New House

Ok, so some of you know that we're in the process of building a new house.  It's been exciting and a headache at times.  I'm sure we'll still have lots of both.  Here are a couple photos of the process so far.

sorry for the sideways photo.  i'm posting quick and not from my own computer.  

This was a couple of days ago.  I think all the roof is on now.  

I'm excited, despite some of the headaches.  It's weird to be moving into the "home ownership" stage of life.  But, I think, I crave some of the stability of it.  Shhhh, don't tell anyone.

Saturday at the Park

This is what happens when you're really cute and your dad is an awesome photographer.

Poor kid.  Totally bundled and still trying to strike a pose.

Photos from yurt snowshoe trip

Cute.  Nothing else to say about that.  

Me and Spence working on my DIY ski attachments.

Sunset at Rockport State Park.

Julie and Brock.

The yurt.

Game time!

Shoe drying/Sage barrier.

Great trip.  Would do it again in a heartbeat.  Fantastic people.  Cool idea.  Fun activities.  Love it!

Couch Surfing and Yurting

Hi all!

I'm going to write this up while entertaining Sage at the same time.  We'll see how successful I can be.

So, we offically moved out of our apartment on Dec 31.  Since then, we have been staying with my parents in Spanish Fork Canyon.  Until yesterday, then we moved all our junk (well, not ALL, we have a whole storage unit full of stuff) to Steve's parents' house in Provo.  We're so grateful for our families.

Last Saturday, we did venture out with the Francis clan and the Babcock clan, and stayed overnight in a yurt at Rockport State Park.  I'd never even heard of Rockport, but Julie found it.  It's east of Park City by about 20 minutes or so.  The snow wasn't amazing, but I don't think it is anywhere in the state.  But, we got in two snowshoeing hikes.  The best part of snowshoeing was testing out my newest DIY project.  A homemade ski conversion kit for our Chariot stroller.  I saved us about $215 by doing it homemade style.  It still needs some tuning, but overall, it skied well, even handled some mildly rocky terrain (with some help).  No photos yet. 

The house we want to buy is starting to be built.  They poured the foundation/basement.  We're still doing paperwork, so can't say it's ours' yet.  I'll post photos when it's official.  

Ok, Sage meltdown has begun. Adios!

Still have internet

Since our internet hasn't gotten canceled yet, I figured I should keep trying to blog.

This morning, we went to the dog park and Sage got to swing for a few minutes.  Here's the video:  https://qik.com/video/13692159.  (not sure how to embed it in the blog)

Keene was sick last weekend.  He had some kind of stomach/digestive issues.  He got super dehydrated and had a fever and the runs.  It got so bad that blood was coming out.  We got him in at the vet (a friend of ours who is a great vet) at the Cottonwood Animal Hospital.  They ended up keeping him for 2 days on i.v.'s.  He came home on Sunday evening and was pretty mellow.  But now, he's back to normal, he's jumping off the walls, etc.  It was scary to see him so sick, but we're glad that he's back to normal.

I made bread again.  I used this recipe from Amy Thompsen.  The only thing I did different is use maple syrup instead of honey, since Sage is still in the No Honey phase.  This is what she looks like, right before she feeds the bread to Keene.  :)

hello readers, all 5 of you.  it's time for my quarterly post.  finally, you say.  but, nothing super exciting.  just thought i'd put up a few thoughts.

the tasty thai, the little thai restaurant on the corner, is great.  we went there tonight with our friends, jess and ashlee anderson.  steve took some pregnancy photos of them (ashlee is due in 2 days), so they bought us dinner.  my, i love green curry.  i love curry, really, of any sort.  and that coconut milk soup (can't remember the thai name).  oooooh.  so good.

i made bread, three loaves within 5 days.  two white bread loaves and one whole wheat.  the white ones i tried first.  they turned out pretty good.  a bit dense, but tasty.  then, on tuesday, i did the wheat one.  but, i got even more adventurous, because i first ground up the wheat berries into flour, then made the bread.  and guess what, it's edible.  even good.  steve likes it.  next is tortillas.

fall is here, the leaves are turning orange.  it's pretty.

sage stands up on her own all the time now.  we're just waiting for those first steps.  also, today, for the first time, she tried to expand her palette, by testing out keene's dog food.  she choked on 2 pieces, but i had to wrestle the third one out of her mouth.  oh, and she blew spit bubbles all over her face today for the first time.  but, she wiped it away before i could get a picture.

we got our 4runner back today, after it being dead and in the shop for over a week.  many dollars later, it's great to have stella back.  she really is a great car.  268,000 miles and still rollin.

lindsay, not sure if you'll ever have time to read my blog again, but i've been thinking about you.  congrats and good luck.  being a mom is a trip (good and stressful, but mostly good).

ok, off to get the bike and trailer ready for a bike ride with julie tomorrow along the jordan river parkway.  sage will love it.  she loves the bike trailer.  i will love it.  i love bikes.  and bike trailer.  and spending time being active.  and being with good friends.

sorry, no pictures.  i'll try for that soon.  although no promises, we're cancelling the internet here at the house, soon.  experiments in doing more and being better.

Anniversary

Thursday was our anniversary.  4 years.  So cool.  We took off work Thursday and Friday, because we were going to go camping in the Uintahs, but then we decided that it would be tons of work and we'd rather be more relaxed.  So, Thursday we had real Belgian Waffles from Bruges' Waffles and Frites.

Then home for a bit for Sage's nap, then off to do a couple errands, including picking up our vegetable order from Liberty Heights Fresh.  I'll do a review of that experience soon, next week is our last.

Then to REI for a little purchase for Sage.  Then off to Park City.  That's where we went on our honeymoon.  Fun times.  It was a pretty relaxed time strolling Main Street.  We went to a number of galleries, our favorite was one that had just opened up that day, The Rodney Lough Gallery.  His website doesn't show off his work the best, but wow, he's got some beautiful work.  Then dinner, not impressive, I chose the place and was bummed out.  Oh well, the waffles earlier were great, so that's all that mattered.  

Then a nice drive down the canyon back to Salt Lake, then drove around town and talked about goals for the next year (we do a yearly theme for our marriage) and watched an amazing sunset.  The theme for this year is Be Simple, Be Healthy.  And the first item of business is to learn to live on a schedule (mostly just morning and night routines) and after we get that mastered, we'll move onto physical health, financial health, spiritual health, social health and intellectual health.  But, we're not going to even try and tackle them all together, but just one little thing for 30 days, then the next.  

Did I mention we drug Sage along with us.  Quite fun.  We love having such a cute, fun little girl to hang out with and watch as she smiles at everything and belly laughs.  

Oh, and did I mention that we saw David Boreanaz (Special Agent Seely Booth) from Bones, playing basketball with his kids and wife.  Cool to see a star and to see him doing something cool, family time.  

We think family time is pretty cool these days.  New and fun activity.  Highly recommend it.