Some pics of Lucas...

Fascinated with Nemo!!

Daddy's boots...

Time flies by...

As you may have noticed, it's been a few weeks since my last update. In the process of moving, I have misplaced my digital camera. I have searched high and low, and in every box/tote that I have still lingering at our home, but have yet to come across it. To make a long story short, I don't have any pictures to show off. I did started using my film camera more, and will hopefully have some fun pictures printed tomorrow.

We are now officially in our new home. We have so much space now that we don't have enough furniture to fill it. Our downstairs is completely empty. I did order some barstools on Friday though. I'm slowly getting all the boxes unpacked and the house in a little bit of order. Jed finished making the dog houses and dog runs. Duke and Rocky are much happier to have a place to sleep. Suprisingly, the dogs have hardly barked while we've been here.

We just got back from a weekend at Jed's cabin down south. It was fun to get together since we haven't all been together for quite awhile.

I'll try to update a little bit more with some pictures!!

Just when we think we are finished...

Lucas thinks we need a little more paint. Apparently he didn't like the white wall. Now you could blame the mother for not paying that close attention, but how was I suppose to know that a paint brush from the two days ago would still be wet!! The funny part was that he tried to clean it off with a napkin, which only smeared it more. The not so funny part was that he dropped the paint brush on the carpet. It's a good thing that we had some white touch up paint for the wall and soap and water for the carpet. You might be wondering why he is in his diaper. Well...he decided that after touching it with his hands he would wipe it on his clothes. This of course did not make his mother very happy at all. Especially when he was wearing nice new winter clothes, since summer and fall have disappeared. Despite the little set back, the house is now officially painted!! What a relief that is.

Now we have to pay more attention to our Provo home and make sure it all gets moved today and tomorrow. Unfortunately the weather looks like it won't be cooperating with us. I guess we'll just have to drive fast!! :)

A week ago I got to go to my sister, Nappy's (#15), volleyball game. They won, but they sure give those in the stands some high blood pressure. So far they are undefeated in region play. Last year they took second in state and we are hoping for good results this year. I love to watch her play. Just a little side note: Her real name is Jessica, but through high school she's known as Nappy. Jess wondered if Lucas would know her as Nappy or Jessica. We tested his knowledge and Nappy won out. He can say Nappy and point to her picture, but when we ask where Jessica is he has the blank stare. It's pretty funny!!

The other day I was trying to hurry so that I could take Lucas over to play with Carter. They were going to watch him while I painted. Of course, when I'm in a hurry, Lucas is running in slow motion. I was trying to feed him some supper, but he wouldn't let me feed it to him. Instead he wanted to do it himself. This meant that he would eat one noodle at a time. I had his bath water all ready to go and he still wasn't finished. As you can see most of the noodles ended up in his lap!!

Carolina Parakeet...

This is the color of Lucas's room. I think it'll turn out cute. It definitely had to grow on me though. It wasn't the color that I had originally wanted. If you look down the hall at his room it looks like his room is glowing. When we originally painted it, it looked more pastel, but dried quite bright. You just can't stare at it very long or your eyes go funny!!

Jed and I painted the loft and sitting room yesterday. We need to do one more coat on the loft and then I think we will be all done!! YEAH!! Painting can be hard work. But it's definitely worth it when you have some color in the house.

They delivered the fridge and washer and dryer yesterday. They are very nice. I'm really excited about them.

I have taken a few loads to the house, but I need to pack some more of the Provo house so we have more to take. We'll move all the big stuff this weekend.

Official Home Owners

It's official. We now have the keys to our Spanish Fork home. We signed on Monday and got the keys on Tuesday. We didn't waste any time...I went straight to the house and started taping the walls for paint. Jed came over after work and we painted the kitchen and the family room. I finished the kitchen yesterday afternoon while Lucas was sleeping. Last night, Tawnya helped me paint Lucas's room. It's going to be way cute. I'm going over one more time today to finish the edges.

Jed left for Milwaukee yesterday. He called this morning and said that he's having a good time. They were walking around the city. He's meetings don't start until tomorrow. Since he's gone, I'm heading up to Honeyville today. On the way we are stopping in Grantsville to watch Nappy's volleyball game. This will be first game I've seen this season so I'm really excited. We are going to be doing Salsa while I'm home. I'm on my last jar so this is very good timing!

Fun Pics of Lucas

It's so funny that he knows what to do with a straightner!!

Just Relaxin'!

ME??!!

Giving Hugs....

and more Hugs!!!

Sick Little Boy

Lucas came down with a cold a couple of days ago. I guess it was the change in weather. This morning I woke up with a sore throat. I hate being sick. It's the pits. Lucas is so funny though. Since he's sick he wants lots of sympathy. He likes to lay on the couch and watch Baby Noah or Baby McDonald while I cater to him. It makes me laugh! We gave him a haircut the other day. It's quite short compared to what it was. (Not as short as the first haircut!!) I'll try to get a better picture of it sometime.

This is what the kitchen looks like with the countertops. I love it!! (Sorry the picture is a bit fuzzy).

One More Week...

and we will be the proud owner of a brand new home. I'm so excited. Then you won't have to read all my boring posts about the new house...well maybe!! Yesterday was our first quality check. We had to walk through and catch anything that we saw wrong, missing, or damaged. There were a few things, but not to many. While we were there, they were doing the lights, and finishing up the fireplace. I think the fireplace looks really nice. We went back last night to look at it without all the workers running around. They had delievered the appliances and they all look really nice. We hope they work. We'll get to check that out at our next walk through...next Wednesday or Thursday. We also ordered our fridge and washer and dryer at Lowe's this week. I'm so excited. The washer can hold a king size comforter. It will be great for doing bedding! Pretty much the only thing left (that we can see) is the solid surface countertop in the kitchen and the carpet.

P.S. Hope I didn't confuse you with the blog change. I've been trying to print my blogs out and put them in a binder. The blue background was making it really difficult. I kind of like this one. I'll probably stick with it!

Almost Done...

We drove out to our new home last night. I can't believe that it's almost done...yeah! All the floors are in except for the carpet, which is last. The cabinets are also in. I really really like our cabinets. I think they turnd out nice. We have our quality check this Wednesday and then next Wednesday we do our final walk through and sign that Friday. The said that we can pick up our keys on Monday. We won't move in right away since Jed will be gone to Milwaukee, but at least we'll have the home.
We are going to night to look at a fridge and washer and dryer. We want to check out a few places since the labor day sales are starting. Hopefully we can find a good deal.

Fair Week

Nappy & Lucas on the parade float

Sitting at the booth

Making sure he doesn't wake up!!

The B & M Boot Repair Booth

This past Wednesday I went home for the Box Elder County Fair. I was helping with my dad at his booth. He owns a business called B & M Boot Repair. He also sells western coats, vests, scarves and custom made boots. He was really nervous about doing it, but he did really well. So many people didn't even know that he existed. We gave out atleast 200 business cards. The fair is a big thing in Box Elder County. Jed came up on Friday night with Tawnya. It's always fun to see friends that we haven't seen in a long time. My dad and mom had to pull the volleyball team in the parade so me and Lucas rode in the truck. Lucas rode the merry-go-round with grandma, but wasn't to thrilled about it. He held on to my mom really tight. That was his one and only ride!

On Saturday my friends from high school had a shower for Desi (had twins) and Sharianne (due in October). It was fun to see everyone and catch up on what they are doing. We don't get to see each other that often so it's nice to do things like this.

Our Vacation in Lowell Massachusetts...

Inside the mill museum


Riding the trolley.

Our new crocs.

We left for Boston on Tuesday and arrived about midnight Wednesday morning. Shara and Aaron met us at the airport. It was so fun to see them. We went back to their house in Lowell. It's about 45 minutes outside of Boston. I'm not sure which direction though. Since there are no mountains, I could never tell which direction I was going. The streets are so funny. It looks like you go down a bunch of alley's. They are very narrow and they change from two lanes to one lane with out any signs. I'm glad that we had Aaron to drive us around. I wish that my parents and Jessica could have gone, but I think they are planning to go when Shara graduates next June.

Wednesday we toured around their town of Lowell. We went to the Cotton Mills. It was so interesting to see. It's amazing what people use to have to do. We also went inside one of the boarding schools that all the girls use to sleep at. There average work day was about 14 hours a day. That's crazy. So many of the girls were making the money for their families.
We took the trolley around, which was fun and Lucas really liked it. They have tons of different churches back there. They are so old and cool looking. Most of the homes are right on the street. They don't have a front yard. The schools have no grass, it's all cement. The Lowell High School was huge. Shara said that they speak 50 different languages in the high school.

I have lots of posts below...I hope you enjoy the pictures. Sorry if you get bored, but I'm using this as my journal.

Miniature Golf & Ice Cream

Wednesday night, after Aaron got off work, we went to Kimball Farms to do miniature golf and eat some ice cream. The miniature golf course was awesome. It had tons of water features. The ice cream was really good. We all got a kiddie cone, which is at least 3 huge scoops of ice cream.

A Day at the Beach...

I liked this picture of the light house....the homes are huge along this beach.

Jed and Landon played with the Aerobie

Picture happy!! :)

Eating Lunch.

Thursday we went to Wingearsheek Beach. It's about an hour away from Lowell. It was so pretty. We got there during low tide so we could walk out to the sand bar. Lucas had a great time covering his hands with the sand. He thought it was so funny. The water was just his size. In the really shallow places it was quite warm, which was nice. There were these schools of little fish that we would try to corral. It was so funny to watch. We looked pretty silly. The sand was so nice and soft. Nothing like Utah beaches!!

Beach Pictures

Shara, Me, Lucas, Jed, Tawnya, Landon...Aaron had to work.

So tired...

Lucas loved to dig his hands in the sand.

More Beach Pictures

Sisters

WOW...

You only see about 20 percent of a humpback whale above water. Imagine if you could see all of it!!

If you look to the left hand side of the picture, you can see two dolphins riding along the boat.

Rolling over...

Humpbacks use their tail to propel back into the water on a dive. It's huge!

We even got to see them breach the water. It was so cool. They come straight out of the water. Unfortunately I didn't see much of that because I was trying to watch Lucas. I did get to see it a couple of times. Tawnya will have some more video on her blog that's really fun.


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