Foundation!

Terribly funny two's

I'm afraid Makaylee has hit her terrible 2's, the problem is that she is 6 months early! Honestly, this child is driving me nuts! Actually, she is hilarious, I can't help but laugh when she stomps her little feet, and then almost falls over because she is not yet coordinated enough to be that mad! I taught her how to sign "please" in sign language (you rub your heart). So when ever she is having a tantrum I tell her that she needs to say please, and she stops screaming and rubs her belly and smiles, looking so pround of herself for "mastering" that sign. She is just so dang cute! When she is really mad at me, she yells at me in this baby garble (that only she understands thank heavens) and gets the most serious look on her face, like she is really telling me off. My mom said I did the same thing when I was her age. I guess it's my payback.

Her new favorite game is naming body parts. She hops up on my lap with her face about 6 inches from mine and randomly pokes at my mouth, ears, eyes, nose, chin ect. Saying each name as she does this. You have to be on your guard because the random eye pokes are a bit dangerous. And my least favorite combination is when she pokes her finger in my mouth, and then my ear, successfully giving me a wet willey!

I just got a call from one of my old neighbors. She wanted to know where we were building because they are going to try and buy a home in the same neighborhood! I was so excited, that would be so fun to already have some friends near our new house.

We had the foundation poured on Monday! It 's really exciting now that there is progress every thime we go out and look at our house! My brothers house however, (it was started when ours was) already has the framing completed, and they are going to be in theirs by Christmas. . . sigh. . .

Finally, some progress!

We finally recieved our building permit last week! I went out to check our lot today and I finally saw some progress. We have footings! We should have the foundation in another week, and after that your guess is as good as mine!

(It may not look like much, but big things are going to start happening soon, just you wait.)

We went to St. George this weekend with my whole family (Kimballs.) A friend of my dad's let us use their vacation home. We had so much fun. Their vacation home was so nice, it has 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms, so each family got their own room. We all went to the outlet mall, sat in the hot tub, and ate at Cafe Rio, but the funnest part was sitting around the family room just telling stories and laughing.

Congratulations to Eric and Heather who blessed their twin baby girls Abigayle and Kayleigh last week! They looked so precious in their little white gowns. We'll have to remember how innocent they were, for when they get into trouble up to their armpits, with Makaylee joining in on the fun!!!

Can We Please have our PERMIT!!!

Well, I guess we just need to accept it. We will be living in my parents basement forever! Forget worrying if we'll be here for Christmas, forget thinking that we may be out by New Years eve! Our builder has been fighting with the city of Riverton over our permit for a few weeks. The city wanted our electrical system to have more amps and our builder didn't want to put forward more money to do that. So either we would have to pay for the upgraded system, or the city of Riverton would have to fold. Luckily our builders electrical engineer submitted a letter testifying to the fact that our electrical system would be sufficient, and the city gave in. So why do we still have no permit???!!! "We should have it within 1-2 business days" I have been hearing that for almost 5 weeks! This is getting so frustrating!

My sisters baby, Lanie, came down with a serious infection after her hip surgery. Luckily my sister caught it really early or it could have been a lot worse. She had to go into surgery again and have her incision opened up and cleaned out. They recasted her and inserted a PICC line (a long term IV that has a catheter that extends right to her heart) and sent her home with IV antibiotics that my sister has to administer every 8 hours for two weeks. I told my sister that if she ever wants to be a nurse, she would be way ahead of the game! Lanie is doing as good as can be expected. Although a body cast, and a bad case of the runs (caused by the anitbiotics) are not a good combination to say the least. (my poor sister!)

Did I mention before that Terry got the much anticipated Customer Service Supervisor position? He is really excited to move up at Magellan. They have treated him really good there, and it's nice to keep his seniority and the benefits that go along with it! I quit doing the PRN Home Health visits that I was doing on the weekends. The schedule was always too up in the air, and it was taking too much time away from my family. . .