BYU Game & Elk Bugling

 This week was FULL. 

List view: Painting boys' room, moving furniture, jury duty for Michael on Wednesday (which took a surprising amount of hours), Boulder for BYU fireside with Westin Friday night, Boulder for all of us for the BYU GAME Saturday night, Estes Park for elk bugling Sunday night, two rooms carpet replaced on Wednesday, next two replaced tomorrow. 

Lots of painting, and audio books, and moving things around, and going through things. 

I loved this weekend so much. Our big things were my date with Westin Friday to go to the football fireside where we loved hearing Jimmer speak. Then we went out for Mexican food after and I just love being Westin's mom. Saturday was a lot of squeezing in paint layers and walks and workouts so that we were ready to leave for the big game that night! We're so happy when we see BYU is coming close to us. Westin lives for going to football games and really we all love it so much. Then Sunday we packed dinner and went to Estes Park to hear the elk bugling. It's honestly magical to see herds of elk and hear them calling to each other in the fall. I always think back to our first visit to Estes Park for Michael's reunion in 2017 and how I was blown away by how beautiful it was but never even expected we'd permanently live close by.

I'm feeling antsy to just have everyone sleeping in their own beds again and put everything away -- right now we have four boys sharing the one room in our basement and furniture and stuff everywhere while we reorganize and redo rooms. It makes me so tired but I also love getting permanent things done -- walls stay painted. Dishes never stay clean :)

The last view of our basement room before I convert that corner of it to be my gym. 
I didn't want to do this when we first finished our basement because it's our main room down there,
but the more I consistently workout at home the more I'm ready to dedicate a space to it, even if I don't have a room for that. 

Goodbye old carpet...

Hello new!
Finally the step that initiated all these projects :)

Picking a blue for part of the big boys' room.

I LOVE walking with Asher so much.

Sticky notes are my professional planning tool for placing battens :)

Bathroom is done! Closet doorway is gone.

Cabinet in across from vanity.

Shower and tub view is my favorite view.

The light above the tub makes me really happy. I just love that view!

Storage around the corner.

Hidden toilet :)

My project book this week that I did not expect to love as much as I did.
This was beautifully, beautifully written.

We're so tiiiiiiired.
But I am going to paint this room this weekend before carpet happens (we did two rooms at once with a few days between so that we would have places to put furniture).

I woke up early to get a layer down so that I'd have time to do the second layer before we leave for the BYU game.

Blue and white layers up, switching the colored/white part.

Feeling so free leaving project world behind and heading the BYU GAME!

Everyone was so nice on the shuttle, 
lots of nice CU fans.

Oh it's just so fun to go to a game in person.

Scenes from cute preschool. He loves his teacher.

On Sunday we were tired but we really wanted to get to Estes Park and hear the elk bugling in Rocky Mountain National Park. We loved it last year so much and late September is just the time to do it. I'm so glad we went! We packed roasted turkey pesto sandwiches and cookies and milk and we ate with the Baileys. This is one of my favorite traditions.

Fulllll room, ready for carpet in the other rooms tomorrow.