This week we decided to remodel our fire place. I found some ideas in magazines, used my imagination and drew up the plans for our perfect fire place. After that Jake got to work and made my idea come to life and it is beautiful!
The "before" picture. And in case you're thinking "Why remodel? That's a beautiful fire place!" Let me show you some up-close pictures.
As you can see it's not that pretty.
Covered in paint, crayon, and whatever else was on it, not to mention some chips in the brick that wasn't so pretty.
This is a little more than half finished. We painted the brick step and what surrounds the fire place, covered the bottom in wood, added to the mantel piece, and put sheet rock on the top. Jake does a wonderful job!
The finished project!
And the final look...still missing some decor but that's pretty much it. It looks better up-close and personal so come over and take a look! We love visitors!
This is a picture of our cruise ship when we were in Mazatlan, Mexico.
Mason is SO ready for this vacation. 
Our first port Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. We didn't do much here except shop because lucky us we are coming back in June to stay for a week!! Can't wait!
The famous arch (in the first Pirates of the Carribian movie)
A pretty picture of a Cathedral in Puerto Vallerta, which was my favortie place even though we didn't get many pictures. Not that I'm not grateful to be going back to Cabo, I wish we were going to Puerto Vallerta. I wish we could have seen more. I really want to live there, I loved it.
And last but not least the ship Jake wishes he would have been on....
Yay for Cruising! We are so lucky that we got to enjoy this awesome vacation with our family. As soon as I can figure out how I will put the videos we took on here too so check back soon!