Adjusting to a different home

Well, I thought I should post some of the things we are adjusting to at our new home here in Utah. It's been an adventure and now after being here for 2 weeks we are learning a few things. Here is our top 5 list of things we are learning during this adventure:

1. Having an upstairs laundry is awesome..however, I can't do laundry after the kids go to bed because the washing machine shakes Kaylie's room and she can't sleep!! Her whole dresser and closet shakes...so crazy huh??

2. You can't flush the toilet before getting in the shower in the master bathroom or the shower turns totally hot. And make sure the kids don't flush the toilet down the hall either or you are in for a hot surprise in the shower...this has taken some adjusting to!! I'm not used to having to worry about my water changing temperatures!!

3. I get to help my little boys wash their hands all the time now since this house has the older pull-up style faucets. It sounds like someone has left the shower when they wash since there are only two choices...On and Off. =) Don't worry, new faucets is on our 'to purchase' list, but we haven't gotten there yet. I miss our cute brushed nickel faucets that are easy to turn on!

4. We have a great yard with lots of space, however we can't really enjoy it because there are no fences!! Since I never let Kyler outside without me, except in our backyard in CA, then there isn't much outdoor play for Kyler here. We have been pricing fencing and looking at our options for getting a fence in. I hope we can do it while the weather is still nice and our kids can enjoy it.

5. We LOVE having a basement..it is so very fun! I can't say enough good things about that!! The kids are having a great time and soon I'll post photos when we finish the basement...or at least when its partially finished. We are really loving having the extra space for the kids to play, its really a blessing of living in Utah is getting to have a basement!

So that's all for now..just had to post some of the funny adjustments we are dealing with. Overall we just love being here and we are enjoying the positives but we sure miss everyone in CA!
Hugs, Scott and Heidi

Master Bedroom Before..

My birthday gift was having my room painted and crown molding installed within a week of moving into the house. It's been really fun to see the transformation of the room! Here it was on move-in day....

And the back wall where the bed goes in between these cute lights...

View of the sitting area/office area in between the master and the bathroom...

Scott and Austin start on the painting...LOVE that blue...I'll post after photos soon!! =)

Family Room Before/During

We've been working on the family room and we're almost done with the changes. Here is the family room on the day we moved in.

Here are three views of the Family Room now. This past Thursday our painter did the family room walls in Lemongrass, the same color as our California Home (didn't I tell you I love that home?? I wanted everything here to be the same!!) So here is the left hand wall--we still need to do the black ledges next on either side of the Christ painting. That's still to come..

Here's the front wall of the family room, I love the angles of the walls and the shutters and beautiful views from these windows!!

Then this is the right hand side of the room with my new desk (LOVE IT!) and you can see the hallway into the entry. The wall with all the plugs is the kitchen wall where we hope to get a sideboard or hutch to keep our nice dishes in. That wall is still creme since we may have to patch some holes and re-do some electrical so that's on the to-do list during the next month. But I'm loving the family room now! It's finally not full of boxes which is great!! I'll post the After photos once we get the rest of the walls done! =)

Yeah for Dad!

We got a family photo of Scott with the kids once we got back home. They were all so proud of their Dad...you can read the details of his race below!

Bountiful Triathlon

Today Scott participated in the Bountiful Sprint Triathlon which is a shorter distance (as compared to the Olympic length he's done before) but it was easy to train for and a fun challenge for Scott. I can't believe he had time to train during our move but he made time for swimming and running a few mornings a week.

The truth is the swim was so short that its not even 1/3 of his warm-up..so it was SO easy. He had the fastest time in the pool of all 420 competitors...no surprise there!

Here he is running...we were cheering from the street!

Here he is coming into the finish line on his bike...still one leg to go....the swim!

We got a photo of him running from the bike transition area to the competition pool.

We thought Scott was somewhere down in this mess but we weren't sure where! Actually we found out afterwards that he placed 34th overall and he passed 15 people in the pool so he actually isn't in the water at this time. By the time we got up to the bleacher area, Scott was already out of the water!!

We closed...Hooray!

Okay, so this is a few weeks late, but here is our 'toast' to our new home, Scott got Martinelli's to celebrate the closing of our home on July 23rd. We were so happy everything went through finally!!!

Taking the sign out of the yard..its our home now...wow!

Kaylie has the right idea...let's get the sign out of the lawn and start moving on in!!! =)

Theater Camp

Kaylie and Cameron participated in Theater Camp last week. They did a one week camp where they learned High School Musical. They had a great time and Friday night was their show. Kaylie was a drama club girl (shes' in the pink ball cap)

She was also in the musical number "Get Your Head in the Game"

Cameron was Tommy, a comedy kid...he did the invisible bench skit, it was cute!

Here he is singing in the chorus for "Bop to the Top!"