Building

By the end of today, our block wall should be finished, all doorknobs should be on, and all light switches and outlets should be on the walls. The carpet, which is the last thing to go in, is supposed to be put down next Wednesday. I just got the keys to our house today. Yeah! It's crazy to think that it could be finished in one week. I'll post pics of our home soon.
Something else that is exciting is the spire and the Angel Moroni were put on the temple a few days ago. You can find pics of this event if you go to: http://www.ldschurchtemples.com/gilavalley/construction/

I love being able to drive past the temple every day and to see its progress. It's just beautiful. One can feel the excitement in this valley for the temple, especially when it is mentioned at church. Now we can drive literally 6 minutes, instead of 3 hours, to the temple.

Help from Big Sister

About a week ago we began feeding Eli baby ceral. Last night it was Lucy turn to feed her brother. Both Joy and Lucy love to feed there brother it is like having a real life baby doll.

FIRSTS

Eli got his first hair cut last week. His hair was about 3 inches long on top and was driving Dale crazy, so Eli got a hair cut. Eli was very calm a which made this an easy process. He looks older now.

Joy went to her first day of Kindergarten. She was so excited I am not sure she slept much the night before. Joy loved kindergarten and could not stop talking about it.

Here is a photo of Lucy and her cousin Gavin. Lucy and Gavin played well together
for the first time. Gavin got to come over when everyone elso was at school and these cousins had a great time together.

A very busy July!

Jan holding Arlee and Eli the day before the 4th of July. Eli definitely weighs more than Arlee. I think he passed her up when he was 2 months old and she was 5 months old!

Last week, I met DeAnn, Mason, and Justin in Holbrook at Grandma and Grandpa Roger's house. These kids had fun playing together, making messes together, and getting cleaned up together. It's pretty crazy when you put 3 two year olds together in one small house with a LOT of sewing stuff. This is Mason, Joy, Lucy, and Justin in Grandpa's new tub.

Eli is the cutest, smileyest little boy you've ever seen. He gave his first grunty little laugh at in Holbrook when I was playing with him at Grandma's house.

These pics of the temple aren't that great, but here it is. The steeple you see is from the chapel they are building next to the temple. The walls are big stone slabs that are being trucked in. Half of the bottom level of the temple has the stone facing up. I've heard that the temple is ahead of schedule due to the lack of rain we've had here.

Finally, this is what our house looks like. The framing's up and the trusses should be up by the end of this week. We finished picking out everything, which is a very tedious job. I sure hope it turns out okay.

We have a garage...and a patio!!!

The foundation for our house was poured on the Thursday before the 4th. The garage and patio were poured last week some time. On Friday, Dale's day off, we ran from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. trying to figure out everything we want in our house. We went to Home Depot 3 times!There are sooo many options and choices to be made. We had to figure out our interior and exterior paint colors, stain color for cabinets, countertop color, marble color for the bathrooms, and the list goes on and on. Not only do we get to choose all of these colors, but we need to make sure they don't clash. It's a lot of fun, but definitely a lot of work-especially with kids.
Last week we went to Sierra Vista and went swimming in their awesome swimming pool at The Cove. We met Flint and Jan there, and Cooper and Joy were in heaven swimming together. Lucy loved playing with the tubes and Eli fell asleep in the warm pool. It was a fun and much needed trip out of town.
Well, Eli's screaming his head off. That's the update for now. The house should be framed this week. Yeah!

Smiles, kids, and house

Eli is happy little boy. He has recently started smiling. He has not laughed yet but he getting ready to. He had his two month vistit a couple of weeks ago and he now weighs 13 lbs he is getting big fast.

On Sunday everyone wore Red, White, and Blue here is a picture of the kids. Joy is very excited to ride her bike in the 4th of July parade again this year.

Here is an updated picture of our house. They are pouring the foundation today. We can't wait to see it next week when they start framing then we will really be able to visualize it. We met our neighbors behind us yesterday they seem really friendly for cows.

Exciting news

On June 10 2009 we met with our builder and signed a contract to have our house built. The contract states that the builder has 120 days to have our house completed. So we should be moving into our home on or before Oct 10, 2009. We are so excited for this event in our lives. We have waited along time for this day to come and it appears the wait was worth it our builder has come down 30K since we spoke with him in January. We now feel very comfortable with the cost of our house. We wanted to go take a picture of our lot before anything began on it to follow it through the stages. However when we arrived at the lot our builder had all ready begun preparing the lot. We were ecstatic to find him already there working on our house.