Boston Commons

Boston Commons is like a miniature central park. People come to walk, jog, or just hang out.

Waiting for the tour to start.

Boston was full of these cow statues.

I had to take this picture. On our way back through the park, the group had liked tripled in size. I didn't get a picture of that though.

Giacomo's Restaurant

This is Shara's favorite place to eat. It's italian food. All of the food was really good. She had talked up the Butternut Squash Ravioli so much that we had to try it. It was delicious. It's so funny because the restaurants are very little and seat maybe 20 people. Crazy!

More Pictures of Boston

USS Constitution...aka "Old Iron Sides"

More of Boston

Downtown Crossing in Boston

The original Cheers bar.

Last Day...

Down by the Merrimack River.

Lucas thought it was funny to give aunt Shara a piggy back ride.

Waiting for the plane in Boston!

I can't believe our trip has come to an end. It was so much fun. On Sunday we walked down by the Merrimack River in Lowell. It's extremely pretty. The mills are now full of studio condos. Shara and Aaron about bought one of them in the picture above. We were going to go to Sharon, Vermont, on Sunday but Landon had an unexpected golf size infection form in his cheeck. We figured it was better that he find a doctor. We played games and learned a new card came called Hand and Foot. I think we all really liked it.
Yesterday we packed and got ready to fly home. Luckily Lucas slept on both flights which made it nicer. I think we were all exhausted.
Thank you Aaron and Shara for a great time!! Love ya :)

Siding...

This is the back of our house...all sided. The inside is all mudded and ready for paint. It will be really interesting to see all the changes that happen during our trip to Boston.

Wind

While I was gone to Honeyville on Monday, a wind storm came up and blew this huge branch out of our tree. We thought that Jed was going to have to get out his chain saw. Lucky for us, Provo City came and hauled it way today.

Yard Sale

Last weekend we had our yard sale. Chad and Alicia also brought stuff over. We didn't sale everything that we had hoped to, but we made more than what we started with. The rest of the stuff we hauled straight to the D.I. I didn't want it back in the house!! Lucas and Carter were matching, so I tried to take their picture together. As you can tell, neither one wanted to be near the other one. It was pretty funny. Lucas also had fun climbing up the first step of the ladder and then he was to chicken to step down so he would just stand there. I'm so happy to have it over with. I couldn't believe how much junk that we had.



I went home to Honeyville on Monday to pick up Jed's brown belt that he needed. My dad was making it for him. It's much cheaper to do it that way than buy one in the store and it looks just as good! Thanks Dad! I didn't get to stay very long, but it was fun anyways. I was going to help my mom do corn, but it wasn't quite ready. I did stop and see Desi, one of our friends from High School. Her and her husband just had twins, Stuart and Wesley. They are sure cute.
I'll be up their in a few weeks (After Boston) to help with my dad's booth at the fair. I thought it would be fun for Lucas to watch the parade, but he might get to be in it since my mom has to pull the volleyball team in my dad's truck! We'll see what happens.



Last night we drove out to Spanish Fork again. The house is all sheetrocked and I think they are going to tape and mud today. I can't believe how fast it's coming. Our closing date looks to be September 8th or 11th. They want to close before Jed leaves for Milwaukee. Hopefully that will also mean that we'll have the keys and I can do a few things while he's gone. I would really like to paint, etc.

We leave for Boston in less than a week (next Tuesday). I can't believe it's finally here. I have to start making a list of everthing we're suppose to take. Shara has made several requests, so we might just have a suitcase with her stuff only! We are all getting pretty excited.

Random pictures from today...

Already for the fair!!!


Mom & Lucas

We drove out to our home tonight. It was the first time we had seen it since the storm a few days ago. Luckily nothing had happened to it. They did pour the drive way and the front and back porch. It's coming along quite nicely.

Inside our new home...

Welcome to our new home...

Master bath


The other night we went to check out our new home. Things are moving right along. All of the electical is done and most of the plumbing. It's so fun to see it come together. I didn't get a picture of the outside cause it was raining cats and dogs. We decided to check out the "crawl space" underneath the house. It will make excellent storage. It's at least 8 feet tall. Too bad they don't let you use it has a basement. Kellie, who I worked with, and her husband Mike stopped by while we were there. They had dug their hole that day. We won't live to far from each other.
Yesterday was a huge storm here in the Provo area. Hopefully our home is still in tack. I think we'll drive out there tonight to look at it...maybe!

More of our new home...

The fireplace that already has Lucas's hand prints!

Making sure the rafters are sturdy!!

The kitchen...with the bar.

The crawl space, which is more like a basement. It's huge!

4 Wonderful Years...

I wasn't sleeping very good, so I thought I would get up and write on the blog. Today is our 4 year anniversary! I can't believe how fast it has gone by. It seems like we've been together forever. It's hard to picture what life was like before we were married. I sure do love Jed and I'm grateful that he puts up with me. I'm not always the easiest person and I'm sure he can attest to that. I'm so blessed to have him in my life. He's a wonderful husband and dad. I'm grateful for the principle of eternal families and that we will always be together. Happy Anniversary Love!!

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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More Pics

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.