One Week Down!

Yikes, the adjustment to this is going to be harder for the girls than I thought it would be......They keep telling me how bored they are. I keep telling them it's up to them to think of things to study, that it's their 'education' not my job to keep them entertained. But each day is getting better. I still need to work on getting some more workbooks, and some 'classics' for the bookshelf. I know it will be fine, we just need to keep plugging away and I need to be consistent.

We try to do most of the academic stuff in the morning from about 9:30 -12:00 and after lunch we play math games and work on arts and crafts or read. So I'm trying to not answer the phone during the morning but anything else is fine.

Curtis had to go to Elko again this week and then when he got there he couldn't get his equipment to work, so they had to come home having gotten nothing done. So guess who gets to go back again next week? That will make three weeks in a row out there. It's feast or famine, I tell ya. Oh, well, we like the paychecks!

Wendy, I'm so jealous of your house. I don't have much hope of anything getting done on mine soon beyond getting the new furnace/AC unit in. But we did finally finish our sprinkling system in the backyard and tomorrow we will be filling in the trenches and getting it ready for sod. I don't think we'll get that right away, though, we'd like to wait for it to cool off a bit before putting sod down. I think that after we get the furnace in, the next thing we will work on will be the roof. Our practical side comes through again, and we have nixed the metal roof and will just be doing composite shingles. That and back door I hope.

Wish we were coming down for the weekend, but we really need to keep on keeping on with our yard and house, so..............................But plan for us to make it down on one of the weekends when my boys are out of school. Possibly the 14th or 28th of Sept., Mom!

Well, I'm bushed and I think I'll head to bed. So fun to have you all posting a bit again. Thanks for the updates. Love you all!

Hello!!

Wow, it is almost 1 am....I really should go to bed!..but the guilt of reading the blog and never posting finally got the best of me! I figure...you all know what I have been up to ...the house! Just as exciting though, is having Tilly in kindergarten! She won't admit to me how wonderful it is but I can tell she loves it by how excited she is to go each day and how happy she is when I pick her up! It is really fun to have a kid in school....so far! Laila cannot wait to go to "pretty school" (pre-school). She met Mrs. Eardly today and saw her school and she did not want to go home! I have really enjoyed my time with her! ( not just because she encourages me to take naps everyday...and volunteers to help with the dishes and laundry when I wake up from my nap! :) ) but we really have had fun together. She misses Tilly a lot ...and asks "is it time to pick up Tilly yet"....20 minutes after we drop her off! Anyway, having a schedule is nice too.
Update on the house....hvac, plumbing, and electrical are all roughed in. We will be getting our insulation on friday and once we finish a few frame jobs, install central vac, and insulate we will be ready for sheet rock! We started our deck, finished the roof, and our stone is on-site waiting to be put up! It is all excited and very very tiring!! I am sure mom, Karla, and Fay Loy would all agree...having us doing the work is very very tiring for them as well, they all help out with the girls so much! THANK YOU!!! Oh, and we have our windows in and the doors will be here in 3 weeks! Yeeee Haaah!...what next? We think we have our lights picked out...the price will be the final deciding factor...and we haven't even started to look at tile yet..yikes! I change my paint choice by the hour....the lighting changes every hour ya know! Last friday we were cleaning up all the construction waste so we would be ready for a "dump-run" and we were trying to get the girls to help us...I thought a little competition of 'who can fill a box with trash the fastest" would motivate the girls! Laila got right on it. Tilly informed us that "I am a new girl and I am not made to work"! Ben informed her that she is a Crane and she will work till her fingers fall off! So for a bed time story I read 'The Little Red Hen'....when I finished explaining the symbalism..Tilly was in tears because "we won't let her live in the house when it's done because she hates to work"! Ha Ha Ha She is something else to raise! I am so in for it! Anyway, I really should go to bed and now I can sleep because the guilt is gone! LOL love you all, Wendy

It's just me. Way past time to log on. Is everyone back to an organized schedule? Hope the beginning of school is going well for everyone. Kassie have you started? What is your schedule (more or less) so that when we call we won't be interrupting everyone? I have been trying to get things together to go to Bluff for the week-end. There is always one more thing that I think needs to go. I found a couple of fans in the storage unit that I'm going to take and try to cool the apartment off a little. We haven't been able to get anyone to go check on the units yet. I have been trying to put together some picture also, and I need to get the ones I want all the same size, etc. A lady from Blanding brought me a picture of the Swing Tree which was painted in 1956 by Marion G. Romney's mother who is a daughter to L H Redd. It is a good picture. I also found the picture Aunt Norma painted of the twin rocks, and so we will take them down to the house.
Aunt Kena is coming on Friday and we will go down then. She has never been to San Juan Hill, so we may try to do that Friday evening, when it won't be so hot. We may have to try it again on Saturday, so Stacy can see it.

The jazuzzi is working, so I found myself a pair of shorts and a t shirt. I did try a swimming suit on at the Merc. It was scary!!!!
Wendy is here doing her nails. Ben is in Salt Lake. She actually has a day off from working on the house.

Well it is time to clean up the kitchen and finish the laundry I started early this morning. Hope to hear from each of you soon. Stacy, see you on Friday.

Love, Mom

20 YEARS!!

TWENTY YEARS!!

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!

Time for a Parrrtaaayy!!!

Hey, everyone is bailing on the blog--me included. Pretty sad. I do enjoy reading it. So, I guess I'll do my part and post a few times a week.

The kids are back in school. Allie is loving it as usual. None of her friends are in her class, but I think she'll be ok. She's doing so good in piano lessons. I bought a very basic primary song book for her and she can read the music and play almost every song! She doesn't even take that book to lessons with her.

Peyton likes school, but he can't figure out why he has to go "every day!" He'll be ok, though. Pictures were yesterday, so we had to get them all gussied up for that.

I'm going to Bluff tonight to spend a few days at Mom & Dad's house by myself!! This is what I wanted for my birthday. Two or three days ALONE! I went to the library last night and checked out a bunch of books and I'm going to take my computer and scrap book a bit. I'm just going to lay around, read, watch TV, scrap and do whatever with no responsibilities for a few days. I can't wait!

My friend, Jami is probably going to come down Friday night and stay with me. We don't ever get to hang out much, even though she just lives in Blanding. Life gets in the way, I guess.

Work is pretty slow right now. Not a lot going on. How is everyone doing? Are all of your kids liking school this year? What's new in your lives?

Got to go--love you all
Karla

Just me. Again.

Where the heck are you? Oh, yeah, school is starting soon and I'm sure you're busy with that.

Just wanted to let you in on a little secret. If you ever buy green furniture that is green in the store and when you get it home it isn't......try changing your light bulbs before you do anything drastic, like thinking of taking green paint to the yellow furniture.

I bought a nice set of new living room furniture at Sam's and it was a nice light yellowy green. So I get it home and it no longer is green. I begin to wonder if all green furniture bought at Sam's looks some other color when it gets home. Remember Mom's chair? I was a bit flustrated. But we decided to change the light bulbs in our living room to compact flourescent to see if that would make a difference and can you believe it worked? Voila', furniture is green again and Kassie has a smile on her face.

Been busy making strawberry freezer jam (couldn't pass up berries at 3.99 a flat), and making salsa and spaghetti sauce from our own tomatoes. My kitchen was so grotesque, but it's under control again and the freezer is getting full. Gotta love that!

Have a great day and post if you get a minute. I miss hearing from all of you.

Late, Late, Late!

Mom, hope you and Dad had a good anniversary. I thought about you and was going to call after dinner, but it was FHE at the Yorgason's and we celebrated M's birthday after we got back and it just slipped my mind. So here's a VERY belated

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks to all of you for coming or wanting to come(wink,wink) to H's baptism. For not being very organized it all went fine. H and I appreciate your love and support.

Trying to get all the stuff done for the boys for school this week. Last night we bought all the school supplies, today we will hit the uniform store and tomorrow it's immunizations. Fun, fun!

After I get them all taken care of I can plow ahead with the girls. So many choices!

Hope you all enjoy the last couple of weeks of summer. I sure am enjoying the drop in temps at night (and during the day, too). Take care!

Hey!

Hannah! Congratulations on your big day. Sorry I couldn't be there. I was going to ride up with Mom but Liz, Kiffy and her kids rode with Mom so there wasn't room for me & my munchkins. I would have driven myself but I wasn't sure I really trusted myself. I had to go get Demoral at the hospital on Thursday and it always leaves me slightly loopy for a few days. I didn't think I dared drive 500 miles like that. Hope it was a great day for you.

Nothing new going on here. I get to take the Jr. Livestock Auction pictures this year. I think I'll make about $400 for doing it. That'll be nice. Work is the same as always. Things have slowed down a bit. We've been getting quite a few monsoon showers which are really nice. I've started going to the fitness center at the high school 2 nights a week. I'm going to try to go 4, but so far, I've made it 2 per week. I'm doing about 15 miles on the bike--that's what it says anyway.

I'm ready for school. Allie & Peyton are excited. Allie is really tired of having to play with Peyton every day and going and watching Jim work on his tractor--that's not much fun for her-

Well, it's time to go home--take care. Love you all.