A Wood floor for Christmas

So, speaking of how great my dad is, here is the project he helped head up and work on this weekend.




For Christmas my grandparents gave "aunt" Chris new wood floors in her house. My family's christmas present to Chris was the labor to put in the floors. Dad came up Thursday night and he along with "my" Chris and my 2 brothers, Sam and Tom, spent all of the holiday weekend working on putting in the floor. It was quite the project and its still not quite done but WOW, it is looking so good and I am way impressed at all of their hard work. And although, the boys did most of the work I can't forget my sister Emily, sister-in-law Michelle, our good friend Brittany, "aunt" Chris and even myself for the work we all did. (Although, all I really did was pull out a couple of staples from the old flooring.) Good work everyone! Here are some pictures of the work in progress. We will get some more of the finish product once everything is done.
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Happy Happy Birthday!

We all sure love you so much! Thank you for all that you do and for being such a good example to all of us and all you meet. You are the best!

Christmas Celebrations

Here's Grant opening up his first gift from G'ma and G'pa Barlow. Thanks!! We acted out the nativity for Christmas Eve. We recorded the whole thing and let me tell you, it was inspiring and a crack-up.
The traditional reading of "The Night Before Christmas" by Grandpa. You might think it had a surprise ending but it didn't actually.
Grant was happy all Christmas morning.

Grant and his new friend he got from Jeff & Suz. He loves it by the way. We've gotten some good smiles out of him while the snowman kisses him with his carrott nose.
This was the other masterpiece I built at the festivities a week ago at Kim and Beth's house. Kim throws a gingerbread party each year and we were priviliged to attend the last 2 years. I was inspired by the "Burj Dubai" that we learned about in school recently. It's not even finished yet but it's the tallest building in the world.
Jen and I were amazed to see this snow before we left Utah. It so fluffy and light that you can blow it like feathers and it looks like the stereotypical snowflakes that you see people make with paper or draw.
Merry Christmas y'all. We love you!!

Framing Masterpiece

While others on BYU campus were writing papers, and doing professional presentations, some privileged members of the construction management major are building Barbie-size houses. Here's the finished project that me and 3 others have been working on all semester. It is for my framing class. It's about three feet wide and three feet deep also just so you know how big it really is. The "2x4's" we used were like 1/2"x1/4". It was pretty good times and I was proud enough of it to blog it up. I've got the last mini model that I made still sitting atop our tv for show. Maybe I should put this one there to replace it.