The Best Show in Town

This week we took the kids to the circus. Neils was so excited to take the kids that he had a hard time concentrating at work that day. We went with Neils brother and his family and we really enjoyed ourselves. The kids were fascinated and excited by all the things they saw. I actually don't remember going to a real circus, just the circus stuff they show on TV. It was cool to see it all in real life. There were a lot of awesome things and my camera actually did a decent job of taking pictures, so I have several good ones I'll share. My camera didn't work on everything though. A few things I wish I could have captured on camera better were the motorcycles in the cage (they had 7 going at once, AWESOME), the trick horse riders, and the clowns with bubbles (cute show inbetween acts). We had a great time. Hope you enjoy a few of the highlights.

Mountain Con Weekend Getaway

We had a great weekend getaway. We stayed at the Hilton in Layton where the convention center was. It was a beautiful hotel with really nice furnishings. Anyway, the convention center was really nice and big too. Not a lot of big name stars there, but we had a lot of friends there that we've seen at previous cons here and in Denver. We had a lot of fun socializing and going to workshops and just playing. We saw a bunch of people dressed up in everything. People from Star Trek, Star Wars, Lost in Space, Ghost Rider, Snow White, Arabs, Romans, Scottish, Dr. Who, Green Lantern, and Batman. Here are some pictures of the costumes we saw.

Mountain Con

We are gearing up for our local Sci-Fi convention. For non-geeks that means science fiction groupies dressing up and getting together to see people who starred (or were minor characters) on such science fiction themed TV shows or movies such as Star Trek, Star Wars and anything even remotely related like Pirates of the Caribbean. My husband's oldest brother has been heavily involved in the organization of the local convention for the past 4 years and we go to support him and to enjoy ourselves for a couple days.

Here's a couple pictures from our adventures last year. We'll post more after the convention this weekend.

Today

It's a new week with our new carpet! Our carpet was finished by Thursday night and it is beautiful and soft and makes walking around the house with shoes off a great pleasure. Crazy 3 days of moving furniture and having my house a mess, but I can now say that it was totally worth it. I love it and it makes the prospect of staying here (if we have to) more enjoyable.

Although, today we had a prospective buyer come see our house and it's the first since our new carpet was put in. It's kind of exciting. Though I'm trying not to get my hopes up, after all they didn't stay very long. Oh well.

Here are a few pictures of our newly carpeted home.

New Carpet Finally

Well, after about a week of searching, comparing and getting opinions, we finally made the decision. We are going to get this carpet installed, hopefully by the end of the week. Thanks for everyone's opinions and help, it was great!

Hair with a Twist

She's so good to let me play with her hair.

More Hair

More experiments with Karen's hair.

I call this one braided ponytail.

Carpet

So we've decided that it is time to replace our carpet. Our carpet is nearly 10 years old and it is sadly in need of being replaced. We thought that maybe people might want to choose the carpet color when they bought the house, but it turns out it is the biggest thing (next to a second bathroom) that people don't like and turn them off of our house. So we decided to do it for them (and also for us incase we stay). Now comes the fun part of getting bids, choosing carpet, getting a good deal and running all over town trying to do this. Lots of advice has helped us and we are currently getting bids from different places like Lowes, Home Depot, RC Willey, Garden Gate, and possibly others. Any suggestions? We want it done pretty quick and not too expensive.

So many different colors and so many different textures and styles it's getting confusing, but I think I like a short frieze type carpet best with variegated beige and brown colors. But, plush is nice too. Leave a note and let me know if you prefer plush (1st pic) or frieze (2nd pic) so that I can do what's more popular, here are some swatches.