Our big News!

I can't believe how fast time flies. Where did the summer go. We have loved our passes to Lagoon again and go every week. We went to my parents cabin by Yellowstone, Camping in Wasatch State Park, and

We celebrated Annie's 9th birthday! and

We celebrated Ellie's 4th Birthday! and


We played together and

We played together and

We celebrated Maggie's 6th birthday. and

Scott finished the Cruiser. We love it and



Scott sold my daily driver the white Toyota FJ80 (but now I get to drive the green FJ40 the kids and I love it) so we started to work on my Suburban. We started taking the front end appart and then we had to stop because...

We bought another house!!! No not a baby. Not yet at least.


We are now the proud owners of 2 houses. We bought the house we live in 6 years ago and fully remodeled and here we go again. We have been trying to get the house across the street for years and we are so excited because we bought it last month. It is 1600 sq feet and is on 1.19 acres. We just finished gutting the basement and today we started upstairs. Today we ripped the kitchen cabinets out and the sheetrock. Yeah. Too bad we have to wait on architects, engineers, contractors and the city or we might be done in a few months. I hope you don't get sick of the pics but I want to keep track of the time line.

Estimated time 6 months. I like to be optimistic

Kids posing for me in the back yard. They love playing in the yard especially in the chicken coop.

Part of the backyard showing the chicken coop.

Mag's Kindergarten Graduation

Margaret was so cute at Graduation. She wore a dress, but she is usually in a dress or skirt. She sang so loud and she sat between her favorite boys, Sam and Eli. She usually sighs and says to me, Sam is sooo cute or I love Sam or I want to marry Sam. I think we are in trouble. Annie still isn't boy crazy. They even passed out Mags favorite treat - popcicles. Thanks Korie for taking some pictures for me, the girls will be grateful someone did.

My baby

My little baby Eva is getting so big. She loves to follow her older sisters around. Her newest trick is she loves to climb the ladder into the tree house and go down the slide. She thinks she is pretty big. She gets mad when someone tries to help her. She will go up and down for an hour. She gets so mad when it's time to go inside. Her favorite word is NO. She says Here you Go, mama, dada, dog, bye, makes kissy noises and hug noises (It sounds like EE aww) for those that don't know. She is pretty cute!
It makes me so nervous to see her climb the ladder. So I always have someone stand right behind her.

Eva loves to go to sleep in her bed. I got it out because she kept climbing in with her sister and laying next to them. She would get so mad when I put her in the crib, so I tried it. I left the crib up for a night to make sure she would stayin the bed. She did, she loves it and will even take a nap almost every day.

Cruiser Update

So, the cruiser is technically up and running, but I hope all the small things will be done soon, so we can take it to Moab in a few weeks and so Scott will start on my Suburban. But here are a few of the latest things Scott's has been building.

A custom skid plate! It doesn't look exciting, but we can't go to Moab without it.
Bumper with winch mount

test fitting the soft top.

He still has to paint everything he has built, but I hope we make it to MOAB!

Eva turns One

Where has the time gone? I really can't believe you are already one year old. It makes me so sad. You are such a cute happy little spunky girl. You love cake or candy or anything with sugar. I can tell you are my 4th child because I don't think Annie knew what sugar was yet. Sorry


You learned how to crawl up and down the stairs all by yourself this month. Yahoo. Say good bye to the baby gate!


You aren't walking by yourself yet, but you love to walk behind your new grocery cart or anything else that you can push. You love to grab mom or dads hands to walk too!

You love to play with toys of any kind as long as someone is in the room too.

I had to snap this picture because you are playing with the dolls. How cute is that!

We love you EVA!