Happy Valentine's Day...Young Life's Ski Utah!

     
  

Greg and I were excited to take 48 YL Kids and Leaders from our area to Park City, UT!  In years past (in San Jose and San Luis) we have gone to Young Life's Mountain Lodge in Tahoe.  Young Life is selling the Mt. Lodge and therefore we needed to check out some alternate locations.  We were told of this beautiful lodge owned by a previous Area Director and his family- The Zwahlen's! The lodge was beautiful!! We flew out of San Jose early Saturday morning and arrived in Utah that afternoon.  The kids did night skiing the first day we arrived. It was SOOO cold!  We rode at Park City Mountain Resort (where the Olympics were held).  It was a great mountain and the snow was amazing! Our friend and Area Director in Arizona, Sean McGever, came out for the second year in a row to be our camp speaker. Kids love him and he shared Good News with our kids!  Todd and Aaron did our program and were absolutely hilarious! I'm so glad they were on the trip. Also, Sharon, our committee chair, came! Woohoo! And leaders, Rod, Katie, Ricky and Jory! Was such an awesome weekend!! Can't wait for next year!

Kitchen is still under construction!

Kitchen Update:

We have removed the large cabinets that hung over the breakfast bar.  (If I were sitting on the stools at the breakfast bar, I have to duck under the cabinet to see whomever is in the kitchen!) This left a large hole in the ceiling.  

Tommy and others placed sheet rock to cover the hole and have been floating it out so we cannot see the new ceiling. 

Kim and I made a trip to San Francisco for an amazing project table Pottery Barn desk as well as the pendant lights you see over the breakfast bar. Tim installed the pendant lights in place of the cabinet. And if you can see the 4 lights through the plastic, you can see that the box light is gone and recessed lighting is in its place!! THANK YOU TIM!! He has spent so much time in the attic, through the walls, and making there be light where there was NO light before!! Can't wait to see it finished!

Cabinets have been sanded, primed, and have received their many coats of cream color enamel paint! We also picked up all of the cabinet hardware at the Expo! Thanks Eric and Greg for installing it all!!

Ladders!

We have some very tall ceilings in our new house and the engineering husband that I have, happens to be a perfectionist : ) He of course wanted to paint the ceilings and cut in perfectly in the very high corners. So, he and the men in his family built a clever platform for the ladder to go on over the stairs! So creative!