Our New House

We moved about a month ago to a new house. We only moved a few blocks from our old house. We are still in our same Stake but just a newer neighborhood with bigger homes. It is fun to have space and finally some place for storage. As always the move was bitter sweet. It was hard to move from our first home where we lived for ten years...but it was time to move on. The kids were needing some space and we wanted to move before Anna starts Junior High next year. So here are some pictures.

One of the things the kids really love is all the cement so there is plenty of room to ride ripsticks, bikes and scooters. Plus there is always other kids outside to play with.
This is the upstairs familyroom. It doesn't have a formal living room just this familyroom hooked to the kitchen. There is also a family room downstairs. I didn't take a picture because it isn't put together yet.....same with the bedrooms. Each of the kids have their own bedroom which just confirmed what I always suspected.....Anna is the messy one. Now she has no one else to blame.
This is the kitchen. One of my favorite parts of the house. It is so nice to finally have some cabinet space. The cabinets are only about half full. Also it has two dishwashers, two sinks and two ovens...one gas and one electric....I might have to learn to cook.

This is Craig's favorite part. He finally has his own garage. I am not allowed to put any of my stuff in it.....He does let the kids put their bikes in there but the rest is filled with his stuff. It isn't quite finished but that is Craig's project just as soon as he is finished with school. So there is the quick tour. I will add pictures of the rest as we get things put together.

Are they all yours?

When we were watching Kerry's kids instead of just sitting home all of the time we tried to go out and do things that they don't have in Spokane. This is probably not what a sane person would do but we don't like to just sit at home. We had to take 2 vans everywhere we went and we had weird looks and some just asked if they were all ours. So to list everywhere we went....Temple Square, the Mayan, Saw Walle at the Drive-in, the park, McDonalds and the Church History Museum. Not to bad for 10 days.

Here we have Ben, Anna, Sophia, Amanda, Abe, Kate, Elsa, Kayla and Zach at the reflection pond at Temple Square.

Kayla and Elsa loved to sit out on the swing by themselves and have "Girl Talk." I took this picture through the back window when they weren't watching.

This is Ben and Amanda playing in the water fountain at the Conference Center.

Here is everyone in there pajamas waiting for the movie to start.

***Kudos to Anna: I have to add a little note of thanks to Anna. I couldn't have made it through the week without her helping me with everything from picking up to watching Sophia and Ben!!!Love you Anna!!

Kayla's Baptism

Kayla was Baptized on July 5th. Because it was the end of our family reunion all of my family was able to come except Jarom and Liina who couldn't make it. Kayla loved that we had so many people at her baptism. Kayla looked beautiful and was so excited that it was finally here.

I was hoping to get a family picture with all of us together....but with so many people over after the baptism all I could get together was Craig, Kayla and myself.


Congratulation Kayla!!!

The 4th of July

We finished off our reunion with fireworks up in Park City. I have never been so close as we were at the Silver King. The fireworks were shot off in the parking lot so we were just on the grass right next to it. The kids loved being so close.

This is Anna, Kayla and Hunter waiting for the fireworks to begin.

Spencer and Zach some how managed to grab some seats.

Kayla, Elsa and Sophia.