4th of July...

We went camping in Pine Valley for two days during the week before the 4th of July.

I'll just let the pictures speak for themselves on this one...

Watching the fireworks...

Our New Place...

I've been meaning to post these pictures for a while, so here they are! We love our new place! We LOVE having a garage, and love all the extra storage space, and everything about our new place.

So, here is the entry way. As you open the front door, there's the stairs to the upstairs on your left, and then the hallway that leads to the living room and the kitchen. One of the doors on the left that you see in this picture is a half bathroom, and the other is storage space under the stairs. The kids really like the little door that is just their size.

Here is our living room complete with hand-me-down couches that surprisingly match each other really well. (We got them from two different people.)

I love how our kitchen and living room is open, as well as the big space for the dining area...

Here is our kitchen. The only bad thing about this place is that there's no pantry, so on the right you can see that we bought a cabinet from good ol' Wal-Mart...

Our front door and stairs...

Stairs and upstairs hallway...


Upstairs hallway... The door on the left is a closet. (Currently holds most of my art stuff and also board games.) The door on the right is the laundry room. (and it has shelves!) You don't see it, but around the corner and next to the kids bedroom is a linen closet, and the kids bathroom with ANOTHER linen closet in the kids bathroom.

And here is the office/sewing/craft/art/storage room... I LOVE this room!

And this is the kids room, and there is Max hiding again... And there you see the ballerinas above Elora's bed. (They used to hang in my bedroom growing up, and they used to belong to my Mom.) And Elora wants to become a ballerina, she can't wait until her ballet class starts! (Yes, I signed her up, and we're both very excited.)

Here is the master bedroom...

And master bathroom... I love actually having our own bathroom connected to our bedroom!

Well, there ya go Mom! This post was really for her since she probably won't see our place for a long time.

Lilia's Baby Blessing...

On the first weekend of June, we took a little trip up to Tremonton to see my brother and little family. It was Lilia's baby blessing, and I had to go back to see my eye doctor in Ogden. (But that's a whole other annoying long story that's still not resolved...) So here are some fun pictures of Jen's side of the family and baby Lilia'a beautiful blessing dress that my other sister in law made out of the train of Jen's wedding dress. It was awesome!

Elora and Max enjoyed holding their new cousin...

I couldn't believe how big Lilia had gotten in just the month's time since the last time I saw her! Oh, and by the way, Lilia is named after my grandmother on my Dad's side.

Venice Prints For Sale...

I just put these linocut prints up for sale on Etsy yesterday...




"Towards Gelato," Linocut, 21.5 x 12.5 in, Cynthia Gough, For Sale: $60

"Before Gelato," Linocut, 13.25x24.5 in, Cynthia Gough, For Sale: $80

"After Gelato," Linocut, 12x6.25, Cynthia Gough, For Sale: $40

I made these prints in college by carving out the white on a soft clay-like surface. Then I rolled ink on them and put it through the press with paper. The finished product is the ink on the paper. I'm selling the rest that I have, which isn't very many...