THE KEELE FAMILY

Cuz you only thought I was crazy!

2011-03-17T20:30:00.000-07:00

Alrighty, Here are the pictures of my kitchen. Which is still not finished but we are getting closer. I think i'm done with the cabinets, except for putting the hardware back on. I'm still trying to choose a paint color, which is not going very well.

If you don't remember this is what we started with.

Then we went to this, new corian countertop and marble backsplash. But for some reason I just could not get this kitchen to come together. I painted the walls twice, we changed the floor from laminent to a tile. And yet I still wasn't "feeling it".

So nothing left to do but change the cabinets, again. Which I really tried to avoid. So a week later, some primer, paint, and glaze here is what I have.

Look familiar? I should have just went with what I know and not try and go out of my decorating box. This is the 3rd set of cabinets I've painted off white. I have to say i've got it about down to a science.

See so now you know I am really crazy.

Catching Up

2010-11-05T10:33:00.001-07:00

Happy Halloween! Gracie was a vampire, Chase a zombie, and Adam and I were Adam & Eve. The nieghborhood throws a big party, so we had to dress up as something.

Don't Play with Your Food! I have clearly not said this enough.

We tried a favorite Alaska past time. The kids did pretty good for their first time. Adam didn't do to bad either since it's been 20 years since he skated.

Under Construction

2010-10-27T10:54:00.000-07:00

As you probably know I seem to have to have a house project. Even though we really tried to buy a house that didn't really need anything (as if there is such a thing) I find my self wanting to change, a lot. Project 1. The kitchen, which I new when we bought the house was not going to work for me. My house choices in E.R. were about 5, so we went with it.

I'm going to try and keep my progress up to date so you can tell me what's good and what's not on my choices.

My starting pictures are of the kitchen as we bought it.

Stay Tuned!

Feline Frenzy!

2009-06-15T08:33:00.001-07:00

Can you believe there's one missing out of this picture? Yep we currently have 4 cats. The one on the blue blanket is however on loan. Ash belongs to my friend "H" who is in Texas for the summer. She is the sister to Daisy and Rockie who are hugging each other (or fighting i'm not quite sure). Then there is the cranky old man Bo.

Do you think this is a cause for concern? That someday I will be one of those crazy cat ladies?

To The Zoo!

2009-06-05T16:30:00.000-07:00

For the summer break i'm trying to be cool mom and take the kids on a field trip once a week ( if we can think of enough things to do). This week the kids wanted to go to the zoo. We haven't been in about 2 or 3 years so I said "sure." Well my BFF and kids came along with us.
The kids had a great time, but let me tell ya, mom was beat! It probably didn't help that after the zoo S and I dragged them to :

1. REAL DEALS - Don't worry H, nothin' good.

2. The Cannery - 1 1/2 later

3. Dairy Queen - cause those kids had been darn good.

4. JCPennys - Dress for J, Shoes for C, no luck though.

5.Around the Mall for a dress - to many stores I can't remember.

6. The Boy Scout Store!

I was out cold by 8:30 p.m. I'm pretty sure the kids were still up. Thanks Daddy for putting them to bed.

On Top of the World!

2009-06-02T14:54:00.000-07:00

We took the 4-wheelers out Sunday, to Anderson Dam. We rode a trail that Adam goes on to bear hunt. And yes we did take guns just in case a bear didn't hear me and the kids coming a mile away. The 3 of us haven't mastered the art of being quite so the bears don't hear us. But Adam was pretty sure the minute he didn't take his rifle he would see a bear.

Anyhow it was really pretty up there, with tons of wild flowers blooming. However my allergies kicked in, so it was a good thing we took T.P.

My husband thinks it's so funny to take pictures when I don't know he's doing it!

FYI Microwave Users!

2009-04-29T19:15:00.000-07:00

Most 8 year olds use the microwave right?

Mine has for a while. Today however he learned something new about the microwave and about the smoke detectors.

That roman noodles are flammable when you don't add water to the bowl! And that the batteries in the smoke detector need changed!

A little dirt never hurt!

2008-10-19T15:26:00.000-07:00

Adam's parents came for the weekend and brought thier four wheelers with them. Adam took them to the reservior on Fri. and Sat. (I was busy selling a house. Yeah!) Then Sun. we all got to go out.

The kids loved it and so did the dog. I hit a big rut on my second turn and manage to get bucked completely off the 4-wheeler, landing with my face in the dirt. I got back on though. I'm a little sore now .

We all got completely covered in mud, one way or another.

Chase surprised us all and drove around on the 4-wheeler by his self, even through the mud.

New Additions!

2008-10-10T14:31:00.000-07:00

Wed. afternoon I took the kids out to see "some horses" at my friend Brenda's house. We went inside and Brenda's husband had all these kittens in his lap. I told the kids to go over and pick one. They were kind of reluctant, but they ended up holding them all. I went out and got the cat carrier from the car and came back in and said to get the one they wanted to take home. That's when they actually got excited, it seems they did not understand when I said pick one. They thought I ment pick one to hold not to keep.

So this is who they picked. Gracie's is on the left, her name is Rockie, Chase's is name Daisy.

So now the only problem is no one will let me hold their kitten. They say I have Bo, who is crabby. Lucky me!

The almost finished product.

2008-10-05T09:14:00.001-07:00

So I say almost finished because we still have to put the new door and trim in. Well get there!

Let the demo begin!

2008-08-18T15:02:00.001-07:00

Here she is, our beautiful 1983 bluest bathroom ever.

As bad as it is I wasn't quite ready to start the remodel yet. I know shocking isn't it. Unfortunately there was a leaky valve , and the only way to repair was to go through the tile wall. I wasn't about the put that blue crap back up, so this started the gutting of the bathroom. Yet another remodeling adventure for the Keeles. Oh if anyone wants a vintage blue toilet let me know!

Girls Weekend!!

2008-08-11T15:54:00.000-07:00

Summer is coming to a wind down, I was lucky enough to get to spend my weekend with two of my favorite people in the world. Sherida and I left Friday afternoon to drive down to American Fork, Ut. to see our friend Tenisha. It was a kid free, shopping, eating, but most of all lots of laughing 2 days.

Thanks T. for hosting!

Which Princess Are You?

2008-07-31T07:45:00.000-07:00

You Are Mulan!

Strong and spirited. You're no one's girly girl; actually you are very determined person with a strong sense of self. Never let go of that! The only thing that equals your sense of self is your family, but the traditions of society can always be bent to protect something or someone you love.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

10th Class Reunion

2008-07-23T08:44:00.000-07:00

Well there it is! These are the only people that showed up to my class reunion over the weekend. I graduated with 42 and only 11 of us made it.

It was nice to see everyone. But I realized alot of people don't change after 10 years. (some cases that's too bad).

Will I go to my 20th - hard to say.

Bulls Eye!

2008-07-10T11:37:00.000-07:00

Adam insisted Chase have a new bow. I think he's pretty proud of Chase's shooting!

Do people make alot of money in archery? I think he's got a niche.

The old bow gets passed to Gracie. I hope she doesn't shoot the pool.

Dog Days!!

2008-06-30T20:15:00.001-07:00

When it's a 103* even the dog can't stay out of the pool. Ok so she might have a little fish in her.

We spent pretty much all day Sunday in the pool. Chase is getting to be such a good swimmer.

By the way Gracie was asleep on the couch!

Relay for Life

2008-06-30T20:08:00.001-07:00

Friday night was Relay for Life. I was part of the Century 21 Team, which as you can see was pretty big. Adam and the kids joined us for the first lap. I was the first leg from 8 - 9 p.m. Chase joined me for the next lap. Then I was on my own for quite awhile. I did a total of 24 laps. The event raised over $28,000 for the fight against cancer.

I gave up!

2008-06-20T15:55:00.000-07:00

Here is my little girl with her long flowing hair, that we fight daily to comb through, that we have invested a small fortune on products for it, that we don't leave the house until it's done, hair!

Today I gave up. I have fought Gracie and Adam for a year or so about cutting her hair. I had long hair, she should have long hair. I'm done fighting. One less thing to fight about this summer is more important than beautiful flowing hair, right?

So here she is.

About 8 inches later. Not long enough for Locks of Love, what a waste.

On the first cut I really about cried and wanted to tell the lady to stop. It will grow back is what I had to keep telling myself.

I still might cry.

Soooo Cute!

2008-06-19T07:42:00.001-07:00

Don't we all just love cute little puppys?!! (M& D, he's really not ours.)

This is Striker our neighbors new baby. We get to puppy sit once in a while and get our baby fix. The kids love it, and I don't have potty train him. It's like having a grandchild, you enjoy them and then send them home.

He's just to cute not to blog!

Pillow Case

2008-06-06T16:52:00.000-07:00

Gracie - after a hard day of play!

My family will recognize her blanket of chose - a Sesame Street pillow case that I know I used and probably my sis and bro too.

Happy Half Birthday Chase & Gracie!

2008-06-05T07:00:00.001-07:00

I only do birthday parties every other year. This was our year, again. OH and we do half birthday parties. C - is 7 1/2 and G - is 4 1/2. I do this so we can be outside and not tear the house apart. This years theme was Luau, since the kids didn't go with us to Hawaii I tried to give them a little Hawaii here. However, the weather didn't cooperate much. We were supposed to play in the pool, have water balloons, and other water fun. Ya, not so much. It was about 70* and had been cooler for a week or so and the pool hadn't warmed up yet, so that was out. I didn't want to be responsible for sending 15 kids home with colds, so no water balloon either. Despite all that the kids had a great time with there friends and that's all that mattered.

I think this was my last year of a double party. G had more friends show then C. He handled it really well, but was still upset. I told him the people that mattered the most were here. That made him feel better.

I have to give a big thanks to my friends, Sherida, Heather, and Shelly for helping me keep track of everyone. It's great to have friends that I can say "we're having a party, you don't get to leave!"

So another year is done and right now i'm still on the cool list with the kids. It will pass, but for now i'll enjoy it!

Our Trip To Hawaii

2008-05-14T16:21:00.000-07:00

Aloha!

We're back from Paradise. So I thought i'd show all the pictures we got and what we did

We got to Oahu on Monday Night (May 6th) So we didn't do anything that day.

Tues. we woke up early Hawaii time and went to breakfast and a hotel orientation thing before hitting the beach.

The water was a little cold at first.

BURN BABY BURN!

After lunch and a nap went drove down the shore where we got a little lost and had to pull over and look at the map. Well a coconut man found us and was selling fresh coconut for money for his family reunion and his brothers have to many kids.

I don't like fresh coconut milk so much. But it was fun to see how they come out of the trees. The coconut meat is really soft.

Wed. - North Shore and the Polyneisan Culture Center.

I got the wrong tickets so we didn't really get to go through all the villiages as much as we wanted. They had a Luau and a show performed by all the villiages. Luau BAD, Show Good.

The Luau food was horrilble. But I really enjoyed the Show - lots of fire and pretty girls, and the men weren't to hard on the eyes either.

This was at the luau - a prayer of some some kind.

Adam didn't care for the PCC. He thought the kids that performed were a little exploited.
Overall I liked it.

Oh yeah on the way we stopped at the Dole Plantation. I had no idea how Pineapples grew so that was neat.

Thurs - Pearl Harbor

I did not enjoy this at all. It was to erie. Adam liked it though and that's what was important

Friday- Snorkeling!

I only drank half of the Pacific doing this. It was alot of fun. We went out on this $3.5 million catamaran.

On the way we saw a pod of spinner dolphins and 1 even had a baby.

I lasted 45 min. but I was tired after that, and pretty sea sick.

Sat. - Relaxation and Dinner Cruise

We hung out at the beach until it got to hot then we hung out at the pool and that was so tiring after lunch we had a nap.

This was the Ship the Star of Honolulu. We had crab legs and steak with a bunch of Japanese people.

Not the high light of our trip!

This was our hotel from the boat. The 2 little ones in the middle.

Sun- Mothers Day - Wiamea Bay Hike

We got up early and went to the Bay to hike up to this waterfall. To bad they haven't had much rain. I was still fun and pretty.

This was the falls, in the rainy season its huge.

Mon- Diamond Head & Home

Ok so Diamond Head is a big crater. They used as a military post for quite a while. See the tip that's where we climb.

Ok so actually you drive into a tunnel that puts you in the center of the crater. But it was still a big climb.

Mostly it was trail but there where 3 differnt staircases - this on was a killer. Especially since we were trying to prove we were in shape or something and went the bottom of the trail to the top without stopping.

Waikiki Beach below us. Me sweating like a pig.

So that brought an end to our Hawaii Vacation. Back to Mtn. Home and the real world. I hope you all can make it there some day.

Good Average

2008-03-07T05:06:00.000-08:00

So i'm going to average 1 post a month it looks like. That's terms I can live up too.

Here's the catch up.

I finished real estate school, Yaw!! I'm not official yet because I haven't chosen a broker. I'm working on it. It's actually a hard process.

The big news at our house is that Adam promoted to Tech. SSGT.

Here's a picture of the ceremony. For those of you not military, yes we are punching him in the arm. It's an abusive tradition.

Well more to come next month.

Valentines Day - This biggest set up all year!

2008-02-08T05:57:00.000-08:00

That's right I think Valentines Day is so commercially crazy that no man could ever have a chance. The jewelry commercials, trips to Paris, and all the other crazy commercials that lead us to believe is supposed to happen on V- Day is fraudulent mispresentation. So this is the funny part; it only took me 8 years of marrige and 10 years together to figure that out. My hubby has never bought me a diamond necklace or whisk me off to Paris. But this is what he does do - on a regular basis- makes the coffee so it's there when I get up, even though most days he doesn't drink any - clears off the snow on my car and the sidewalk before he leaves for work at 6 a.m. , so I won't get cold and wet - comes home for a couple hours during the day,after having a kid sick for 4 days, so can go to work for a couple hours and attempt to regain santity.

That's what Valentines Day should be about, remembering how much you are loved, not that you didn't get flowers, again.

Love you Adam -

Look Guys - I'm figuring it out!

2008-02-07T18:31:00.000-08:00

This is for Heather. I've been working on getting this blog thing under control for the past few days. So this is it so far. I'm still learning, but happy about the progress i've made.

I need Help!

2007-10-30T16:12:00.000-07:00

Ok, this blog thing is beyond me. I don't know how to make my header cute, or add other bloggers or anything! Someone help me.

My First Blog

2007-10-21T14:08:00.000-07:00

OK, so every ones doing it, so it must be worth doing. At least this way I don't have to email everyone when things happen around here.

I guess I'll begin with the project house we've been working on. It's finally done, as most of you know. It took alot of blood, sweat, and tears, but I'm glad we did it. It gave me more confidence in my abilities. I am stronger (physically) than I thought! I can use whatever power tool I need too! I can keep up with my husband and be a great help to him!

Yes there was blood. If I wasn't bleeding by the end of the day it wasn't a good work day. There was alot of sweat, you know Mtn. Home summers. I there were more than a few days I ended up crying.

OK so anyhow the house is on the market and hopefully it sells soon so we can move on to the next chapter, or house, that comes along.