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!

Happy Birthday C-Mac!

Carson turned 2 yesterday! I can't believe how fast time goes. He has all of the sudden started talking our ears off! My favorite is "burp". He says it when he burps, sneezes or hiccups. We started out the festivities last Sunday at my mom's house.

No, I did not make this cake - my amazing sister Annalee created the Masterpiece! (I know when to leave it to the pros.)

Carson opening presents. The first one he opened was a ball so it was a little hard getting him interested in the other ones:)

The boys chowing down on cake. It can't believe I got all three of them to look at the camera at the same time.

On Carson's actually Birthday my friend Mandy and her kids came to Wendy's and the Aquarium with us. This is at Wendy's - they couldn't quite figure out how to open the door. Thanks Mandy for braving our little outing with me!

Brad got off of work really early (6:30) and we decided to take Carson out for a night on the town. We haven't taken Carson to a sit down restaurant for quite some time thanks to our babysitting co-op and we weren't sure how he was going to handle it. He was so good - I still can't believe it - he even gave everyone a little dance show in the isle before we left. Mostly it was just good to have Brad for the night. He has a big deadline coming up and has been working until 9:00 the past few nights.

THE BIG 28!

Happy Birthday Brad!
Yesterday was Brad's big day. He got to sleep in (7:30) and just lounge around watching the Olympics all morning. We drove up Provo Canyon, had lunch and played in the river. I made Brad's favorite for Dinner - Stove Top Chicken (when I say favorite I mean the only thing I know how to make!) We watched a movie and called it a day.

Provo Canyon

We went up Provo Canyon this week to a great spot where the river is very shallow (and very cold!) and there is grass all along the bank. Carson was pretty brave about it and didn't seem to mind the cold too much. He thought it was pretty funny to throw his shoes in and watch me chase them down the river.

Lagoon

We went to Lagoon this Saturday with my family and it was more fun than I ever expected. I haven't been in about 10 years and they have added some pretty cool stuff. They have added a tone of rides to the kid area. Carson liked most of them - he did not like the Egg Drop. It is basically a mini version of the Rocket and I even got a little scared! Brad like Wicked most of all - he got to ride it 3 times, I on the other hand waited in the line and chickened out at the last second. It was fun to be with family and Aunt Denise took the kids home for nap time so we got a whole afternoon to ride the "Big Kid" rides.

This is the "Roar" as Carson calls anything that looks like a Tiger, Bear, Dragon, Monster, Etc.

I felt like the worst mom for taking Carson on this one. His little arms were shaking so hard and he had a death grip on the bar.

Carson liked the Merry go Round until the Dog started moving up and down!

Carson and Jacob just chillin'