New Home in MN

And now for our new home. We were so blessed to find a home that we LOVE in MN. We got a great deal on this house and the area is beautiful. Very hilly and covered in trees. The yard is my favorite part and the neighborhood is fantastic. We were beginning to feel pretty discouraged about finding the right home there, but we saw this one and I fell in love with it. It is everything we wanted and the price was great! We are looking forward to moving in at the end of Nov., just in time for Thanksgiving.

House for Sale

Our home is finally listed for sale and we are sad to leave this house we have worked so hard on and made so many memories in. Here are a few of the pictures of our house, finally done - just in time to sell.

Chim-Chiminy, Chim-Chiminy, Chim-Chim Cheroo

Jason helped a friend with his roof project the other day and came home so filthy. He was anxious to climb in the shower, but I had to snap a few pictures.

Isn't he hansome?????? What a lucky girl I am....

In other news, WE ARE MOVING! I have been putting off the official announcement, maybe because I am in denial and have mixed feelings about this move, but it looks like it is happening, despite my dragging feet. For a girl who loves change, loves moving, loves new houses, loves traveling and seeing new cities, Minneapolis should be a good thing, right? I am just really struggling with it. I have made so many wonderful friends here in Racine. We have been out there looking at houses and our house here should have a sign in the front yard in the next week.

Jason will be working for a company recently purchase by SCJ. Here are some links.

http://www.mrsmeyers.com/

http://www.caldrea.com/AboutCaldrea.aspx?CategoryName=Company+Overview

This is an excellent opportunity for Jason and quite an honor for him to be selected to take this marketing role. He is thrilled about it and can't wait to get started. He won't have to wait long because his first day there is Oct. 20th.

Mall of America, Here we come...

Steak and a Movie Night

We had a fun Steak and Movie night on Friday. We had our good friends, the Meier's and the Stevens families over as a thank you for their help with the basement project. Jason grilled some steaks and we watched a movie on the big screen (projector system). The guys were disappointed when I showed up with "Made of Honor" as the movie to watch. I honestly did not see any "guy movies" in the new release section of Blockbuster. ( ha-ha) Oh, well! They were good sports about it. Here are some pics of the party.

My Corny Day...

What a busy day! A friend of mine talked us into buying some corn from a farmer and I am talking a lot of corn! There are five of us who took on this project and together we ordered 4o dozen ears of corn. That was a full day of shucking, washing, boiling, cooling, cutting, bagging and cleaning up. We had so much fun and the payoff was big, but it was a long day! Here are some pics for you...

Shucking...

Washing...

Boiling...

Cutting...

Bagging...

The Fruits of our Labor:

I know that it looks like I just stood around and took pictures, but I really did help a little during this process. We had a good time and the kids had fun playing together all day. Now we can have some corn on hand for this year. We froze it in the new Ziploc steamer bags so we can just throw a bag in the microwave when we want some corn for dinner. Overall, a very corny day...

Back to School

Yeah, I am a little behind with this Post, but I did get a picture of the kids on their first day of school...

We had a good weekend. Nothing too interesting to report. Kiley had two birthday parties and a babysitting job tonight so she has had a busy day. We had planned to participate in our Ward Campout this weekend, but it got rained out. Spent the day working in the basement, doing laundry, grocery shopping, and other things instead.

We did buy some new furniture for our basement. Well, new to us. I will send a picture of it later. In the meantime, I will try to come up with something interesting to blog about...

Bye for now...

SURPRISE!

What a party! What a weekend!

We woke up Thursday morning to a "Heart Attack" on our lawn. The activity day girls in our ward had written birthday messages to Kiley on little hearts and stuck them in our lawn with plastic forks. It was very cute.

Then she was off to the Red Cross babysitting course, which just happened to be on her birtdhay, giving us time to make some last minute prepartations for her party while she was gone.

Jason got off work early to take her to ice cream and to pick out a movie while her friends were secretly showing up at our house and helping me hang streamers and put out the food.

When she got home it was a big...

SURPRISE!

The next surprise came when a HUGE package was delivered by UPS that evening. Kiley was pretty curious and excited to rip it open...


She was thrilled to see that her aunts/uncles/cousins and grandpa and grandma Wallace had got her a HUGE Giraffe for her room.

I believe she named him "Mancala?" and he matches her room beautifully. The perfect addition, so thank you, Wallaces!

The girls watched movies and played American Idol on the Wii, and most of them were still awake when Jason and I woke up at 6:00 am. Needless to say, it took Kiley the entire weekend to get back on track with her sleep. I guess it was their one last chance before school starts on Tuesday. Well it is time for me to join my fam for a movie tonight. They are waiting impatiently. I will write more later, but it was a fun and eventful weekend. Thank you for all your kind phone calls to her and gifts. She had a special birthday and loves you guys.