Our house- the final chapter

First off, our favorite feature of this home:

Here's the first thing you see when you go to the backyard, then you look right and see this:

Go around the corner (behind the tree on the right) and you see this:

back yard and garden space (although a lot of our garden hasn't done too well we have plenty of peas and zucchini)

Here is the missing room from inside the house, the master bedroom

Here's a shot from the door (sorry it's a tight fit to get pictures of the rooms so you're missing the closet: but you can see the blue bassinet I found at the garage sale)

Here's Ryan's workspace because every man needs somewhere he can get his hands dirty.

And Last, a shot of our home and front yard. Sure it could use a paint job, but it's what's inside that counts.

Bathrooms and Basement

Alright, here's our next installment of our home: First, the room that gets the most use (since we never use the bathroom in the basement)

Our lovely sink surrounded by the bathtub curtain and console over our toilet (not in picture).

The other end of our shower curtain, towels and art decorating our bathroom

This was the most exciting part of the house (for me), our HUGE laundry room/craft room. You only see half of the shelves in this picture and you miss out on our washer/dryer which are on the opposite end of the photo.

Here is the basement view as you leave the laundry room. (there's another bedroom behind me, that has the extra furniture that came with the home)

The storage area and stairs...the mess is all of Teancum's empty boxes he uses for tower building. The door is to the bathroom which is large but quite scary and so not pictured.

Up Next: the backyard, garage, and master bedroom, stay tuned.

Phrase of the week

(picture taken by Teancum)

Jacob's been talking for a while, but lately has progressed to two to three word phrases: My favorites:

1. Ta-Ta tum (Teancum come): this one is said the most often when he's playing and I love it!

2. Ta-Ta tum side: this was at the park

3. Peas Peas Peas Peas Peas- this was said to his grandpa in order to keep playing with the nintendo 64 controller, how could you say No to that even at bedtime.

4. 1-2-5-7-7-6-2-9-10 : this is how he counts to ten

Happy Birthday Honey

Today is Ryan's Birthday so in honor of my honey I thought I would post a few of the reasons I love this great man.

He is a wonderful father: I love wathing wrestle and play with his boys with chlidlike enthusiasm when he comes home from work and even more on the weekends, he is patient in teaching them and is a great example of a righteous priesthood holder always trying to fulfill and magnify his calling.

He is a even better husband: I don't think I could have married a harder worker or one more diligent in providing for his family the necessities in life along with a few of the fun things. He is teasing and playful, understanding and supportive, loving and strong, he cares for me in all things and is everything that defines a helpmeet. Thank you Ryan for all that you do for me and our children.

Big Boys and Bedrooms

Ryan and I recently redid the boys room and Jacob graduated to a BIG boy bed. So here are some pics from the boys room...Sorry I could only get a small section at a time because the room is a little crowded.

Here is Jacobs bed (with dad resting on it) His name is above the dresser, but you can't see it here and there is a border near the cieling of different animals scenes that you can't see either.

Here is Teancum's side the room and Ryan's old Toy chest. Once again you can't see the border near the cieling (The alphabet extends from the corner shown to the corner above Jacob's bed). You can see a little of the animal scene and Teancum's name over his dresser.

Here is the closet where their toys are mainly stashed there's a bookshelf on the other side, and more animals in the corners. Jacob's transition has gone decent. Sometimes it takes him forever to fall asleep at naptime because he gets out of bed and plays. But he HAS slept through the night every night since making the switch, and has stopped waking Teancum up in the mornings. Yay for happy kids.

Our House- Part 1

I've been reminded a few times lately that I never posted pictures of what our new place looks like. Even though we will only be here for a few more months here are some pictures of our new abode for family and friends who will not be able to come visit us soon.

This is the view when you walk in the door and look right. On the left is the hallway that leads to the bedrooms and bathroom...tbp later

This is the living room, what you see when you come through the front door and look left.

Another view of the living room

If you walk straight when you come through the front door you make it to the kitchen. Here is the table on the left...



And on the right is the rest of the kitchen. Sorry it's a mess I decided to take pictures while I was in the middle of cooking dinner (taquitos de papa)And there you have the main living spaces. I'll post the bedrooms and bathroom later, we also have an unfinished basement with shelves for food storage and a HUGE laundry room that doubles as storage area for my craft room (yes there's room for me to do my stuff down there, but I always bring upstairs anyways). We also have a garage, a good size backyard and front yard with a section on the side of the house for a garden. All in all we've been blessed.

I love my boys

Can I just say that I L-O-V-E having two boys close in age that are such good friends.

Today Teancum was pretending he was going to the zoo, he got on his navy blue jacket and his blue sunglasses. Of course Jacob wanted in on the fun and brought me his navy blue jacket (how he picked it out from among his four jackets beats me) after he had it on he went to the toys and came back with Mr. Potato Head's blue glasses on.

Right now it's 9:00 (an hour past bedtime) and I can hear them giggling. I love my boys, can't wait to have a third one to join in the fun.

This week at the Hive

This last week or so has been pretty busy. Take a look at some of the fun things, and not so fun things that have been happening in our family. Teancum has gotten lots of practice in riding his "new" bike (I love garage sales!)

We took my three favorite bums to the park early on Father's Day. I love seeing Ryan interacting with his boys. They have so much fun together, he really is a wonderful father. Jacob was cute and wanted to cuddle with me.

Teancum's Favorite thing at the park were these bars he could slide down.

And Jacob loved going down the slide

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Last friday I found out my Grandma Black passed away. I don't think I can describe the mix of emotions I've gone through this last week. I have always felt a special bond with my Grandma because I was named after her, my middle name Nicol (prounounced nickle) is her maiden name, a name she was very proud of. I grew even closer to her while I was at BYU and able to visit her regularly to talk, and play. She had the best laugh; a big and jolly cackle that was so infectious. She was generous and loving and intelligent. We'll miss her greatly but I'm grateful to know she is happy with her 6 siblings that preceded her, her daughter, and her parents and that she is probably busy teaching...she loved to teach.

My family spent the night on the way to Provo for the funeral. Jacob was thrilled to see his Grandpa

The boys were great during the 5 hour drive to Provo, we stopped at fed the ducks at BYU before the funeral to let the boys get some energy out before subjecting them to having to be quiet and still.

Teancum felt like he needed to herd all the sleeping ducks into the pond.

The service was beautiful. I learned more about my Grandma then I knew. My dad gave the Eulogy and my Uncles Lance and Dal spoke too. Here they are by the casket. Besides learning more about my Grandma another plus about atending the funeral was that I was able to see a lot of my cousins that I hadn't seen in a long while: Derek, Christi, Tami, Leanne, Aryn, Courtney, and Autumn to name a few. I was also able to see Jolena and her parents. Thank you, Ryan for getting the day off, driving us up for the funeral and watching the kids then entire time we were in Provo so that I could concentrate too, then driving us back the same day; I appreciate your love and support more than words can say, it meant the world to be able to attend my Grandma's funeral.