New House - August 9, 2011

I thought I would post some pictures and video of our new house before we move in when everything is still clean. We will be closing at the end of the week, but with the exception of some touch up painting we are all finished.

New House Update - August 9, 2011

This is a video of the entry and front room.

This is a video of the Kitchen

This is a video of the Laundry Room.

This is a video of Abby & Macey's room.

This is a video of the Guest Bedroom/Hall/Main Bath

This is a Video of the Master Bedroom/Bath

This is a video of the Upstairs which will also be Hailey and Alyssa's Room.

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.