My Birthday Trip!

Greg and I went on a fabulous vacation for my birthday this year. We decided that it was time to leave the kids for a few days and enjoy some time alone. We went to Laguna Hills, CA for 3 days. We met up with the Kemp's in Newport Beach for dinner one evening, spent time at the beach and toured the Nixon library (for my history buff husband). Ironically enough, Nixon resigned on August 8, 1974, the day I was born. The Nixon library had on its grounds the helicopter that Nixon gave his final farewell wave from when leaving the White House.

The Joys of Childhood

Sydney and Austin just had their first taste of true childhood! They helped me bake some cupcakes on Sunday and when I was done, I offered each of them a beater from the mixer. Sydney thought it was great and Austin wasn't quite sure what to do--he quickly caught on.

One of my most fond memories as a child was to help my mom bake in the kitchen. Of course it seemed like an eternity before the batter or dough was finished, only because we were looking forward to licking our own beater from the mixer. As our family grew, so did the beater predicament. Mixers are only equipped with 2 beaters and at one point we had a family of 5 children under the age of seven. It quickly because apparent that it was youngest ones first and the rest of us had to fight over the spoon that mom used to scrape the bowl!

House Progress

This is what the house looked like on August 4th. We have had some major setbacks, so there has not been much to see. The paint color on the exterior was wrong, they delivered and started to put up the wrong stone. On the inside of the house, the wrong cabinets were installed. We are waiting for all of these major goof ups to be fixed. They still tell us however, that we will be able to close on October 15th--cross your fingers!

Summer 2007

Since the past month or more of our summer has been spent packing and moving...I have been quite the slacker in updating my blog. So here is a collage of photos to catch up with the fun things we have done (since moving definitely was not)!

Austin seems to think there is nothing more to life than playing a ball game outside! Sydney had her spring dance recital at the end of May. We went to NYC in June for our business trips/family vacation. One of Sydney's hi-lights was to see Beauty and the Beast on Broadway. We went up the canyon for dinner and smores in June when Aunt Stephanie was in town and again on July 23rd with Greg, Grandma and cousins while Christa was in New York working. Thus one of the reasons Sydney does not have her hair done. Not to mention the fact that she fell in the lake while on a walk with her dad and cousins.

New House Progress

June 4, 2007--The main floor and basement are framed. The 2nd story framing will start on June 5th.

May 29, 2007 Foundation is finished. Wood has been delivered for framing and the rocks for the basement windows.

May 12, 2007--See what happens when you have a busy week and don't have a chance to check on your construction site for 4 days. You have basement walls!

May 8, 2007 WE FINALLY HAVE A HOLE IN THE GROUND!

October 2006

Lot 417, Draper, UT

Memorial Day Weekend

Memorial Day Weekend began without any definite plans for our little family. Then Greg called on his way home from work on Friday and suggested we take Sydney and Austin to a Salt Lake Bees game. I was not sure if they would enjoy that or not (silly me), but when he mentioned they were playing Fresno and that there would be fireworks at the end, I was IN!!

Sydney enjoying the game!

Are we going to make it till the fireworks?

MEMORIAL DAY

Grass and wide open space...Austin and his cute cousin Stockton wondering why they cannot run wild at the cemetary??

On Monday morning we picked up Great Grandma Reid (91 years old) and went to the graves in Springville. Sydney, like her great grandma, loves flowers and offered to hold Grandma's beautiful roses as we drove.

Snowbird

On Friday night our babysitter cancelled last minute. We decided to make the most of it and took the kids on our date. We went to dinner and then up to Snowbird for a walk. The kids were thrilled to see a trail lined with snow!

Austin loved the puddles

Dad and the kids at the end of the trail