Hello 2024

Well January 2024 is officially off and running. We are not in the phase of really getting our house ready to sell and to move into our forever home! January started off busy but fun. Lots of things going on with getting our house ready, the new house, school and sports. Just a lot going on. So we were off and running. 

Our first boxes packed for our move and for decluttering. 

Drywall has been delivered. 

Brandon stuffing insulation back up into the ceiling. haha

Oh ya, we also had our first casualty! Poor bunny! Looked super weird just having that head there. It looked like he had been buried by his bunny friends. I have a feeling we will be seeing a lot of planet earth like stuff when we live here. 

The ornament Kayden made at preschool! 

I told Emmett I would take a picture of these clay ornaments he made. We had kept them for a year or so and I was ready to get rid of them So I let him keep his favorite one or two and got rid of the others. 

As we were getting things cleaned up and prepped for getting our house on the market I took down he foil and curtains on our bathroom window. Look what I found!!! MOLD!!! YUCK!!! So then we had to kill the mold and repair the windowsill. Thankfully Brandon is good with wood work and so we decided to case in the window.

It is a good thing we are always going over to the house to check on things. I had to make sure to tell our builder about the broken steps. We also caught the dry wall guys before as they were working and told the main guy that we were supposed to have rounded edges. Which he said, "Well that would be a good thing to know. I was never told that!"
Communication has been an issue with this home build.

Painting our room. We have been off and on painting for months. We finally decided it was time to get it finished. It was a lot of work!! 

Emmett and Kayden wanted to be in charge of making dinner. So Emmett made the Mac and Cheese with a little help from me and Kayden watched the peas. 

Ethan took no time to finish his lego car. He loves building these and will just work for hours. 

Then of course we had to start the year off with going to the movies. Always a good time! Kayden is so funny at movies these days. He gets very in to it and will laugh out loud with an evil laugh when the good guys are beating the bad guys. Its pretty funny! 

Tile choices for bathrooms. Thank goodness for Floor and Decor opening up near Costco. It made it way easier to find tile for our bathrooms. 

The house getting prepped for stone and then stucco!!

Time for the expander!

Emmett pallet started to split super quick! It is crazy how fast he was getting expansion. It has taken him quite a bit of time to get used to his expander. Eating with it and talking are really hard for him. We keep telling him he will get used to it and then he will talk normal and swallow normal. Not fun at all though. Yet necessary to give him the space he needs for this adult teeth to come in. 

Dry wall goes up really quick. Then it's tape and texture. However, they missed a cut out for a light. I thought it looked like it was missing a light but no one would listen to me.

Sad to take this down. We will have to put it up in our next house too! With new pictures. The boys have gotten so much older than these pictures. Although, I do love these pictures! 

Ok, so at Brandon's office they did a "Wheel Unfortunate" like they do on Dude Perfect. The thing Brandon got was take a card board cut out to dinner. So Brandon ordered this cardboard cut out from the show "Parks and Rec" and we went to Long Horn Steakhouse. 

I recorded Branded walking in and telling the host he needed a table for 2. Then he sat down and I sat across from them just while the server came over and asked what they wanted to drink. Brandon looked at his "date" and then told her a Diet Coke and water. Then I joined them for dinner. We got a lot of funny looks and some people finally asked what was going on. They all thought it was funny and I got to enjoy being a third wheel and eat yummy food! haha

Kayden also got to go bowling for a preschool field trip. 

He had a great time being there with all his preschool friends. 

Time for the talent show. Wyatt was so excited and a little bit nervous for his talent show. 

He did a great job. He had one trick that didn't want to work but he pulled it off like a champ and tried it again and then went into a different trick when it didn't work. He even had it Knott up on him at one point. He didn't spaz out he just got it fixed and kept going with some great showmanship. It was fun to watch. Although, I do have to say that my mommy heart was nervous for him especially when things were not going as smoothly as he had planned or wanted. He did a great job though and didn't let it bring him down. 

January 24th we got to take Wyatt to the temple for his first time!!

I love our new tradition of taking our boys to the temple the year they turn 12 just them and us. It was fun being able to just go with Ethan and now it was Wyatt's turn. It just makes it feel more special and a bigger deal I think when we take just the one who is going through for the first time. Then after we go get lunch or a treat. With Wyatt he wanted to get IN N OUT since it was lunch time. So we drove down and got IN N OUT for lunch. It is a fun and special day when they get to go to Baptisms for the Dead in the Temple for the first time. Wyatt said he loved going to the temple. That it felt peaceful and happy. What a fun afternoon! 

 

With the start of January brings the chaos of 3 kids in basketball at the same time. We had Ethan (his last year of rec ball), Wyatt and Emmett all in the same season. Thankfully, we were able to carpool with 2 of the boys friends. Just makes it for a really busy 6 weeks. The boys love it though and it's fun to watch them improve in their basketball skills.