House and graduation

Our updates on our house are coming nicely! We have all of the upstairs painted (well minus the bathroom and kitchen, but everywhere that carpet is going) and downstairs have mudded the walls and rebuilt the wall in the spare bedroom. I really love our house! It was a long process and it was frustrating at times but now that it's all coming together it was totally worth it! This house had everything we were looking for! We wanted something that we could grow in so that when we decide to have kids we wont be cramped in, something with an open floor plan, something a little newer (our house was built in 1991 so its new enough)and a good neighborhood. The way we actually found this house was we were driving around neighborhoods that we liked and saw the for sale sign and called our agent about it. I definitely would buy a HUD home again. I thought HUD was a house that needed work but it actually is a FHA loan (first home buyers loan) that someone could not pay for. We ended up getting a good deal since it is a HUD home and really all it needs is cosmetic work. So here is a tour of our house (and remember these are the before pictures)!
The blue room

Living room. It looks so good right now with the new paint, just waiting on carpet!

Love the dining room! Love the natural light and how spacious it is. The doors lead out to the deck.

Really like the kitchen!

Downstairs bathroom, blue cultured marble

Colorful downstairs bedroom

One of the downstairs bedrooms, it had some water damage. We just had to reframe the wall and it looks good! Jared and his dad did it Saturday morning.

Family room downstairs, I think this will be my favorite room to hang out in!

Family room downstairs

Storage/wash/mud room! Lots of storage!

The walls in the master bedroom, I was worried that black would be hard to cover up!

Master bedroom closet

We pulled out the cupboard and desk from the family room

Darcie doing what she does best...vacuuming!

Billie pulling up carpet

The blue room was really beat up if you can't tell. All those white spots on the wall are mud from patching the walls!

Pink cultured marble in the master bath, hey at least we do have a jetted tub in there. That'll be nice!

Grandpa Samson came out to help

My mom graduated from college with her Bachelors in Business on Saturday! We were so proud of her and all her hard work. She's been going to school I think for 8 years.. And what is she doing next... More school! In the fall she's going to be teaching and working on her masters degree at USU! Congrats Mom! She graduated summa cum laude which means she had awesome grades!

Dad, Mom and Logan (one of my dad's former employees)

The family minus Jared St

Graduation Dinner at Maddox

Jared, Me and Abby