30 Day Notice????

Tommorrow is the 1st. Rent is due. This afternoon I should be getting a phone call to say whether or not to give our 30 day notice.

The septic tank will be installed and done this coming Monday. The house should be set and the inside put together this coming week.

I'm still being told we will be closing in 2 weeks.

We are going to bring in several loads of dirt to the front of the house. We'll probably have 1 maybe 2 stairs to the front door but that should be it.

There were too many cars behind me so I didn't take a picture of the back of the house but it will need a lot more dirt than the front. Kory would like to build a deck out the back door.

We walked through the house a few weeks ago and weren't terrible impressed. We've decided to do a little remodeling. We are going to add a wall that will seperate the kitchen, dining room and family room. The kitchen currently has the same amount of cabinets I currently have (3 lower cabinets, 3 uppper cabinets with 2 more uppers that are smaller above the stove and refrigerator.) Adding this wall will allow us to turn the kitchen into a U shape. It's giving us another wall to put cabinets against along with a pantry that we other wise wouldn't have.

This Saturday Kory hopes to start building the wall. March 8, 2006 was when we sent our 10% down. It's hard to believe how fast this year has gone by and how long this process has taken. We have been given so many different dates that we would be able to move that we've lost the excitement over the past several months. However I am starting to get that excitement again. We are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel. So hopefully 4 weeks from this weekend we will be moving.

Emily 4 mo. check up.

She's 4 months old now. Emily had her check up yesterday and weighed in at 14 lbs 12 oz. She's definitely growing. She rarely lays still anymore but she does love to be held and coddled. She holds toys and puts them right in her mouth. She'll smile and talk to you when she's being talked to. She's eating baby food. When on her belly she can push herself up and lock her elbows. She's not my newborn baby anymore.

Silence !

Everyone loves a quiet house. Everyone loves quiet time (maybe not the kids but most moms do). However when it's 3:00 in the afternoon, and all you hear is silence you know it can't be good. You almost don't want to go find your kids because you know its not going to be good.

I started in the bathroom but no one was there. I looked in the kids bedroom but no one was there. I looked in the kids closet and found Hunter doing a puzzle but no Maddie.
I went on to my room and found her on top of my bathroom counter. Before I could say a thing she turned around and said, "look mom, I'm beautiful".

Christmas Dresses

These are the girls Christmas dresses. We were sick the Sunday before Christmas and didn't go to church. So they wore there matching dresses the following Sunday along with their matching bracelets (thankyou Aunt Camille). I got both of them ready for church without a problem. When we got home I helped Madelyn change. Her dress was a little tight and we struggled a little to get it off. Kory was changing Emily who cried the entire time. Kory said it was too tight, too small. It just didn't fit. Maddies dress is a 2T (she's 2 1/2) Emily's was a 3-6 mo. she had just turned 3 months.

So this past Sunday I put the dresses on again. They went on very easy but when it came time to change them we really struggled getting them off. It was such a hassle I'm glad the pictures were taken cause I don't think they will wear them again. It was too much of a headache.

We couldn't get a decent picture of the girls next to each other so Kory had Maddie lay down by Emily, giving us a funky picture of the two of them.



Emily was crying when she was sitting. She was crying when she was laying down. Standing up made her quit crying just for a minute. So this is the best picture we have of her in her 1st Christmas dress.

Happy Birthday to Me !!!!

Has it really been 27 years?
Looking through my baby pictures I see many features that I see in my children. This baby picture of me reminds me alot of Emily when we first brought her home.

Kory is currently working out of town so it's just the kids and I to celebrate my 27th birthday. This morning I talked to my mom and a couple of friends who called to wish me a "Happy Birthday".

My children were playing so nicely together I pulled out the sewing machine and finished a few projects.


This afternoon we went to a friends house where we ate ice cream and birthday cake that she had made and just hung out for a few hours.

On our way home we were talking about what to fix for dinner. Both Hunter and Madelyn wanted chicken. Why is it I'm more then willing to fix a nice good filling dinner when Kory's around but when he's gone I don't feel like cooking or fixing anything other than peanut butter sandwiches, quesedillas and mac and cheese? I don't paticularly like any of these but I manage until he gets home. Hunter overheard me saying I didn't want to cook so he suggested we go to Panda Bear (Panda Express) his favorite. I personally don't like the place so we settled on KFC and we all got a piece of chicken.


When we got home our annoying buzzing doorbell was still ringing letting me know someone had come by and rung the doorbell. Expecting a few packages for the buisness I was quite surprised to find this from another friend sitting on our doorstep. To the kids utter delight they had 2 birthday cakes today.



So despite the bummer of having my husband out of town what did I get for my birthday ? A day of fun with friends, 2 birthday cakes,


a son who built his mom a castle,






a happy, peacful baby,






and a loving daughter that made me cake and ice cream.


So what can I say. The day is ending with 3 beautiful happy loving children, and a "Happy Birthday" phone call from my husband. Thank you all who helped make this a special day.

Emily 1st baby food.

Emily is almost sleeping through the night. She generally goes to bed about 9 and doesn't wake up until about 4. I nurse her and then she sleeps until 8/9. She's been doing this for several weeks now.

Probably 1 1/2 weeks ago she started waking up twice during the night. I could still handle this. However, it seems during the past week she's been waking up more and more. She's not cold, no messy diaper it seems she just wants to nurse for 30 sec. (no lie) and falls back to sleep. 2 nights ago she was up every 2 hours. Last night she did the same thing. Every 2 hours almost on the dot. I'm hoping her problem is that she is waking up hungry. So we are now trying baby food. This afternoon she had pears and ate the entire little tub that I bought. I thought since she's not use to eating foods these little tubs would last for at least 2 feedings. I thought wrong she scarfed it down. Tonight I fed her baby cereal. This girl loves to eat. She opens her mouth for the spoon and she's not to bad at swallowing. She was quite unhappy when the cereal ran out. It was amazing to see how much she ate for her first day of baby food.


At her 2 month check up Emily weighed in at a little over 13 lbs. The doctor joked around saying as fast as this girl is growing she may weigh 20 lbs. at her 4 month check up. This coming tuesday is her apt. She's definitely getting big. If she's going to continue to eat like she has today theres a good chance she will be weighing in at 20 lbs. very soon. Hopefully her now full tummy will help her sleep very well tonight. Wish us luck.

For our Grandma's

Hunter and Madelyn made these at the library last week. Since then they have been put on our refrigerator. Every couple days Hunter asks if we can put his snow man picture on the computer for Grandma to see. His 2 grandma's.




So this blog is just for you, our 2 grandma's.

Love Hunter and Madelyn.

A good deal.

We have a toddler bed that Madelyn is suppose to be sleeping in. However at least once a night she crawls into our bed and then we have to haul her back to her own bed. We have had too many night to count that we have taken her back to her own bed 6 times. Recently she started sleeping in the spare full size bed in her room. For about the past 3 weeks she hasn't come to our bed. So this is her new bed.

The bedding I've had on it was a pair of very light blue, very faded, thread bare sheets. Same sheets I used when living at home. I had a twin size navy blue comforter on top. I've needed new bedding for while now and have just used that money on other things that were more important. I want her bedding to match her Strawberry Shortcake themed room that she currently has and will continue too in our new house.So I went to Linens-n-things and found this awsome deal.


This is a picture of what she had.


The comforter was originally $119.99 I paid $29.99. The matching sheets was originally $49.99 and I paid $11.99.

While there I also looked at their bath stuff and bought a Finding Nemo shower curtain, originally $29.99 for $4.99 with matching hooks that were originally $9.99 for $2.99. I thought I did pretty well. When I got home I added it all up and new I did more than very well. What should have cost $209.96 only cost me $49.96. Giving me a $160.00 savings. Yeah!!


Her now "old" Strawberry Shortcake bedding that I made for her will be used in Emily's crib as soon as we move and set that up.

Madelyn's favorite color is pink so she is quite excited about her new bed. She thinks she is such a big kid now. Last night was her 1st night using her new bedding. She slept all night. Another Yeah!!

A Trip To Phoenix.

On Saturday we made a trip to Phoenix. The house we are buying doesn't have any appliances or flooring. We went to the Sears outlet mall and found our dishwasher. It was origanally $899.00 marked down to $415.00. It was returned for cosmetic damage. 2 small scratches on the side that won't be seen when installed in the little cubby dishwashers go in.


We were alloted an incredibly small amout for our flooring. So that we don't have thread bare carpet in 6 months we decided to use everything on the carpet. We will pay for the flooring in the kitchen, bathrooms, laundry room and the dining room (they were going to put carpet in here, I think not. Who wants carpet under their kitchen table?). So we hit a few flooring stores and finally ended up at Flooring and Decor. This place is bigger then our Home Depot and it is full of Laminate flooring and Tile, etc.

So we ended up buying enough laminate for 700sq ft. and enough tile for about 200sq ft. Both was origanally $1.29-$1.89 a sq ft but both were marked down to $.99 sq ft. We hope we will like it when it's all installed next to each other and the carpet. I didn't think choosing our flooring would be as hard as it ended up being.

It's here !!!

Hip hip hooray. It's finally here. I can't even begin to tell of our excitement. It's been a long 9 months trying to get this house on this lot but it's finally here.

The kids our so excited especially Hunter. Everytime we get in the car he asks to go see our new house. I'm glad he's excited for the big move.

The house hasn't been put together yet so we still haven't seen it all. When we heard about this house we went to look at it but it had already been seperated and secured. We were able to get in the back door but was only able to see half of the kitchen and family room. I saw it about 5 pm so it was dark and hard to see. Kory saw it the same night only much later and by flash light. We are quite anxious to get in and see what we have taken on. We still don't have a closing date but hopefully it won't be too much longer.

I am excited to have a real kitchen with cabinets that will hold our dishes. Cabinets that my pots can be put away without having to turn them on their side. A kitchen with out dishes sitting on top of the cabinets because there is no room inside the cupboards for them all. I'm excited to be able to move Emily into a bedroom other then my own. She is sleeping through the night and is ready to be moved from the bassinet to a crib. She and Madelyn will be sharing a room. Hunter will have his own. Kory and I will have our own. Our business will also have it's own. I'm quite excited to move the computer, filing drawers, house plans and other stuff that belongs to the business out of my bedroom and family room. Somewhere that I don't have to see it everyday all day. I hope to post a picture real soon of moving boxes and a closing date.

Ho! Ho! Ho!

It's Santa Clause. This is what Emily wore on Christmas Day. When I first put Emily in the outfit, Hunter was the first to see her. He kept saying, "Emily is Santa Clause, I didn't know Emily was Santa." It didn't matter how many time we told him Emily wasn't Santa Clause that she just had an outfit like him (with a hat that didn't fit), he just didn't understand.

So this is our precious Santa of 2006. The kids saw a picture of another baby inside a gift box so they insisted on taking a picture of Emily in a box. She wasn't too thrilled.

Computer's

Our computer is up and running again. We bought our computer almost 4 years ago and it is now considered a dinosaur. It's constantly doing something... just doesn't always work. 2 weeks ago I tried getting on the internet and it told me of an error and the computer needed to be restarted. So the computer turned off but when it started again another technical error appeared stating the computer was stuck in some loop. Absolutely no programs were working, let alone the internet. I can't tell you how many times we've shut the computer off and restarted it again in the past 2 weeks. Wouldn't ya' know last night Kory shut it down again. Restarted it and everything is working today. We'll see how long it lasts this time. We've had people look at it and they all say the same thing. We need a new computer. The one we have is soooo old it's not worth fixing.

So because none of the programs were working I've been taking pictures with my film camera. I hope to develop them today so I can post some of our Christmas pictures.

Our Gingerbread House

I thought it might be fun to make a gingerbread house. What an experience it turned out to be. We didn't have family home evening on Monday night so we thought we could do this project Tuesday night. On tuesday however the grahm crackers kept breaking and the frosting wasn't drying fast enough. So to the kids dismay we finally quit.


Wednesday is my busy day of the week so we didn't even try. Thursday Kory was going to be working late so I thought the kids and I could do it then. I found a recipe off the internet for the frosting that was working but the cheapest grahm crackers that I had bought were still breaking to easily. So I hopped on the net again and read someone elses problems making these silly houses and discovered she used a shoe box and a piece of card board box as the base. What a genious.
So the kids plastered the shoe box with frosting and stuck grahm crackers to it making the house. We bent the card board box making it the roof. They had a blast sticking the candies on. Our roof was full of marshmellows and gumdrops. The house is covered in M&M's, skittles(that are now missing), string licorice gummy bears and mints. So as the kids told there dad they were finally able to make their candy house. YEAH!!

Tis' The Season

I finally broke down and pulled out the Christmas decorations. After setting up the tree and everything else I am anxious for Christmas to come. Hunter and Madelyn were so excited.





When we came home form Utah over Thanksgiving we had a van packed with gifts. They both keep asking when they can open them. Hunter will sing "Happy Birthday" to Madelyn and then asks if we can open presents now. He's just not quite understanding the process here.



They certainly have had fun with the tree. Hunter is constantly plugging the lights in. At least once a day I find them playing with the nativity scene. It is too cute to listen to them tell each other the Christmas Story. So , I've decided to not get all bent out of shape when I catch them playing with the figurines. I guess it's more imortant that they know the story then the still missing broken hand on Joseph and the donkey ear that has now been super glued back on 3 times.


We will be staying home for Christmas and I'm starting to like the idea. I think we will start up some of our own family traditons to carry on. This year is going to be quite fun watching our 3 year old and 2 year old.

Family Pictures

We had our Family pictures taken this past Saturday by a friend at Fain Park. It would have been a great day to be outside if the wind hadn't been blowing. It was stinkin' cold outside. Everyones noses were red that thankfully you can't see through the pictures.


This is one of my favorite pictures of the day. I love seeing the two blurry children running in the background.






Here's our little Emily. Isn't she just precious. It was blowing so hard she was having a hard time catching her breath.









Madelyn and Emily have matching dresses on (thankyou Kerri). Having 2 girls are so much fun to dress a like. It was fun watching Madelyn choose which leaf she was going to pick up. Being only 2 I wonder what is going through her head. What is she looking for in a leaf.






This is Hunter throwing a leaf in the air. It was fun to see our children enjoying the simple things in life.


Thankyou Kerri for taking our pictures.

Is it really so...

Can it Be? Yes, this is our property and by golly there are actually people working. I'm assuming they are working on the footings, but who really knows. I've been told by the middle of January we should be able to close. We shall see!!!!

Our Anniversary

Besides celebrating 2 baby blessings and Thanksgiving we also celebrated our 5th Anniversary.


Friday night we left the kids with Grandma and Grandpa and went to the movies. It was great to see an adult movie at the theatres again with out children present.



It's amazing, this was us 5 years ago. Look at us now. 3 kids and our 1 st house on the way (middle of Jan. is the latest).

Emily's Blessing

Emily was blessed the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving. The blessing was held in Hurricane, Ut at my parents home. Emily's Grandma Heaton made her beautiful blessing gown. She was just gorgeous in it. Thankyou Grandma you did a wonderful job.


Two days before Emily was born her cousin Ruth was born. I was suppose to be induced on the 20th and we would have had twins. Oh well they will have their own birthdays this way. Aren't they just to cute. Grandma Heaton also made Ruth's blessing dress. Ruth was blessed the Sunday after Thanksgiving.



Hunter and Madelyn are quite photogenic. I do believe Emily has also inherited this traite.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving this year took place in Alton, Ut. with Kory's family. Everyone was there except one sister-in-law and their 2 kids. It was a great time to catch up with everyone. We had a ham and a turkey with plenty of pies to go around.






As soon as dinner was over these three little rug rats (Hunter, cousin Anthony, Madelyn) decided it was time to go back to Grandmas house. As soon as anyone stood up one of these three was right there to stack their chair (dinner took place at the church). Before anyone new it the majority of the adults were no longer sitting and visting with one another but all standing up because their chair had been taken away. They were so very proud of themselves.

It's not often this many of us are all together. Mom decided since we were only missing 3 from the family to do a family picture. There are 9 kids. 8 of which are married and 29 grandkids. Who only knows when the next time will be when this many of us will be together.