Fall Fun

We went to Gardner Village with the kidos to see all the witched and they loved it. Especially the Hulo Hoop witch!

My sister Anna & I went up to Logan to see my other sister Nanci and to visit my Grandpa yesterday. We have 4 boys between us and they had a ton of fun. We only had a break up a few fights:)

Oh ya - We have been moved and uplifted this week - our house that is!! We are done with the "hard part" they say. Now we just have to fix all the cosmetic stuff.

5 years! Wow, we are getting old...

Its hard to believe that it has been 5 years since we tied the knot. It goes by so fast! Its weird to think that just five years ago...
1. Brad was starting his last year at BYU - with his eyes set on law school (ya, I talked him out of that one - I was sick of school!)
2. I was working as a Real Estate Agent for Salisbury Homes - its hard to remember the days of dressing up, attending meetings, working with adults....
3. We were living in a small apartment in Provo with no dishwasher but plenty of cockroaches.
4. I couldn't cook a meal to save my life (not much has changed there) I can still remember how nice Brad would be about eating crap:)
5. We went to the movies pretty much every weekend - sometimes even on a WEEK NIGHT.

So...even though life is much different now with The Job, Kid, House, etc. I wouldn't change any of it for anything!

So how do you celebrate such an occasion? Where it all started... VEGAS BABY! (j/k we had never been there together until this weekend:)

This is the only picture we have of us together, we are in front of the New York, New York. And if you can believe it, us old folks rode on the rollercoaster you see in the backround!

We went to some pretty cool shows, our favorite was KA by Cirque du Soluie (sp?) I have never seen anything like it!

Thanks to Scott & Anna, Mom, Nolan, & Ryan for watching Carson so we could have a little Brad & Janette time!


I know this is kind of corny but I found this valentines day card that I wrote to Brad before we got married. Since I still feel exactly the same here it is....

Top Ten Reasons I Am Thankful For My BABY!
1. You are in every way my truest bestest friend in the whole entire world!
2. You do your very best to try and understand this over-emotional, irrational, crazy person.
3. You call me in the middle of the night just to tell me that you are thinking about me.
4. You warm up my car and scrape the windows when you know I won't think to do it.
5. You wipe off the junk I seem to get all over my face and clothes and say "baby you're a wreck"
6. You come country dancing just because you know it is something I love.
7. You make me feel like you are always listening to what I have to say with sincere interest.
8. I can show you any side of me and i know that you will still talk to me.
9. Even thought I come with a lot of baggage you are willing to help me sort through it
10. You are a good kisser!

Okay.... so maybe a few things have changed but you get the idea!
Love you babe!

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!