Hole in the Ground

I realized I never blogged about our brand new house! Our house is scheduled to be finished no later than halloween of this year, which means we will qualify for the $8,000 bucks from the government. Yesssssssss. We went and picked out all of the colors and designs for the house in the first 4 weeks after signing. And now, we wait. We drove out to the lot last Sunday just to see how things were going and we found construction! It was SO EXCITING! Here is a picture:



The house has 3 bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms, since we paid to add a half bathroom to the first floor.

Here is a photo of the picture we were given of house our home will look after it is done. However, we were able to get a free stucco upgrade instead of the siding pictured here and we also paid for bricks to go around the bottom.


Our house with have gray stucco with a white outline and black front door with dark red bricks. Here is a picture of what our house with stucco will kind of look like:

I Love America!

I don't know what it is, but ever since I got married I have become very weepy. I cry in everything. Especially in all things patriotic. I went to girls camp last week and every time we had the flag raising ceremony I found myself getting teary as I recited the Pledge of Allegiance. When I sing "The Star Spangled Banner" I cry at the part 'that our flag was still there.' Perhaps I'm starting to fully understand what freedom is and what it costs. I love my country and I am proud to be a United States Citizen!

I celebrated the Fourth of July with my in-laws in Kaysville. I brought my camera to document my day. How was your 4th of July?

I started out my day with rousing game of Risk against Karl, John, and Tricia. Karl and John basically lost and then decided they didn't want to play anymore.


We had a great barbeque. Here is a picture of me and my hot husband, courtesy of Tricia:


I tried having a photoshoot with their 2 dogs but the dogs weren't really interested. In fact, the only way I could even get Courage (the dog in this picture) to look at the camera was to say the magic word: TREAT. Don't worry, I gave him a treat when the photoshoot was over.


I experimented taking pictures of the different fireworks that we did in the street and here are a few of the results.










and finally...

I love the USA!