From Trash to Treasure

For the past 6 years, we have had the most hideous fireplace in our family room. This thing was so ugly and white, I couldn't stand it. So, when my parents came down in December for Christmas, I wrangled my Dad into remodeling it. To start of, the fireplace was white brick from top to bottom. My dad covered the brick with drywall from the mantle up and painted it the same color as the rest of the walls. It looked amazing. I knew my dad was handy, but I believe this was the best "fix-it" job I had him do! Although the top part of the fireplace looked really good, the rest sucked. In January, we hired a mason to replace the ugly painted brick with stone veneers & flagstone. As you can see below, the fireplace now looks a phenomenal!

Universal Studios

My parents got free tickets to Universal Studios so... in January we went. Not too exciting. I remember it being much cooler when I was a kid, but then weren't most things? Anyway, we got to meet The Sponge in person, needless to say Ty was not impressed.