The House

Well life has been busy lately. We are having a great time being in the new house. The kids seem happy most of the time and even though Tyler is still doing more than he can handle it is starting to feel not so hectic. Of course i'm not so sure i should say that since me and t.j. get to go back to Salt Lake tommorow to hopefully get a new prosthetic. His is to tight, he has ripped off the big toe and the strings that hold it on are falling apart. Anyway i thought I would post this family pic we had taken this weekend. I also thought i would send some pic's of everything when we had finished but hadn't moved in yet!!

The Kitchen



Living room

Master bathroom

boys room

creedance's room

Laundry room.

I can't find the pictures of the master bedroom or the basement. So when i figure out where they went maybe i will post them.

We are moved!!!!

So we didn't get to move over the weekend but we did get to move in on Monday!!! It has made it a fairly crazy busy week. I don't seem to be able to get enough done in a day, and it seems that i just keep finding more and more boxes, and more and more things that have to be done. but i'm so excited about being here that it all seems worth it. I'm not sure Tyler agrees I think he is still stressed out to no end. Well i got a ton to do, just wanted to let you know that we are in!!!!!!

So this weekend is suppose to the weekend to move hey i have been saying this for forever and i'm not even sure i believe myself anymore. Tyler finished the bathroom and has finished most of the little things in the house i'm suppose to finish touch up paint and clean up today. But the problem is we still have no cement, and if you don't have steps into your home they will not let you have your certificate of occupation. Which of course you need to move in!!!! We have been waiting for weeks for the cement people to come. They only ever show up on days that is poring and tell us there is nothing they can do. But of course on the nice sunny days they are no where to be found they always wait a couple more days again until it rains and show up again and pretend it is our fault that they can't lay the cement. Anyway enough of being mad at the cement men.
Topher had his first t-ball game yesterday. Of course it was beyond hilarous because of all the little kids out there that don't know how to play not to mention don't have enough of an attention span to pay attention so they start playing in the outfield. Plus our coach didn't show up instead he sent his mother who acted like the kids were ten ( they are 5-7) and was yelling and telling us all our kids need to go to the batting cages. I actually thought we did great since the majority of the team and only played t-ball at the previous 2 practices. Anyway topher loved it and is very excited to get to play more.
Creeedance is looking forward to getting to do a cheer camp next weekend in Rigby. This of course is going to cause problems if we end up not moving this weekend and we have to do it next weekend. Anyway they go to camp for 4 hours on friday. Then there is a parents performance. The next day they get to be in a parade. Cree is excited but i'm not sure understands what a parade is!!!
T.j. continues to be more and more wild!!!! Every time i turn around he is terrorizing something or someone. He has figured out how to open doors and things just tend to get more and more crazy. But we love him and he sure seems happy most of the time now.

Summer begins

It is almost here!!! We should hopefully be moving in next weekend. I am going to just stick with hopefully still for now. Tyler should be finishing up the bathroom and trim this weekend. And the plumber and electrician should be there to finish up next week. We may not have a driveway right away but hopefully it isn't to far out. I am very excited to move can you tell!!!!

The big dance recital was last week. It was fun but also overwhelming, there is always so much to do and not enough time to do it. My good friend Jessica got married on saturday. Creedance was one of the flower girls and she was really cute!!!! Then me and tyler's anniversary was on sunday. We got to spend a little time together which is always nice since it has been so hard to come by lately. Overall last week was great.

So far this week we have had the last dance parties were the kids get trophies and prizes. Creedance and Topher loved it!!! Christopher had his last day of preschool yesterday and was kind of sad about it. He wanted me to call his teacher after we got home and see if he could come see her again. Hopefully starting t-ball tonight will get his mind off of that!!! It will have to stop raining though for the little guy to be able to play. Then tomorrow my father-in-law is taking me and T.j. down to Shriner's. His leg has been to short for awhile now and we need to get that fixed.

So life stays busy as always, and hopefully it will stay happy!!!!!@!

Life goes on

Wow I can't believe how long it has been since i have written. We have been keeping very busy around here and it doesn't seem like i get a whole lot of time at the computer.
The house is coming along great we have drywall, paint and cabinets. Things are getting close to the end and now it feels like it may never get done. The siding is on but the yard is still the same as before the snow so we have all the outside stuff left to do. Tyler and I have layed the tile floor in the bathroom and our next project is to tile the shower and around the tub.

Topher is still loving preschool. He has really gotten into legos lately, which means i am really getting sick of stepping on legos and finding them everywhere while i am trying to get things packed up. He has also decided that he needs to help me more and had me make him a chore chart that he carries around all day until he gets it done!!!!

Creedance turned 4 in February!!!! She is growing like crazy. We went up to Green Canyon for her birthday. She loved swimming ,playing, presents, and her strawberry shortcake Cake that i made for her.

Copyright 2008 - Tyler Hopkins Photography

T.j. is getting even wilder. He falls down all the time. He has figured out how to get to everything we try to hide from him in the house. So i know to run like crazy if i even hear a tiny squeek of a chair because that means he is getting into something. I'm constantly finding him on the counter with his mouth full of chocolate. We did get rid of the bottle a month and a half ago. I'm so proud of myself!!!! He also loves to shove dvd's into the vcr. He thinks he can watch shows that way and gets really upset when it doesn't work.

Tyler is soooooo busy all of the time. I can't wait to get to spend some more time with him eventually!!! O.k. so we did take a weekend off for his birthday and went down to Utah to get some photography stuff that this guy gave to him. I think he is more excited about the photo stuff then alot of the things on the house.

I've been sick off and on. It hurts so bad to breathe sometimes, that all i can do is lay on the couch and try to relax. I try to help as much at the house as i can but know that sometimes me and the kids just need to be out of the way more than anything. I'm starting to get tired and stressed out , but can't wait for warm weather so we can go outside and play. Can you believe we had snow this morning. Crazy, huh!

All the fun

Christmas turned out great. The kids loved their toys, and haven't broken any of them to much yet!!! We got to spend alot of time with family and Tyler was home for almost a week and a half so we got some much needed family time!!! Our house is moving along well. It is almost completely framed in!! Tyler has been working all day today to get the basement floor defrosted in hopes that we wil be able to lay the floor by the middle of next week.

We have been down to Salt Lake to get T.j. fitted for a new leg. We took Jake's friend Andrew Mack down with us to drop off there so he could head back to New Mexico. The kids loved having him in the car, and hopefully we didn't scare him too much!!! We are hoping to be able to go back some time in the next couple of weeks and get t.j's new foot. He has been growing so much and really needed a new one!

We lost our dog yesterday! Tyler had taken her over to the house while he was working and she ran off. We looked for her all night last night, made posters this morning and were putting them up when we saw her down the street. An extremely nice guy found her last night and kept her with his dog and was walking them around in hopes to find her owner. We are so excited to get her back. We realized how much she means to us and Tyler is definate that he does not want any other dog.

The Sickness

Today i finally took T.j. and Creedance to the doctor. T.j. was suppose to be going to Shriner's on Thursday for a prosthetic fitting and i wanted to make sure he would be o.k. by then. I thought the kids just had a cold but we couldn't seem to kick it. Creedance started getting a funny rash last night so i was a little worried. I didn't take Topher because he seemed to be feeling a bit better but he could not get rid of the cough that he has. Well the doctor said that they have STREP!!!! I can't believe it! So now we are getting them all on antibiotic and hoping they get better soon. Anyway, I have to get back to helping all the sick kids. Oh Yeah Tyler has it too!!! I'm sure we are going to have a fun week!!