House slide shows

Well every one keeps saying how they want to see the house, so I did some slide shows to show you. The first is of how the house was before we moved in. That is way it looks like an old movie because that is the old house. Then the next one is us in progress. Then when we are all done with the house I am going to post a big one and it will be the final one. But I wouldn't count on that one coming too soon. Maybe in June we will be done with the house. But come sprig(which is sooner than later here in Junction despite the rest of you that are forever in winter) we will do the landscaping. So I will show the out side of what we had, what will be going on and then the finished product. It is nice having your own house to make it your home, but you also have to pay for everything that goes wrong or any changes that needs to be made. But life goes on even if the pay check doesn't. I think that is why it is taking so long to finish the inside of the house, we are waiting for the money. Well, I know that is the reason. But needless to say that it will be done, two weeks before we sale the house in 3-5 years or by the end of this year. Who knows? That is the joy of it all. Can I give a shout out to all the home owners, Rock out to all the BILLS!!!!

Trip to Bountiful

Mark, Roxy and I headed to Bountiful this past weekend to get a lone for an explorer that we have purchased. On our way there we hit some pretty bad weather coming into Price and all the way through to Spanish Fork. At times it got really scary. Needless to say during that time of travel I didn't sleep. We saw, I think two cars off the road. Coming into Provo we stopped to see Mark's brothers Aaron and Ben and Ben's girlfriend Raquel. Aaron bought us dinner at the Creamery on 9th, which was amazing! (Thanks Aaron, your the Best!) Then we stopped by and saw Ben and Raquel. They couldn't believe how much she had grown. Then we finally got into Bountiful about 10:00 pm. Of cores every one was so excited to see Roxy. Then Saturday we had a good time running around town and in the evening Kat and Steve came up so I could cut Kat's hair. Mind you it looked so stinkin cute! I must say I do good work. Savanna and Roxy had a good time. Savanna was all about the ball and Roxy was all about Savanna. It was really good to see then, and we had a great time. Sunday came so quick, we went to church and I went to Young Women with my Mom because she was teaching the lesson and asked me to help with her with it. She did an amazing job by the way. A very good lesson about our personal worth and purpose on this earth. Kade's (my youngest brother) birthday was Monday so because we were there we kind of celebrated it on Sunday. We had a wonderful BBQ Rib dinner. The cousins came along with Grandma and Grandpa Great (we call them that because they are Roxy's great grandparents and they are great people). We had a very nice time, although we had to cut the party short and head out, trying to get over Solder Summit before dark but we had a few stops before we got to Spanish Fork. When we ran around town with my parents we got a present for Kade's birthday and left it in our car so Kade wouldn't see it. Well we took off with it. So before we hit Orem my dad called and asked if we could take it to Grammy and Papa's which I wanted to stop by and see them anyway, so it gave us a good reason to stop by. Then we forgot to give Aaron some cowboy boots that he wanted from Dave (my father-in-law) so we made a second stop by his apartment and saw Ben and Aaron one more time and meet Aaron's friend Brie. She was way cute and very nice. So... After all that we finally got up the summit. This time around it was worse than when we came. People were only going 30 to 20 mph. It was CRAZY! we saw at least 5 cars off the road. Needless to say I didn't sleep through that part of the drive either. It took us two hours to get form Spanish Fork to Price which only takes 45 min to and hour. Then we had to make a few pit stops along the way and we didn't get back home tell 11:30pm or so. It was a lot of driving for such a short trip but to me it was worth it. We did have a lot of fun and it was good to see family and friends once again.

P.S. I forgot to put that Roxy loves her uncle Kade and every time he played with her he got a great big kiss. The last picture is Roxy giving Kade a big kiss goodbye. It was soooo cute!

Our Wonderful Weekend

We had some dear friends come and visit us over the weekend, Kevin and Kristen. We had a blast. They came Friday night and stayed tell Monday afternoon. We had some good times. We went on a drive through the Colorado Monument and a walk down Main Street. For Sunday we had Mark's Dad, brother and sister-in-law come for dinner. Michael (Mark's brother) has been staying with us for a little while while he is doing an exchange for dental school here in Grand Junction, so for a month Michael will be here with us, but for the weekend they stayed in Montrose with Mark and Michael's dad while their mom and younger siblings were in Utah, and April (Michael's wife) came down for the weekend too. It was fun to get all together and have some good laughs. We were sad when April had to leave early Monday and then the Kevin and Kristen that afternoon, but we still have Michael, so I guess we can't be all depressed just yet. We will have to wait tell Michael leaves before we can do that. There are a lot of reasons it is nice to have Michael here but one of them is we have a babysitter! Another we don't have as many leftovers go bad in the frige. Needless to say it is nice for us to have Michael here but I know he can't wait to get back home to be with his wife and dog and in his own bed. I think that will happen the second week in March.



As for us we get to go on a little trip to Utah this weekend. Michael will get to housesit. But I am so excited to see my family. I am also hoping to cut some hair when I get there.(Kat, I'm all yours.) We will also be working out some loan stuff for a new explorer that we are going to get. I can't wait. It is a 04' and in amazing condition, we can get it for a GREAT deal and it will last us at least 6 years as a family car, maybe longer. Mark it so excited about the V8 and towing package.