For Sale

So we are taking the "for sale" plunge and putting our house up for sale. We love this home and our neighborhood, but the bottom line is that we are bursting at the seams and we need something a bit bigger. So here we go....

4 bedroom, 2 bath, big two car garage, custom cabinets in kitchen and bathrooms, stainless steel appliances, jetted tub and surround tile in master bath, tile flooring in kitchen, bathrooms & laundry room, laundry room, two family rooms, finished yard with automatic sprinkler system...so pass the word around people!

$174,900  for 1900 sq. ft.

Bedroom

Bathroom #2

Master Bedroom

Master bedroom

Master Bathroom

Master Bathroom - Jetted Tub

Bedroom

Bedroom

Another profile of the same bedroom

Downstairs Family Room

Kitchen eating area

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen and Pantry

Family Room

Entry

Family Room

City Slicker Camping

Nate had the week off a last week and we had serious plans of going camping..like real camping..with a tent and no toilet or shower..and no air conditioner or king size bed. Then Nate remembered I am 7 1/2 months pregnant and took pity on me (wasn't I going to be a good sport for even considering going?) So we decided to head up to the Belnap cabin instead. Ahhhhh! Definitely my kind of camping. Toilets are not overrated..especially when you have to pee every 2 hours. So we went fishing, went on lots of nature walks, ate lots of smores (or just the chocolate bars if your name is Maggie) and I finished a whole book. Imagine that!

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No way was this heavy mama gettin up on that rock!

Ellie is very much the poser right now

Scoping the pond for frogs

Connor managed to capture one

Sophie thought she was all that...driving the mini 4-wheeler by herself...and Maggie never passed up a turn to ride

Now showing in 3D.....

Last week I went in for a sonogram to see if my placenta previa had cleared itself up..sigh of relief that it has moved...so while I was there, they did a 3D sonogram..which I have never had done before..so cool right. I'm not gonna lie when I say I teared up looking at that little squished face with the big nose (as my mother so politely told me). It just kind of hit me you know..like I know I am pregnant but the little alien looking sonogram doesn't do much. So when I saw an actual face..it was just amazing. It made it so much more real...like oh ya there is a little person inside me...a real person. It's such a miracle and while I'm so blessed to experience bringing another life into this world, I am totally ready to be done. I have hit the DONE mark and I still have 6 weeks to go. We are so excited to meet this little girl (which it still is..Connor was hoping the gender had changed:) And that weird looking thing on her forehead..well that's her hand in case you were wondering if she had a bow on already:) So 6 weeks and counting and we have yet to choose a name...so hard right?

Garage...check!

It's no secret that we are bursting at the seams in our cute, little house. And to be honest, I'm not a hoarder..in fact I'm quite the opposite..always dejunking, DI-ing and throwing away..but with almost 7 people in this family, comes stuff..and a lot of it. Well, the garage has been driving me nuts...so today I did it! I cleaned the gross garage. It had gotten so bad, with bikes, and strollers, etc that Nate was parking his car just in the driveway. So with Nate on the mountain today, I geared myself up with a serious pep talk that I could get it done..and a million hours later, a purple pop spill on the carpet and a pee mishap on my bed (Maggie has figured out how to take her diaper off..fabulous) I got the garage in good shape if I do say so myself. Here are some before and afters..let me preface with the fact that we have not a single storage room in the house, so everything..and I mean everything goes in the garage.

Before

Before

After

After

And while I can check one thing off of my "nesting" list, and sigh a little sigh of relief, I have a million more to go. And while I am realizing these pics don't show much difference, it really is and i am much happier about it. Am I weird that I wish everything would fit into a container of some sort. And also doesn't organizing make you so happy...it seriously makes life better. And don't you worry, I treated my tuckered-out self to a slush when I was all finished!

Lake Powell Recipe 2011

All you need to have a successful Christensen Lake Powell trip are the following:

21 people, 3 bedroom, air conditioned houseboat, approx. 50 swimsuits, 10 bottles of sunscreen, 25 beach towels (at least), life jackets, board games, spicy chicken casserole, 20 bags of Christensen's candy, 5 pans of brownies, cookies, smores, etc...(which btw were gone by Wednesday), home-made ice cream every night, zero amounts of make-up, lunch at the Junction, wakeboards, big red tube, cameras, and a floating plastic basketball.

This past week went by in a hurry but we enjoyed every second of spending some much needed time together...This year we gained 6 week old baby Kate, McCall's hubby and his 4 boys and two pregnant ladies (me included) so it was busy and never boring...here's a billion pics...

Sophie, Nate and Mags...Maggie never wanted to get off, insisting it was her"ton" (turn)

Maggie played so hard "mashing" spiders, feeding the fish and chasing after the ducks...she almost fell asleep

Good thing you have that floaty on Clay...

Sophie is our fearless child and had no reservations about wakeboarding...what a pro!

She wanted to go by herself (guess we need to invest in a smaller board) but settled for her own handle

I barely managed this life jacket with my belly..got one buckle done up

This picture is history in the making...I never would have dreamed Connor jumping off the houseboat..surprise, surprise!

Nate, Clay and Rob spent hours with this dumb basketball, making up boy games...with no purpose really...

Sophie sporting her cover-up aka her "robe"

Nate and McCall both celebrated birthdays while we were in Powell...not to shabby of a place to do that if you ask me

So there you have it! Our annual trip to Lake Powell. We did experience tragedy, when some scouters ran their boat onto a rock that was covered by shallow water and one boy died. It was late at night and helicopters flew in with spotlights...it was a quick and somber reminder at how fast life can change and how precious every moment is. We love this trip and look forward to it every year. So thanks mom and dad for the great memories we made and for the 10 lbs I think we all gained! And don't worry, I will have more pics to come as soon as I get a hold of my dads camera.