and microphone at our house.

In keeping with Ryan's tradition....

Ryan made a comment about things getting weird if comments didn't keep pouring in. In my effort to keep up with the Bosworth's, I submit the following randomness:

I wasn't going to post this until I realized the dedication to Billy Mays.

Noah and grace

I don't know what Heather is talking about, in this picture at least Noah looks almost angelic. Gracie looks cute as usual.

kearl kid pictures

I'm sure that you will all be relieved to know that the free photographer that I came across on some random person's blog was not some scary 42 year old man, but was indeed a very nice LDS girl in her twenties. She took some cute pictures of my kids (and Heather's see next posting) though everyone agrees that Hazel gets the most photogenic award for this photo shoot. And yes she did take the 100 or so pictures for free and gave us a CD with all the pictures, she just wants practice so that some day she can be a professional photographer. And yes Hazel is roaring like a lion in her picture.

requesting help from the technogeeks

I assume that I can have the blog alert me of new postings and/or comments by sending me an email: 1) is this a good assumption? and 2) how do I make it so?

Progress you can see. Finally......

We have had a lot of help getting things done in our basement.  We are really grateful for everything that everyone has done.  It seems like everything we have done up to now (except the first few days of ripping stuff out) isn't really apparent.  We spent a lot of time redoing the wiring, adding light switches and replacing light fixtures.    Last weekend, we finally made some visible progress.  Jake, Eric, Brent, Daniel and a guy from the ward came over and helped us and we got a lot done.

Work done so far:

• All the wiring that was in or near the water has been replaced


• Every room has it's very own light switch (in a logical location) - Yea!!


• New light fixtures in several rooms (needed more than 1 40 watt mini-bulb to make it not feel like a dungeon)


• Added light fixture in family room


• Centered light fixtures (instead of wherever they were before)


• Moved the wall and Heather now has a laundry _room_ instead of a laundry closet


• Closed in the wall to the storage dungeon and opened up an opening for new french doors


• Removed big box on the ceiling at the bottom of the stairs (was put there because of a lazy electrician)


• All exterior walls have new insulation


• Drywall in the pink room


• Drywall in the blue room

Work left:

• Window box in the blue room


• Drywall in the yellow room


• Drywall in all of the closets


• Drywall in the hallway


• Drywall in the family room


• Wetboard in the bathroom


• Install french doors into the office


• Move 2 wires in the ceiling (where the electrician went around, not through the top plate.... Crossing my fingers - hoping it is easy)


• Add 2 new outlets in the office


• Fix all the holes in the ceiling from pulling new wires


• Do all the taping and mudding (I think we will pay somebody to do this)


• Lay new flooring in the bathroom


• Put down new carpet pad and all the carpet


• Redo the window wells so this NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER happens again


• Keep tabs on a good realtor in case this happens again

As I look at that list, it seems like we have more to do than we have done.  As I look at the basement I am pretty sure we are well past the hump and entering the home stretch.

Here are some pictures of where the basement is at right now.