Sun Valley Trip

Here are a few pictures from a little overnight trip Clint and I did in May with the rest of my client services department at FirstWest. We had a "farewell dinner/trip" for my boss Ken. (He resigned to explore new opportunities. :(

Here is Clint's and my room for the night!

Hanging out before dinner!

Aw Clint!

At dinner with the rest of the CSR's: Holly and her husband Dave...

Kym and her son...

My boss, Ken, receiving the goodbye presents we put together for him...

Taking a ride on the ski lifts the next morning...

Graduation

Repent all ye sinners, armageddon is upon us......

T Clinton Cunningham graduated

(pending arrival of actual diploma)

I had an entire post written that summed up my school experience quite nicely but I decided to postpone it until my official diploma arrived. I have invested way too much of my life to blow it before getting that stupid piece of paper. Thanks to my family and friends for support etc. Thanks to my wife for putting up with me during numerous test weeks.

A special thanks to the lazy, good-for-nothing idiot professors that wasted most of my time learning stuff that is completely irrelevant to everyday working life. I loved learning how to do statistics over the course of a semester that could be done in 30 minutes in Excel....it was so fulfilling! I loved getting a taste of the "real world" by being forced into student groups for projects that made up a large portion of my grade. I especially loved learning from professors who failed in the business world but who get paid to do "research" and teach young minds. Thanks. ---I realize there are probably several grammatical errors in that paragraph that reflect poorly on my education....but if you read the paragraph, you can understand why.

I Love Shoes!

I found this sign at Target and had to have it! It now sits on my desk at work!

Another One to Cross Off the 'Honey Do' List

So you may remember that on New Years Day, Clint and I (along with my mom and dad) started the daunting process of remodeling our tiny little master bath. Well it is finally finished! Hooray! Only 7 months later! I thought everyone would like to see the before-and-after shots:

BEFORE...

AFTER!

BEFORE...

AFTER!

Sorry...I don't have a before shot for this...but this is a nice view of the floor tile, trim, and cool toilet paper stand and double towel bar!

Also, since I named part of this bathroom project the "Niche from Hell" I figured it would be nice to show the evolution of the once old, ugly medicine cabinet to a pretty nice lookin' decorative niche! Most of the credit for this part of the bathroom goes to my dad who took the mudding of the niche to a whole new level! This sounds lame but working with mud/compound like this is really an art!

It looks like such a harmless little project here...how naive I was...

Then came the task of creating the arch...

Next, we had to secure the arch and build the front facade...a lot harder than I thought it would be...

Then we had to mud the niche. I did a little bit of this but I got too impatient. It's a lot of mudding and sanding, mudding and sanding! I finally needed my dad to come over to finish it!

And here is the final result!

We must thank everyone who helped us complete this project:

My dad David, my mom Lisa, Clint's dad Paul, Cam, Loren, Hector (who tiled our tub), and all the nice people at Lowe's! We couldn't have done it without you!

Now...on to the next bathroom?...