Our new Home (almost)

So we have been trying to do this for a while but we have finally started building our new home! It won't be done till next year but we are excited. Here are a few pics of the whole process from start till now (so just the very beginning).




So one pic is of the back corner of the house. It looks out to the rest of the house and the garage from the kitchen (future). The second is at the same spot but looking more at the garage. Anyway, we are excited and can't wait for it to be done. There is a long way to go from here though.




Here we have the footings and then the walls. Sorry but yes we are taking pics the whole way and we are a little excited about it all. Nice that it is close so we can see all the changes from day to day.



So we took a picture of how the stroller and Hayden could go into the garage after they water-proofed and put in the window wells then backfilled. It looks like they will need a little more dirt though. Exciting to see it starting to come together and such.




Plus Hayden is doing so well that we know that we are truly being blessed. Hayden is enough evidence of that but he sure helps to remind me of what is important and how blessed we are to have him in our lives. Hopefully all will continue to go well and Hayden will walk and talk and be even happier (if that is possible, he is a funny boy).

Backtrack

So I think that since we started this blog a lot has happened and while we can't catch up on all that I would like to show you how far Hayden has come. Now a friend helped me figure out how to change the background and it helped me to figure out how to put music on. Some of my song choices are a little off the wall and some have a lot of meaning and memories. Some were just wierd fun ones that I chose. I am sure that as I listen to non-kid music I will change them. But for now the ones I want to tell you about I thought I could share some pics from the past. The first one that I will tell you about is the "Rocky" song. Now as most of you know Hayden was born at 28 weeks and was quite samll. But he was always (well almost) progressing just doing a lot of hard work to stay here and grow so I did this 10 minute slide of him to Rocky music because of the obvious comparisons. So here are some of his very first pictures.



Then the other one is silly but when we were in Reno and we had our first house we took a lot of pictures and I was playing with the computer one night while waiting for Jared to fly back in from a work thing in CA, I figured out how to do the slide thing and in the song Where the Green Grass Grows it say watch my corn pop up in rows and the first year we did our flowers in rows and I got it to fit in the right part and I was so proud of myself. Silly but true. Anyway just thought I would share with you our first house in Reno as well. We enjoyed it there but we knew that we had to come back to Utah and the above pictures would be why.




I sure am glad to look back and see just how much has changed and just how much has happened. Hayden truly is a miracle and we are very blessed to have him in our lives.

Oh, and just a side note, I am very glad for conference. Not so that I can stay home in my sweats but for all the great counsel and ideas that I am given. Also, I really feel uplifted and excited to do better and change. Anyway, not to be all preachy but this conference was great wasn't it!?!