4 Generations

When my brother Jeff and I went on our road trip we went to visit my 93 year old grandma in Nebraska. It was fun to be able to get a picture of her, my mom, Emma, and I, - 4 generations!

The newest edition to our family... A PIANO!

We bought a piano and love it!

Camping at Lake Lewisville

We went camping at Lake Lewisville last night and despite the heat we had a great time! The three kids were little sweat balls the entire time but loved playing in the dirt and the Lake. We made tin foil dinners and had lots of yummy food. It was in the mid to high 90's and probably did not get any cooler than the mid 70's that night. We decided that from now on if we want to go camping in Texas that it will have to be earlier in the Spring of late in the Fall when it is not so hot!

I LOVE TO COLOR!

Mommy found me with both a pen and marker scribbling away! Mommy saw my legs and dress and ran into the living room expecting to see the furnature all colored on but the only thing I drew on was my paper sitting in the middle of the room. I know better than that...

Mommy did finger painting with me for the first time today! It was so much fun. I loved getting messy and mixing the colors.

Now that I am a big girl I sleep in my bed with no side on it. I usually go right to bed but if mommy leaves anything our in my room or forgets to safety lock my dresser shut, with a hair thing, I will get all of my clothes out. My pile of clothes looked particually comfy when I was trying to fall asleep the other day and made for a nice napping spot.

Emma Swimming!

This was the last time we went swimming at our aparmtne pool before we moved.

BUSY MONTH!

We have sure had a busy month. We closed on our house on April 31 and then had two weeks to get the "popcorn" ceilings scraped, textured, painted, and the rest of the house painted also. Luke was working until about midnight every night, and is still. We did a lot on the weekends and then my friend watched Emma almost everyday and night for a week while I worked on the house all day. We got it all scrapped and had professionals come in and texture. We only had a few days left before we had to move in to to all of the painting. Luckily Jeff was here and he helped me all day and night. We really lucked out he was here during that time because we needed all the help we could get. We only had a few days to do the painting and there is no way we could have finished it all by ourselves. I expressed a little bit of stress to one of my friends and she called the Relief Society President and that night and for the next two days we had a crew of people helping us finish the painting. Our prayers were sure answered! We are so blessed to live in such an awesome ward. They would really do anything for us and we appreciate and love them all so much!

We got all the ceilings done and painted and all of the walls painted also, except for the bathrooms, before we moved in. It feels so good to have all of that done. We still need to paint the bathrooms and all of the trim, doors, and touch up where the ceiling and walls meet but that will be an on going process over the next couple of months. Our next big project for the summer will be to put crown molding throughout the house.

We have been moved in for almost two weeks now and are still working on getting un-packed. I have the kitchen and main rooms done but our room and office have quickly become the dumping grounds for all of the half empty boxes that still need to be unpacked. We are excited for when it is all put away and we can start decorating.

Emma loves living in a house have having so much space, as do we! We are lucky to have such a nice home and such great family and friends that have helped and supported us so much!

We are HOMEOWNERS!!

We are officially homeowners!! Yesterday morning we closed on our house. Luke has been working until midnight and we wanted to go to the house together for the first time so we went last night, or this morning, at about 1a.m. We got Emma out of bed and drove over there. We love the house even more now that all of the stuff is out of it. We went throughout the whole house and Emma loved it. We sat on a blanket int he middle of the living room drinking sparkling cider and eating chocolate covered strawberries.

Now we will start to scrape the "popcorn" ceilings and paint the entire house before we move in. We are hoping to have that done and moved in in 1-2 weeks. WE ARE SUPER EXCITED!! We hope you can all come and visit sometime. :)



This is us driving over to our house.



This is the first time we walked into our new house.