Halloween Routine

My mom before she left on her trip put up her Halloween decorations. Maren loves to look at them and give them love. This is a short video of her with the decorations. We do this routine 5-10 times a day. It never gets old...for Maren.

Priority and Postponed

This has been another exciting week for our house. I have been trying for a week now to find out who is supposed to run the gas line from the street to our house. I found out Monday after much back and forth that Questar has to do it. So they sent me a contract and a bill (of course) late Monday and I mailed it off on Tuesday. They told me that it would take 10 to 14 business days to get done. Well I must have been on somebody's priority list because Thursday morning they came to dig the hole for the pipe and today they are filling it in. Yeah!! I will have heaters before winter.

We also got priority treatment from our concrete guys. I have been getting estimates on concrete for the past week and on Tuesday I found out that they wanted to start on Thursday. So Ryan and I quickly decided what we wanted done and they started laying it out yesterday and will be pouring today and Monday. Wow. I never thought that I would ever be to this stage.

However when one door opens, another closes (or is that the other way around). Anyway, our bathroom sinks and window seals were supposed to be here this week, but they weren't quite ready, so we got postponed until Thursday next week.

Also we were supposed to get our basement kitchen countertop and laundry room folding table countertop yesterday. But their saw was having problems so it won't be here until next week either. Of course they failed to call me to tell me this, so I waited all day for them.

But I haven't blogged about the countertop that we did get on Monday for our main kitchen. I decided to go with Quartz since you can put hot pans on it and cut on it, but you don't have to seal it or do any maintenance. That is just the kind of girl I am, the one that needs low maintenance. It turned out so beautiful. I am ready to use my new kitchen.

Oh we've also had some more tile laid. Here are some pictures of the tile.

House Update

This week has been an exiting week for work on our new house. The best part is.....WE HAVE LIGHTS!!! I know it seems like a little thing, but it makes it feel like a home when you can flip a switch and the lights come on. I have been frequenting Lowes to buy more lights. I have had to resort to going to multiple Lowes because I keep clearing them out of my favorite light fixtures.


We also have some tile laid. We are putting tile in the kitchen, laundry room, kitchenette and all the bathrooms. The rest of the tile (including the grout) will be done this upcoming week. And yes it is all different shades of tan.

They also started a little over a week ago on our cabinets. Most of the base cabinets are in, but due to some errors in ordering and some broken cabinets in shipping, we have to wait until October 6th to get the rest of our cabinets installed. Sigh! But what can you do.


Our banister has also been stained and is starting to look beautiful. They are still going to sand it a little and put more varnish on it, but I am very happy.

Pokemon Party

We had our 5th and final celebration of Logan's birthday. He wanted a Pokemon birthday this year. Of course you can't just go to the party store and buy stuff for a Pokemon party (they don't have any) so I had to get creative.

Ryan says that the party was really for me since I spent so much time on it and was so excited for it. But that's ok, I let Logan share some of the glory. If this explanation gets to Pokemonish for you, you can just skip the explanation.

First each kid got a folder with baseball card protection sheets in them. Each kid got a different color folder (one color for each type of pokemon - there are 8 Pokemon types in total).

For the psychic type - We played "guess how many candies are in the candy jar". For electric type - we played hot potato with a Pikachu pillow. For water type - we played a game where they were supposed to use water guns to squirt bubbles. For dark type - I tied black "Gastly" balloons to their legs and they had to pop the other kids balloons before their balloon was popped. For Steel type - we played hit the bulls eye with team rocket on it (I know this doesn't have anything to do with Metal but Team Rocket try to steel Pokemon so it worked for me).

For fire type - we played pin the tail on Charmander. For grass type - we played find the hidden grass pokemon in the backyard. And finally for fighting type - we played "Makey" says which is just Simon says pokemon-style.

If you have survived that long explanation, I applaud you. For each game they got Pokemon cards. Then for a treat we ate Pokeball cupcakes.

It was a really fun party and now I'm not sure what I will do with myself since I spent most nights this week getting ready. I have to thank my husband for helping me with a lot of the preparations. Thanks Ryan!!

We miss Grandma and Grandpa

My parents left last week to go on vacation. I took this cute video of Maren who misses them very much. She and sends her love and hellos.

Party Party Party!!

The month of September is full of birthday's for our family. I know I will forget somebody, but there is Ryan's mom (Lu) and step dad (Chris), his step sister (Kristi), Ryan, Logan, my brother (Jeff) and his wife (Kristy). Ryan's step brother John and cousin also have birthday's in September. So Happy Birthday September babies!!


We have been partying all week. Here are some pictures of the party we had with Ryan's family for all the September birthdays and from the small dinner party with my family.

Right now Ryan took the boys to go bowling since today is Logan's official birthday. Logan is going to have a friend birthday on Thursday. So we will just keep on partying!!

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At the September birthdays party with Ryan's family, his Grandma Georgia brought her new motorized scooter. Of course all the kids fought over riding it.