our new house

so for those of you with exclusive behind the scenes access to our lives, ha ha, we are moving to North Ogden. it is a little twin home in a really great area. 3 beds, 3 baths, 2 family rooms, 2100 square feet, small yard but that's no biggy cause Barry doesn't have time to take care of it anyway.

It is older and could use some paint on the outside cause that brown is less than desirable. the inside is just ok i guess. nothing wrong with it but nothing to write home about either. the blue upstairs carpet is in really good shape but it's blue. we'll live with it.

i plan to paint a few rooms but we got such a steal on it that i can't really complain about a darn thing. if all goes well we should moving in around Oct. 10th. Happy 8 year Anniversary to us! here are a few pictures i took today during the inspection.

lovely brown paint don't you think :)
look a garage! i've never had a garage! yahoo!
and no the jeep in the garage does not come with the house, i asked. :(

This is the basement family room.
Say hello to to my brother in law Nate who was slacking off at work.

This is just the other end of the same family room.
There is a small unfinished bedroom on the right side and a unfinished full bath on the left side with the furnace room in between.

This is the main floor family room, the front door is to the left.
that wall will soon be red.

this is the other end of the main floor, it is all open.
it needs some updating and appliances. there is also a half bath on this floor.

this is one end of what will be Ry's room, it is slightly small than the other with a walk in closet.
He says he wants red walls too. i don't think that's going to happen.

this is just the other end of that room.
this is one end of the girls room.
and the other end of the girls room has double closets.
this is the hall because i knew you wanted to see the hall!
the far end is the kids rooms, behind me is the master bedroom with a full bath and walk in closet. I didn't take a picture of that for some reason.
Don't you love the blue carpet? i'm just glad it's not hot pink like Grandma Mae's was! :)

Ryan's Birthday

Just thought I'd post some more pictures from Ryan's Birthday Celebrations this last weekend.
I don't know when or how he got this old but I do know that I'm not old enough to have a 7 year old!

Just because

Just thought I'd share this video because Sara is so cute and because it is SO Jena.
All you Jena fans will get a kick out of it.

Camping Trip

We took a little hike to a log teepee someone had made.
Ryan could not quite understand the difference between teepee and tiki so we had to have a little lesson about indians and islanders.


Barry tried really hard to not catch a fish, but Ry ended up getting one and he was so proud of it!
I know that sounds mean but we don' t really eat them and Ry will not release them, he just wants to play with it until the whole camp smells like fish.

Teri and the kids.
Teri brought these super cute bandana's for the girls to wear.
As you can see they were adorable!

Sara thought camping was fabulous!

Jena the Motorcross Babe!

Sara was driving, just ask her!

And you haven't been camping unless you take the potato gun with you and the park ranger comes to find out who is shooting a gun. :)

1st Day of School

This kid was awake, dressed and making his bed at 6:45 am!
Yes, I said making his bed!

He was less than thrilled about the 'dorky' hat his teacher made him wear.
He is more than ecstatic about eating lunch at school and 3 recesses!

Jena was totally 'cool' about the first day of 'real school'.

She could not stop spinning in this skirt, nor could she pass up the chance to 'pose' in front of her school.

i told you

I think I said it somewhere that I would probably leave this blog lagging behind. Sorry. But you have google reader right? If you don't know what that is then we need to chat my friends. It makes blog reading sooo easy.

Just a picture to share that cracked me up.

This little man can get himself in severe trouble. Recently it's minute to minute with him.
But apparently he knows how to make up for it.

if you can't read the computer, it says, 'Ryan will always love Kelli and Barry and Sara and Jena'.
Ain't he cute!

photo

The kids got a new desk in their room. Like their room is not packed full of enough furniture as is. None the less, they love it and so does Sara. Almost everyday I find Sara coloring the top of the desk. Who needs paper?

Ashley did Jena's hair when she was here a few days ago. It was SO cute! These pictures do not do it justice. She totally needs to teach me how to do this.


Sara and her new cousin Katie.
She is so cute with her and Katie is pretty darn cute herself. :)


Summer is not complete at our house without corn on the cob at every meal.
Sara totally agree's!

Look closely at this picture. Wrapped in a blanket and then taped up.
Only 2 people could be responsible for this, my brothers Matt and Bart.
Since Bart was at home in Kansas it falls to Matt.
This is the kind of thing that happened to me daily growing up.
For some reason though, my kids like it.