Sunday BBQ

Learning to eat Watermelon...green and everything!

Last night we had a BBQ at our house. We had several friends over. It was the first time we had actually had a BBQ in our backyard. The dogs were always out before so we never used the backyard. The weather was nice and cool. We cooked chicken, hamburgers, and hotdogs. We have such a great time with our friends. Hopefully we get to keep that friendship when we move to Spanish Fork. I've tried to talk them in to moving out there too! Chad and Alicia are looking into Santaquin.
I think I have most of our stuff ready for the yard sale. Tawnya is going to help me with it on Saturday. Jed has a ball game so he won't be much help. We aren't sure what time it's at though. It's the tournament and it's single elimination. Hopefully they play good.

Family Reunion Fun

Cute little Kenna!


Eating hamburgers by the pool.

Grandma chasing Lucas around.

This weekend was the annual Beatty Family Reunion in Cedar City. Jed's uncle DEl and his wife Kim were in charge this year. We met at SUU in the PE Building and played racquetball, wally ball, pickle ball (Jed and I are still undefeated!), basketball, pretty much anything that ends in ball!! It was tons of fun. I've really found a love for pickle ball. Once we all had our workout, we went over to the Student Center and had turkey sandwiches for lunch. Kim and I took Kenna and Lucas back to her house to have a nap. Of course, we decided that we should take one too!! While we were napping, the rest of the family watched Hookwinked in the SUU theater. After a talent show and some story telling, we headed off to the Cedar City Pool. DEl had reserved it for just our family. They have a hydro tube which everyone thought was great. Even Grandma Beatty went down. Lucas's wasn't to thrilled, but I'm a mean mom and made him stay in the water!! :) Not long after we had arrived, it started to rain quite hard. We all moved into the indoor pool which was a little warmer and Lucas liked it much better! We had hamburgers and hot dogs for dinner. By the end of the day, I think we were all tired!

On Sunday we went up to the cabin to stay over for a night. Grandma & Grandpa Beatty came up for dinner along with Eva, Angie & Jason. DEl, Jefferson, Krissia, and a friend also came to stay over night. It's nice to have a cabin. I enjoy it much better than sleeping on the ground. We left about noon so that we could pick up Jason in Cedar City and bring him back to Provo. We had such a great time.

Yesterday Jed had a ball game. Steve and Paulette were able to come to it. She had a meeting in Heber during the day and Steve came over and played with Lucas. He sure loves his grandparents. Jed's team won 10 to 8 which we were excited about.

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Grandpa, Lucas, Mariann, Ashli

Jed at the Cabin

Helping Grandpa mow the lawn at the cabin

Beatty Family Reunion Pictures

Learning to play racquetball

Climbing the rock wall with no hands!!

Mom and Lucas

Dad and Lucas

All Framed

Last night we drove out to see the home again. It's all framed now! We got to walk through the downstairs and the upstairs. They did a good job making the floor and the stairs not squeak! Today should be the day they put in the windows and doors and hopefully the shingles.


Our backyard is from the sidewalk straight out to the first pole and up to the house. It'll be a good size backyard.

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Home Update

Last night we went out to see how our home is coming along. This is what it looked like. Yesterday morning we had a meeting with our construction guy. We went over all our options, upgrades, etc. so that we were all on the same page. I can't believe how fast it's coming along. Hopefully nothing slows it down. Once they filled in our hole with all the dirt, we got to finally see how big our backyard is. I should have taken a picture of it. It's fairly big, which we are excited about. I'm glad that we chose the corner lot. Our property pretty much goes to the sides of our neighbors. They don't have much of a side yard at all. We are the second to last home to be finished on our street. Once we move in, there will hardly be any construction by us. They still have to start the homes on the rest of our block, but it won't really affect us.
Today we leave for Beatty Family Reunion. We will be down there until Monday. We'll have to check again then to see how much more they have done.

Cutie Patutie!!

I just had to put this picture up since I think he's so cute. He loves to wear the beach towels around his neck. Today we had pre-tot class and they are swimming in little pools. He loves it, for the most part. He's not sure about getting splashed on, but as long as he's doing the splashing he's fine. This morning the Physical Therapist came. She said that he is doing wonderful. He is suppose to practice stepping up and down of this box that she left for him. He goes up really good, but coming down he's not so sure.
My washer still isn't fixed. They said that they would install it for free since it's been almost a month since they first came out. Yesterday I took all of my laundry over to Tawnya's. Now I'm all caught up for a little while. Hopefully the part will be here next week.
Fieldstone called yesterday and said that we are looking at a closing date of September 8th. Of course that is if everything goes well! They were suppose to start framing yestereday. Tomorrow we have a meeting with the project manager over our home. So far so good! When we drove out there a couple of days ago they had all the walls poured. The crawl space underneath our house is at least 7 feet tall. You could almost have a basement. We are hoping that the door to the crawl space will be located somewhere convienent so that we can store stuff down there.
We are getting excited about our trip to Boston. We went and bought some new luggage. I have some, but Jed didn't have any. Shara has it all planned out for us. We are going to have lots of fun!

Nicholas Family Reunion

This past weekend was the Nicholas Family Reunion at Earley Park just past Deweyville. Before we headed up to the reunion we had to stop at the airport and pick up my cousin Lynsee. She's going to BYU Idaho for EFY. She came to the reunion with us. We had such a great time. It's fun to see family that you don't get to see that often. My dad's sister, Grace and her husband, Jim, were in charge of this reunion. They always have such fun things planned! I forgot to take pictures, but you can click on the Kesler's and see some of the fun things that we did. We had a really nice FHE that honored my grandparents. They are such good people and I love them very much. We also played BINGO and had a fun family competition. Some of the things were dart blowing, frisbee toss, croquet challenge, twinkie eating (yuck!), jump roping, jacks, soduku, and puzzles. We laughed so much. We might have won except Lynsee started choking on the Twinkies!!!
This weekend we head down to Cedar City for the Beatty Family Reunion. It sounds like lots of fun and we're excited to be with family.

Footings

This is what our home looked like as of last night. I was a little bit upset with it since all the of the foundation was suppose to be poured by yesterday. Jed said it would only take a day to pour, but I was still frustrated. I called on it today and our sales counselor said that today everything was poured and they will begin framing on the 18th. I was pretty excited!! Now hopefully they will keep up with the schedule so that we can be in the first part of September. I'm worried that they'll have us close the week that Jed is in Milwaukee. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that it's before that!!
Since we sold our home, everything seems to be going wrong. The washer still isn't fixed. Hopefully they'll fix it on Monday. It's been a pain to be without a washer. It's a good thing I have a good sister and bro-in-law that lets us use theirs!! The sprinkling system is having some issues and the water pressure from the bathroom sink is sparce. I'm ready to get out before the roof falls in!! :)
Jed had a baseball game yesterday. It's been fun to watch him play. They didn't win, but I think they still have a good time. Last Saturday they also lost, but they played awesome. It was one of the funnest games that I've watched. Jed went 4 for 4 in hitting. He'll miss the next two Saturday games.
Tomorrow we head home for the Nicholas Family Reunion. It's just a one nighter, but it should be lots of fun. Tawn & Lando are coming and my mom. My dad and Nappy are in Flaming Gorge for Youth Conference.

Swim Lessons

Trying not to cry!!!


Brrrrrrrrrr..........


Before swimming lessons,
He loves his towel!

Today was the last day of swimming lessons. The first week and the first day of this week he loved it. We learned how to kick, glide like Superman, blow bubbles, jump in, and even go under water. Then it all went down hill from there. For the life of me I can't figure out what went wrong. On Wednesday the water was quite cold. It was also bring a friend day so his aunt Nappy went swimming with us. He cried for most of that day. Then on Thursday we got in and he cried again. I thought it was because he could see his dad, grandma, and Nappy on the sidelines. But then today he cried again and the water was warm today. We did get to go down the big slide. Jed was there to watch. He said that he was smiling when we came out. I think he liked that part. When we finally went to the shallow part, he was a little bit happier. He's so funny though, because when we get to the pool it's all you can do to keep him from jumping in, and then when we are in he wants out. I sure had a great time doing the mom and tots. Hopefully Spanish Fork has something like this for next year.


Smiling because it was his last lesson!!!

Camping

Dirty, Dirty, Dirty...


Looking so mischievious...


All worn out!

This past weekend we went camping with Jed's parents and Mariann and Nathan. We went up above Fairview. It was really green and beautiful. Jed and I went up on Saturday morning, came home Sunday afternoon so he could work on Monday, and then went back up Monday night through Tuesday afternoon. Lucas had a great time playing with the dirt, sticks, and rocks. We had to teach him that rocks go in the wagon and sticks go in the fire! They did a lot of fishing while we were there. They didn't keep any of them (which was fine by me!) Lucas and I went for about an hour, but he just wants to jump in the water. The first night we were there I thought it would never end. Lucas didn't sleep very good so we had to put him in bed with us. Then our mattress wasn't cooperating, so that made it very miserable for us. The second night was a little better. Lucas still slept with us, but we fixed our mattress! We were just glad that we had a night in between that we slept in our own bed!!! I was glad to come home and shower and leave all the flying bugs up there! Camping is fun once in awhile, but we are sure glad that we have a cabin to go to most of the time!

Our Dirt!

This is what our home looks like so far. We took this picture on Saturday morning. The hole is huge though. The pictures don't do it justice. It's so deep it looks like we are going to have a basement, which we didn't sign up for. We wouldn't complain if they did put one in though!! I'm going to try to take pictures periodically to keep you all updated. The first stage should be completed by July 12th. Then it has to sit for a week, I think, and then they start the framing part. If everything goes as planned, we should be in by the first part of September. Let's all keep our fingers crossed!!