Dyson Vacuum review

Dyson DC 28 Animal

with "Air Muscle" technology

I have had my dyson for a little over a month now, so here is my review.

Pros

• It’s not loud (I think I lost some hearing with my last vacuum).
• It works well on both carpets and hard floors.
• It has a great canister that empties easily with little mess.
• The vacuum has not lost any suction, not even with a fairly full canister.
• Will likes the long cord.

Cons

• It does not go under furniture. It has a really large base that just doesn’t fit.
• It doesn’t pick up large things easily. If you want it to pick up anything large (for example: popcorn kernels or rice crispy cereal) it works better if you use the backward motion instead of the forward motion to get them. I don't know if this is necessarily a true "con" since it still does an amazing job.
• The plug comes out of the wall way too easily. This is by far my biggest complaint.
• I’m not sure I like the fact that if I want to use the hose I have to unwind the whole cord every time.
• I’m not sure I like it, but I am getting used to the fact that you have to step on the front of it to get it into the release mode to vacuum. I have always had a release button on the back of the vacuum.
• As far as the attachments go I haven't used the small one at all. The large one is for hard floors and I just don't like that I have to bend over to get it at the right angle on the floor. It hurts my back. So I just don't use it. The vacuum picks up on the hard floors just fine with out this attachment.

I realize I have more cons than pros but I think this stems from the fact that Dyson's vow they are the best so my expectations are way way high. Also we paid a lot so I want my money's worth. Don’t get me wrong none of the cons really bother me that much. I have just had to re adjust how I do things a little bit. And the most, most important thing is that it sucks stuff up... that makes me feel like I have not wasted my time like I did with my other vacuums.

Challene

9 year Anniversary!

9 Year Anniversary

As of May 16, 2010 Will and I have been married for 9 years. Wow, 9 years where has the time gone? In 9 years Will and I have; had 2 boys; Ethan and Joshua, moved at leaste 8 times, owned 1 condo and 1 home, lived in my grandparents duplex twice, lived in my Mothers home, lived in 1 apartment, rented 1 town home and 1 home. We've lived in two different States; Utah then Oregon and then back to Utah. Owned our own business: Rocky Mountain Family Chiropractic.

Will has; gone to school for at least 8 of our nine years, finally resulting in him becoming a Chiropractor and having 4 degrees (AS, AAS, BS, DC), he has worked for at least 4 different employers: Contempo Tile, Watson Laboratories as a Quality Assurance Auditor, sold Usana products (for about a month), and Norman Chiropractic.

I have: gone to school for music education then interior design. Worked for 3 employers, once for the state of Utah as an office tech. It is just a fancy way of saying I did all the paper work, data entry, faxed things/recieved faxes, etc. I worked for Curves one in Bountiful Utah and one in NE Portland, Oregon. Had 5 callings in the church; Sunbeam teacher, Young Womens leader, Webolos leader, Secretary in Relief Society and I was the 1st counselor in the Relief Society. I was over additional Relief Society Meeting (aka enrichment). I've also raised two boys.

May 16, 2001

Sealed for all time and Enterinity in the

Salt Lake Temple.

Anniversary Get away

For our anniversary we decided to get away for 2 nights. We found a cheap condo for rent in Park City Utah. The Place was called the Silver Queen Hotel. It is located right on the old main street in Park City. The pictures on its website looked nice and the price was great so we booked it. The place was alright. I think I had too high of expectations. I didn't realize that the place was old. Old buildings creep me out. One of my other complaints is that they didn't have any normal pillows to sleep on. They only had throw pillows with shams on them and a couple other huge throw pillows. Needless to say we ended up using the sham pillows to sleep on. Who knew? If I had I would have packed my own. Also the TV reception was horrible most channels looked horrible if you could see them at all. Oh and I almost forgot. We had a hard time finding/getting a parking spot. The condo manageing company did pull through and finally get us a free parking spot not to far from where we were staying. I hate being all negative so here is what I did like. Even though the place was old it had been updated. It had a really nice new kitchen, which had very sleek modern white cabinets with silver handle knobs and black granite counter tops with all new black appliances. Which included a gas stove, trash compactor, dishwasher and of course a refrigerator. There were a couple pieces of the interior design that I really liked. The first of which was a mirror that was in the dining room. It was a large square framed mirror with a rustic silver frame around it. Then in the dining room it had a shabby-to-chic black chandelier.

Here is a picture of the outside of the Silver Queen Hotel.

While we were in Park city we took our golf clubs and we hit a bucket of balls at a golf course. Then we proceeded to Massage Envy where we had an hour long couples massage. After that we had dinner at Ghidottis where we had an over priced not so great meal. But Cold Stone, my favorite ice cream shop, was next door so we got that to go and had a fabulous desert later in our room while watching the TV that has poor reception. Before we had dessert we took a walk up and down the old main street, where we realized there wasn't hardly anything still open and nothing that interested us anyway. So it ended up being just a nice walk.

Here are some pictures of Ghidottis, it was a beautiful designed resturant. Yes I took pictures, I love interior design what else do you want me to say?

I absolutely love those wrought iron gates! What a beautiful interior.

Happy 9 year anniversary Will! I love you! I am excited to share more years with you and I can't wait to see what is next.

Pure Bliss!

So you know how there are certain things in life that just make you happy. Well I think these lamps are beautiful and they make me happy. I seriously smile every time I look at them. As you all know I am passionate about/love interior design and I think whom ever designed these were brilliant.

Ahhh, pure bliss, I love them!

Frustrated!

If you are not in the mood to hear me rant and rave then just go a head and skip this post.

So I bought this True Clean pet vacuum pictured below a little over a year ago. Yes it was a vacuum that cost under $100.00 bucks but really is it too much to ask that it will work for more than 6 months? Currently it doesn't work at all. I am so, so, so sick of crappy vacuums! This is not my first, actually I wish I would have kept my first vacuum. It was a low end Hoover but it did better then the next two that I have had.

I seriously have had 2 melt downs this week trying to get this thing to pick up anything! My floors look horrible. I know we are absolutely broke and can not afford a Dyson but I am getting one! I will not do this anymore! I know/hope in the long run with a Dyson it will be worth the money.

So that is it. I HATE this vacuum!!!!!!!

Easter 2010

Happy Easter

Easter this year was filled with all the usual activities. We baked sugar cookies, colored eggs and the Easter Bunny came.

Coloring Eggs

Easter Morning

The Easter Egg hunt!

Easter Basket Surprise

The Easter bunny left both the boys a mask and a snorkel. Ethan loves his and Joshua is not to sure about it. To be honest I am surprised I thought it would be the other way around. However the reason is Josh is having a hard time keeping his mouth tight around the snorkel and that is why he doesn't like it.

Too cute! What a big boy.

Eclipse

YEAH!!!!!!! SO EXCITED

Projects

I have been busy with a couple of projects lately. First the picture below is of some glasses that I etched. First you attach some vinyl to the glass. This acts like a stencil, then you paint on some etching cream. Once that has sat on as long as it should you wash off the cream and peel off the vinyl. Thats it! I love them. We sure needed new glasses we had only 7 glasses and only a couple of those were the same. But now we have 12 that I love! The picture doesn't do them justice.

Next you will see the chair my cute little Joshua is sitting in. See how gross the material is. We have had this chair since Ethan was born, so over 5 yrs now. With two boys and that much time it was just like I said gross. So I decided to reupholster it. So here is the before.

Here is the after! Not bad if I say so myself. Honestly I don't know how I did it. I really don't sew, but here it is all done. I even got the pockets back on the sides. It was a lot of work, it took me two solid days. But it was so worth it. I love it!