More House Pictures

I had hoped to actually blog before this but instead its just more house pictures.

Master bath

Master Bedroom 

Guest Shower 

Kitchen from Family Room perspective 

Homework Room

Patio 

Laundry Room /mud room

Mud Room/laundry

Family Room

Powder Room

Office 

View of Living room 

Back Stairs 

Upstairs hall

Laundry chute, my favorite feature in the whole house! 

Back Patio

 

Home Sweet Home in Progress

As most of you know we have been working on a new home. I don't want to seem like a bragger or an over sharer, so I haven't posted any pictures. I have decided that isn't right either. I would like to share some of what has been taking up so much time in my family's life.

The outside

 The box beams in the Kitchen/Family Room

 Kitchen in progress

 Entryway tile

 My blue pantry. Yes, I asked for blue!

 The front doors

 The hardwood

 The Living Room as viewed from the Family Room



Beams in Living Room

 The barrel ceiling--a mistake turned into a beautiful feature

 Master Bath

And there is our labor of love, our work in progress, our future home, sweet home!

 

I am back!

After taking last year off so I could Index (Indexing is looking at a scanned documents like birth certificates, boat manifests, naturalization records and typing the information so that people can digitally have access to the information. This is particularly helpful for people that are trying to search their family history) I am back in the blogworld. I am so excited (especially since I now remember my password). So, look for updates of Life with TeamZ.

My cute ball hog

H and her soccer team. We have played together for several years. Now we are breaking up because we are torn about what leve of soccer we all want to play. Thanks for the memories LLT

Hat Trick

At the end of April, H broke her arm trying to do a flip at recess. She was a trooper through the whole thing. She was excited to get a cast, especially since she choose the colors and had a bow on it.

One of her best friends also has a cast on her right arm at the moment.

This weekend, was H's first time playing soccer with her cast. She was a rock star. She scored 3 goals, or in other words a hat trick. 

Way to go H!

Nerds Rule!

My lovable girls and their Carly. My girls love to wear their glasses.

Future blackmail material???

Christmas Recital

The girls at their Christmas Recital

 

H: Go Tell It on the Mountain

Snowman- She sang along

 

R: Rockin Around the Christmas Tree

 

E: Away in a Manger

Ukrainian Bell Carol

A Walk in the Woods

JR's favorite day of the year: going and cutting down our Christmas tree.

 This years tree was especially pretty. We are becoming experts on picking tall trees that are still skinny enough to fit in the house.

 

Our traditional picture before we cut down the tree

 I even got a picture.

 S eating a treat on the way home

 H chillin in the car

 R and her beloved monkey hat

 E deck out in purple

I am Thankful

For Thanksgiving 2102, we went to JR's parents. While we were going to be gone our Ward was going on a Youth Temple Trip. This would have been E's first time to go. Grandpa Mike had heard the announcement while he was here for H's baptism. He decided that instead of E missing the trip, he would setup a TeamZ Youth Temple Trip while we were down there.

So, our very first morning we were there we headed to the temple with all our neices and nephews who are older than 12. Mike and Jill, Mark and Jen, JR and I were able to go along. It was a great experience!

 

All the youth from the TeamZ Temple trip

Back: SEZ, JBZ, ZMZ

Front: EJZ, ARZ, AJZ

Veterans Day 2012

In honor of Veteran's Day, the girls' elementary school had an assembly. R was chosen to read her essay about why we should honor Veterans. She did a great job expressing the sacrifices that Veterans have made to keep us free. As her mother, I can say she also did a great job reading her essay as well.

"Veteran's Day is a day when we honor the men and women who served for our country. They also risked their lives to keep us free. When Veterans left it was not easy. They left their home, family, friends and everything else. They did this because they believed in equal rights. Veterans are great people. I know this because my great-grandpa is one. So, I want to say to all the Veterans-Thank you!"

 

Here is H and the 2nd grade singing "It's a Grand Old Flag" 

R was part of a special choir that sang some lovely patriotic songs. 

R, Kennedy L, Brinley, Kennedy C, Sequoia

I survived...

...the birthday gauntlet. All my girls have their birthdays within two and half months of each other. This year everyone had a friend birthday, a separate family birthday, and other birthday activities.

 

E- Surprise Party- Paradise theme, Hawaiian Haystacks for dinner with Minute to Win It games

 R- Owl Theme- Owl crafts & cake,Dinner was pulled pork sandwiches and homemade mac-n-cheese, topped off with watching the Lorax

S- Golden Birthday- Golden Cupcakes with Golden Books as favors(that I somehow misplaced and still have never found) The moms came to this party and had divine cupcakes!

 H- Her theme Movie Night(I really thought the theme was I am big like my sisters)

We served pizza for dinner, played a candy game, watched "Cheaper by the Dozen", and handed out movie sized candy boxes as the favor. (I forgot to take a single picture during that party)

 

Now, I need to gear up for the real or rest of the Holiday Season. By January, I will be ready to hibernate!