GOING PRIVATE PRONTO!

If any of you would like to check up on our family here on this blog please leave your info (email/name). I all of the sudden freaked out about crazy people looking at my blog so decided at 2am that it was time. I will be going private SOON so please let me know who you are and I would love to add you to my list :)

OUR HOUSE!!! FINALLY!

So a little preface, we've been here for 3 weeks now so things are obviously a work in progress, but it is the most glorious thing to be in our house finally!!!! YAY! I don't have pictures of the kids rooms, give me a week or two and I'll get those taken care of. Enjoy the overload of pictures :)










Mudroom- PS, notice my fun magnet board in between the lockers. Love it!








Fun pantry door


Master bedroom




Laundry room



Powder bathroom


Garden to be :)


Future theater



Kids bathroom



Guest bathroom



My beloved splash pad. Best thing I did in this whole process! The kids live out there.


View from our deck.... AMAZING

Family pictures... WAHOO!

Family pictures with a 3, 2, and 1 year old was quite the adventure. Pretty much Lindsey is the bomb. She captured some amazing moments and pretty much Lindsey is the bomb. Did I say that already? Thanks Linds!!!!

PAUL MCCARTNEY... WOW...THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY

This concert was amazing. I am confident I will never see anything like it in my life time again. Lance and I left the kids with Dona and had such a good time. Paul is a freaking stud! I couldn't believe in his old age he could still sounded just like the back in the 60's. If anyone ever has the chance to go see him live, DO IT!

PS, I will be posting pictures of my new house soon. I know, the anticipation is killing you...

A little is better than nothing...

So, I realized that my camera has been dead in my car glove box for the last month now... I know, pathetic. So these are the events of our lives that I have right now. When I move into my house in a week... WAHOOOOOO, I promise to be a more regular blog updater. Two major events that we have here are

first: Bella graduated pre-school! She went to a cute little school here in Orem called Kid's Village. She loved it.

Cutest graduate of all

And this picture says it all. I think it's important to post pictures that aren't all perfect and every child smiling and looking at the camera. Cause come on people, we know that doesn't happen. So, here is my darling little family...


second: little Graham's surgery. Not fun. He was born with a condition called Hypospadias. Go ahead and look it up if you want to know what it is. Nothing too severe, but required surgery none the less. I put it off as long as I could and then finally mustered up the courage to schedule it. He did very well and the recovery was not bad at all. He only had a problem with his stent and that was only for one day... But it was horrible. He literally screamed all day and all night, nothing I could do to console him. The worst feeling ever. He is good as new now and his little peeper is working like a champ!



Sorry, pictures are posted backwards.... this is after the surgery


And this is pre-surgery...

ERRR I HATE GETTING BEHIND

I really do hate when I slack at blogging. I will have a random, but at least updated post by this weekend so check back in a couple days...

Never knew a statue of Chirst could be so funny....

So I was putting Graham down for a nap in my parents closet and on their shelf is a statue of Christ, I decided to show it to Graham and for some reason he thought it was the funniest thing. I have NEVER heard him belly laugh so hard in my entire life, it was hilarious! PS, this video is the third time around after I left the closet, went to go find Lance with the camera, and then having Lance record it once for it not to work and then finally the third time he got this video so this isn't even nearly what his laugh was the first time, but it's still pretty cute and funny.

"Graham" Cracker party!!!

We celebrated Graham's birthday in my parents backyard, it was perfect. We had a Graham Cracker themed party and roasted marsh mellows and had smores and Graham Cracker cake. Can't believe my baby is 1!!!!

CAN YOU SAY MAJOR CURVE BALL????!?!?!!!!!

Per Erin's request :)

It was about a month and a half ago that Lance received an email from a former missionary that served in Haiti just before Lance served. In the email he stated that there was job opportunity for English/Haitian Creole speakers in Haiti that would be paying a tremendous amount of money... The email was very brief with very little detail... We didn't think much of it. Other than it would be sweet to make that much money... Or should I say, I didn't think very much of it. Lance on the other hand followed up with some questions and found out that one of the major contractors that will be heading up the clean up and rebuilding of Haiti from the aftermath of the earthquake was looking for translators to move to Haiti and work for about 18 months and contacted this former missionary and had him send out emails to any Haitian Creole speakers that English was their primary language... Lance ended up on that list obviously.... Long story short he received an email yesterday that said the contracts for the job stating salary, time of departure, duration of contract etc. would be sent within 7 to 10 days and asked for his home address... Pretty much stating he has been hired for the position and the ball was now in our court to decide... We should receive details on the position in a week to ten days... That's the whole story. That's all I know. Why is my life so crazy? just wondering. It seems just as I think it's all starting to settle down and come together there is a MAJOR CURVE BALL thrown my way. Say your prayers for us, this is going to be a big life changing decision that we are going to have to make in the next week. LOve you all!!

ROOOOOOF!!!

We have a roof and Bodie is excited to tell all about it. He and I went on a Bodie, Mommy date and decided to drive to our new house and take a look at what was going on. We were lucky enough to see them craning up the last few trusses. Pretty cool. Bodie thought it was awesome! It's so fun to see the progress of our house. Can't wait to move in. I'm so anxious. One step at a time though. Gotta remember that...