The Radmalls

The Radmalls

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Heaven on Earth

This post is a little (well a lot) late but this summer we went to Lake Powell with my family.  My sister and her cute family came in town from Scotland for a month or so and Lake Powell was definitely the high light of our summer.  Especially for Payton.  For about 2 weeks after we left she asked to go to the lake every single day.

















This brave girl even went tubing and asked to go faster...  




Kal didn't like it so much..



All the cousins





Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Settling In

It has been a few months since I have posted on the blog, but life has been quite hectic and busy.  We sold our house up in Layton (which is bittersweet, but honestly being out of it has allowed us more fun and more relaxing).  We were intending to buy a place in Farmington but 4 days before we closed on it Tyler got a different territory in his job down south!  So to make a long story short we backed out of our house and moved in temporarily with my parents while we figured out what we were going to do.  I do miss Layton a little bit, but it is so good to be back down south close to everything.  I didn't realize how much I missed the Salt Lake Valley. 

So after house hunting, we decided to rent for a while until we figured out where we really want to be.  So we found this cute 3 bedroom rental in South Jordan that fits our little family perfectly.  We are excited to settle in and simplify our lives.  So unfortunately this blog won't really be a remodeling blog anymore.  Now it will just be a personal blog about my cute little family.  

We meet up with our really good friends from Layton at City Creek after a month not seeing them and these two cuties ran up to each other and gave each other a big hug.  It was pretty much adorable.




It is good to be close to my friends from Hillcrest again.  We went on this beautiful hike in Draper up to a little waterfall.  Payton was in heaven.



It was fun this year talking to P about Halloween because she knew exactly what she wanted to be.  She has been OBSESSED with Tinkerbell lately so it didn't surprise me at all when she picked out her costume.  Poor girl thought that once she put her "wings" on she could fly like Tinkerbell.  It was hard to break her little heart with the truth.



We also went to Tracy Aviary with some of my friends to go bird watching.  Payton loved it.  It is only $1 on Tuesdays if you have a Pass of All Passes.  





Thursday, August 7, 2014

It's a Sad Day at the Radmall House

It is a bittersweet time in our lives to say goodbye to this amazing home, but after owning a fixer upper and making changes as fast as we did we are officially worn out.  The time and money we have put into this home has definitely been worth it, but now we know that we aren't the fixer upper type of people.  It was fun and we learned a lot but we just don't want to keep putting money into it that we could be using to save and make family memories.  We don't want to spend all of our time and efforts always working on our house.  So we decided to downgrade in size and upgrade in quality.  

Here are some before and after pictures
(the afters were pictures used on our listing for the house)

Exterior - Before


After



Before



After


Family Room - Before


After



Kitchen - Before


After


Family Room & Kitchen After


Master Bedroom - Before


After


Other Angle - Before



After


Master Bathroom - Before


After 


Another Angle - Before


After



Payton's Room - Before



After 



 Basement - Before


After


Backyard Exterior - Before


After


Deck - Before


After