So romantic??? Friday night as I was walking through the front lobby entrance of the hospital after work, I think I witnessed a marriage proposal. I say I think it was a proposal because I only saw the "before" and "after" moments, not the actual popping of the question. At first I noticed only a girl with a guitar, a guy with a video camera and another guy in the middle of the lobby pacing around. Looking up to the second level, there were about a dozen people leaning over the balcony railing waiting for something to happen. Well, it did. A young girl in green scrubs came into the lobby, the girl with the guitar began to play, the guy with the camera began to film and the nervous pacing, guy - he began to serenade.

There were a lot of "oh nos", "oh my goodnesses" and then a lot of hugging and kissing. Yep, I think somebody's gettin' married.

Sorry about the small pic - all I had was my camera phone.

WHAT A WILD WEATHER WEEKEND

Friday: I woke up to a snowbunny family in our neighborhood. Couldn't resist taking a picture. But at least the sun was out by the afternoon for our drive south to St. George.








Saturday: Great conference talks, fun bike ride with Carly and Jeff. I love all the great walking/biking trails in St. George. By the way - WARM WEATHER, NO JACKETS, FIRST SUNBURNS OF THE SEASON. Well, Manja got sunburned, Bryan just went another shade darker. He never burns!!!


Sunday: More great conference talks, a wonderful walk on a different path ( and again -- no jackets, but more sunburn) and Easter dinner: Ham and funeral potatoes!!

The only reason I added this goofy picture is because I actually have my eyes open -- and wide too. Well, a little too wide, but open nonetheless. I usually have my eyes closed in pictures.

Monday: We decided to take a detour through Zion Canyon so Bryan could use his new camera to take pictures. He was able to get a few shots, but the weather was rapidly deteriorating with the wind blowing like crazy and getting colder by the minute. We hurried through the park and headed home. By the time we hit Fillmore we were in the heart of the storm (sounds menacing doesn't it?).

Really, we had wind, rain, sleet, snow and slippery roads all the way home to Ogden.

Tuesday: Uh oh, we already put away the snow shovels.

LOOK WHO CAME FOR A VISIT

Hannah had Spring break last week and so she came for a visit from Ohio and Carly came from Cedar City for the weekend. What perfect timing to see each other -- and to top it off Sweet Baby James came too so he could see the girls!

DO I HAVE THE MOST TALENTED HUSBAND OR WHAT?? CHECK OUT OUR NEWEST DIY PROJECT

So, last summer at the height of my "you watch too much HGTV" phase, I kept looking at this heavy-as-a-son-of-a-gun, solid oak, army issue file cabinet that we have had in the corner of our mismatched, hand-me-down, sorry excuse for a bedroom for the last 20 years wondering what could I (translated Bryan) do with this???

Well, the answer came - nightstands!!

My dad had given us this file cabinet years and years ago after it had spent considerable time in his insurance office and/or his garage. It has served us well in the corner of the bedroom, but it really needed a face lift, especially since we were using two mismatched, hand-me-d0wn, sorry excuse for nightstands.

So here are the BEFORES



Okay, Anne gets her turn too.

And yes it had four fully functioning file drawers, but believe me I was not putting them back in the cabinet just for this picture.



So Dad, is this all you got when you were discharged from the army? This is what is on the back of the file cabinet.

Okay, I thought, now the hard part - convince Bryan that this really wasn't such a harebrained idea. No kidding, he didn't even say "are you kidding" or nothin'. He just thought a bit on it, as you know only Bryan can do, and said "I can do that!" I could not believe he agreed to it

So after many, many months of sawing, nailing, gluing, stripping, staining, polyurethaning, etc. we have nightstands to put next to the wonderful headboard he made us last year!!

And now, the moment you (AND I) have been waiting for since sometime last summer ---

Here is one of the two finished nightstands he made for us. Is he fabulous or what???

And now the AFTERS:

He sawed (that sounds weird doesn't it?) the original file cabinet in half, made a new bottom for one stand and a new top for the other and then trimmed them both so beautiful. He made new drawers with up to date hardware (gone is the dark green heavy metal really awful hardware and file drawer of the past) using the original drawer fronts with new handles. They really are gorgeous. Stop by and I'll hurry and make the bed and show them to you.

TA-DA! Here is the finished project next to my bed lookin' all purty! (There's one on Bryan's side too, but I won't show you that. (Sorry the picture's dark)