Thursday, January 8, 2009

And Finally an update

OUR NEW HOUSE!!!!!!!
The house has 4 levels, which 3 bedrooms and a bath are on the upper level (top windows on the left), the kitchen, front room and half bath is on the main level (big window next to the garage), a huge family room and a bath & laundry room is on the lower level (low windows on the left), 2 rooms, 2 storage rooms on the basement level (small window under the big window)
The front yard


Our back yard is huge .4 acre. Its hard to see but by the dirt pile (seen in middle picture) we build a fire pit, the dirt pile is where our small garden will be, and the rest is lawn. When we moved in, most of the back yard was weeds from where the people before us had a flower garden, 6 fruit trees, 4 rows of grape vines. With Mark's parents help and Scott Forthsite (one of Jenny's babysitting father has a bobcat) came in and leveled everything so we could plant grass seed before winter hit. We hauled of 4 tons of concrete curbing which separated the garden from the grass and another 2 or 3 tons of yard waste to the dump. Below is a picture of the view we have of Timp. from our back yard.


Reed calling it quits after a long day of playing!!! He was in the middle of watching Cars, his favorite thing to watch.

The joys of having 2 big trees.
This is only about a quarter of the leaves we actually had.


Reed's 2nd Birthday. Cameron (neighbor) is Reed's buddy.


Sarah & Melissa were cheerleaders for Halloween. Eve's mom (Melissa's friend) made the outfits



Reed enjoying his lollipop.

Reed is chill'n with his great Grandpa's Gillman's hat. (Reed is named after this Grandpa)

Our last camping trip of the season. We went to Nephi with the Paulsen's and had a great time. In fact it was so much fun, we stayed as long as we could, I think we got home around 9pm.


More pictures of the backyard with some of Jenny's daycare kids playing.


The dirt is where the old garden was. This was just before we put the seed down.




Here are some pictures of the kids just playing around the house.














Melissa and Sarah just having fun while Mom & Dad unpack.


Most of you know Jenny makes these hooded towels and terry cloth burp clothes, she is now selling these to try to make some extra income. Jenny will make them custom for people, and we are working on being able to embroider names and other things on them. Please let us know if you know of anyone interested.

3 comments:

Amy said...

Thanks for posting a real update and the bazillion pictures. It was great to see the kids. We definitely might need a playday soon. I'll call.

Hillary said...

So happy to know you are alive and kicking. Your house looks great and is coming along. Jealous of that backyard. I know where we will be spending our summers :) Thanks for being great friends, we thought we should get camping again soon! Hill

Shanna said...

Nice that you came back to the blogger world... Scott says to tell you nice way to spell our last name. We got quite the kick out of it... Thanks for all that you do.