Ode to the Commode ...

Well, I spoke too soon on my last entry ... ya know - about escaping the "serious" flu bug. Well ... today, we are quite grateful that our Missy Dee is outa the bathroom (yep - throw up -n- all) ... and just bed ridden instead. Seriously - bless her heart. She is so dang sick. We took her to the doc today, and the strep test came back negative. So, she is just miserable with a super nasty virus. The doctor told us to plan on her being down for yet a few more days. She's already missed 3 days of school. I can barely stand to think about the make-up work that'll involve. :O! Deep breaths.

On a much better commode note ... here is the progress of our bathrooms. The "his" and "hers" in the Master bathroom (a MUST Ty and I decided after sharing one sink in the condo). I really think the master bathroom just might be one of my favorite rooms in our house. :)

Here is the Powder Room on the main floor - don't mind my strange hubby. ;) ... and the kids' bathroom. I wonder how long Marissa will last trying to share that with both Krystal and Aaron? I might have to let her share with me eventually. Fun stuff!

Our light fixtures are almost all in - the water was turned on today (along with the installing of the sinks). AGH!!! I'm so excited. Move in date is in 2 weeks.

Where Does Time Go?

I can't believe it has been a week since I've taken time to get on the computer and document life. :)! We've all been fighting colds/flu this week. Nothing serious.

Today was such an incredibly, gorgeous day! We just couldn't resist making a trip to the park to celebrate. I had just finished teaching piano at the Robinsons - and we all ventured out together afterwards. The kids had a blast - they all ran around like crazy! It was quite entertaining.





We spent a super fun day with the Chris and Melisa clan on Saturday. Thanks guys! We sure love hangin' out with you! Here are some fun shots of the kids at "Jumpin' Jacks". Our kids get along so great ... Aaron and McEwan especially.

This one slide was so DANG steep! I about had a heart-attack every time the kids went down. Of course, it was the one they wanted to be on the most. Sophie wanted to go down it so bad (thank heavens Krystal wanted nothing to do with it) - anyway, I couldn't resist putting in this picture of Chris taking her down the slide. I love LOVE his "This is AWESOME" face and Sophie's "What was I thinking?" face. hahahahahaha.

SO steep .... sheesh.

And, last ... but certainly not least ... more on the house! Here's my lovely kitchen starting to come together ... the first right after the vinyl went in ... and then voila .... cabinets! What do ya think?

This is the game closet just off the loft. How silly is it to post a picture of that? I'm just really, REALLY excited about all the closet space we will have. We've been cramped for too long.

And -here we are. The garage door is on ... so, another outdoor update!

Love you all! Hope everyone had a great week!

How Ex "SIDING"!

So, the siding is finished on our house. Doesn't it look great? I love it.



My hand painted, black door. Can't wait to be IN!!!!!!!

We Say "Weeeeeeeeeeee!" to the Wii

We surprised TyTy with a Nintendo Wii for his birthday. We were so DANG lucky to find one the DAY BEFORE his birthday after we had been looking for one for months. Anyway ... we have had so much fun bowling, boxing, and playing tennis and baseball.

Aaron is AMAZING at every game ... naturally. He usually beats Tyler at tennis, actually. He has all kinds of fancy moves. :)

We even got Grover to try his hand at bowling. We were quite impressed! Of course, Grover has THE best of the Jenson "tongue concentration." Gotta love the prayer Plonnie is offering in the background for Grove's success .... hahahahahahahaha.

Jers is the champion boxer despite Tyler's facial contortions.

Aaron and Kev giggle the whole time they are boxing ... doesn't matter who wins. They are pretty equally matched. Cuties.

Even though I only got pics of the boys - the girls have just as much fun. Even lil' Krissy can bowl entirely on her own. She's quite proud of that. Marissa ROCKS THE HOUSE at tennis ... go ahead ... challenger her. She'll win.

Continual House Construction ...

Well , our house is continually making progress. I really like being able to document it - so, sorry to all of our blogging friends for the monotony. The past couple of days - the siding has continued to go up little by little. I am SO thrilled with the color. We picked good. It was hard to visualize the whole picture when we were looking at just small samples.

We happened to drop by on the day that the ceiling was being texturized, and we thought this guy looked pretty dang cool on his stilts. We are VERY pleased with how clean everything has been kept from week to week.

Our oak stair railing is in. Gorgeous. We paid big bucks for that - so we didn't have to have a plain white railing. AND ... most of our doors and trim are in! Here's Aaron standing at the door of his bedroom. Krystal's room is the door behind him, and the bathroom is the door on the right.

Here I am in the room I will spend 90% of my days ... doing laundry. :) Fun stuff. I am SO happy to have a laundry room right off of the bedrooms. That will be helpful. And cute Krissy in the closet under the stairs. This room is how we get to our crawl space. The kids think it's like a secret passage (see the trap door on the floor). However, they will not be allowed down there.

We have tried the One Man Band Diner with the kids for lunch on one of our outings to SF. It's the kids' favorite. Here are Aaron and Krystal enjoying a soda together. Made me smile.

Our siding should be finished this weekend - and they paint next week - AND put in vinyl, I think. We're WAY excited! Stay tuned.

What a Wonderful Weekend!

On Friday, just before we left for our fun weekend get-a-way to Midway, we swung by Spanish Fork to see what had been accomplihsed on our home. Our house has been drywalled! And - the siding is just beginning. Picture 1: South side of our home; Picture 2: My family on the main floor (Aaron stayed at Gma Jensons, because he had strep throat - and pretty much slept all day Friday); Picture 3: Master bedroom - looking from closet.
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THEN - we ventured up to Midway to spend a fun, relaxing weekend with Kristy and James. Mom and Dad even came up for a dinner - and, how can anyone have fun without M? She was able to spend some fun and helpful time with us as well. Hanna and Krystal played and played AND played ... they have so much fun together. M opened up a beauty salon for Marissa and Anaka - and they TOTALLY loved that .... what beauties, too. I happened to get a picture of one of the best parts of our weekend ... just vegging. We had so much good food, tons of pop, movies galore - and some great, old fashioned reading. We sure love being together!



Oh - and what's a relaxing weekend without some game playing. I'm so lucky to have 2 wonderful sisters ... we played "Pirate's Dice" ... and players are eliminated one by one. As you can see - it's pretty much always us 3 left. We ROCK. We grownups kinda got swimm-ed out (notice I can't include M in the grownups ... heehee). The kids had so much fun swimming ... and even more fun when she came swimming too.



James the Explorer found this humungous icicle within moments of arriving. The kids thought that was pretty cool ... so did James. There was SO MUCH snow up there! Kristy and James had the pleasure of a bathroom with a leaky ceiling. By the time we left - we were sure it was going to collapse at any moment Why didn't we get a picture? O well.

I love my children. They are so wonderful. We had such a great time! Thanks Kristy and James and M (I believe the picture below is when you got your big huge bruise from trying to get Marissee-roo)! We love you.

Still Waiting ...

Well - here's the siding sitting in boxes in our driveway. I wonder if they ever even started putting it up today. There was no sign of drywall anywhere. That's okay, though. I took pictures anyway. :) We don't have anything else scheduled (other than more insulation) until the 15th or so ... so, I guess they need that long to drywall and put up siding. Anywho ...

This picture is taken from the front entryway. You can see the piano room (first), computer room (divided by half wall), and kitchen (room with sliding glass door).

This is a picture of the kitchen/family room.

Here are the kids up in THEIR part of the house ... the loft. They just start going crazy every time we get upstairs. Excitement does that to ya.

The laundry room ...

And just a little sample of my favorite part of the house (other than the piano room - now that I have an AMAZING piano!) ... the master bedroom and bathroom.