Logan's Baptism

We had an amazing day today. Logan decided to be baptized a member of the Church. We were so proud of his decision and were excited for this event in his life.
What we didn't expect was the overwhelming showing of support that we were shown. Not only did Logan have many family members there, he had many of his friends there.



Logan took the pre-baptism lessons from the Hooten's in our ward and Bishop Brock did his interview. His birthday is in September, but we waited until now because my parents were out of town on their cruise and because Colby and Emily were in town for Thanksgiving.

Before his baptism my dad (Grandpa Zobell) gave a great talk about baptism. After him, Grandma Lu gave a very personal talk about the Holy Ghost. She compared it to the light of the camping fires that we light when we go camping with them.

Next, Ryan performed the baptism. Logan was a little scared of the water, but he did great. Ryan also confirmed Logan and gave him the Holy Ghost. It was a very sacred day and one full of the spirit (at least when Maren wasn't screaming).

After the baptism we had everybody over to our new house for a little luncheon. Since we had only moved in a week before, not everything was put away, but enough to have the party. It was a great day and one we will remember forever!

Fun with Leaves

I just couldn't resist taking pictures of my kids (and their friend) playing in the last leaves of the season.

We're So Close

This has been an exciting week. Our first final inspection was Monday and our second final inspection was Thursday. The inspector found one plug he didn't like but passed us anyway with the understanding that we would fix the plug (which we did). So YEAH!!!!! NO MORE INSPECTIONS!!!!!

We did have a little set back though. Our master vanity countertop was all scratched up, so we asked the company to come back and buff out the scratches. They told us that it doesn't really buff out. So we were back to having problems with the vanity, so we decided just to get our money back. The company, Whitewater, will leave the vanity countertop in until we get our new one, so we will have something there, but we won't have our bathroom finished for another couple of weeks. Sigh! We had put a lot of our furniture in a POD to store it while we moved out. We had the POD delivered on Friday, and we unloaded it on Saturday. We also made several trips from the storage unit to move it into the house. I can't believe or remember that we had that much junk, I mean valuable possessions.


I will be setting up house for the next couple of weeks before we actually move in. Thanks to all of those who helped move us and helped clean the house so that we could move our stuff in. We have received so much love and support from our families.

Just plain wrong

I know that it is November, but don't you think that snow so early is just wrong.

Getting closer, I think

We had our first final inspection on Monday. Yeah!! I thought that it would never come. There were a few things (mostly things we knew about) that they wanted us to finish or change, but not too bad. They call it the final inspection, but you keep having final inspections until you pass. We will be having our second final inspection on Thursday.

I haven't had a lot of time to blog, but we did get our new carpet. My cousin Brad, who works for a carpet company and who sold us the carpet, was a life saver. He found us some carpet and had it shipped from Georgia. We got it installed on Friday and Saturday. It looks beautiful. There is just something about carpet to make a house a home.

We also got our shower door for our master bathroom. The rest of the bathroom stuff that we had to work through will be there on Thursday.

Our backsplash for our kitchen just got finished too. I can't wait to use my new kitchen. Most of the appliances are in and installed. We even have ice in the ice maker. It turned out really nice.


But with all good progress there have been a few set backs. The guy installing all of the door knobs was just working away when I realized that they were the wrong color. You can only image that he wasn't very happy. They had installed a couple of door knobs a couple of weeks ago (so we could use the restrooms) and they were right, but the new ones they sent were darker. So he had to take all the wrong ones off, repackage them, and then install the right ones. It has taken him 3 days.

Also, I was cleaning my new ovens and following the "do this before you use" instructions, when I found out that one of my ovens isn't convection. I thought both of them were, so I called the company and I guess my salesperson was new and didn't know. So they are going to ship me out a new one. Of course for a higher price. So this is a picture of the ovens that won't be in my house.

I almost forgot that we also got our handrails. They really give the house personality. I like them. The deck is coming. Slowly but surely. They have until tomorrow to finish. So we will keep our fingers crossed.

Happy Halloween!

We had a great Halloween this year.
First we went to the elementary for the Halloween parade. My mother-in-law, Lu, came with me. It was so much fun to see everyone in their costumes.


Next, Lu watched Maren while I volunteered in Ashton's kindergarten class for his Halloween party. They had root beer with dry ice. All of the kids thought it was so cool.

Later, we had my family over for pizza (a long time family tradition). We took pictures of the cousins in their costumes.

Then our neighborhood had a Trunk-or-treat at the church, where kids could go from car to car getting candy. I stayed at the van and gave out over 300 pieces of candy and there were still more kids that I had to turn away. Crazy huh. Ryan and Lu took the kids around and filled their bags.

Logan and Ashton are pretty good about rationing their candy, but Maren could eat her candy all day long.

It was good to have a fun day in the midst of all the chaos in our lives.