Life is Beautiful

Motherhood, Sewing, Family

anyone wanna buy a newly renovated townhome?

~ Etc.

i’m only typin wit one hand since my other ones outta commission. bein here for two days now and i’ve never seen my daughter happier! I’m not sure if its the fact that she doesnt need to wear anything but a diaper, or not wear 50 layers of clothes to go outside. Maybe its the salt water in the air, the humidity, the rosters crowing in the early morning or all the old friendly familiar faces wherever we go. Maybe its the fact that we can walk forever around a safe community without seeng one street light or the countless children runnin and playin outside. Whatever it is. My daughter can’t get enough of playing outside, trying to run around with the big kids. She refuses to come inside and once we’re inside she darts straight for the door to go back outside! Or maybe its cause she’s happy daddy has been gettin free chiro and massages ever morning from his old doctor. Me and Sarah are eating the BEST food ever and we have perma-grins cause our daughters happy, she’s sleeping thru the nite, we’re gettin fat and we’re loving every second of bein in Hawaii.

Adi gets up at 6am and we go for an hour long walk in the morning to see all the rosters and cats and dogs. We got caught in a lil nice warm rain yesterday and we all we’re soaked to the bone and our sides hurt cause we were laughing so hard. People always ask me what I’m doin in Utah when I’m from Hawaii…and after being here for two days with my lil fam-I don’t know if I wanna go back! So if u know anyone that wants to buy a newly renovated townhome in Provo…it just may be on the market by week’s end!


don’t HATE…just renoVATE

~ Etc.

Due to the mass amount of peeps contacting me, wondering y I been MIA posting blogs, without further adieu, I am back by popular demand. Being one year older and wiser too, I can’t start without showing much love for my beautiful wife Sarah, my lil ham boo boo, my pops, my bro’s Mikey, Josh, and Matt, my cousins Granny and Jimmy and BFF’s Brennen and Jared for the L O N G hours of work that they all put in to help us on our place. We didnt do the best at taking before and after pics, but I’ll one up that and show before and after vids. I’ll post this teaser vid of the reasons we bought this fixer upper. Pardon my mumblings as I just saw immediate potential. B4 vid from jayT on Vimeo. You can’t really beat $71 a sq ft, esp with the market these days, this really was the year to buy. A buyers market coupled with low interest rates and on top of that you got the Housing Stimulus and with our place, you can’t beat the location, location, location! Granted our house was stuck in 1970’s with the nastiest green kitchen appliances, countertop, green shag carpet and old lady smell, when I bought this place to name a few. I bought it for the potential of what I saw in it and what it could become, not what it currently was (this also applies in life as we should always look for the potential in others and not judge them for what they currently are hahaha man I’m becoming my wife!). I was blessed to have my bro Josh as my engineer and he drafted up my plans from my ideas and made sure that everything was on point. I’m also blessed to have Tim the Toolman Taylor mixed with Bob Villa for a dad who pretty much echo’s “the field of dreams” moto “if you build it, I will come” He gets the building itch every couple of years and just couldn’t resist when I told him I wanted to renovate. For two weeks of work, you will be absolutely AMAZED and think your watching a show on HGTV just because how different everything looks. My neighborhood thought we were CRAZY to try to do so much in so little time all on our own, but now everyones trying to get a sneak peak of our humble abode. I won’t spoil the fun just yet, but between scraping popcorn ceilings, gutting the ENTIRE 2nd floor and kitchen, the 15-16 hour work days, and all the craziness that goes into making an old house new…trust me-the bags under my eyes and the aches in my ever aging body were ALLLLL worth it when I took my wife over for a sneak peak yesterday of her “90% completed newly renovated house” and saw her get suPER duPER excited!