Good Times with the Alldredge Fam

June 2009

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Here's what happened in the month of June...

Mary turned 2 months old on June 6

Bentley had his 4th Grade Recorder Recital
(gotta love those recorders)

My sister Heather had her baby girl on June 5

...so here are the four new babies:

Riley, Mary, Harry and Brooklyn.

We went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple Open

House. Don't you love Teron walking away?

Father's Day with Sam's Dad...he had surgery

on his cheek two days later to get rid of

cancer. All went well and he is doing fine.

Sam's 36th Birthday...Gosh we're getting old!

Cub Scouts Raingutter Regatta...Jarom (on th left)

getting ready to race his boat.

Bentley (in blue) racing his boat.

Mary chillin' in her swing at the Skousen Family Cabin.

Teron playing with some puzzles...we were there

for three days and it was great!

Jarom & Jonah playing together.

Bentley & Kelly playing Dora Chutes & Ladders...not

much variety of games at the cabin.

Teron ready for church?

Sam doing his famous trick with Mary

(my mom hates it when he does this)

May 2009

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The month of May went by so fast!

On May 3rd we had Mary's Blessing.

Here she is in her dress and bonnet...

And here she is just looking so precious...
Three days later and now Mary's one month old
Teron just loves giving kisses to "Baby Murry" as he calls her

Mother's Day - Visiting my Grandma Skousen

The Skousen April Babies -

Riley, Harry, & Mary

Jonah had his Pre-School Graduation.

Jonah and Miss Heather.

Sadly, Jonah still has one more year of Pre-School

before he goes to Kindergarten.

Also a side note...Jonah threw-up about five minutes

after this picture was taken (the excitement was too much?)

Mary smiling at her daddy

(You'd laugh too if your daddy looked like this!)

Memorial Weekend and then some was spent getting our

garden organized and planted. The small white box in the

middle is a hive of bees, compliments of Sam's brother, Eric.

Hopefully they will help our garden grow & make some honey too.

More of April 2009

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Here is a recap of what went on in this busy month of April...

Mary's first Easter

Teron wondering why we hide eggs

Jonah was so "egg"cited to do the egg hunt

Jarom

Bentley

Kelly

Mary is two weeks old

Teron's 2nd Birthday

Jonah asks all the time to hold Mary. So on this day,

I had just finished folding laundry and Jonah gets up

on my bed so he can hold Mary. He put the boppi

around him to help him hold her. I went downstairs to

change the laundry and when I came back upstairs I

found them like this...both asleep all over the clean

clothes. It was too cute!

All of my siblings were in town for my baby sister's

missionary homecoming, so we celebrated some of our

birthdays together...Jennifer, Matt, Laurel, Ben.

Teron likes to ask, "Hold it? Hold it?" I gently correct

him and say "Hold HER." He's starting to get it.

Sam and Mary all pooped out from a hard day.

Mary at three weeks old.

Mary and her cousin, Riley, born the day before Mary

(my sister Heidi's baby)

Mary and her other new cousin, Harry, born two weeks

after Mary, but weighing TWO POUNDS more than Mary

(my sister Karen's baby)

Our Newest Addition!!

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On Monday, April 6 at 6:58pm, we welcomed

our newest addition - Mary Lynne Alldredge

Sam giving Mary her first bath...

All tired out from her bath, but cute as a button.

Teron truly loves his new little sister.

Teron gets so excited every morning to go see

his Baby Mary. She just brightens his day.

Mary chillin' in her boppi.

Mary pondering..."What was I thinking?

Four older brothers and only one sister?

They better spoil me rotten!"

April 2009

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April has already been so crazy that I'm

posting early this month...

My baby sister Amy returned from her mission

in Texas, Fort Worth on April 2.

Here's the grandkids eagerly awaiting

her to come down the stairs at the airport...

Amy is the one in the middle in a black jacket.

And then my sister Heidi had her 1st baby on April 5.
She had a girl, Riley Noel, and we are so thrilled
to add another girl to the Skousen grandkid pool.

March 2009

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Bentley had his 10th Birthday on March 9.

Here he is sporting his new suit jacket.

As you can tell, I'm really creative when

it comes to birthday cakes...

Sam and I also celebrated our 14th Wedding
Anniversary on March 31. (Sorry no pictures)
We went to dinner at the Olive Garden and then
went grocery shopping to Costco and Wal-Mart.
We are so romantic!

February 2009

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Here's what went on in February...

My cousin Katie got married on Feb 6.

So here's a memerable photo of me and

three of my sisters who are pregant too.

I'm due April 4; Heidi is due April 12;

Karen is due April 25; and Heather is due June 5.

And none of us know the sex of our babies.

We'll just have to wait and see.

Kelly participated in her school play.

It was called "Use Your Imagination".

She is in the third row from the bottom on the right end side.

Here she is again doing her scene.

She is the camper in the brown shirt.

On Feb 13 we went to a Balmoral Ward get-to-gether.
It was a blast...we missed all those who couldn't make it!

On Feb 24 we had the boys Blue and Gold Banquet
for Cub-Scouts. The theme was Dinosaurs.
This is Bentley & Jarom showing off the masks
they had made for this occasion.

They had the boys make dinosaurs out of potatoes.
Jarom is the one in the yellow neckerchief.

And here is Bentley making his potato dinosaur.

Well that about does it for now...
We have about three more weeks to go
before we this baby - whoppee!!

January 2009

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Not too much happened in January, but Pack Meeting:

Jarom received his Bobcat (I'm the pregnant one on the left).

And here is Bentley receiving his Religous Knot from the Bishop.

December 2008

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So I know, I know I am a terrible blogger, but I am going to try to do better. Part of the problem was since Sam moved into the new office, he took the internet with him, and I was stuck with a aircard that didn't want to download pics to my blog. So with that being said I am going to try do better at keeping you updated.

Here are the highlights from December 2008:

Jarom got baptized on December 6

The kids visiting Santa Claus at our Ward Christmas Party.

Jonah turned 4 years old
(yes I am my mother...taking a picture of what we got)

Our Christmas Family Picture.

We reward our kids for doing a nice picture with...

...being able to do a crazy picture.

This was a tradition in my family; to take a picture

in the hallway before we go downstairs to see

what Santa Claus brought us.

My kids usually do pretty good at taking this picture,

but Jonah and Teron were a little cranky this morning.

Oh well, such is life.

Teron was pretty hilarous. We thought he would go crazy

about opening the presents, but he really didn't care. This

is about the only thing he opened...it was a sipper cup.

Kelly got a Easy-Bake Oven. She was very excited.

Jarom, Bentley and Jonah got new light sabers.

Bentley and Jarom got double light sabers that I

was able to make in Disneyland in the Star Wars shop.

The Finished Product

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So I have been trying to download these pictures for a week now, but I was having much dificulty. Anyway, here are the finished pictures of our summer project...finally!!

The Garage

There's a spare room to the left and Sam's office is on the right.

Another view...that's Sam's office window on the right.
You can kind of still see the trenches in the grass from the sewer and water pipes. Our yard will have to be a spring project.

Sam working hard...

The other side of his office...ya know for all the clients that come over...me.

The lovely bathroom.

It's hard to tell, but this is the spare room.

The inside of the garage. The door in the back leads to our food storage.

The Food Storage Room.

The view from the street.

And one more view...

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Sorry for the long wait in updating our blog.

July has been crazy. So here are the updates

of how it is going...

July 24 - Our building is now enclosed...whoopie!

August 1 - Delivering the shingles...so exciting...

Teron, Jonah and Jarom watching the guys deliver the shingles...

August 7 - Beginning to put up the siding and the roof is done!

Putting up the last of the siding...

August 11 - Putting in the insulation...

August 12 - Delivering the dry wall...

So as if we weren't doing enough construction, we are replacing the railing in our kitchen hallway with a half wall to have more privacy in the kitchen area.

The framing for the new half wall.

August 13 - Putting up the dry wall!!

It's Coming Along!...

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Our yard on the north side before they dug for the sewer and water pipes...

And after...what a mess!

Our beautiful yard on the east side before...

And AFTER!! (The hole is about 8 feet deep!) What an even bigger mess!

Verlyn connecting the new sewer and water pipes to our exsisting ones.

Sam and Jonah helping dig the trench.

Jarom, Bentley, Sam & Jonah taking a ride in the bucket!

June 27 - The outside framing is done.

July 1 - Hooray!! We have walls!

July 2 - The crane lifting the trusses for the roof.

And here is Sam's brother, Kenny and Sam helping the crane put up the trusses.

There's no turning back now!

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Please read the top paragraph before proceeding...Thanks!

June 3 - Here is the beginning of the end - digging up the trees to prepare the yard for our garage.

This is standing in the back corner of the yard looking towards the house - what a mess!

June 6 - These are the footings being dug. You can kind of get an idea of what it will look like - the big part is the garage and going off to the right is the office space.

It had been raining so much that the ground was too soft to hold up the heavy cement truck...luckily it was only half full of cement when they came.

The front view of the cement truck that got stuck. The other cement truck that was there had to pull this one out of the mud (it sunk 3 feet deep). It used so much force that it cracked and broke the sidewalk in the front - oopsie!

Our make-shift slide so the cement truck could reach the footing area.

June 11 - The foundation guys getting the forms ready to pour the foundation.

June 12 - The foundation is done!

More completed foundation!

Jonah helping Verl (the concrete guy) move some dirt around.

Bentley having a go at it too.

Jarom taking a turn as well.

June 19 - Here are the guys spreading the cement for the floor.

Teron watching the cement truck as it is pouring the floor.

Yea! The floor is in and ready to walk on!

This side will be the office space - two rooms and a bathroom.

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