Hard Hat Required

In case you were curious, here's the progress on our home...


Just a lonely lot and a lot of dirt...
On 10/22 they broke ground. They dug out a hole and laid the ground work to pour the foundation.

The funny part is they don't dig out where they are going to put the garage so there was an island of dirt left.

Then they set up the supports for the foundation.
After a night like this....

You get this. Wah la!

They spent a few days putting in the utility lines (plumbing down to the sewage main, etc). Then they back filled the dirt around the foundation.



Ah, home sweet home to be.

A little smooch in our future garage :)

The house really started coming together once they started framing it lastweek.

It went from a bunch of cement and dirt to this overnight!

The far wall is where the master bedroom will be, right now I'm standing in the living room.

Front door and front bedroom. It's hard to tell in this picture but there is an AMAZING view of the city from the front bedroom. You can pretty much see all the way east up the mountain side.

It's a little freaky to walk around since they haven't put the stairs to the basement in yet. I keep worrying I'm going to step back and fall down the open stair well. yikes!

Well here she is. I'm so impressed our house has gone from just an empty lot to this in about 3 weeks. They're estimating to be done by the end of December, early January!

Elbow deep in pumpkin goo

On Wednesday night we went to our friend's Heather and James' house to carve pumpkins.

We went from this...


To this...(personally I love scraping out all the goo)

James on the other hand does not.

And the finished products all a glow!

I think this has been the most relaxed Isaiah and I have been since January when we went on paddle boats in San Francisco! Carving pumpkins was soooo relaxing! Quiet house, good friends, and a large pumpkin to carve.

Hope everyone has a fun Halloween!

Haunted Graveyards...ooo...ooooohh.

We try to never let a festive holiday go by without getting together with the Pace family. We've done gingerbread and Valentine houses with them and decided we needed to switch things up this year. Prepare to be frightened by our Haunted Halloween Graveyards...

Don't really be scared. We took halloween candy, frosting, and graham cracker and did our best to make some scary creations...


(Seriously I hate when people post side ways pictures but I could NOT get this one to rotate and upload correctly...I can't believe I'm posting it like this :)

Isaiah and Brookie are always a great team.

Here is my attempt at a coffin that's been broken into (most likely by grave robbers).

We had a few mishaps during our hauntings. Kaylee coughed up an eye and sprouted an extra one on her forehead.

Scott went a little conservative on his. I think he was going for the Arlington Memorial look.

Kaylee and Melissa's....

Mine and Alyssa's....

We had tons of fun as always. Thanks guys!

Fish are Friends not Food

Isaiah and I spent the afternoon today at the Museum of Natural Life down at Thanksgiving Point.


Looking for love in all the wrong places...

Isaiah's not willing to stand by while a raptor smooches his wifey.

I'm not so sure that humans evolved from chimpanzees...

Isaiah most likey evolved from the T-Rex (note the fearsome claws)

I evolved from the peaceable Triceratops :)

We were watchful around the dinosaurs but Isaiah unwittingly swam into a sharks' mouth. (Don't forget fish are friends, not food).

I thought I'd try my skills as a paleontologist. I think I found something!

Until the storks comes....

Does anyone ever wonder what Isaiah and I do since we don't have kids? It seems like everyone we know is in the midst of raising their kidlets. People always tell us to really enjoy the time we have with each other before our kids arrive (in our case we really are waiting for the stork to drop a couple off :)



Here is a little bit of what the currently childless wonders have been up to :)



A few weeks ago we went to the Salt Lake fair with some friends.


We decided it would be fun to race down the Yellow Slide (of doom)...


I am second from the left. Note that Isaiah (3rd from the left) was about half way down before I got the guts to start going. I screamed like a little girl the whole way down. It was really funny and went MUCH faster than I expected. I saw a little girl go down when I was walking up the stairs and since she didn't die when she hit the bottom I figured I could also manage.

Needless to say I lost :(

Heather and Isaiah couldn't resist paying $2 dollars to see the world's smallest woman...

How tall was she? About 2 feet tall. Heather and Isaiah both came out laughing - which the rest of us thought was terrible, until they told us when they walked back to see her there was a 2 foot tall person counting a whole stack of cash. They said it was REALLY awkward! What did they expect? LOL.

We went to Wheeler Farm last week to enjoy the last of the beautiful weather.

This is one of our favorite get aways. Nothing like a bag of stale wonder bread and an afternoon at Wheeler Farm.

Isaiah is so good with animals they eat out of his hands...

I thought the 2 ducks in the middle where quite posh. They had these enormous wads of feathers stuck to the back of their heads. I imagine they're the envy of all the plain ducks. They must have flown in from Hollywood or something.

Last but not least...here is a picture of where our future home will be. We've picked out all our options and signed all the paper work and are just waiting for the city to approve the building permit before they break ground. Pretty much it's just a bunch of dirt right now but in 4 or 5 months this little plot of land will be home!

Do you have andROID Rage?

My brother in law is a TALENTED artist and entered one of his designs to be printed on a T-Shirt.

You can check out the link below...

Get it? Angry Androids?

If you like it you might even consider quickly registering for an account and voting (a "5" and marking that you would buy it is the best vote). No pressure though. My sister and her husband are starving and are hoping they can feed themselves with the money he makes from designing T shirts :)

Just for fun here is the last T shirt he designed. The voting is over on this one and they are waiting to find out if it will be printed. I think this design is really cool...

Settling In...

Isaiah and I sold our first home a few weeks ago. I really wish we had taken before and after pictures from when we first moved in. The previous owners had taken less than stellar care of the home. After a little paint, carpet and a lot of cleaning and love it was a great little home.

I did at least have the foresight to have our neighbor Adam snap a picture of us after we had moved out the last box and scrubbed the last bathroom. There is nothing like buying your first home and nothing like locking the door and leaving it for the last time. Isaiah and I LOVED our ward and are sad to have left. We're excited for our next adventure...building a home in Riverton (I'm sure there will be many more pictures to follow once they start building).




Here are a few pictures I snapped to comemorate moving day...


I always wondered what was on the other side of those deer antlers... (ha ha ha)

Don't get the wrong impression from the picture. Isaiah really did work hard.

It is a little weird to pack your entire life away into a 16 foot storage pod. I am impressed how much stuff those pods can hold.

So for now we will be staying with my mom in Sandy. It's been fun to hang out with my family and not nearly as weird as I thought to live at home again. Althought it is a little weird living with Isaiah in my old bedroom (which is size-ably smaller than our 16 ft storage pod...I'll have to post a picture of it sometime).