Extreme Home Makeover Long Beach Style

A few weeks ago we were in California babysitting 3 of the 5 kids for my sister Angie while she and her husband went to Puerto Rico for 8 days. She lives in a smaller house with 5 kids and has had a few extremely hard blows from this bad economy, so as a surprise we decided to do an extreme home makeover for her. I collected money from my super amazing family and we all started planning... When I dropped her off at the airport all of our family descended, many came from Utah and my brother Matt came from central Cali. This is what happened...

(Me and Kevin had to finish up by ourselves and watch the kids things didn't exactly get all done. We finished most stuff but didn't get things up on the walls or finish the decorating.)

The Start... Contemplating how we start this.




The counter before:

Demolition Starts!!!! Caleb her 2 year old, kept coming in and yelling "What are you doing to my house???" or "Holy Mess!!!"

The tile countertops were a HUGE project.

That tile was stuck down with like an inch of concrete and a big metal netting.

This is what I like to call "The Wall paper from HE**!!!" man this was the worst... It seriously had 12 layers to the dumb thing... so glad it's done!

This is my dad, my bro Chris, My sis in law Melissa, and Kevin

My bro Matt contemplating why we did this.....

Jackson in his prime.....

Chelsea (Angie's youngest) the working girl

California doesn't have child labor laws do they?

The kids trying to stay out of the way

A whole day of unsupervised play resulted in this......

Mommy Aliyah (my niece)

Fixing the stoppers in the bathroom sink

Starting to paint

Cutting the hole for the sink in the new counter

Sanding the new chairs and table

My sister Lisa who flew out from Herriman to help for a few days

Chris priming the table and chairs and cabinets

Our Happy worker

Putting in a new shelf under the sink, since the old one had broken

fixing the wall and ceiling...

Super Painting Guy! My favorite super hero

Movie night for the kids when it was just me and Kevin. We were busy painting the kitchen and came in to discover that Chelsea had opened a whole container of puffs and dumped it all over and was eating them off the floor. She was so happy with herself... man it was so hard to get stuff done with these 4 small guys- Morgan was the oldest and she is 5.

The fixed ceiling!!! Yea! Like 5 years ago the ceiling collaped in and hadn't been fixed... This was a much needed fix.

putting newly painted and finished cabinets back on! New counters, new sink, and a new faucet- the old one wouldn't stay on by itself...

After everyone else went home we had a huge heat wave... it was over 100 degrees in the house! UNBEARABLE! We basically worked nude... All the baking chocolate and chocolate chips melted sitting in the family room! Now that is HOT!

New counter and painted cabinets

It looks so good!!!

Counter

There will be a tile border around the top of the counter backsplash

The entry way

The dresser is an old one we completely re-painted and put new handles on.

The new rug

The new chair- picture taken about 30 minutes after they got home

The new curtains and curtain rod

Angie wandering around in shock talking to mom

What we did:

took down wall paper in kitchen

Re-painted- entry way, living/ dining area, bathroom, kitchen

Painted trim work white (paint donated by Chris and LAnie)

Repaired walls in Kitchen and re texturized entire wall

Repaired ceiling in dining room from leak (thanks dad)

new counter tops (donated by Becca and Erin) georgeous!!!

re-painted dresser in entry and put new hardware on (looks amazing!)

Hung curtains in family room (donated by angie's debit card (lol))

Curtain rods and accesories and area rug (donated by Lisa and Brian)

Soon to be wood flooring (donated by Lisa and Brian)

New faucet (donated by Chris and Lanie)

New sink (Donated by matt and Melissa)

Curtains for entry and kitchen (Donated by steph and Kevin)

Tile for backsplash (Donated by steph and Kevin)

Pictures of all the kids framed and a wall plaque (Donated by steph and Kevin)

new molding around front door

new arm chair (mom and dad)

accesories (mom, steph, and lisa)

New chairs and bench (donated by lisa and brian)

new shelf under sink (dad, matt, and chris)

new base board in kitchen (mom and dad)

new light switch covers (lisa)

I think that is just about everything..... WOW!!! All that accomplished minus the floor in 7 days! I can't even believe all that we finished... Thank you Thank you Thank you to all of you for helping make this happen for two people who we all love so much and who we all felt like deserved this. I was originally only planning on me and Kevin doing this project and it being just a small living room makeover and I was so thrilled and over whelmed when all of you wanted to do it with me. I love you all for all the money and hard work we did... Chris, matt, dad, lisa, mom, melissa, and Kevin- you guys were amazing and worked so dang hard!!! We could not have done this without you... We have such an amazing family!

This is a link to the video we took of Angie and Dave walking in- they were totally shocked- we kept it all a HUGE SECRET!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pu0WM75qLo

Angie is getting a new couch and just got the new hardwood floors in last night!

This was one of the funnest things I have been able to do, it was a lot of extremely hard work but it was all worth it, I love my sister a lot and I know this will make her life easier having all this work done for her.

Awkward Family Photos

So my family has a blog for me and my brothers and sisters to post on and we always do funny things on it and have dumb contests and stuff. The latest one started when my sister-in-law discovered a FABULOUS website you ALL need to check out, it is called http://www.awkwardfamilyphotos.com/ It is a site that you can upload personal family pictures to and they write funny captions under them. There are some dumb ones and then there are some that made us all die laughing. So we started our own version on our family blog and here is my entry into The Egbert Family Awkward Family Photo contest...

I hesitated posting it on here for all to see some of my more embarrassing moments but I decided that I just don't care! They're too funny to not share.

The first one for consideration is that fateful night all of you have heard about my magical night with Michael Jackson... oh I mean Karl Gamble. This was a pity date my mom made me go on that turned out to be one hilarious prom night and a memory that always cracks me up when I think of it. If you ever want to hear the full story just ask and I'll post it- you won't be sorry!


So I had to remove my high heels to take a picture next to him so I didn't look too much like an Amazon woman next to him, I should have thought about a lower hair do too... OH and to make things better the couple on the left had down-syndrome, the couple in the middle were brother and sister (awkward slow dances) and the couple on the right were super creepy and wouldn't stop making out.

My best fake smile I could muster at the moment...

Oh how sweet ;)

This one is my FAVORITE wedding shot. I mean a picture in front of the temple can really come off as preachy... but who doesn't love a little mini groom who fits in the palm of your hand? (what was our photographer THINKING??? Who would like this?)

At Disneyland during the night princess parade- a very sweet pose of me and my niece Brinlee... And then...

Someone accidentally took another picture right after and caught this creepy guy joining in on the fun... hmmm... weird.

Jackson created this pose COMPLETELY by himself, he picked the block, the boa, and the pose all by himself.

"Fagbeard the Pirate" AKA My brother chris at a halloween party in Long Beach

This is the Pirate costume my mom brought for him... it ended up looking more like a cowboy playing dress up in pirate clothes...

And the nine month pregnant shot... now which one of us is pregnant??? Hint: not me ;)

So there you have it! I hope you enjoyed them!

And the Winner is...

Jackson!!!

About a month and a half ago Kevin decided he wanted to enter Jackson into the Orem Summerfest Cutest Baby Contest. Kevin was in the contest when he was a baby and didn't win, but made it into the newspaper, so he wanted a second shot at bringing home the big prize...

And Jackson won 1st place in his age division! He got a gift bag of prizes and a T-Shirt and a medal.
We also got to ride on the float (A.K.A. a flat bed tow truck). Jackson loved it and waved to everyone and was blowing kisses. It was such a fun experience and I'm glad Kevin made me do it.


After we finished the parade we went and sat with our families to keep watching.

Our float

Jackson wearing his "winner shirt" and "Winner necklace" as he calls them.
It was fun to know that other people think he is cute too, not just his parents...