Our First House!

This is a picture of the house that we are in the process of buying right now. We are so.... excited to be moving into our own home but are also really sad to be leaving our ward. We will still be in the same stake but it is not the same.

This picture I got off the MLS listing. Everything looks the same except the grass. It is now a dried yellow lawn because of lack of water. As of right now I have no idea when we are moving in. In our contract it says that we are supposed to close by Sept 4th (less than a week away!) but I will be really surprised if we are able to close by then. The bank/owner has to have someone go in and hang a piece of sheet rock on one wall because of an exposed wire on the wall. We aren't aloud to do it ourselves and our lender can't finalize the loan until that is done because of it being a "hazard".

I have been packing up a little each day for the last week, but I have a lot still to do and cleaning on top of that. I plan on trying to be ready by next weekend just in case. Wish me luck!

Everything!

Well it has been awhile so I thought I better post "some" stuff that has happened in the last couple of months! =) This first picture is a picture taken on my Birthday. Alan surprised me with a Dairy Queen Ice cream Cake. You can't go wrong with ICE CREAM! It was really good but I think the next time we want ice cream cake I am going to try to make it. Dairy Queen cakes are expensive. They are good but not great, especially for the money that you pay. How hard can it be right!

I promised some people that I would post some pictures of the baby quilt that I made for my sister Amy. This is her first baby so I wanted to do something special for her. It was the very first quilt that I have ever made. It was a lot more work then I figured it would be but I really enjoyed making it. Now I want to try to make some quilts for our beds at home. Oh boy what have I started! (The coloring in these pictures aren't the best, sorry.)

Alan's BABY sister Heather got married in Idaho the end of July. I am so.... mad at my self because I didn't take ANY pictures the whole day! As soon as we would get to the next destination I would realize that I forgot my camera. (Maybe some people will be nice enough to e-mail me some pictures... hint, hint)

While we were there I also got to see some of my relatives that live in Idaho and my sister Amy. My cousin Sharla was kind enough to let me use her house to throw Amy a shower. I as afraid that I do not have any pictures of that either. I did take some pictures but it was on my sister's camera.

Here are some pictures taken at Egene Lakes. All of the kids really enjoyed it especially Michael. He just loves it when he can play in the dirt/mud and go anywhere he wants to. I think he is going to be really independent like his father.

Grandpa Mattson giving all of the kids a ride on his tractor.

The other day I decided that I was going to try to take a nice picture of him for the wall. As you can tell that idea didn't go so well.