Hughes Highlights

For anyone who may be wondering, I had coleman james hughes june 23. And he is great!

2011-07-12T12:14:00.000-07:00

I really wish I could post blog entries on my tab

2011-06-03T08:27:00.000-07:00

yes i am still out here

2011-04-06T21:26:00.000-07:00

I know you have all been dying to hear what is going on in my life and not hearing anything for 4 months had been killing you so I thought I would write a little something while I am at my mom's downloading some pictures since i don't have a real computer with internet access.

I had my ultra sound in February, I think. And if you didn't already know, we are having a boy. That took me sometime to get use to the idea of having a boy. Now we are working on getting the nursery ready for him and trying to buy clothes since we have nothing for a baby boy. Rusty has started to plan the bedroom in the basement that he is going to start to build for Carters so the baby can move out of Taylor's room and into carter's when he turns one. And no we do mot have a name picked out. That is a really hard one.

Taylor is getting so big. First she started climbing out of her crib in January so we moved her to the toddler bed. Then lately she figured out how to open doors, that is horrible when it comes to getting her to take a nap. I put a knob cover on her room door, but she still manages to open her door when she really wants out. She is so mischevious and climbs on everything. If she wants something she will figure out a way to get it.

Jordyn is growing fast and has such a fun loving personality. Sometimes too loving. The other day as we were walking into a store she went up to a man that kind of looked homeless and said hi and gave him a hug. She will talk to anyone, especially if they have a dog. She says some of the funniest things. She does need to work on being softer with people and respect peoples personal bubbles. I was going to sign her up for soccer this spring, because she has so much energy to burn, but I totally missed sign ups. I'm really sad a did that.

Alexis loves everything she gets into. She was excited to play soccer again, but I guess that will have to wait til fall. She loves school and does great in it. She can spell her name, knows all her ABC's and sounds and loves to draw and write letters for people. And loves all the new friends that she gets to play with in the neighborhood.

Carter played Jr. Jazz to the first time this spring and really enjoys playing football. Rusty put the basketball hoop up for him to get to play in the front yard. And he is doing really well in school.
In January we went on a long awaited family trip. Rusty was so in need of a vacation after all the many many hours he put in working and working on the house at the same time. It was a lot of fun and the girls were so excited to meet all the princesses and fairies.

We have loved being in our new house. Some days it is still hard to believe it is ours. And we have currently started working on our yard. I'm excited, but i think Rusty is dreading it.

House 12-1-2010

2010-12-02T14:17:00.000-08:00

We finally signed on our house. Yippy! Now they tell me it will take 3 business days to fund. So we will officially own our house on Monday. But I think Rusty is planning on sleeping there on friday night, but we will see. I have a list of a few things that need to me finished and done before we can sleep there. I know he thought he was done working on the house, but not yet. he has to finish caulking our tubs so we can bathe, and he needs to change the cord on our dryer so it can have power so I can do laundry and he needs to put our dinning room table back together, put up curtains in the bedrooms and most important move Taylor's bed. She will not sleep anywhere in our house. She wants her bed. I have tried a few times to get her to nap at the new place and she refuses. Sometimes she can be very difficult. So once these things are complete we can officially move in. It is so hard to believe this house is ours. it is so awesome. And I know we couldn't have done it with my sister-in-law encouraging us to move and with out the help of Heavenly Father and blessing us and our family. I feel truly truly blessed.

House 11-29-2010

2010-11-29T13:26:00.000-08:00

We were able to start moving things into the house on Friday. It is so unreal to think I am lucky enough to live in such a great house. I am so grateful, I can't wait! We are hopefully going to be able to close tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest. So we will be able to actually live in our house probably by Thursday. It is all so exciting, I can hardly believe this is really happening. On a sad note. We were not able to get our 4% rate we had originally locked, instead we have to settle for 4.25%, which don't get me wrong is still great, but it would have been nice to have had since we are financing more than we had originally planned. But it is all good. Three more days and counting. :)

House 11-18-2010

2010-11-18T12:37:00.000-08:00

I AM OFFICIALLY STRESSED OUT RIGHT NOW. My house is not finished and my lock expired on Saturday. It is now thursday and I know we got an extension on our lock, but I do not know how long it was so I have no idea when this new one will expire. It is costing us money everyday the house is not finished that we had to extend our lock and now I just found out we may not be able to extend it again. And the rates are .375% higher than when we locked. Who knows how much more a month that is going to cost me on my mortgage if we have to have the higher rate. I am so frustrated. The house should have and could have been finished a week if not more ago. But no. There were days when the house sat untouched and nothing was done to it for days at a time. And now it is really costing me.
And on top of that I was just barely told I have to have my $3050 bond purchased with the bank before we get our occupancy on the house. Why did no one tell me this weeks ago?!

House 11-12-2010

2010-11-18T12:14:00.000-08:00

The mantel got put in today and Rusty and Brian Rocked the fireplace front that night. JIllion and I were watching all the kids at my parents, but they were getting bored so we went to see how the dad's were doing. The kids had fun running around and playing hide and go seek in the empty house. But it was taking longer that planned. the kids wore themselves out and the last one finally fell asleep around 11:00.
They were making pretty good time, but it then took them 30-40 minutes to put in the last three pieces.

The kids all passed out in front of the project of the night.

The night before Rusty and I finished tiling and grouting the master bath.

House 11-8-2010

2010-11-18T11:59:00.000-08:00

The carpet started to go in today.
It took him all week to get it in but he got it all finished on Friday night.

Lex and Jordyn playing with all the scraps. They each took a piece home and were pretending they were tails.

House 11-2-2010

2010-11-15T15:57:00.000-08:00

The rest of our counter tops came today.

Master bath

Hall bath

Upstairs bath

They finished putting in the railing. I love how it looks.

House 11-1-2010

2010-11-15T15:53:00.000-08:00

We finally have a driveway.

Trick or Treating

2010-11-15T15:46:00.000-08:00

Before

After
Just a little dripping wet. Can't say it was my funnest Halloween night, but the girls had a great time, they didn't hardly notice it was raining.

House 10-30-2010

2010-11-15T15:39:00.000-08:00

The Master shower getting ready for tile

Having a picnic in the house while mommy and daddy were working on stuff.

Girls playing in the pantry.

And we have paint in here now too.

House 10-28-2010

2010-11-15T14:36:00.000-08:00

We finally have kitchen counter tops.

And they have started to get the rails put in.

And we finally have working lights.

This is in Alexis and Jordyn's bedroom.

Alexis hair cut

2010-11-15T10:55:00.000-08:00

She doesn't look very happy in this picture, but she was actually really excited to get her hair cutu. It was all her idea. I was not really very happy about it. She really wanted it shoulder length, but i could bare to let her go that short.

She looks cute no matter how long her hair is, but I do have to say it isn't as much fun to do and I am much more limited to the things I can do with her hair these days.

House 10-28-2010

2010-11-10T10:14:00.000-08:00

Octeber 24 we had the Hughes family Halloween Party. We also celebrated Jordyn's birthday with Rusty's family.

Sheay and myself

Fairy Jordyn wearing Rusty's gorilla mask

My family, Jordyn (fairy), Rusty (!/2 man 1/2 Gorilla), Taylor (Butterfly), Alexis (angel), Me (Raggedy Ann), Carter (Lord of the dead Ninja)

Nanna

Kara and Jake

House 10-19-2010

2010-11-10T10:07:00.001-08:00

We were super excited to see the cabinets get put in today.

Kitchen

Upstairs bathroom

Master Bath, Rusty wishes i would have picked chocolate cabinets for this bathroom like the other two, but I wasn't sure how it would look and I didn't have a lot i time to decide on these.

Main hall bath

Jordyn turns 3

2010-11-10T09:57:00.000-08:00

She is such an adventurous rambunctious little girls. she is such a fun addition in our family. she does a great job of keeping us all entertained. Happy Birthday Ju Ju.

We ad a small get together with my family on her birthday.

She had a really good time helping make her cake.

House 10-17-2010

2010-11-10T09:54:00.001-08:00

The house got painted today! So exciting! :)

Alexis started preschool

2010-11-10T09:51:00.001-08:00

October 13, Alexis was so excited to start school.

House 10-13-2010

2010-10-19T22:45:00.000-07:00

The railings were put in and stained today.

Oh yes and the finish carpenters put real stairs in, so now we can walk up them with ease and I don't have to carry the girls up and down anymore. I love the finish carpenters for all the beautiful work they are doing.
We were pleasantly surprised to see the detail they were putting into the window seals. That little extra piece of molding looks really nice.

House 10-8-2010

2010-10-19T22:37:00.000-07:00

The finish Carpentry begins.

I was super excited when I found out they were building my bench for me and I didn't have to do it. This is my favorite part of my laundry room.

They trimmed out the cubbies.

One of the closet organizers.

And the doors and moldings are going in.

The stairs also got all done up. Everything all looks so good.

house 10-4-2010

2010-10-19T22:28:00.001-07:00

They put the color coat on the stucco today. It is so exciting to see all the finishes going on the house.

I was really nervous about choosing the colors for the stucco. We worried it wouldn't look good, but I think it turned out pretty good.

House 10-3-2010

2010-10-19T22:22:00.000-07:00

Kitchen floor from upstairs.

Entry tile

Laundry room

Hall from garage to kitchen

The weekend of tiling. It was a really long week with a lot of late nights, but we got the floors all done by our deadline.

House 9-24-2010

2010-10-14T09:56:00.001-07:00

Getting ready for the stucco.

The stucco starts to go up.

Rusty was a little concerned when they started putting up the stucco because I guess it looked kind of green. But then it dried grey and that wasn't the color we picked either. but that was just the scratch coat.

House 9-15-2010

2010-10-06T10:37:00.000-07:00

The drywall goes up.
This is a really fun step, now we really get to see the shape of the interior of the house ant the true room sizes.

The garage

Family room

Family room back wall

Kitchen

Upstairs loft

One last trip for the Summer

2010-10-06T09:52:00.000-07:00

We went camping with my brother and sister-in-law and their kids on 9-11 and 9-12. We had a little hiccup trying to get there when the truck we were driving out there died, The transmission went out. I was great. We had to sit on the side of the road for a while til we could get a hold of my brother to come get us. And then Rusty waited longer on the side of the road listening to the BYU game while he waited for my other brother (thanks Eric) to bring our car and a trailer to pick up the broken truck. But once we got there and got the car situation taken care of all was good.
The boys spent most of their time up on the mountain. They weren't down in camp much.

Alexis and Jordyn roasted their own marshmallows for the first time. Jordyn wasn't a real fan, but Alexis was roast mallows for anyone she could.

Uncle Eric came to the rescue and then hung out for a little bit.

Jordyn stole Taylor's binky and was trying to make a break for it on the four wheeler.

House 9-8-2010

2010-10-06T09:43:00.000-07:00

First they put up the tar paper, then the brick arrived, and finally they put it up.

I was really nervous about the color and hoped it looked as good as the 1 foot by 1 foot sample I had to choose from. And now we have brick! It is so exciting to see the finishes start to go on.

House 9-5-2010

2010-09-15T13:55:00.000-07:00

We came home from our trip out of town and the insulation had been started and the drywall had been delivered. I'm excited for the drywall to go up. the house looks so much different once that goes in.

Alexis standing in her room next to her cubbies.

Jordyn and Alexis standing in what will be the family room.

One of the walls all insulated.

Koosharem

2010-09-15T13:33:00.000-07:00

Every Labor day weekend we go out to my brother-in-laws family ranch. We always have such a good time. And this year was any different. We were missing a few family members, but all that came had fun. Alexis couldn't wait to go. Once I told her about she would ask me at least three times a day if we were leaving for Koosharem yet.

daddy reading to the 2 youngest

The big boys playing some lasso golf. They also set up the horseshoe pit like always and played a few games of that.

Taylor crawling around the porch and getting slivers in her hands.

Jordyn riding 4 wheeler with aunt Sheay.

Alexis riding 4 wheeler with aunt Sheay.

The girls playing hop scotch.

Watching a movie with Aunt Kara and Uncle Jake.

Wrestling with Uncle Rhett.

Burrito babies ready for bed.

Jordyn posing for her "Got Milk" ad. With her war wound face from the ranch. She wasn't paying attention to were she was walking and ran into the had rail of the front porch.

Carter turns 9 and recieves his wolf

2010-09-15T13:24:00.001-07:00

We had a birthday party and I made a transformer cake for the family get together.

And he really wanted to have a laser tag birthday party so that was his gift from Rusty me and Sue (Rusty's mom) he had a really good time and so did the other boys.
It is weird ti think i have a 9 year old. Were does the time go?

It took a little cramming the last week and a lot of calling back and forth to Angie to figure out what he had to do to finish because she had his book, but Carter finished everything needed and recieved his wolf and three arrows. It was great.

Alexis is growing up

2010-09-15T13:15:00.000-07:00

This last two weeks Alexis has learned to ride her bike without training wheels.

Alexis and I started practicing a week prior to these pictures, but I couldn't teach her and take pictures. So on this day we were going for a walk to the house and she wanted to show her daddy what she could do. She was a natural. It was so much easier to teach her than it was to teach carter. I was worried to start after how hard it was with him. But she did very well. She still needs help to start because her feet don't quite reach the ground while she stands on her bike.

House 8-27-2010

2010-09-15T12:50:00.000-07:00

The roof is finished.

And they poored the concrete for the front porch.

House 8-20-2010

2010-09-15T12:35:00.000-07:00

They began roofing today. It is so exciting to see the finishes start.
This is a look at the back of the house.

Here is the front.

They started on the east side they had that whole side done before dark that same day. And then they worked through the entire weekend. They weren't wasting any time.

House 8-19-2010

2010-08-22T22:39:00.000-07:00

And the rain comes again. We had quite the monsoon that once again flooded my house. This time was worse than the last. Nowhere was dry the entire place was soaked and sitting in 1-2 inches of water. Not loving the rain right now.

House 8-17-2010

2010-08-22T22:34:00.001-07:00

When we came to see the house today we were unpleasantly surprised to see that someone had graffiti-ed our house. Needless to say I was pretty upset. People can be such jerks sometimes.

Silver spray paint on the outside of the house and the window.

And spray paint on my brand new tub. We later noticed they also sprayed random wires around the house the plumbing in the master shower and the drain. It is so frustrating.

House 8-16-2010

2010-08-22T22:32:00.001-07:00

Today they framed the arches and the fireplace showed up and they framed thet in as well.

House 8-14-2010

2010-08-22T22:14:00.001-07:00

The wiring has officially begun.

This is were our fireplace is going to be.

Jake, Paul, Chad,My Dad and a friend of Rusty's from work came over to help Rusty wire the house. We really appreciate all the help we got from our family. We thought we were going to save money by having Rusty wire the house, but he keeps coming up with something new everyday to put in the house. You could land a small plane by the light of our house with everything he wants to put in.

House 8-13-2010

2010-08-22T22:12:00.001-07:00

We have tubs. This is exciting we are starting to get stuff inside now.

House 8-11-2010

2010-08-22T22:07:00.001-07:00

The windows have arrived and the entire roof and exterior has been covered with plywood.

Dinosaur Museum

2010-08-22T21:57:00.000-07:00

The day after the wedding we went to the Dino museum at Thanksgiving Point with the newly weds and Jake's family.

Taylor and I were dusting for dino bones

The kids had a really good time and I thought it was pretty cool too. I have wanted to go visit this place, but had never had a chance.

Kara and Jake's wedding

2010-08-22T21:38:00.000-07:00

Walking down the isle.

The "I Do"

Dance Party
We were doing a little YMCA

House 8-3-2010

2010-08-22T21:24:00.000-07:00

We got more rain, but we did get a rainbow. The girls wanted to go slide on the rainbow and Alexis wanted to go try to find the treasure. It was so cute.
At least they started to put some sheathing on the roof, but like that will keep the rain out.

Th front is almost all covered by plywood.

House 8-2-2010

2010-08-22T21:17:00.000-07:00

We got stair so we can finally just walk up there instead of scaling the walls.

But we also got water, lots of it.

It makes me really worried ever time it rains. I really hope these puddles of water aren't going to ruin my house.

House 7-30-2010

2010-08-03T20:22:00.000-07:00

The framing continues.
They put some more trusses up. This is a view of the front of the house. The far right window is the living room then the front door to the right and the window on the other side is a bedroom.

This is the view of the inside of the house from the top of the soon to be stairs. They haven't put them in yet so Rusty had to hoist me up so I could see the the newly framed upstairs. the view is of the soon to be kitchen.

This is the upstairs. There are going to be two bedrooms a playroom and a bathroom up here.

Taylor turns 1

2010-08-01T21:36:00.001-07:00

She is 1 year old. I can't believe it.

She had a lot of helper when it can to blowing out her candle. She wasn't quite sure what she was suppose to be doing.

We had a little pool and sprinkler party for her birthday. The things you can do with a summer birthday.

She probably is the cleanest of all my kids after eating her birthday cake on her first birthday.

She had fun opening her presents, but of course would get mad when we took them away for her to open the next one. She was so excited once she got to play with them. Alexis and Jordyn were also so excited. There was a particular tea set that those two loved that disappeared and later i found it with the older girls in another room playing tea party.
Thank you to all who came. We have a pretty great family and love you all.

Taylor is so fun to have in our family. She is such a sweetie and very loving. She has recently started gibbering a lot and it is so fun to hear her. she loves things that resemble phones, she will put them up to her ear and have little baby conversations. But she has recent began to bite, ( I am not a fan of that) and she is a screamer, we need to do something about that. She is getting ever so close to walking. She can cruise around the furniture very comfortably and the last few days has tried to balance standing all by herself.
I love you Tator tot!

House 7-27-2010

2010-07-28T15:48:00.000-07:00

The trusses are going up! This is so fun watching the house take shape. Now we can see how the ceiling is going to vault and soon be able to see Alexis and Jordyn's room. Rusty has been worried about the ceiling heights all this time and now he will be able to see them and be put at ease.

This is a view of the family room from the front entry.

This is the back of the house. The big opening in the trusses on the left side is what will be my scrapbook room or a bedroom if we need it one day.

This is the front of the house. The hole you can see that goes all the way thru the house on the right is our second floor. The front part of the space is Alexis and Jordyns room.

24th of July

2010-07-27T14:09:00.000-07:00

We started off the day by watching the parade on tv. The girls really liked it because they could remember seeing the floats in real life earlier that week. Rusty was sick the night before and still kind of recovering so we really didn't do too much during the afternoon. We did go to The Home Depot to look at their kitchen displays for ideas. We have to choose our kitchen soon, that is a little nerve racking. I want it to look good and I am not an interior decorator so I am not exactly sure what to do and I have to live with it for the rest of my life, so it has to be just right. Anyway we went to and rana few other errand at two other stores and then we went home and sat around. Alexis, Jordyn and I made dessert for our BBQ we were going to later that evening. After we were done making the dessert we went for a walk to see the house while Rusty and Taylor napped. Jordyn thought it was pretty cool to see the house with walls and walk around in it. When we got back from the house Rusty got a call to go into work for an hour then when he got home we left for Aunt Sheays house. We had a bbq and played games and did fireworks to end the day. It was a fun day and Taylors first 24th of July, that is why most of the pictures are of her.

Tay was really enjoying her drink. She thought she was so cool drinking out of a straw.

Alexis and Gracie sitting in their lawn chairs enjoying the firework show in the street.

Tay liked watching the fireworks I thought she would be afraid like Jordyn, but she wasn't.

Everyone watching the fireworks.

House 7-21-2010

2010-07-27T13:53:00.000-07:00

It has almost been 2 months since our hole was started and now our main level of our house is all framed. this is so exciting! I can now walk thru the house and see exactly were rooms, bathrooms, and hallways are. I love it! it now looks like it could be a house to anyone that comes by it.

This is looking down the hall to the bedrooms from what will be the kitchen. You can see the the stairs going down to the basement and soon there will be stairs above those going upstairs.

This is a view of the family room and the hall. I am taking the picture from what will be our nook or also known as dining area.

Once again I am standing in the nook but now I have rotated to the right and this is a picture of what will soon be the kitchen. You can see the pantry on the right. Beyond the wall is the living room and to the left is the entry from the front door.

This is a view of the house from the garage. Carter's room is on the far left. The ramp goes to the house door from the garage and on the right is the laundry room.

Pioneer Day Float preview

2010-07-27T13:40:00.000-07:00

For Grandma day on July 20th we went to the Expo Center and saw the floats that were to be in the Days of '47 parade. We went with my Sister-in-laws on my side and all their kids and with my mom and 2 of my mom's sisters and their kids and my cute Grandma Trimble. The kids were surprisingly behaved and all had a good time seeing all the floats.

This was one of my favorite floats. I loved the bright colors and the characters were so well done.

This was Carter and Seth's favorite float because it was the BYU

Boating with the Gibson's

2010-07-19T21:43:00.000-07:00

We got invited to go boating on Saturday morning and were excited to do so. The girls were really excited to go on the boat. They kept telling Grandma and Grandpa they were going to ride the boat.

I thought Taylor would be less than thrilled to have the life jacket on but she didn't seem to mind too much. This was her first time boating.

Taylor loved watching Brian wake board. She did the same thing when I was out on the water. Jillian said she kept saying "ma ma ma" That is one of her new words. I was excited I got up on the wake board the first time. I did have one really good fall that gave me a major headache, but I had alot of fun. I haven't wake boarded since before I had Alexis, I think.

The kids were all having a great time. Alexis kept looking back at me with a big grin glued on her face, but she would always turn back around to watch the water before I could get a picture of her giddiness.

The kids didn't want to get out on the tube, but they did jump in the lake and swim around.

While Brian was cleaning the boat we took the kids to the beach to play.
Taylor kept trying to eat sand, Jordyn wanted to play in the water but would not put her feet down, she thought there was a monster in the water. We think she didn't like the feeling of the mud under her feet. The other kids had a great time. they were saying they were on an adventure. And were out playing in the water.

If you were wondering why Rusty was not with us he was fishing with Carter and Jake. Which apparently wasn't so good for Rusty, he got sick, but Carter and Jake caught quite a few fish.

Bicycle Parade

2010-07-19T21:20:00.000-07:00

Our ward did a Bicycle Parade for a primary activity the kids thought they were pretty cool. Friday afternoon we decorated the girls bikes and then Friday evening we met up at the beginning of the parade route and I dropped Alexis and Jordyn off and then Taylor and I went to go find Grandma and Grandpa so we could sit with them to watch the parade.

They had a guy in the ward drive his fancy car to start off the parade. Alexis was all about being in front and leading the pack.

Here is a better shot of Alexis

Jordyn was a little bit further down the parade route, She was taking her time and enjoying her moment in the spot light.

We then all met up at the neighborhood park and had social time and snow cones.
it was really fun. I am so excited to be in a ward with so many more young kids for my kids to be friends with.

Rusty was out in Tooele watching Carter play baseball and wasn't able to make it to the parade.

House 7-15-2010

2010-07-19T20:55:00.000-07:00

The house is taking shape. We finally have exterior walls. We are so excited to see the progress in our house.
This is the west and north back walls of our house.
The far right window is the master bedroom window. The next window to the left is Taylor's room. Then there is a group of 3 windows those are the family room. Then to the left of those is a door to the back yard and the far left window is our dining room. The small window on the west wall is for the kitchen above what will someday be a sink.

The Dentist

2010-07-16T07:00:00.000-07:00

The girls got to go to the dentist today. This was Alexis' second visit and Jordyn's first. Alexis did not do well at all her first visit so I have been prepping her for awhile. I even had her come with me to the Dentist a month ago. She did really well this time. Jordyn was a little nervous I had to hold her hand, but I was very proud of her for how well she did.

She was a little nervous about getting her x-ray.

Wrap up of our visit-
Alexis apparently has a cross bite. And her teeth are already a little crowded in her mouth. We are doomed to braces and she has something that is close to maybe becoming a cavity between her teeth due to how close they are crammed together. They suggested we start a little orthodontic care now for her to try to fix her cross bite which in turn might also make a little room for her teeth.
And apparently Jordyn has three or for underdeveloped teeth that are a little more susceptible to cavities. We have an awful lot of brushing and flossing ahead of us.

House 7-15-2010

2010-07-16T06:57:00.001-07:00

We almost have a main level floor.

Golfing with the Girls

2010-07-15T06:11:00.000-07:00

Lately the girls have been really big into noticing golfers around town when we drive by golf courses, Alexis has mentioned a few times that she would like to go golfing so Saturday evening we decided to take the girls miniature golfing. We had a really good time. I especially enjoyed the outing because I beat Rusty and he was so irritated. Hee hee :)

Here is Daddy showing the girls the proper way to golf.

When Alexis would golf it kind of looked like she was sweeping. it was so fun to watch her. She was a speed golfer and boy she was sure proud of herself every time she got the ball in the hole. There were 2 times she almost got a hole in one and 2 or 3 other times she got it in 2 shots. I was pretty impressed.

Jordyn lost interest after about 3 holes so then Taylor got to be the keeper of her club. She didn't seem to mind, it gave her something to play with and Jordyn would push her around and give her rides.

Jordyn also passed the time playing in the water, rolling down stone paths and adding a little spice to the course by making herself an added obstacle.

House 7-14-2010

2010-07-15T05:59:00.000-07:00

Framing finally began today. It's amazing and very exciting. This is the really fun part. We finally get to see the house really come to life now. As of tonight when we went and looked at the house we have a our baring walls in the basement. There are two framed walls that are running parallel to each other, those are the walls running down each side of the stairs to the basement. I can't wait to see what they get done tomorrow.

House 7-12-2010

2010-07-15T05:49:00.000-07:00

Today they poured the floor for the garage. Last week I was told they were going to start framing today, but that didn't happen. Am I surprised? Not really. I pretty much plan on everything running behind, that is why even though my builder tells me he plans on being done in October I am just hoping to be moved in before Christmas.

House 7-9-2010

2010-07-15T05:43:00.000-07:00

We have a basement floor! Today they poured the floor for the basement. It would have been nice if they could have done the garage floor too, but we are going to have to wait til Monday for that.

House 7-6-2010

2010-07-08T10:22:00.000-07:00

Today we heard from the West Jordan guy and he said we do not need a french drain or sump pump. He think the water levels are okay and we should not have any flooding problems. That makes me a little nervous. I lived in a house that flooded a few times and I hated it. So I will need to remember his name is Jason and if I have any flood problems I am coming after him. So now we get to move on with our house. This week they will back fill around the entire house and they are suppose to pour the concrete in the basement and the garage. And then the real fun begins. They plan to start framing on Monday. Hooray! I can't wait.

House 6-20-2010 thru 7-2-2010

2010-07-08T10:12:00.000-07:00

I know I haven't written much lately, but much has not happened on the house lately. Last week nothing happened because we were waiting for a guy from West Jordan city to let us know if we needed to put a water drainage system and sump pump in the house or not. The week before they had the plumbing inspection which they failed and then a stop work order was put on the project because we had to fix the plumbing issues and they had to dig a test hole below our footing to see where the water level is around our home. There was water in the hole and and a geo tech had to come do a study to see if we needed a drainage system. They did waterproof the foundation the week before last and put in the window wells last week, but that is all. They did try to back fill the back of the house but they then had to dig it back out, because they put the window wells in too high. And now Rusty and I are trying to decide if we want to get rid of the window wells all together in the back and just do a rock retaining wall to expose all the back windows.

House 6-14-2010 thru 6-17-2010

2010-06-18T07:09:00.000-07:00

Yes I have gotten a little behind on the house updates. Sometimes there are days I just can't get on the computer. I have a lot of projects in the works right and a few extra kids I am watching these days due to school being out for the summer.

Monday the lot pins got put in, they set up the forms for the footing, poured the footings and took the forms off the footings.

Tuesday they set up the forms for the foundation walls and poured the concrete for the walls. It is so fun to see so much happening so fast.
Jordyn was trying to climb the wall to see what Rusty was looking at.

Rusty and the girls looking at the garage.

The house with the forms up while the concrete dried.

This is a picture standing in the front corner of the house where our living room will be.

Wednesday they took the forms off the house. It is so exciting we can now see the actual layout of the house. Rusty keeps looking at and is worried that it is small and everything isn't going to fit in the space. He had a tape measure with him measuring everything making sure it was right comparing it to the plans.

Thursday the plumbers came and roughed in the drains and underground piping.

Still not mobile

2010-06-10T21:15:00.000-07:00

Taylor is the slowest of all my kids to crawl. Jordyn was walking at this age and Alexis was crawling with some persuasion. I would make a trail of treats on the floor to motivate Alexis to move and she finally did after some work. Jordyn didn't need any help she just took off one day and the next thing you knew she was walking.
Everyone keeps telling me maybe she won't crawl and she will go straight to walking, but the problem with that is she can not balance at all on her own. She love to stand holding on to things, but just doesn't move. She has about a month and a half before we really have to worry. Tay is getting ever so close each day. Earlier this week she started sitting on her hands and knees and rocking. And today she tried moving her hands but forgets to move her legs so she then flops on her belly.
She has recently figured out how to pivot around in a circle while laying on her belly.

House 6-10-2010

2010-06-10T20:57:00.000-07:00

Today we took a step forward then a step back. The concrete guys came today to start laying out their forms so they could pour our footing tomorrow, but they ran into a little problem. There are suppose to be markers all around the property showing were the property lines are but there are no markers in the back of the lot. It took most of the day to figure out who should put those in and who was going to pay for the person to come do it. Originally it had been done, but it was moved or buried when the concrete wall was built along the back of the lot. They had tried to start laying out the forms, but could not find the point the measure from so they had to stop. Around lunch the partially started forms were there and no one was working and later around 6 when Rusty came home all the forms were gone. So now we have to wait til Monday for the engineer to come lay out new pin markers and so then we will not be able to get our footings poured til Tuesday.

This is what I saw when I went by the house around noon, but later when we went by around 8 the hole was empty again.

Lagoon

2010-06-09T10:02:00.002-07:00

We were a little dissappointed when we got the letter in the mail telling us the Wasatch summer party was at the zoo because that ment we probably would not get to go to Lagoon this year. But we were really lucky last week when one of Rusty's friends told him he had some discount tickets for Lagoon. So we got to go afterall. We started off the day by going on the bigger rides that Alexis and Jordyn could go on, which included Draculas Castle (bad idea), tilt a whirl (the girls did not like), music express (Alexis thought that was fun, but Jordyn did not like it), Tital wave (the girls hated that), and then we went on to the pioneer village rides (Jordyn cried again on the log ride), her and I were in front and got pretty wet. Needless to say Jordyn was not having a good time and wanted to go home. After all that we got some lunch and then Rusty and Carter went and rode the big rides and I took the girls to Kiddie Land. Once we went on rides that were more her size she finally started to have a good time. After a few hours we got back together with the boys and let the kids play in the water at the entrance of the park. They played here for about an hour and had a great time. Alexis and Carter got soaked and Jordyn did everything she could to stay dry, surprisingly. But she did a really good job of not getting wet. The picture above it her running back to the edge before the water started going again.

Carter soaking wet.

Alexis getting sprayed in the face.

Sisters

Jordyn not having fun on Rattle Snake Rapids

Carter and Jordyn on the first kid ride of the day.

Hogle Zoo

2010-06-09T09:47:00.001-07:00

Taylor's first trip to the zoo.

Carter, Alexis and Jordyn all got their faces painted.

Saturday June 5th we went to the zoo for Rusty's company summer party. It was pretty fun. We got to go after hours so it was nice because it was from 5-9 and it wasn't very hot. We had a catered dinner and they had free face painting and unlimited rides on the merry-go-round and train. The kids had a lot of fun.

Taylor's first time to ride on a merry-go-round

All the kids measuring on the gorilla silhouettes

House 6-8-2010

2010-06-09T09:36:00.000-07:00

Taylor trying to eat dirt at the house site.

Jordyn so kindly throwing rocks back in the hole.

Our hole. :)

This morning around 11:45 I was on a walk with the kids and we heard a tractor working as we came around the corner and were surprised to see that they were already digging the foundation. Brandon told us that they weren't going to dig until Wednesday. So that was exciting. Later this evening we went back to the lot to look at the hole with Rusty. The kids had fun playing in the hole.
We are scheduled to have our footings poured on Friday if the weather permits.

House 6-7-2010

2010-06-09T09:26:00.001-07:00

This is Rusty walking around getting a feel of the size of the house. The house perimeter was all spray painted on the ground.

Today we met with the builder, Brandon, to figure out the orientation of the house. Then we left and went to Lagoon for the day. When we came home later that day we were pleasantly surprised to see that not only had he staked out the house, but they had already started a little digging.

House 6-3-2010

2010-06-03T14:48:00.000-07:00

It's official! We can now finally start on our house. I am so excited. Today we went to the title company and signed all the papers for our construction loan and it is being recorded to title. I called my builder and we are scheduled to meet with him Monday morning to set the post for the house so they can start to dig. Hooray!

House 6-2-2010

2010-06-02T11:14:00.000-07:00

Now we have taken a step back in the house building process. The back hoe that has been sitting on our lot for almost two weeks disappeared yesterday. So now we are right back where we started. And apparently we are still waiting for one of the bank executives to sign on our loan so we can close. I wasn't frustrated before, but now I am starting to get there.

Picture Day

2010-06-02T11:05:00.000-07:00

Taylor 9 months old

More taylor

I love this little stink so much. Who can resists this smile.

Alexis 4 Years old

She is getting so big. it is crazy how fast the time has gone.
Alexis is so sweet and such a great helper. She is my #1 when I am doing laundry or cleaning around the house. I love her so much.

House 5-28-2010

2010-05-28T15:19:00.000-07:00

So if you were to go look at our lot right now this is what you will see.

If you are looking at this picture and wonder what it is you are looking at, let me help you. This is a vacant lot. No we have not started yet. We were so ready to dig last Friday, but our financing was not ready yet. It has sitting in underwriting for a week waiting for some form from the IRS. How annoying. Actually I did lie about that picture there is one thing missing that you would see if you went and looked at the lot and that is the backhoe that has been parked there for the last week. Our banker told us we should be able to start this week, but we are now looking at Friday afternoon and haven't heard form him. so now we are looking at maybe possibly starting things Tueasday, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Originally we were looking on at a Oct 18th finish date, but that was with the intent to start digging the first week of May. So now we are planning on a 2nd week in November finish date. I am sure this will change as well. I haven't really got too bothered buy the delays, because I am just happy to know that someday I will be getting my dream home.

frustrated

2010-05-28T14:53:00.000-07:00

My back hurts my butt hurts and I don't know if anything was accomplished the last hour and a half I just spent sitting in the bathroom with Jordyn. She just spent the last hour and a half sitting on the potty while I got her to drink a whole 20 oz of Gatorade and she did not pee on the toilet once. But of course right after she gets off the toilet and starts to walk out of the bathroom what do you think she does. She pees all over the floor in the doorway of the bathroom. Really!? Really? Why. What is it going t o take with this girl. She wants to wear big girls undies. She asks for them, so I have let her wear them a few times one day she only went thru three pairs in a 6 hour period, but then she pooped in the third pair and I was done cleaning up messes so I thru away the undies and put her in her diaper. The sad part was she didn't even care that she had pooped. She hadn't said anything, I found the poop when I told Rusty to have her go try to go and he sent her to me. Yesterday I let her try the undies again in the afternoon because she said she didn't want to wear a diaper and wanted undies. Well let me just tell you I was really tired of cleaning up pee. Every 20 minutes I was cleaning up another puddle made by my daughter. I am so frustrated! I wouldn't even be trying except she is the one asking to wear undies. It's just like she doesn't get it. She is a smart girl, too smart for her own good sometimes, I just don't understand why she doesn't get it. She was really successful for about three days when it came to pooping on the potty about a month ago and then she decided it wasn't for her or something because she just stopped telling me she had to go. She is my challenge right now.

Also right now her favorite thing to do it get naked. Lately she is stripping down to nothing at least 1 to 2 times daily. The other day she was just out side playing in the sandbox completely naked. Wasn't her smartest move, sand everywhere. And then a day or two later she was out on the trampoline, again, naked.
On Sunday I went to get her from nursery and her teacher handed me her diaper. Jordyn had taken it off herself and was just playing and having a grand old time running around commando. Seriously, she is out of control.
She cracks me up, but drives me nuts at the same time. But then she will look at me with her big blue puppy dog eyes and smile and my heart just melts. She looks so sweet, but two seconds later she is jumping on the dog trying to ride him like a horse.

And that is Jordyn at 2 1/2. And no that is not a hat she is wearing on her head it is the dog dish. She thinks it is her job to dump that ans his water bucket out every chance she gets.

The new place

2010-04-21T13:46:00.000-07:00

So we have moved out of our house, closed the sell of our old house. We have finalized our plans for the our new house and started on our construction loan. We have also moved into my parents house and have adjusted nicely, much to my surprise. I was worried how the kids would do with the adjustment, but it has gone really well.
We hope to break ground on our new home the beginning of May.
I have been very busy hence my lack of entries lately, but now that I have a chance to sit down and write I can't think of anything to write about.

Taylor has been mumbling for awhile and the other day she started mumbling something that sounds like dad.

And this week Jordyn successfully rode Alexis' bike which will be much nicer this summer for our walks. Now Alexis and Jordyn can ride bikes and I can only have two kids in the double stroller instead of three.

Just a warning probably the next few months of entries will be a lot of stuff about the house so I hope you don't get too bored with it but I is a big thing in our lives and I definitely want to document it.

Happy Easter

2010-03-30T13:03:00.001-07:00

Here is a pic of the kids on their Easter outfits. They wore them this week and did an Easter egg hunt with Rusty's side of the family this past Sunday due to conference and us having Carter.

The move is on

2010-03-28T11:36:00.000-07:00

This week is the big week. It has all came up so fast. We are scheduled to move on Thursday in hopes that we will have it all done so we can go camping Friday, Saturday and Sunday for Easter weekend. And we are scheduled to sign and close on our house that following Monday. I feel like all I do it pack. I really didn't think it would take this many boxes for us to move. I obviously have way more stuff than I thought. This is a bitter sweet time in our lives. We will be sad to leave the place we have called home for the last five years as a family and more for Rusty. He was living here when we met, while we dated and during our engagement. We have had many hours of fun and project in this home as well. We acquired a hot tub, built a huge deck, finished the basement built a playground gutted the kitchen and made it into the best kitchen ever and painted every room in the house at least once. Rusty learned to tile and has become very good at it. We have had three beautiful little girls and brought them home here. They have learned to walk and talk and celebrated birthdays. Learned to ride their bikes and climb trees here as well. It will be sad to say good bye to this house, but we are just out growing it too fast.
It is going to be bitter sweet we have made friends here as well of course. I think it will be harder for Rusty than I because he not only lived here as an adult, but her grew up in this house from the age of 10 to 19. I know his brother and younger sister are also sad to see us sell the house, but it wasn't going to stay in the family forever.
I have to say I am very excited to have storage space, that is one thing we had none of here and I am excited to landscape with a clean slate. That is the one thing Rusty is the most worried about doing, but I think it will be fun. We will be moving farther away from Rusty's family, but we will be moving closer to my family and to Rusty's Nana and Grandpa Forest, and they are very excited to have us near.
I am sure the next few months will be tough and take some adjusting while we live in limbo and try not to drive grandma and grandpa Nielsen crazy, but I think it will be fun and give my kids a chance to create a bond with them at the same time.
I just hope I can make it through this week and get everything ready for the move and then I will just have to take the next little while one step at a time.

New Look

2010-03-15T16:23:00.000-07:00

I love the feeling of spring in the air. And I was looking at my blog and thought I would like to spring it up a little. I was thinking something bright like orange and bright pink, but then I a saw this one and really liked it as well. I know you all might be shocked, but I figured out how to do it all by my self. Thank goodness the web site had step by step instructions on what to do. It is kind of fun to have a new look. I have had the same design since I started my blog.

Disney on Ice

2010-03-13T22:10:00.000-08:00

So, a few weeks ago I got a call from my sister-in-law asking if I wanted to take my girls to Disney on Ice. I thought that would be fun to take Jordyn and Alexis and Rusty could stay home with Taylor. Well later I find out it is a Carter weekend. But figured he would be fine hanging out with dad and not want to see princess skating around. Well then Rusty found out he would be working 7 10 hour shifts for 3-4 weeks in March. Great. So I found a place for Carter to go. (Thanks Kristen) and figured I could handle taking Taylor with me. It would be okay there were going to be 5 adults to 7 children everything would be great.
So I told Alexis about the ice show and she wanted to ride the train, because she got to ride the train a few months ago with daddy to the Jazz Game so I thought, "sure that will be fun , let's do it." So last night I had it all figured out. I would take Carter to Kristen's and then just drive straight East to the traxx station in Midvale and we would have a nice ride downtown and be dropped off right in front of the arena. Oh, and all this time I am planning on the show starting @ 12:30 because that is the time I have been told because My mother-in-law was the one the tickets were mailed to. Well needless to say things did not go as planned. I get a call at 10:15 from my mother-in-law telling me there was a problem. She was 2 tickets short and the show starts in 45 minutes. BIG PROBLEM So I tell Lex the new dilemma. She has to make a decission, one, ride the train and be late and possibly miss Tinkerbell or Ariel, or two we drive up there in the car and get to see the whole show. Well she picked one, she really wanted to ride the train. So i pack the kids while I wait for my Sue to bring me my tickets and bring Carter home because he had slept at her house, thank goodness she took him to Kristen's for me or we would have really been late and probably missed the whole show.
Well we made it to the station and got to the arena the girls loved the train ride and really had a good time at the ice show. We only missed the first segment which was cars, and they really are into that so it worked out wonderfully. Jordyn was glued and Alexis would clap for everything and thought it was so neat. Especially when Queen Clarion came flying in up in the sky. It is so fun to watch kids at this age experience new things. I got a few shots of the girls at the show. I wish I could have had a picture or 2 of the train ride but my hands were a little full. We will definitely had to ride the train again. (Oh and a special thanks to Sheay for giving me her old Snugli. It was a life saver for today's trip.)

This is the hat that came with the $10 cotton candy they decided to buy. They had to put both there money together to buy it, but they enjoyed it and have shared very well, surprisingly.

Packing, packing and more packing

2010-03-12T21:47:00.000-08:00

So things are still going along with our house being under contract. So i though ti should get serious about packing things up. My goal is to pack at least 5 boxes a day. Today I made a small dent in the garage while the kids were riding bikes and playing in the front yard. It was such a nice day today, don't you hate those spring teasers and then watch the news for them to tell you it is going to snow in a few days. Sad. It didn't seem like I was making any progress because everything still looked the same, so the other day I look down pictures and wall decor from the kids room, now the house it starting to look a little bare.
I have to say I am a little nervous a bout the change, but I am way more excited. This will be a fun new stage in our lives. Rusty is totally freaking out about the whole thing, ask Kristen she has seen him. Lucky for him he is working all month and I mean all month. He just started a job working 7 10 hour shifts so he doesn't even have to do all the packing. One day he will just come home to an empty house. Not really, I planned our move out date for April 1st the day after his 7 10's end. Fun day off, right? If anyone is free that evening they are more than welcome to come lend a hand. And then in nine months we will get to do it all over again, but we will accompany that move with a big party, I just decided that, right now. It will be fun.
It's late and I am talking a little crazy now. so I better go. Love you all! Ta ta

The inspection

2010-03-05T12:06:00.000-08:00

Yesterday the new buyers had there inspection done on the house. It took forever. The inspector came at 2 and he and the buyers didn't leave until 6:30. The inspector didn't really find much for us to have to do and Rusty got to meet and visit with the new buyers for a little bit. But we haven't received the official report yet so we will see what that says. But it looks like this deal really might go through, so i guess I should really start packing stuff now.
But on the other hand we have run into a little issue with the lot we are suppose to be buying. The title guy I talked to today is showing that our lot is split into 2 pieces and those 2 pieces added up are smaller than what the plat map shows that we were going off of when we put in our bid. I am not very impressed with the people we are buying from. They seem pretty shady. I already found out earlier this week that they sold another lot in the development for less than what they were telling me they sold it for. I don't like it when people lie to me.

Dejunking

2010-03-01T20:59:00.000-08:00

I think Rusty is really liking this idea of us moving, because he is getting me to throw a lot of stuff away or send it off to the D.I. But then he also keeps saying, "where are we going to put all this?" "We have so much stuff." I don't feel like we have that much stuff when I look in my house, but then I think about moving and packing the garage and shed and I find myself wondering "what are we going to do with everything?" It was funny watching him this evening when he was helping me clean out a kitchen cupboard and put some boxes in the garage and he realized how many boxes of cereal I had stocked up. "When are we ever going to eat all that?", he asked. he would be surprised how fast we go through cereal. And I know he likes being able to just go out to the garage and grab a new box when one is emptied.
My goal this month is to not go grocery shopping and just live off what I already have in the house and freezer. I will probably have to make 2 trips for bread and milk, and maybe a little fruit, but i thin kit is totally possible. I will have to report at the end of the month and let you know how it goes. We have already done it for one week I'm sure 4 more shouldn't be too hard. And when it comes time to actually more everyone helping us will be glad I did it.

Talking twos

2010-02-27T16:09:00.000-08:00

I love listening to Jordyn, my 2 1/2 year old talk. She tries to talk like a big kid, but in her cute little girl raspy voice. She loves "L" if a word has a "L" sound in it she makes sure she makes that sound.
The other day she was trying to say remember and it can out as "memember". I really wish I had tape recordings of all my kids talking at this age. Because Alexis pretty much says everything right these days. She was looking at something yesterday and I hear her say, "that's interesting" That just sounded like too big of a word to come out of a little 3 year old.
When carter was little he use to call strawberry milk "kiya" and a trampoline was a "patcholine" And Pinochio was "picanochio". I wish there was more I could remember. I am going to try to be better about writing this random things.

The sell continues, but we own some dirt now

2010-02-25T20:01:00.000-08:00

Last week we had someone offer on our house it was cool, but not, because they offered $20,000 less than we were asking. We counter offered and they couldn't afford it. Then a few days later they can back with another offer because they had borrowed some money and this time it was a good offer so we accepted. We were under contract and set to be out of our house by March 25. Well that sell fell through because the people found out they were not going to qualify for the first time home buyer tax credit so we are back on the market. We had 2 showings the last 2 days and have 2 more Friday and Saturday. My house has never looked this good for this long and it is really wearing me out. I only have four to six more months that I have to keep doing this and then I can take my house off the market and hang out here for 2 to 3 more years at the most, unless I really get anxious to start building my new home. Why do I say that you ask? Well as of yesterday we are under contract to own a lot in West Jordan. We put an offer in last week. They counter offered on Monday and we accepted the offer yesterday and gave them our ernest money today. We are very excited!!

Taylor- 6 months

2010-02-20T15:23:00.000-08:00

I went and got Taylor's 6 month pictures taken this week and I thought they turned out very cute. Here are a few of the ones I liked.

This one is very fitting because this is the stage of life she is at. She has just recently started sitting for longer than a minute all on her own.

I thought I would put a hat on her to hide her bald head and because I made this for her. I'm really into crocheting hats right now. It was fun watching her get these taken. It was like she was in a big pink fluffy cloud. And then she would try to eat it.

I think B&W and Sepia pictures are fun.I think she is so adorable and I just love the pop of color of the big flower on her head. And I love the naked baby pictures. She getting to the age were I won't be able to do them anymore.

Taylor

2010-02-08T11:25:00.000-08:00

I know it might be had to believe it but this is Taylor. She had lost all her dark curly hair. It makes us kind of sad, but we still love her more than ever. She is so sweet and loving and such a good baby. She is a rolling pro and tries to do sit ups all the time it is pretty funny to watch. She has starting sitting on her own for short periods of time. She can sit up for a while if you hold her feet, she has abs of steel.

Here is a pic of Nana and Taylor hanging out together one Sunday afternoon.

And here is Taylor and her grandma Sue having a little one on one time.

Taylor is growing so fast. I have a hard time believeing she is already 6 months old.

The house selling continues

2010-01-28T21:44:00.000-08:00

We had a walk thru today and another one tomorrow. I have been doing a lot of house cleaning. Tomorrows showing will be the fourth on this week. That seems like a lot to me, but when I write it down it doesn't sound like that much. The other day Rusty was really missing his helmets and said he wants to put them back up. I decided if he does that I want to put our family and kids pictures back up on the wall too. I miss seeing my kids happy faces on the wall.
By the way if anyone was wondering we had some people come look at the townhouse Tuesday and they want to rent the place. I am so glad to have that out of the way. One less thing to worry about. They seem to be pretty responsible, I really hope that is the case.
Rusty is out in the garage trying to fix the big over head door. The opener broke that other day. I feel bad going to bed while he is out there working so I thought now would be a good time to do a little blogging.
Taylor is getting so big. You wouldn't even recognize her now compared to the last pictures of her on my blog. She has lost all her pretty dark curl and is now almost bald and it is coming in blonde. She is sure a cutie no matter what her hair looks like. She loves to rollover and like playing on her stomach. I remember when Alexis was a baby I use to have to bribe her with treats to play on her tummy. We are currently working on help her sit up on her own. She has her 6 month pictures coming up and it would be nice if she could sit all by her self for them. I have run into a bit of a dilemma when it come to pictures. I have taken the other two girls to Kiddie Kandids for their six month pictures and ordered the same layout and framed it to be hung on their wall in their room. Well if you hadn't heard Kiddie Kandid went out of business, so now I don't know waht I am going to do. I have tried to make sure if I do something for one of the girls I do it for all of them,but when business close or don't keep doing the same things it makes it difficult. I had this problem with Taylors hospital pictures. I had to order her a different framed announcement to hang in the girls room because they didn't make the one the other girls got.
Anyway I will stop rambling and I guess I will go see if there is something I can do to help Rusty out. It is a good thing he can figure out how to fix pretty much anything, because my dad was the same way so I expect my husband to be just like my dad. I love my dad, He is just a clever and helpful guy. He is always there to lend a gand if someone needs help.

Bobcat

2010-01-28T21:36:00.000-08:00

Tonight Carter was presented with his Bobcat. We made the trek to Tooele to see them present him with patch. I am really excited that he is liking Scouts and that his mom is letting him do it. He has half his requirements done to get his wolf too. I forgot my camera, but Sue had hers, so once I get those pictures from her I will put some on here. They did a talent show this month for pack meeting, it was fun and pretty entertaining. Carter did a magic trick, it was very impressive, he did a good job. He also got to give the opening prayer. He is such a great kids. He is so neat sometimes he can really surprise you. I don't think I ever had to pray for anything very serious when I was as young as he is. To have to pray to see which church he should be baptized in is a big deal. And I was very impressed with him and so happy for him for the choice he made.

Crafting

2010-01-26T14:30:00.000-08:00

The kids are all taking naps right now. They wore themselves out running around the empty town house while I tried to clean up a little.
Anyway, yesterday my sister in law, Heidi came over yesterday to do a little crafting. She found this web site that had all sort of fun ideas. So yesterdays project was hair bows. They are so cute and were so easy. I can't find any of my crafting stuff because I packed it up. (I am so tempted to start unpacking my stuff so I can live normally again) Anyway, Thank to Heidi we had stuff to use. She brought over some of the cutest watermelon fabric and then she had cute flowers and buttons and this is what we made.

Landlord

2010-01-26T14:11:00.000-08:00

Can I just tell you right now that I do not like being a landlord. Irresponsible people cost me too much money. We just had renters move out last Tuesday. So needless to say we have not see Rusty since then. He spent all Wednesday night there ripping up carpet and tile. And then he was working all day til 9:00 pm at his real job. Then he spent all day Friday and Saturday and half the day Sunday after we got home from church working on the townhouse as well. Friday he got to finish ripping up tile and started painting the entire place. Saturday we got to finish painting most of the place and fixed a few lights and now he gets to fix the exhaust fan in the main bathroom. People are pretty gross too. I do not enjoy cleaning up after dirty people. I spent an hour cleaning two toilets on Saturday. Not to mention the two hours I have spent scrubbing the tub. Today the place looks so different than it did a week ago. I actually let my kids out of the car and into the townhouse while I went and tried to clean some more. Yesterday we had the entire top floor and stairs leading up there carpeted. And Sunday and Monday our soon to be brother in law came over and help Rusty lay down a new pergo wood floor on the main level. It looks so good. Tonight we have some people coming to look at the place. It is not all ready to go yet because we still need to put another coat of paint in the kitchen and put the new base boards up. They people seem really nice and hopefully they are clean and take a little pride in the place they live. If that is the case and they like it we might have new tenants, but who knows. I really hope we find someone soon. I really don't want to be making two mortgage payments again in February. Someday we will have our dad back. But my guess it wont be for another 4 days or so.

Blogging part 2

2010-01-19T14:20:00.000-08:00

So I think one of the reasons I haven't been the best blogger is because I wondered if this would be something my kids could look back on and read. If it would even be accessible in years to come. I like to have things on paper. I am just old fashioned that way. Well today much to my surprise I just found out about a place that will print your blog into a book. I am so so excited about this. So I might be doing a lot more blogging in the future. Yay!

Blogging

2010-01-19T13:01:00.000-08:00

Wow. I am an awful blogger. It has been forever it seems like since I have blogged. I originally started this to try to keep a journal of my family, but it didn't go as well as planned. So this year I have started writing in our journal again. It has gone pretty good for the most part. It just seems more accesible for some reason. But I am sure I will still do blogging from time to time if anyone even cares or even reads it anymore.
The other night I started up scrapbooking again. I have been terrible at that lately as well. Taylor only had her ultra sound pics in her album up until Friday. Now her 1st four days of life are scrapbooked as well. I am trying to make it a goal to scrap one to two layouts each day during my kids nap time. I think that I will be able to catch up that way as long as I can find were I packed all my pictures. I hate living in this house selling state.

It doesn't look like we will be going anywhere soon

2009-12-28T16:55:00.000-08:00

After having our house on the market for two months we are still here. We have had quite a few showings and people that have had us at the top of their list, but no offers. I do not love having my house for sale. It is very stressful. Getting a call telling you someone is coming to look at your house tomorrow or in a few hours. Then you make the stressful dash to make your house spotless and ready for a potential buyer. Not my idea of fun. But i guess in e sense it is good we are still here because I recently found out the lot we really liked and were going to buy next month (regardless if our house was sold or not) Has now been bought out by Richmond American, a large nation wide builder. So now we are once again on the hunt for a place to build our home.

we did it

2009-11-10T07:53:00.000-08:00

It has only taken us a year, but we finally decided to list our house for sale. We have been looking around going back and forth figuring out our finances and so forth for the last year and we finally decided to make the big move. I feel so much better about this right now than I have the other two times we almost did it. I am excited and nervous and a little sad and many more mixed emotion, but I think it will be a really good thing for us and our family.

Jordyn's 2 year pictures

2009-10-27T08:52:00.000-07:00

It does feel like all we do it pictures these days. We have done big family pictures on both my side and Rusty's side of the family, we did the Halloween pictures I have been taking Taylor in every month and now Jordyn's Birthday pictures. But we are still not done. We get to do Christmas picture in a week and a half next.

Anyway, on October 18th Jordyn turned 2 years old. She is such a fun and energetic girl. We love having her in our home.

She loves to talk and it is great because you can pretty much understand everything she says. I call her my little monkey because she climbs all over everything. If Alexis is doing it Jordyn is right behind her doing it. She forgets she is 18 months younger than her big sister and shouldn't be able to do all these things. She is just crazy in general and we love every bit of her.

She is also very nurturing. She is very sweet with Taylor and comes running when she cries to try to calm her down. It is so cute. She is such a beatuiful little girl. It is very hard to not smile when she smiles at you or when she is pouting too. She has recently become very good at playing house and pretending with Alexis. It is so much fun to watch them play. I love watching Jordyn grow and learn, I can't wait to see what she does next. I love you Jordyn.

Taylor's 3 month Pictures

2009-10-26T16:38:00.001-07:00

The same day we did the Halloween pictures I had Taylor's 3 month pics taken too. They turned out cute. She is such a doll.

I love this little "Tator Bug"

Kids Halloween Pictures

2009-10-24T15:53:00.000-07:00

Today was quite the hectic morning trying to get the kids to get their pictures taken. Why is it so difficult to smile. I really don't understand. All in all the pictures turned out pretty good. I do have to say Alexis did great she is currently a lover of the camera. It was quite fun watching her get her pictures taken. And for some reason Jordyn became shy. And for those of you that don't know Jordyn, that is so not like her. But anyway here are a few of the pictures.

Group Shot

Alexis as Ariel

Jordyn as Ursula

Taylor as Sebatian

Carter the Zombie

Taylors Blessing

2009-10-14T15:55:00.000-07:00

Taylor was blessed on September 13, 2009. She had many family members and friends there who loved her and came to support us in this great event in her life. She is such a sweet little girl. We love her so much and are so happy to have her in our home.

Four generations

Four generations

Rusty and I and Sue and Gary Hughes.

Me, Rusty, Forest and Nanna holding Taylor.

These are the wonderful women Taylor was named after. Helen and Atheen. Her middle name is Heleen.

Cousins

2009-10-14T15:50:00.000-07:00

Here is a picture of Taylor and her newest cousin Samara. they are only 1 month apart in age. It is fun to have cousins your age. I hope these two will be good friends.

Samara is only 10 days old in this picture.

Alexis 1st day of preschool

2009-10-14T15:40:00.000-07:00

September 9, 2009 Alexis had her 1st day of preschool. Since Alexis is only 3 this year I wasn't sure if I wanted to pay for preschool especially since she was also starting dance. But Sheay and two of her friends were going to do a joy school since their preschool teacher quit so I though tit would be fun to do that with them.

Alexis was so so excited to go to school. She was a little disappointed when we pulled up to aunt Sheay's house for school, but she had a good time and always looks forward to going to school still.

Jordyn also really wanted to go to school, but she is a bit young for that, she didn't think so. So she went down stairs and found the Dora backpack and walked around the house with it on for at least 2 hours. She would not let me take it off.

Last swim of the season and Taylor's fist time swimming

2009-10-14T15:31:00.000-07:00

We went swimming with Grandma when we got home from the ranch one last time before the pool closed for the winter.
This was also Taylor's first time in the pool. She did really well and enjoyed the time she spent in the pool. I hope she will be a little fish like her sisters. They love the pool and have no fear. You really have to keep an eye on them.

Labor day weekend

2009-10-14T14:04:00.000-07:00

We went to Koosheram with the Hughes family and had a great time.

Jordyn and Ailee watching Alexis drive the four wheeler.

Alexis learned to ride the four wheeler all by herself this weekend.

This was Taylor's bed for the weekend.

All the cousins together.

The girls.

Visiting the horses.

Jordyn got stuck in the bed ladder.