Anyone need a Porta Potty?

If you are ever out on a walk/run and really gotta go feel free to use ours! And ladies - don't worry, as you can see from the pictures this is for BOTH men & women.

This is the gaping hole that was once our flower bed:(

Who wouldn't love coming home to this every night?

Just in case the neighbors are wondering when the noise will stop - there is an end in sight! They are moving much faster than we ever expected. They will be done setting all but 5 of the piers next Tuesday. At that point we have to have a footing poured underneath the bearing wall in our basement so they can finish the last of the piers. It takes a couple weeks to cure so it will be nice and quiet for a while! Then just a few more days to set the rest of the piers and lift the house and they are pretty much done, yeah!!!!!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Last Thursday was my Dad's birthday. We went out to the Timbermine for dinner. They gave us a huge room all to ourselves and it was a good thing because the boys were able to get some energy out by running around!

Carson & Jacob with my Dad's Parents

Grandpa & Baby Kade

Blowing out the Candles

Grandpa showing off his new, very "masculine" apron.

Our Crumble Abode!

Well, the big day has finally arrived. After a year of waiting and waiting and waiting they started work on our house yesterday! Anyone who has been to our house in the last year have most likely had "the tour" as we call it of the damage that has been done to our home due to extreme settling issues. We first started noticing the doors not shutting, huge drywall cracks and some heaving cracks in our foundation. My little neighbor Mckinley put it best when seeing one of our cracks gasped & said " Janette! Your house is broken!"

Fortunately when we bought our home the lender required that the builder purchase a 2/10 home warranty for us. Had we not had this we would be SOL (so outta luck). It has taken over a year to process the claim and we are finally seeing some action.

They are in the process of "lifting" our house. They have to tear out the whole basement floor and install 50 push piers that basically act like stilts. They are pushed down to "real dirt" where there will be enough pressure to lift the house.

This process takes about six weeks. So even though it is really loud around here we are just excited to get it done! It still amazes me that 3" of sinkage (not sure if that is the right term but whatever) can cause so much damage.

Kade's Baby Blessing

Kade, Jed & Nanci's little guy was blessed today. It was so great to be with family for such a special event.

Kris and all her girls (and Kade)

We felt bad for always doing "sister" pictures so we let my brother in on this one!

This is a bad picture of us but I love Carson's little head trying to get in the picture. (Well big head- he is in the 90th percentile)

BYU Game

Last Saturday we got to go to Happy Valley (Provo) and pretend like we were newly weds all over again. Our friends Matt & Mandy had some extra tickets and invited us (Thanks!) to the BYU - Northern Iowa game. I'll admit it was the snowies & nachos that got me there and boy was it worth it! Brad really enjoyed the game and I was able to jab Mandy's ear off instead of his!

Brad's parents made the whole thing possible by watching the little munchkin for us.(Also Thanks!) Carson loves to play with Grandpa and Grammy so we didn't feel too bad leaving him home:)

We had another little B-day celebration for the boys, Sue made a cake and we tried to get Carson to wear the birthday hat but he was having none of that! Grandpa is holding it on for the picture and that is as good as we could get.


p.s. I swear Carson does wear a shirt sometimes!