Memorial Day/House progress

This year for Memorial day we went up to the cemetery on Sunday instead of Monday. We had been planning a fun hike up rock canyon, but with new snow Sunday night our hike for Monday morning was postponed. Who has ever heard of getting snow in the foothills on May 30th. We even had a snowball at the bottom of the slide meaning it did snow a little here.

So, the weather was cold and we didn't spend much time at the cemeteries in Midway and Heber, but we did show the girls their great-grandparents graves.





There is also lots of flooding going on in Utah right now. The levy up out of the reservoir is open so the Provo river is really flowing high right now. In one spot it couldn't have been more than 12 inches below the rail road tracks.

In comparison, this is what we we doing last year for memorial day:

Looks a little different, doesn't it?

I know some of you have been waiting to see pictures on the progress of our house. Our girls (and their parents) love to go look at the progress multiple times every day! Hailey is standing in the room that will soon be her bedroom.



Here is a view from early this week (roof is now finished):



Here is the view of the back of our house from Johns parents house.

Our trip to the Y

It's been a while since our last post and so I'll try to catch you up a bit.

April was a really fun filled and busy month with lots of birthdays, visitors, and spring break. As promised in the last post, I am now posting pictures of Trafalga and our trax trip to temple square during spring break.

Alyssa on the rock climbing wall.

Hailey at temple square.

Abby and John on the trax train.

For Easter this year our neighborhood playgroup met at the park and had each of us bring a few dozen eggs to hide. We ended up only having about 6-7 kids, but it was still an Easter egg hunt and my girls still had lots of fun. Here is my little Macey at her first Easter egg hunt!



The day before Easter we had Matt, Kamelle and their boys over for a fun hunt in the backyard If you read my friend Mandy's blog she told everyone how I hid 300 eggs this year, it's true. We really missed having our annual hunt with Mandy and Holly's families, but we enjoyed having it with cousins. The day was beautiful (well as beautiful as Utah was this past April) and the hunt went great. Then, Sunday morning the girls woke up to about 6 inches of snow. Good thing the Easter bunny only hides a few eggs inside on Easter Sunday. Each girl got a new dress and had fun with the goodies left in their baskets I'll try to get a new picture of our family Easter morning up later.

My mom came out to Utah for Hailey's birthday, Easter and her birthday. It was great to have her here and I really needed her for Hailey's party. We had another spa party and had little girls all over. But they were all really good and I am happy that Hailey has such a great group of girls here in our ward and neighborhood. My mom also spent part of the time here at Leslie's house in Richfield but we loved when she was up her.

Monday we had our Mother/Daughter activity day party on Monday and Hailey and I had so much fun together. It was all on them being princesses to our Father in Heaven. The activity day leaders did a wonderful job! Thanks!

Today our construction job was to get the exterior walls all put up. It's looking good and we're all getting more and more excited.

Spring Break

This past week was spring break and while I took lots of pictures, for some reason I can't find them on a camera now. I'll keep looking and maybe post some later of temple square and trafalga.



Matt and Kamelle Giles had their new baby blessed Sunday and we were able to start out break out by going to church with them and hearing Matt give their precious baby a name and blessing. John was also called to be a councilor in the Young Men's presidency this day and was quite happy to not be in our ward when the calling was sustained.

Monday we were able to go to Trafalga in Lehi where the girls were able to rock climb, ride carnival type rides and get soakin' wet on the bumper boats. Abby was in complete tears when the ride was over being so wet! She toughed it out though, took off her dripping coat and had a blast the rest of the time. We had lots of fun activities planned, but the rain ruined most of them. Friday we did get to ride the Trax up to Temple Square and the gateway center and John was able to join us for a fun day that didn't rain.


Tuesday the girls and John were able to go watch the championship girls intramural basketball game at BYU and see Rebecca's team with the coveted championship t-shirts! Way to go Rebecca!!!




Alyssa has been bugging me lately about making a Hula Pie. For those of you that were frequent customers at Keoki's Paradise or Duke's, a Hula Pie has an oreo like crust with about 4 inches of mac. nut ice cream top and coated with a hard fudge layer and hot fudge on top of that. Oh, and we can't forget the mounds of whipping cream going around the edge of the pie.




This is what the frozen part looked like before I poured the hot fudge and whipping cream all over it.



I can't buy mac. nut ice cream here and so we had to improvise with a layer of mac. nuts on top. It may have not looked quite like Keoki's but it tasted wonderful and we loved it!!!

Another event during the week to bring us a turn in events was John, spraining his ankle.
It made a few of our excursions get cut short but we still were able to have a wonderful time playing and exploring throughout the week.

Can you believe how big Macey is? I was so excited because she got to go to nursery for the first time Sunday, YEAH!!!!

Progress on our house

Living next door to where your new home is being built has it's definate advantages, well at least for us. I don't really know if our builder likes me watching his every move from across the yard but i continue to do this. We moved the trampoline Saturday for mowing the grass, but where it's setting now blocks my view and I can't see right into to construction zone. So, now I actually have to go outside and walk to the fence to see whats going on.

The weather hasn't been the best for construction all it seems to do it rain (or snow). Yet, today they were able to set up all the rebar frames and get the footings put together so that maybe just maybe the foundations walls will be poured tomorrow.

Here is today's progress:


They got all the walls poured :)