Recent house pictures

hallway from kitchen to front door.

New refinished hardwood floors.

Soren's Blue room without carpet yet.

view of upstairs.  down the hall is the bonus..double doors is master and across the side is the guest "grey" groom.

Kitchen/Dinning room.

Here is a picture of the living room (the sitting area part)

Here is the other half of the living room.

Here is the view from top of the stairs and our new carpet.

Here is Kaydence's "Pink" room.

Here is the bathroom that the kids share.

HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY SOREN!!!!

4 years ago today I was in labor on labor day.  This labor day weekend is going to be a lot less painful. (I hope).  Last year Kaydence refered to Soren's birthday as the "not so fun birthday" and continued to tell everyone that, as much as she could, for the entire year.  Even after having a great birthday party for her at chuck E. cheese she still wouldn't let Soren's intimate family gathering as I refer to it, lay to rest.

Meridian Idaho has a great big park here for kids.  It's completely free and has a great water section with tons of jungle gyms and foam climbing rocks and a musical section...even a snack bar!!!  It's all covered by this really soft squishy foam floor in case the kids fall.  It's just a great park.  They even have a pond that the kids can go fishing, and really nice horse shoes pits.  So we decided to have Soren's birthday party as Settlers Park.  

Every time we've gone to this park it's just packed with kids and is really hard to keep track of them, but for some reason this saturday wasn't nearly as bad. I was very reluctant to invite families because I was concerned everyone was taking off for the weekend and didn't want to burden people and have no on show up.  Not to mention Soren doesn't really know anyone or have any "friends".  I asked him who to invite and he gave me nothing :)  He just calls everyone "hey friend".  I asked if it was fine if we just had mommy and daddy and grandma and aunt lindsey and uncle derek and cousin Rylie there... He was pretty adamant about having other "friends" there...

I said I can't mail invitations to your friends if we don't know their names... 

***funny little story****  We went to Burger King for lunch one day while we waited to pick kaydence up at school and I let him play in the play section.  Another little girl and her brother where playing and Soren became good friends with her as they played really well together for the 30 minutes they had encountered each other.  Soren saw this as a great opportunity to find me a "name" as he followed her around asking her what her name was.  Once he found out it was Carmen he immediately invited her to his party.  He is so cute!!!!

  

Kindergarten

Kaydence started kindergarten this week.  Here are a few pictures of her big day.  SHE LOVES SCHOOL!!!!!  And I love her being in school, all though since we haven't moved into our house yet I have to commute her everyday the 30 minutes which limits my "free time" but it has been nice to spend some one- on- one time with Soren.  He is such a good calm boy compared to Kaydence.

the many stages of canning corn!

First you go in and pick the corn (not pictured)

Then you have to fight of the flies as you husk the corn, we thought if we brought out the TV it wouldn't be so daunting but it was so bright we could barely see the black screen... but it did help a little bit :)

Then you take the corn and boil it a few minutes, and then place in cool water to cool down.

Here is a very early little pile of husked corn we were making.

After it's boiled we can then grade the corn off of the cob.  As you can tell this process is so messy and squirts corn juice all over the walls..so we put foil up to minimize the mess

Then we can bag up the corn....we filled about 240 bags.