We finished our basement to help sell our house and IT WORKED. We officially moved out last month. It was a pain showing our house and always keeping it clean, but luckily we only had it listed for about 4 months. We decided to move to be closer to Salt Lake where Caleb works. Plus the 650 N exit is AWFUL!! Here are the last pictures of our Clinton house.

 

 

 

 We are going to miss our ward and neighborhood, we've made so many good friends in Clinton. We were lucky to have so much help while moving we finished everything in about 2 hours.

 

We moved in with my little sister Kim, Jonny, and Baby Claire in Layton while searching for our next perfect house!

Basement - finished product

I just realized that I never posted the pictures from finishing our basement. So here you go.

Bedroom before

 

Caleb was busy studying for the GMAT during our renovation so I was lucky enough to get to put in the insulation, spackle, paint, and do about 85% of the tile work all by myself. Haha

Jed helping to frame the closet in the bedroom, while Caleb tried to de-pants him.

 I sent this picture to Caleb who was upstairs studying and said, "wish you were here"

 

 So he took a break to come see the progress.

 

Finished Bedroom

 

Bathroom Before:

 

 

We did custom tile around the shower, and it turned out to be pretty easy.

 

 

 Caleb was outside cutting the tile and came back with this awesome line across his face.

 

Finished Bathroom

We were able to finish the bedroom, bathroom, and hallway for a little under $3,000. It's kind of funny but the hardest part of the entire project was putting up the dang blinds. Haha

Natalie's Chocolate Chip Cookies

Here is the recipe for the delicious chocoloate chip cookies that Caleb swears changed his life. Just remember if you try these you'll never go back. They're just that good.

Natalie's Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies

2 c shortening

1 1/2 c brown sugar, firmly packed

1 1/2 c sugar

4 eggs unbeaten

3 1/2 c flour

2 tsp soda

2 tsp salt

2 tsp vanilla

12 oz pkg semi-sweet chocolate chips

4 cups oatmeal

Bake @ 375 for 10 minutes on greased cookie sheet

Parties, Parties, Parties Galore.

Park Family Thanksgiving

 Brooke always wants to hold the baby.

 I seriously cannot look at this picture without laughing. Kim and I were taking a picture with Claire, when out of nowhere Brooke the photo bomber showed up. 

 Rigby Family Party

Marci was teasing Daisy with her candy.

but she got over it in time to give us a big smile.

I just love this picture so much. I want to frame it and put it in our living room.

Anything but boring...

Seriously? These two are brothers? Haha

Indee had a performance that night so half of the family left to go see that. She just looks so dang cute in this picture that I had to include it.

 We were trying to figure out different facial hair options.

 

Looks like the 'stache works best.

   Ugly Sweater Party

Cute girls.

These guys are crazy.

 

Not very many of our sweaters made it to the end of the night.

 

Park Christmas

 

 Cute Hollie

 My mom in shock that we got her a kindle.

 Jonny opening his awesome Jets jacket.

 The best present ever! We were supposed to get food storage but decided we needed an Xbox kinect more.

I'm not sure what was so funny here but I bet it was good.

Holl and I showing off our awesome scrapbook stuff.

 Brookie with all of her new princesses.

 Parker loved his new keyboard for Rock Band.

 Ash was just as interested in Brian's gift as he was.

 Rigby extended family party

 We didn't take many pictures but these two were my favorites. Daisy was our little BFF throughout the party.

 Game Night with Santillans and Lloyds.

 

 Always a good time when we break out the Kinect.

 I am so happy to know that there is another couple as competitive as Caleb and I... haha  Even while 9 months pregnant Karabeth was not about to let her husband win her in Dance Central 2.

 

Clearly we couldn't be bothered with posing for a picture, we needed to win.

 

 These two have matching blue eyes... that is neat. =)

  

  This is the best picture we could get from my old school phone using the self timer.

2011 was fantastic. I can already tell 2012 is going to be better. ;)