New House

It has been a while since I posted since we have been dealing with getting into our new house.  Monday is moving day and we are really excited.  Here is the pictures of the house.

Front of the house

Back of the House

My mother has been out helping us to clean A LOT and pack for the move.  We have some ward members coming to help us move on Monday.  While we owned a condo in Utah, this is an older home so it has a number of projects that need to get done.  There were only a couple that needed to get done right away.  The upstairs dining room/living room had a spot on the hardwood floor that looked terrible.  We had a ward member come and refinish that part of the floor.  It looks awesome now.  We had another ward member come do some electrical work.  We got the house sprayed for pests, as well.  The house hasn't been occupied for a couple of years and is an estate home.  The two daughters selling the property caused a few stresses but that is over now.  

I have also had to brush up on all the skills my dad taught me as a kid in doing home maintenance.  I painted a couple of closets and a wall.  I did something new, as well.  I replaced the kitchen faucet.  The old one wasn't moving back and forth and started leaking after I tried to fix it.  Even after disassembling the faucet, it was still tough to turn.  So I replaced it.  The new faucet looks awesome, and the house is slowly becoming ours. :)

The house also has a shed out back.  It was used by the previous owner as a work area.  He had a bunch of tools and wood equipment.  A radial arm saw was left as well as some yard tools and shop vac.  But the shed was also very dirty.  There was tons of saw dust.  My mother and I have cleaned it out a lot.  It isn't perfect, but it is much better than it was.  Here is a picture of the shed before it got cleaned up.

Shed

Thanks for all the help from all those who have helped with this process.  A big preemptive thanks to all those who are coming to help move us on Monday. Give us a month and we will be ready to entertain some house guests!!

Lilly's Baptism, Sarah's Foot, Nathan's Palm and the house

I need to set aside an evening a week and update the blog.  I have been saying that I will update it on Sunday's but they are always busy with one thing or another.  I have a few things to catch up on, so this might be a long post.

Lilly had her baptism the week after her birthday.  She was able to have both sets of grandparents come visit for it as well as two of her aunts (Tonya and Shannon).  It made for a fun weekend.  It also helped to show how small our current house can be.  My parents and sisters stayed in a local hotel, otherwise we would have been sleeping on top of each other.  The Baptism itself was wonderful.  I was able to baptize Lilly and her grandpa Butch confirmed her.  She had grandma Pheobe and grandpa Rob speak as part of the program.

Lilly and Dad

Lilly ready to be baptized

The day before the baptism was the General Women's meeting.  Grandpa Rob, Grandpa Butch, Sarah, Gus and I decided to go out for dinner during this.  We ended up at Red Robin.  It was fun to be with just my father, father-in-law and two of my kids.

Grandpa Butch

Grandpa Rob and Gus

Sarah

A week after Lilly's Baptism was General Conference.  The kids were good and we enjoyed listening to the words of the prophets.  We decide to grill hamburgers after the final session of Conference.  I have a metal spatula that I was using to pry the frozen patties apart with.  I ended up getting the hamburger patties apart, but I also sliced my palm with the spatula in the process.  It went through the skin and I had to get three stitches in the ER.  

The following day Sarah and the other kids were running away from a bee in the front yard, and she ended up with a broken foot.  It has been difficult to make sure that she is not walking on the broken foot and that she is healing fine.  She has a wheelchair at school and we got one for home as well.  But at home it is hard to keep her in it.  She has been crawling around the house when she remembers that she isn't supposed to walk on it.

The last update I wanted to put was that we found this week that our landlord is not renewing the lease that we have.  While we had planned on finding a new place this summer, it accelerated our plans.  We have been looking at a number of houses to buy.  If we don't find one quick, we will have to just rent for a little while.