Monday, September 30, 2013

Whats been up...

Family:  Brady crawls all over the place (half the time with a toy sticking out of his mouth)  He loves pulling himself up to the couch, boxes, chairs, anything and everything.  He likes to walk around holing on with both hands, and takes HUGE steps like a robot.  It's really funny. Here are some pictures to show you his favorite things...

Loves being outside and eating leaves/grass

Stand up with almost anything

Reaching for Daddy's tools
Crawling with stuff in my mouth

Yep... climbing on top of boxes
Except He can't get down, so we have to teach him
or he goes head first
 Will is still enjoying his job.  They switched ward boundaries so we have had fun meeting new people in the ward. 


House:  We finished installing the snap in wood floors and have been slowly organizing the closet.  We started painting the kitchen cabinets.  We are almost finished with the final coat, then we have to hang up a couple, and instal some counter top before I put up some pictures.  We are using the Rustoleum Cabinet Transformation kit, so if any of you want some tips, just ask.  

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Soon to be 7 months!

Watching Dad and Grandpa outside






Brady has accomplished SO much while he has been 6months.

My favorite hiding place
I love climbing up mountains
Brady was looking handsome so I took some pictures
*He his crawling to most things.  If it's really far, or he is fussy he will still scoot.  The Gate has been up for a while because he can get where ever he wants to. 
* Favorite foods Peaches and sweet potatoes
* He has maxed at out 15lbs and 27in long.  Long and skinny
* He can pull himself to standing position with the chair or couch; he turns around so fast he needs someone by him still or he will topple over
* Still LOVES when people talk to him or smile at him.
* Favorite toys are shoes
* Likes to play under the piano bench, and play the piano.
* He will take really awkward HUGE steps walking while holding on to us with both hands
* he loves to CLIMB OVER EVERYTHING!  He will climb over legs, big and small toys, couch pillows
* Brady loves just being outside
* He gets himself into the sitting position by himself
* He loves wrestling with his daddy.
I love dad


Chillin outside while mommy and daddy do yard work





Monday, September 9, 2013

House... What we have done so far

A lot of people have been asking me about the house to see pictures.  Here are lots of pictures some with the before and now picture, and others of just the origional because we haven't done anything.  I posted some at the beginning so it might be a double, so bear with me.

Before: Front of the house
After: not picture, My dad chopped all the weeds down,
and put up a dirt brim to keep the water from going to the basement
Outside, We have only mowed.  As you can see it needs A LOT of yard work. 
It's a panorama picture so it doesn't show the weird angle of the yard from living on a circle
It is bigger then some and has a short steep hill from sledding in a year or two.
Bathroom

Dining Room

Kitchen






Living Room

Now the Basement... The basement was all put aside (except the laundry room) until we moved in.  This will be our next main focus (Until we finish finding cabinets for the kitchen so we can paint them).  We are going to start with the office to do lots of painting, and can double as a Guest room until the Guest room is finished.  Right now the Guest room is storing EVERYTHING, so it's pretty messy.  It will be nice to have an office so I can organize my other side of the brain :)  Then we definitely need to tidy up the bathroom so our guests have a place to go.  Next the livingroom/all/stairs/guest room/ ceiling... ect.  As you can see from the pictures, we still have a lot more work to do :)

this and the next picture are of the room we will be turning into an office
Ceiling and walls need painted and floors laid down are the top priorities.


Our very sad looking downstairs bathroom
We can only imagine how much work this is going to be...
Good news!  The toilet works though (if you don't mind an open creepy ceiling above your head)
Stairs... yep, lots of work too.
The downstairs family room... the carpet as been ripped out.  It was the first
thing because it smelt so bad.  As you can see we will need to tear out the ceiling in here, paint, base boards,
flooring... you know the usual :)
Although it is a lot of work, we really like the house! I  will be really excited when the cabinets are finished so I can organize my kitchen; and when we build some book shelves so I can get rid of my boxes of books lying around.  Once those two projects are finished, upstairs unpacking will be done.  We are so grateful for being able to get this house and all the help we have had from family and friends. 

Friday, September 6, 2013

Brady

We finally got internet in our new home, so I can blog.  I will put up some pictures on the house soon.  For now, It's Brady time.  He has GROWN so much!  And today, he has been doing the little-est cute-est things EVER!  I am sure by 7months he will be crawling.

With the new house, he has mastered scooting.  It took him about a week to get used to the wood floors, and by then we had laid some area rugs down both don't phase him.  He has gone from room too room following me.  It is the cutest thing ever!  He can crawl about 4 "crawls" then plops and scoots because he is SO much fast that way.  He is such a big helping in finding every little thing on the floor, and LOVES all the little carpet pieces and tearing the plastic strings.  Here are some things I have captured him doing today... all happens within 1 min of putting him on the floor, all places are about 15ft away.  

Got this out for his cousin the other day, Brady's toys are behind that.  I guess he didn't like the ones I put out for him. 

The Bathroom is his FAVORITE place to go to! He must like the monkeys.

This is his favorite place to pull at the carpet.  He is doing his morning planks. He also loves to do the yoga pose downward facing dog, and rock back on his hands and knees to put himself to sleep.

I went out to bring in the groceries and kept the door open.  I walk up to Brady by the door saying "mamamamama"  LOVE This little guy!




Freedom!
We also got a new rug for the back door and I hadn't taken off the sticker yet, Brady found that and took it off for me.  This was his first time scooting to the backdoor which is by the stairs, I guess I have to get a gate.  He is a busy busy boy!