Sunday, August 7, 2011

Our House in Elk Ridge

We are building our new house in Elk Ridge. This is our lot a little less than a month ago. The day after I took the lot picture, they dug our hole.

A few days later, the walls were poured. We have a daylight basement, so our back windows look out over the valley.


About a week later, the framing and roof were done.


This is what it looked like yesterday. The outside just needs the rest of the rock and a little more paint. The inside is getting finish trim and paint this week. We are scheduled to close Aug. 20. We're getting excited to get all our stuff out of storage and have our own space!

Home Depot Projects









Ever since we discovered that Home Depot does Free Kid Projects on the first Saturday of each month, I've been taking Kylee there. In July, she made a coaster set. Yesterday was the August project, but I had piano lessons, so Andy took her. They made a pencil box, which Kylee insisted on painting pink. Daddy tried to convince her she could/should do a different color, but she said no. While she was busy painting the box, he stole the lid and painted it white. He was very proud of his part. :)

Swimming Lessons





Kylee is taking swimming lessons at the Scera pool right now, and she LOVES it. She keeps track of what lesson she is on (tomorrow will be lesson #6), and she tells us all about how she played "Motor-boat" and "Chop-Chop-Timber". On Friday (Lesson #5), I had the day off from work, so I got to go and watch her. It was fun to see how excited she was, and how hard she concentrates to do everything right.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Balance

While we were waiting for dinner one night, the kids had a "Who Can Stand on One Foot the Longest?" contest. Kylee was actually really good at it, though I don't know why they had to do it up on the rocks instead of on the ground. I guess they like to live dangerously! :)

Moab

A couple of weeks ago we went to Moab with Andy's family. When we go, we stay in a condo at Moab Springs Ranch, and they have a fun swimming pool. This year, I decided Kylee was big enough to swim with a tube. At first, she didn't agree. I'm pretty sure the other people who were there were preparing to nominate me for the "World's Worst Mom" award. I kept putting her tube on her and pushing her away from me. I knew that if she could figure out she wasn't going to sink, she would have fun, but she kept freaking out, and screaming and crying. FINALLY, she got the hang of it, and then she didn't want to leave the pool, even when it was time to go.
Daddy playing with Kylee.


She spent the next two days kicking her way all around the pool, and loved every minute of it!