We're getting settled!

Okay our house isn't set up completely yet but everybody's been asking to see pics so here they are! Moving into a house that is quite a bit bigger than our last house has been hard and expensive but fun at the same time! So... we are taking it slow in filling it up!

This is our loft and a huge selling point for me on the house! As soon as I figure out what to do with this space, we might have been here for a year already!

Yay our couches finally got in so it's nice to have a place to sit! We will soon have our shutters, right now we live in a fish bowl...Everybody can see us!

One day we will have barstools I just haven't found ones that I love yet!

So here's our house! Hopefully by the end of the summer I can take some pics of our yard having grass and approximately 3 trees and 4 shrubs...(HOA rules I guess) haha!

A busy month!

Happpy Birthday Hanna!!! I wasn't able to post anything on her birthday and feel so bad about it! She is now 3 and growing so fast! Here's a couple pics of her birthday party we did this year with a couple friends! Yes, I know, I'm crazy! But when you go for three years telling your child..." no Hanna, don't open that present, it's not for you, it's for the other little girl..." You just feel like she needs to have a special day of her own!!!

Hanna wanted a princess party but picked out Dora invitations, and wanted a barbie cake! ohwell, give them what they want on their birthdays right? She has half boy friends and half girl friends so we just said to come dressed up! We had everything from Spiderman & Buzz light year to Snow white, Bell and Sleeping beauty!

That weekend, Jon's mom and dad came down to visit for Hanna andhad Sunday dinner with us! Thanks for driving all the way down there guys!

Jordynn and Hanna! The best of friends and the worst of friends!

Here is a picture of the cake I mad for Hanna! I had a castle cake planned then at the last minute Hanna changed her mind to a barbie cake! I had no complaints, being as a barbie cake is much easier to make! It was a hit though! It had a 2 round cake base with a dome cake on top which was filled with Hanna's favorite Strawberry icecream! It took about 4 hours to make but it was worth it! YUMMY!

She must have had a barbie theme going on because she got plenty of princess-barbie dolls! She was in heaven!

Hunter was very eager to help!

I am sorry there are no pics of the house yet, we are still getting it put together! Soon, I promise! The new ward is really nice and everyone seems really cool! Nothing compared to the old ward though! We miss you guys so much! Next week we'll be in Powell and Amy will be staying with the kiddos at our house! Everyone say a prayer for her!!!haha!!! jk Amy, the kids are so excited!

Okay, this is IT!!!

I know everyone has been asking and wondering what's going on with our house situation! Well we finally found one we loved and are going for it! We found it a while ago but things take so long in this market that, well...here we are about to close on WEDNESDAY!!! YAHOO!

The house a living room, family room, and kitchen along with a bathroom and mudroom on the main level. And upstairs has 3 bedrooms, a bathroom, laundry room, and...my favorite part... a HUGE loft! It also has an unfinished basement that we have yet to figure out what to do with! The storage room is amazing though, that is another one of my fav. features! I am so excited and I'm sure my mom is ready to get back to being "grandma" instead of a 2nd mom! They have been so amazing though!

I looked for a picture of the house to post today and found that it had been taken off the MLS listings because it is now classified as SOLD! I did manage to steal this picture of the house online at a site where you find already sold homes! It's not much of a picture but I promise I will post more when it is officially OURS! Can ya tell we're excited?! It's been a long time coming and I know we were picky but I wanted it to be almost perfect! I say almost because if we found a perfect one...we'd never want to leave! We keep telling ourselves, "this is an investment property, this is an investment property." We want to stick to that idea as long as we can in hopes of finding a house that has a larger yard and closer to the mountains! But in the mean time..I love this house! Soooo everyone say a prayer that all will go well and by Thursday, we'll have a new house!

A fun project!

My sister Shelby is Graduating in ONE MONTH!!! ahhh! No she asked me to help her with a graduation announcement that was a little more personalized than the regular ones! Here is the outcome! I just wanted to post it for her and for all the fam who checks the blog ...and because it's so dang cute!!! Congrats Shelbo!!!

Spring! Boating! Warm weather!

Yay! I don't know if it's the pregnant thing or what but I have the worst spring fever EVER! I am so excited about the warmer weather...I am pretending the bad weather last week did NOT happen!

The kids with Jordynn at the zoo! It was so warm! YAY! Hanna is really not evil!

Yes, we took out the boat last week. We had to see if everything was running okay and we just decided to tag along for the ride! Notice the sweatshirts...it was pretty cold when you got going 40 mph! But I had to post a picture of Hanna here. I couldn't resist posting a picture or that wedgie she had. We were laughing so hard. It's a good thing kids don't notice those things when you're swimming or boating, I would hate that!

The Wedgie! haha

A Way too big Deal!

Okay, I am posting this because of Jon's constant persuading. I participated in the NATS competition this year. Which, for those of you who don't know, it is a competition of vocal students from around the state who compete in seperate divisions, singing 3 classical songs for judges. ( the short version of what NATS is). I did this in march and took first place in my division. I thought...Cool, I'm glad that's over! Uh...not really! I did not know there was a winners performance in April. So last Friday I performed at the Assembly Hall at temple square singing an English Art song (thinking that by the time I sang, everyone would be sick of hearing Italian or German) and it was a good experience! Jon was very cute about the whole thing. I was trying very hard to not make this a big deal AT ALL, but he did not make it very easy by surprising me with 2 dozen roses at the end. That jerk!! haha! My family came to see me and that was fun, they haven't seen me sing since college. We all went out to dinner at the Garden restaurant in the Joseph Smith Memorial building. It was a blast! Here are a few pics of that!

Every one who came to see me! Joan and Ted were there, Jon's parents but they had to run. Thank you to all who came!

What a cutie he is!

Okay this was my prego self standing up there on stage. You can't see me very well but can I just tell you how much turmoil I went through trying to find a "formal" something to wear to this thing being 6 months pregnant. AHHH I barely have things to wear to church!

Oh! I almost forgot!!!! We got to see WICKED last night! It was AMAZING! I had very high expectations having learned a ton of the music for my students and hearing Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenowith as the original cast doing most of the songs! I was not dissappointed at all!!!!! I loved it and we even had the understudy play Elphaba! It was so good! Thank you Jon for the best Valentines Day gift EVER!

A fun work getaway!!!

We tagged along with Jon this last weekend to his work trip in Moab and Grand Junction Colorado! With Jon's job there are a lot of Perks and a lot of long weeks with him gone and me as a single mom. When he does go out of town, me and the kids usually ending planning a lot to take up the time and eating out a bunch at way too kid friendly restaurants with play places! Well this time...I said, "We're coming!" No Jon loves for us to come and he was actually just given this new territory up to just west of Vail, Colorado! It's crazy, we used to live there and Jon's sister lives there so we will be able to visit often!
This trip we spent a night in Moab then on to a night in Grand Junction then stayed with MaryAnn & Jeff and the kids in Eagle Colorado on Friday night. I have to post some pictures of the resort we stayed in in Moab, it was absolutely gorgeous! Right next to the river and a very nice kitchen, which is a must when having kids with you! I wish I would have taken more pictures but it was harder than I thought to chase those kids around in different cities without my husband there to help me.

This was the view from the front of the hotel room in Moab! The mountains were so amazing. If it wasn't for the wind...which was I guess the worst wind storm they'd had in 10 years... it would have been perfect!


Jon had to drop us off to play for a few hours while he had some meetings. We were supposed to hit the movie theatres to see monsters vs. Aliens, but they had no afternoon showings during the week...lame! So...we went exploring. Yeah, not so much fun when 6 months pregnant! We went down into this cool little forest area and and Hunter was our "leader!" He kept looking back at me and saying, "come on mam!" After that we were all so exhausted we had to sit down to rest for a while. This is where this picture is taken!

"Yay! We're finally here mom!"

We just got these new headphones for the kids (by the way, I will never go back to not using DVD players...they are the best invention EVER!) And they are not in kids sizes. They fit Hunter okay but Hanna's kept falling so if you look close, we shoved newspaper under it to fit. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do right?

When we got to Grand Junction, we went swimming then walked to the nearest place to get lunch! By the time we got back we all had to use the potty and were worn out! I went to the bathroom and came out to find this...Do ya think Hunter's watching daddy too much?! What funny kids!

We loved visiting MaryAnn and Jeff and the kids. It was so nice to have a home cooked meal after eating out so much and MaryAnn is quite the Chef! We especially loved the cookies and

ice cream! Yum! Next time we'll definitely have to do the wings!

It HAS been a while!!!

Over the Easter Holiday so much happens and so many pictures are taken and I have been the biggest slacker in the world! Here are a few of the things that we've been doing this past MONTH!

We soaked up the few good days we had with Spring weather! It was so nice. We went to Wheeler Farm with our good friends Bryson, Megan & Christy! I think the hardest part about this move has been taking the kids away from their friends. We took for granted how close everyone was while we were there and how we could just run over and play. They are missing them like crazy! Soooo we are so glad to be able to go out and do things with them every week!

Crazy Kids!

We get to go on this wagon ride! The kids love it! It'd definitely the highlight of the day!

What a monkey!

I think Hanna is braver than Hunter...by FAR!!!

Feeding the ducks!

The ward we've been going to has play groups on Wednesdays and they invited us last week to their Easter Egg hunt! Noone was over 3 so Hanna had fun and Hunter tried to help...(a little too much)... the little ones with their hunts!

Coloring Easter Eggs!!! It's fun being so close to grandma & grandpa & Shelby, because they love to do all of our crazy family nights with us...at least they say they do!

The Easter Egg hunt at Grandma Formans house!

Hanna's favorite part is of course the cupcakes!

Easter morning! The kids actually picked out a basket for my mom and dad and hid it for them. They loved that but I don't think anything beats finding candy hidden around the house!