Our New Home/Project

Here is a picture of our New Home, we moved in about 3 months ago. Time flies by so fast when we have been trying to get the yard put together and extending the front flower bed and painting the shutters and fixing part of the grass. It seem like it never ends, but we LOVE it and would never go back. Lets hope that never happens. I will post more picture of the inside as I get things more done and organized. :)

Also I bought this really old Buffet table off KSL and put it in our Entry way. Before it was old looking not very cute, so I spiced it up a notch and Spray painted it yellow and I LOVE how it turned out. It took 3 cans of white primer and then 3 cans of yellow spray paint. One of my best friends from college told me about this website called allthingsthirfty.com.On there she tells you how to do all sorts of cool stuff. I was so excited when I realized I didn't have to sand the entire thing and paint it. I could spray paint instead. It was my first real spray paint project and I am so proud how it turned out.

Family Pictures

We had Family pictures taken awhile back the end of July. But never got around to posting since we have been so busy working on our house and the yard. Here are some pictures of the boys. They looked so Handsome! I must say their wives are very lucky girls. Eric and I did some good work! :)

The last month!

This last month has been CRAZY busy in the Halvorsen household. Over Labor Day weekend we had our BIG family Reunion that we always have. This year my Family was in charge of it. Our theme was "Pass It On". We had a blast! My little brother ended up making a slide show of all the 69 people who came and it turned out awesome. We had all the family members send in pictures of them and their children, and a quality. My brother then put the quality on the "Pass It On" slide show with there quality. It was so neat to see all the different personalities and people we have within our Family ties. Some of our favorite are, homemade ice cream, homemade fruit roll-ups that my grandma slaves over making for everyone, the saw dust hunt. We have done this every since I was a little girl. My grandparents always bring up a big pile of sawdust then fill it with money and candy for the kids. We divide up by age and each group gets a turn to DIG in. The programs we have in the mountains at night are beautiful! Just being with everyone is so much fun. You start to realize what life is all about. So hip hip hooray! We did it and aren't in charge for 4 more years! One more thing we had Hoe Down this year and it was so much fun! Our cousin Brett who is in the picture dressed up and it was HILARIOUS!! We had a blue grass band and the hole shebang!

Happy Birthday!

Yesterday I turned Big 25! Eric planned out the day, we started off by going to the Drpaer Parade in the morning and then went up to Sundance for the afternoon. We rode up the chair lift and hicked around for a bit and then rode back down, and finished off our Pizza for lunch. Then for Kaden's present him and I went to see Toy Story 3! It was a very cute movie and we loved it. We will defenitly be buying that one for sure. We then we to my parents house for dinner and they were hard at work while we were enjoying th movie, and made Alfredo and Asparagus and grilled chicken. It was fabulous! My sweet husband made me a Chocolate cake with white frosting and sprinkles. It was a great day and we had so much fun. Thanks Eric for all the planning to make it so specail. Love you.

Once Upon a Time....

For July 4th, we met my family in California and stayed there for a week! We had a Blast!! We did Disneyland for one day and the boys loved it. I must say I now understand why parents take there kids for a couple of days, and not just one day, cause it gets exhausting! Kaden never got a nap in and Tige did take a little nap, but it was all worth it! We loved it! Kaden was so excited to See Woody and Jessie. At first he was nervous to see all the characters, but then he started getting more comfortable. We would wait in line to say hi and Kaden would get up there and say, "Hey dude", give a big hi-five. and then run off. And he wanted to see Minnie which we were a little surprised. :) It was definitly HOT! So we stopped to get an ice cream, and I love those frozen bananas dipped in chocolate with nuts on top, and Kaden got a Mickey Mouse ice cream in chocolate, and by that time he was soooo tired can you tell in the picture.

Then came time for the BIG parade! We had so much fun dancing and singing along. The people in the parade asked for kids to dance with them, so me being a FUN mom, pushed Kaden out there and he loved running around the float, whiling the guy in the parade chased him! And he ran around like 10 times! It was so funny. We were so glad we got it on video.

We also did the beach a couple of days, and the boys loved the sand and running into the waves. We beat my family there by a couple of hours and so to past the time, we went to the beach with my sister, and the boys were so excited to cool off and play in the water, Eric took them down and it was so sweet to see all 3 of them playing in the water and Kaden ended up without his shirt and shorts on cause he got soak in wet! And Tige in a very saggy wet diaper. A couple of days into the trip my parents rented bikes for all of us to ride on the board walk. Kaden thought it was so cool to ride right behind Eric and go so fast. And I was not thinking very clearly cause I wore a skirt and it kept on flying up and my garments were showing the entire time I was peddling. It was so embarrassing! So finally I took my dad's blue jacket and tied it around my waist to cover my garments as much as I could.

By the end of the trip we had a blast and were so grateful to my parents for taking us and paying for our Hotel. We love you guys and Thanks again for the wonderful memories!

Update

The last couple of weeks have been busy for our little family. First of all we closed on our house this last Friday! We are so excited!! We have been moving our stuff over the past couple of days, and wow it's so much work! Eric took the day off yesterday so that we could finish up taking most of our stuff over there. We would like to give a BIG shout out to all our family who helped us sooo much in moving! Thank you guys we appreciate it soo much! We LOVE you. I will post pictures soon, after we get everything a bit under control.

Last weekend we went up the Canyon and ate lunch with my family, and rode the 4-wheelers. It was so much fun to take a breath of fresh air for an afternoon. The weather was perfect and beautiful. Thanks mom and dad for letting us join you. We had a blast!

This past Thursday we jumped on the opportunity to the Zoo. My sister-in-law Cathy has a pass, and so we came along, and the boys LOVED it! We had so much fun looking at all the animals, and most of all the boys loved just being with there cousins. When I told Kaden and Tige to get together for a picture, they put there arms around each other and both said, "Cheese"! It was the cutest thing ever! I love my boys soo much! They're so much fun to be around and full of life. Thanks again to Cathy for letting us come along.

Here are some pictures from the last couple of weeks, and we will post some of the house soon. Until then.....Hope all is well.

One more quick thing, we were telling the boys that this past Sunday we would be attending our new Ward, and Kaden was so excited because they always sing to new people in the ward. Well Kaden told Grandma and Grandpa, that when in Primary they ask if there's any new "Customers" and he will raise his hand and they will sing to him, cause he's a new Customer. It was so sweet.

Making Progress

It's always nerve raking to have an inspection on a home that you LOVE. You want everything to be perfect and NO flaws. Yesterday we had our Inspection on our Home, and everything went so well. There were a couple of things, but no major problems! We walked away feeling relieved. We're so excited and absolutely LOVE our new home. The boys LOVED running around in the backyard and Kaden picking his new room. It felt so nice to have space and a place to call our own. We can't wait to move in. We're still waiting on the final contract from Bank of America, but as soon as we get the paperwork we will be able to order our appraisal, and then close! We're hoping to move in soon! We'll keep everyone posted, but until then we will continue dreaming about our home.