January 2009

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

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

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...

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!...

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.