Monday, August 8, 2011

Our New House!!!

It's happened! After 10 long years of renting, we've finally bought our first home! It's wonderful! We love it!! It's right around the corner from where we were living before, so we're still in th same ward (which we love) and it's still within walking distance of the same elementary school that KD's been going to. We're sooo excited! Let me take on a little tour!
This is the front of the house. And that little wilderness/flower bed in the front of the picture is ours, so I get to play around with it!


This is a view of the kitchen looking at it from the stairs leading to the basement (I can't believe it, I have a basement!). Our little table and chairs fit perfectly!



Here's a different view of the kitchen from the window in the previous picture. In the back you can see the stairs leading down the basement, and the stairs leading upstairs to all the bedrooms.



Here is our Front Room, which has no furniture yet, because all of our living room furniture is being used in the basement. So it'll be empty until we can afford some. Who knows when that will be!


This is the coolest thing about our upstairs bathroom (yes, we have two! The other one is in the basement by the Laundry Area), the His AND Her sinks! Jason and I can get ready together, instead of one of us waiting (somewhat impatiently) for the other to finish!


Our New House (continued)

Ok, here's the rest of the tour...
This is our "Family/Entertainment Room"...

This is our Laundry Area, and in the back will be (once it's cleared out) my Craft Room. And if we ever decide to expand our family, we'll turn it into a bedroom for KD.


This is our Pantry!! Of all the features our house has, this has got to be my favorite. I can finally buy food in bulk and have room to store it! Yea!!!


And this is our backyard. And the coolest thing is, there's a gate in our back fence that lets us go out onto the school field. It makes us feel like our backyard is HUGE, and we only have to mow a small portion of it!


And here's a view of our backyard from the back fence. Once we get all that furniture cleared out, we'll get a table and chairs and have a nice little area to sit and relax in! Well, that concludes the tour, hope you liked it. We LOVE it!!!!










Sunday, July 10, 2011

4th of July Bloopers (Can they be any Cuter?)

At the beginning of the summer, I enrolled KD in the Ogden City Summer Parks Program. So, Mon-Fri she goes to Grandview park and they have games, activities, crafts, and field trips that are supervised by "councilors". The other day, I had arrived to pick her up when one of the councilors came up to me. She said, "I have to tell you this. We were all sitting down thinking of ideas for Theme Days the kids want to have when KD, with her cute little voice, raised her hand and said ' "We should have a Repentance Day"'. The councilors thought this was the cutest thing. I asked KD later, wondering what she was really thinking, what exactly they would do for a Repentance Day. "Oh, you know mom, sing songs, wave flags, have a parade, and watch fireworks". I said, "Oh, you meant an Independance Day". She looked at me like "Duh!" and said "Yeah, that's what I said!"
Then on the 4th, during the firewords show, Kyla kept yelling "Happy Birthday, Mary! Happy Birthday, Mary!" I asked "Mary who"? She said "Mary, mom! Happy Birthday Mary-Kuh!"
Love it!!!

Friday, July 1, 2011

Octo-Dogs

I got creative one night for dinner, and decided to make Alredo Shells and Octo-Dogs. This is how they turned out. Pretty cute, I say! I added alfredo sauce to cooked shell pasta, cut some hotdogs to resemble octopusses (octopussi?), boiled the dogs so that the legs would curl, and put it all together with some Goldfish crackers. Oh, and I added mustard eyes to the octo-dogsto complete it. They looked neat, and tasted great!

It's all about the Booty!

Pirate's Booty, that is! All of us love it, but Kamryn can put it away like it's nobody's business.




She got ahold of this bag before we were all up in the morning. Needless to say she did not eat a lot of breakfast.





What's in the Suitcase?

I wonder what it could be?


What the...?





Ta Da! Oh, the many skills of KD!





They Must be Sisters

Since Jason and KD love playing the Wii, it follows that Kyla must like it, too. Right? Well it's apparently all in the family (excluding me), because Kamryn loves to play as well. She doesn't know what she's doing yet (just give her time), but we give her a Wii-mote that's not being used and she feels like she's helping.
Love it!