Preschool Fieldtrips

For preschool we have gone on two different fieldtrips now. In September we went to the Lehi Library, and on Wednesday we went to the fire station. They both were a sucess. Wyatt had so much fun at both. He was kind of shy at the fire station though. He wouldn't get up in the fire truck. I kept asking him why, and he just kept telling me he's too shy. Silly boy! When we lived in North Salt Lake, his preschool class went to the fire station, and he was really out going and wanted to get in the truck and try on the fireman's clothes. I don't know what the difference was, but on this one he was acting so silly!

The Library

Fire station

Syd's new smile

Ok, so I know her outfit is really special in this picture. I had her all dressed for the day, and she found her pj top and really wanted it on. So I slid it over her clothes. It made quite the outfit as you can tell.

We used to not be able to get her to smile, now you tell her to smile and . . . . . . . well you saw!

When the cats away . . . . . .

So the boys in the fam (my dad, Jer, Jensen and Matt) went to Cali a couple weekends ago. They wanted to fit a trip in together before Matt went on his mission. While they were gone me and my mom had to do something fun. I have been talking about painting our wall mustard yellow for quite a while, but every time I'd bring it up Jer would moan and groan. So what better way than to wait until he is gone. The Saturday night they were gone me, my mom and my moms friend Liz painted the wall. I couldn't be happier with it. It makes it look like a whole different house. I was kind of nervous about what Jer would think when he got home, but he loved it! Since then we have painted our bedroom and Jer painted Wyatt's room all himself. To tell you the truth Jer is into this whole painting thing as much as I am. I knew it would take just one wall to have him hooked. Here are some pic's of the yellow wall. I haven't taken any of our room or Wyatt's room yet. I will post those later.

Time for an update!

The outside of our new home

The front room

A picture of our doors! I know, silly. But I was excited to pick the design of the doors.

A picture of our counters and cupboards

Our carpet/vinyl

The Master Bath

Kids Bath

Kitchen/Island Bar

(I know kind of cluttered. Sorry! I just had a free min. so I wanted to hurry and post pic's)

Entry way

Downstairs

Front Room with 3 windows! I love my 3 windows!

Kitchen

We have had a crazy month or so. We finally closed on our house on August 14th and got moved in. The wait was ridiculous and it was beyond frustrating to keep hearing that we could close, and then that day would come, and something else came up. It felt like forever!! Thanks to grandpa for letting us stay a couple weeks while we were in limbo! We felt extremely rushed because Jer had to be back to school that coming Wednesday, and I had a preschool open house the Saturday after we got moved in. As soon as we could move in that preschool was my main priority. Thanks to the help of my wonderful hubby, mom, and sister spending hours we got it all pulled together. I had my open house, and it was a success. I have 8 kids in my 3 yr. old class and 3 in my 4 yr. old class. I am pretty excited about it. Of course I would love a few more older kids, but I knew it would be hard to get that age group. A lot of the older kids already have a preschool teacher from last year that they will just stay with. So who knows, maybe I will pick up another throughout the year. I think for my first year I have a good start.

Each kid will have their own cubby

Circle time

(Robot friend, sound-o-meter, calendar, & coconut tree)

Play area

Birthday display, coat/backpack hangers

As soon as my preschool open house wrapped up, it was time to start thinking about this wonderful sinus surgery. I had 1 week in between the open house and surgery to try and get the rest of the house in order. We tried to hang a few things and get most everything settled. I have posted a bunch of pictures of the house, and as you can tell things are still a little cluttered, but we did our best. Moving in is quite the project! Monday I had my sinus surgery, and things went really well. The doctor said they were able to do what they set out to do, and everything went as well as they could have hoped. I have spent the last few days in bed trying to recover while Jer's parents take care of the kids. I am so thankful they were able to come and help out! Sydnee has been really funny. She won't let Mary Ann do anything. She will only got to Les. So Les has been changing all the diapers, doing all the bathing, feeding, dressing, etc. I guess it's good for him. I don't know why, but she just won't go to Mary Ann. It's kind of been funny to watch. Jer has started volleyball at the school. He is hoping to have a good year. He is liking his job except for the commute. Although we knew it would be bad when we decided to build out here. We've also added a knew addition to the family. Jer and Wyatt have always wanted a dog, so as soon as we had the house for it, we had to get one. I can't believe I agreed to a new puppy in a new house! It's been ok though. We have in boxed off in the dining area for now, and are working on the potty training. He has been pretty good to go outside most the time. The kids would love him if he could get past this puppy stage. He is a sweet dog, just has lots of energy, and likes to chew and bite. We are working on it. He is a boxer collie mix, and we named him Ozzy. Hope everyone is doing well. We are really loving life and are grateful for a new home to live in, a surgery that went really well, and each other!! By the way if I am not making sense, or have misspelled a few things, I am still a little loopy!!

I thought I would update real quick again. We got moved on Friday. Unfortunately we were not able to close on our home in time so they let us move all our things into our garage. So once we do get to move in for real it will be that much easier to just move everything from the garage into the house. We are currently staying with my wonderful grandfather in Provo. He has a nice condo with a kitchen in the basement and a few extra bedrooms. I am so thankful he has given us a nice place to stay while we wait. We thought we were going to be able to close forever ago, but things haven't been working out like we had hoped. The house wasn't all the way finished like we thought it would be last Friday, and they have had final inspection twice now and it hasn't passed. They are fixing the things the inspector wants fixed, and hopefully it will pass today. There are also some things we are waiting on with the title company. Apparently they need more time. This whole waiting is annoying. I've just learned to stop getting my hopes up. Every time they give us a day for closing, that day comes and something else has come up. So we have our fingers crossed for Monday. Meanwhile we are in limbo trying our best to be patient. We love our new home and can't wait to get moved in and actually live there. Once we get over there I will take some pics to post so everyone can see. We are currently looking forward to a family reunion we have with Jer's family. Well, most of us are looking forward to it, after all it is camping! And we all know how much I love to do that!! I wanted to post some pic's of the kids, but I am on my grandpa's computer, and I didn't want to download my pics his computer. So I guess everyone will just have to wait until the next time.

MIA

Ok, I know!!!!!!!! We have been MIA for quite a while. This is the longest I have ever gone without some kind of update. I have been harassed by quite a few people, and we are moving this Friday so I may be MIA for a while again, so I figured I would hurry and post so you all know we are alive. For those who don't know (which I think everyone does) back in March we started the long process of searching for a home. Our plan originally was to buy a home already built. We spent till May looking through house after house after house. We really weren't finding anything we liked that we could afford. The process became quite frustrating. We have a good family friend who is a builder and he came to us and told us he was starting a new subdivision in Saratoga Springs, and offered to build us a home in our price range. Believe it or not, it wasn't the easiest decision we ever made. We knew building a home would be great because it has never been lived in, and we get to pick everything. But building would be more of a long process, and a lot of decisions and hassle. After a lot of prayer and thought we went ahead and decided to build. So the last 2 months we have been building a home. We are way excited, and can't wait until the process is over. I am really bad, and haven't taken pic's along the way. So I really don't have any pic's of the house to this point to post. I will have to post some once the house is done and we get moved in. Our lease for our apartment is up this Friday, so we have to move out. The builder says the house and final inspection will be this Friday, and that is cutting it really close. Tomorrow we are supposed to know if we can close Friday or not. If we don't close Friday we are hoping they will let us move our things into the garage and we will go stay with my Grandpa for a couple days. On top of building a home I am trying to start up a preschool. It has made my life so stressful and overwhelming, but I am hoping in the long run it will be a blessing. This is part of the reason it has taken me so long to post anything. Any spare time I have I have been planning out the preschool year, and buying supplies, and furniture for the classroom. I really am excited I just hope it all turns out well. By the way if anyone has family or friends that live in the area, and they need a preschool, please send them my way. It is really difficult to try and start a preschool when I am not even in the area yet. Thanks to those of you that have referred people to me.

Over the course of the past few months that I haven't blogged, a lot has happened. I have waited way too long to try and catch up, so I will try to remember what I can. Manda came home from Southern Virginia for the summer. It has been so fun and nice to have her around. I love her sooooo much. She will be leaving back to school in like 3-4 weeks, and I can't believe it has already gone by soo fast. Sydnee has had a couple check ups and she is still little for her age. She is in the 20th percentile for weight and 70th for height. She has been a little slow at most things, but is coming along ok. She is almost 16 months and still doesn't walk around everywhere. She is sooooo close, but still chooses to crawl. Wyatt lost his first tooth a couple days ago. He is only four and he is already loosing teeth. I didn't think he was old enough yet so I took him to the dentist to have an x-ray done to see if he is really loosing them and other teeth are growing up to take their place, or if something weird and abnormal is going on. Of course the x-rays showed that he was just loosing them early. There are other teeth growing in right behind them. He got teeth really early as a baby, I guess that should have been my first clue! Oh well it was worth the x-rays cause now I know for sure. This update is getting too long and I know I have lost your interest by this point. So I will leave it at those few things for now, and I will have to try and play catch up later. Although I have let it go for so long now I will be catching up for months. Hopefully once we get moved I will have a little time to update here and there. I have tried to attach a couple pic's so you can see some recent pics of the kids. I really have a ton of pic's that have accumulated since I last blogged, so I will have to post them slowly over time.

One last thing...... I recently found out I have major nose problems (my septum is deviated, one of my sinuses has dropped out of place, I have nasal polyps and a ton of extra tissue and fluid that should not be there) so I am having surgery August 31st. So not looking forward to this, but hopefully it will take care of all the problems. I get so stuffy sometimes I can't smell or taste my food. It really is miserable.

Hopefully this post will hold some of you over until the next time. We are moving Friday and I'm really not sure when we will get Internet set up.

Sydnee at Matt's High School Graduation

Wyatt wearing his 76ers beanie that Matt brought back from his trip to Philadelphia.

This is a pic of Wyatt and Sydnee in Jer's gym at the school. Back when school was in the kids loved to go visit daddy at work. Jer is pulling them around on these cart things with a jump rope. They loved it! I couldn't believe how good Syd was.

Sydnee had a birthday shout Hooray!

We had a fun Easter weekend. It was nice because it was Jer's spring break, so we got to have him home for all the hoopla. It all started Thurs. when me, my mom & dad, Jensen & Jazmyne, and Emilee all went to see Wicked. Jer and Matt wouldn't lower their male egos enough to come see it with us. Boy did they miss out! This was my second time seeing it, and it was awesome. Friday my mom and I, took Wyatt and Sydnee to see monsters v.s. aliens. Stupid! Wyatt sat through it really well. I don't know that he understood most of it, or any of it for that matter. I must say it is one of the dumbest I've seen. Sorry to all the fans! Saturday was Syd's first birthday. We went over to my parents house and had a fun filled day. Well, we did our best with the rain and all. We had a nice Easter dinner, ate cake and ice cream, played kickball in the rain, and had an Easter egg hunt for Wyatt. It is kind of funny when we get together with my side of the family because Wyatt is the only grandchild. So we have 6 adults hiding the eggs, and 1 kid trying to find them all. It makes me laugh. Wyatt loves it though. Saturday night the Easter Bunny did make it to our house. For some reason the bunny always brings my kids pj's for the summer. I know most people do that for Christmas but we always do it for Easter. Hey, I figure we are headed into the summer and they need summer pj's. Wyatt got way too much candy and of course a triceratops car. (I know, he always wants the weirdest things!) Hey, it made his day. Here are a few pic's from the weekend.

Sydnee's birthday cake

Wyatt was so kind to help Sydnee unwrap her present!

Jer and I gave her a purse that sings and talks. She loves it, especially the crinkly money that came with it.

It was rainy and cold while we were playing kickball. Syd's nose tends to get red when she is cold.

Here is Wyatt enjoying his very own personalized Easter Egg Hunt!

The beloved triceratops car!

Syd in her Easter dress! There are no words!