Epperson Eagles: January 2009

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Kamas Pool Fun!

On Saturday we got together with my brother, Corey, and his family and went to the Kamas Pool! It was a great day to play in the water, because it was raining outside!

Weston & Mac just relaxin'

Bekah & Emma

Beckham

Samantha

Ray & Ellie

Mandy & Brigham

Ray going down to little blue slide by himself!

Bekah going down the big yellow slide w/out a life jacket!

Weston

Samantha

Group picture: CW~ Sydney, Mac, Corey, Beckham, Brigham, Bekah, Emma, & Mandy
It was a fun, relaxing day!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Ray's 4th B-day!

Since Ray's birthday was on a Sunday this year, Ray got new church clothes for his b-day.
Look how handsome he is!

Ray wanted a Power Ranger birthday, so I picked an easy cake. Also the power ranger figures were on clearance at the Disney store. which was an added bonus.

Ray showing off his new Power Rangers, and new t-shirt too.

Ray's cake

Blowing out the candles!

Some of the cousins

One of Ray's favorite gift's was the elk night lite. It really illuminates the room, which is nice for us, because I hated to leave the bathroom light on all night. It kept waking me up!

Thursday, January 15, 2009

So for Christmas we decided that the kids needed a playroom for all the toys that continued to clutter their rooms. So around Thanksgiving we decided that maybe we could finish the toy room by Christmas. Well, we didn't start totally from scratch, Lyn had been working on the down stairs room for a little while off and on. We had been trying to decide the kind of lighting and he had put up some of the sheet rock. However, it still hard a lot of work to be done in 4 wks.
We forgot to take pictures before we started the project, but we did take some along the way.
Here is the Rock Work for the stove/fireplace. Lyn did it all himself, with the kids' help. We used some left over rocks from our friends(the Lances) house, that they just built. I really like the country look.

First few rows

It's looking really good.
The Insulation took a couple of bids, but we finally went with Hansen Insulation out of Lehi. They did a great job and were able to work us in fast.

We put the blow-in insulation in for better sound proofing, that way we don't have to hear the kids when they are in the playroom.

Putting up more of the sheet rock.

Ready for the Mud!

Our friends, father(Grandpa Dennis) came and did the mud and texture for the walls. He did a awesome job! He added the texture as a surprise, cause he doesn't usually do texture without his crew. In the closet, he had the kids put their hand prints in the mud it looks really cool.

Ready for paint!

It really like this color, it's called "Baked Scone" before it dried it was kinds of peachy, and I was worried but it turned out perfect.
Lyn found half of the trim in a dumpster at a job in Park City, and was lucky enough it find the rest to match.

Here is the pad all layed.
My brother Corey, changed out the carpet in his house right before Christmas, so we were all to use their old carpet and pad.

One of Lyn's friends and former boss, Jose, came and helped Lyn lay and clean the carpet. He did such a great job!

We had a lot of friends and family who donated their time and skills to help Lyn to put this toy room together for our children. We truly appreciate all of your hard work!

Lyn's mother, Susy found us the couch from one of her friends, and bought Lyn the pillows for his birthday. I really like the dk. brown couch in the room.

The rock work turned out great! I love it!

Organized toys!

The library, my "special" books are on the top. It took a lot for me to put my favorite children's books in the playroom.

So y'all will have to come over for a play date. We didn't finish it by Christmas, but it was well worth it. This weekend we are supposed it get our new entertainment center, another freebie from a friend. Then we will be all set for company!

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Lyn's (1/2 way to retirement) Birthday

For Lyn's birthday we didn't go on our annual sledding trip this year however, we did spend the time finishing the basement playroom instead. I was working on this quilt of Lyn that I didn't get finished yet. (it still needs a few borders to be queen size.) So I layed it out, and said Happy Birthday anyway!

He really liked it! YEAH!
So after we finished up the playroom(pictures to follow)All the Epperson clan went down to Cabela's for Lyn's birthday, we bought Frosty's on the way down for the treat. We had a great time at Cabela's, and the highlight as always was the shooting range.

Ellie