It's been a busy week! Let's start off with a crazy bath picture. I was posing Faith so I could get a picture without too much showing and she told me she had an idea. She used foam tub letters to cover her "bubs" and I thought it was hilarious!

The pictures above are from a week ago Friday, the 3rd. Mom and Dad took the kids to Lagoon and I met up with them later after Tyler (Tony's sister Tina's middle boy) had put in the forms for our concrete patio. When I got there, Christian was enjoying a cup of ice after dinner at Arby's in Pioneer Village with his grandpa. Faith rode lots of rides with her cousins (both my sisters were there with their families) and even escorted Sierra (my youngest sister Joy's daughter) around the park for awhile. That's Faith holding on to her for dear life in line for a ride in the picture on the right. It was a lot of fun, especially after it cooled off about 8:30 pm. I'm glad I missed the first few hours!

On Saturday morning, Tyler came with his buddies to put in the patio. He got us an awesome deal so we did a 16 foot by 50 foot pad. HUGE! Someday we would like to put a deck over the South end and I wanted room for a table or two plus a sitting area with a fire bowl plus space to put the inflatable ring swimming pool on the North end.

On Tuesday, Christian wanted a go at feeding himself. I thought he did pretty well gettting the food to his face, and he even got some in his mouth!

On Wednesday we had a guy come over and grade our lot. He did a good job and charged far less than anyone else we contacted so we were very happy with it. Still, we have a million rocks so here is Tony with a wheelbarrow full he just raked out.

Also, Wednesday was Crumpet's 12th birthday! We gave her a bath so she could be clean and pretty and Faith made her a gift. It was a little paper heart tag for her collar, and she even constructed a cute little gift box! (it's in the center bottom of the photo)

On Friday we watched "Princess Diaries" and Faith loved one of the final scenes where the cat, Fat Louie, was wearing a crown. Well, Misty just needed a crown of her own! The next day, Misty s-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-d out on the carpet and took in some sun :D

On Saturday Tony rented a trencher and he and the neighbors took turns digging the ditches for sprinkler systems. I felt so bad for him, it was so hot outside and that machine is so difficult to maneuver! But, at least he got the trenches dug this weekend and now he will be working on laying the pipe.

I hurried and took some pictures of the house this morning since I've been promising them, but I really need to clean today so I only took a few. Above is the entryway and our house plan.

Here are a few of the nursery, I just got the shelves and curtains up.

Here is one of the back of the Kitchen with a little bit of the island in the foreground.

Sorry so long, but yesterday Tina, Tony's sister, chewed me out for not updating more often so I thought I would put lots of pictures in. Her oldest boy, Jason, has joined the Army so we had a farewell dinner last night before he leaves for boot camp. Remember him in your prayers!

Unfortunately, we've had a relapse of the stomach flu :( Luckily it only lasted one day and today we are feeling much better. We found someone to do the final grading on our yard and he will be here on Wednesday. With our patio being poured this weekend and that set up, I have some hope that our yard will be in by the end of August. If it's in by the 28th we get our $500 yard deposit back. Can you believe that the covenants require the front yard to be in within 60 days of closing on the house?!?


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On to the pictures! I updated the picture of our house on the right to one with the garages closed. Soon I will get some pictures of the inside posted (I need to get around to taking them first!)








Here is a picture taken July 20th of Faith's first missing tooth-











This is from July 28th. Christian crawled into the pantry, got out my giant mixing bowl and decided to sit in it! Of course he climbed out before I could get my camera (isn't that always the way it goes), but Faith helped me stage a recreation for the picture ;)








Here's one from July 30th. Christian had been crying but couldn't resist hamming it up for the camera! Even though he looks a little red and puffy, I thought it was still a cute pic and you can even see five of his seven teeth in it.









This one is from Tuesday. Faith set up the little kitty table and plastic chairs in the family room and fed Christian lunch at her little "cafe." I can't believe how big they both are getting! My sister, Sarah, has a great idea--babies should come with an "off button." You really don't want them to be newborns forever, I mean you have to get sleep at SOME point, but if you could just love the heck out of them for a few days, turn them off and get some rest, and then go back to having fun with them, it would last longer and you could be "with it" enough to truly enjoy them. ;)


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I guess that's it for now . . . check back in a week or so for my next installment!

Welcome to our brand new blog!! I've wanted one for some time now to keep family and friends updated and to share some of my favorite pictures.

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The picture above is just a little outdated, it's from May (gotta upload the pics from my camera!). I'm going to work on getting some nice pictures of our new house to share with everyone. Of course, the stars of this blog will always be the ADORABLE kids!!!

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The main things we have been doing lately are unpacking, painting (and painting, and painting . . . ) and enjoying our new home. Faith lost her first tooth followed quickly by her second and the space in the bottom front of her mouth is being quickly filled by her permanent teeth already coming in! Christian has been cruising around the furniture and finding all of the trouble he can get into in our new space. He loves our new house, but misses his Grandpa Peterson like crazy.

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We are definately settling in now and love to have visitors, so please stop by!