Mom and Dad were able to attend Brayden's baptism in Temecula a few weeks ago. Congratulations on your big day Brayden!
This is the west facing side of the house, with the exterior stone and siding in place. Notice the red trim-- Moms idea. 
This is how the kitchen looks when you walk in the front door. They just finished putting up the drywall this week. Now all we are waiting for is flooring and cabinets.
This is the east side of the house, notice that the cement has been poured, the siding is up, and the garage doors are in. The lights outside actually work now too! Very exciting. 
Thanks Nancee for sending this darling picture of Erica and Papa! Happy 2nd Birthday to Erica!
Papa, Aunt Heidi and Uncle Clint came to visit us for a few days. They also happened to be in town when Ricky and Eden were here for her brothers wedding. It was so nice to have a house full of people again! Thanks everyone for visiting!
Dad and I getting our ice cream on. (Notice the name of the dairy? Also, notice the weird little kid on the bottom left trying to get in on the picture. Haha)
Its kind of hard to tell from this picture, but this was a cute fountain at the fair that had a clear plastic tube in the center, so that it looked as though water was just flowing from the spigot above. Dad thought it might be a good idea for the Clean Museum and Mom thought it might look cool in the entry of the new house. I also love Mom's Vanna White pose. 
Mom has been busy all month preparing for the ABC convention in Las Vegas (which is where she is right now). The above picture is a larger-than-life handcrafted sculpture of the new Baby Banana Brush Teether, with the attached handles. Mom will be debuting this new product at the convention, we hope it goes well! 
This is a larger-than-life poster that will hang in the back of their booth at the convention. (I got to help design it!)
Last weekend JJ's company (Ernst & Young) flew him out to do some recruiting at BYU. He came up to spend a day with us before he had to get to work. (We are all looking into the sun in the above picture. Considering I took it with my outstretched left arm, I think it turned out pretty good!)
The staircase to the loft was too steep, so we re-did it and turned it into two levels, as you can see in the above picture.
This is the stray cat that took shelter in our house for a few weeks. Dad named the cat Baxter after Uncle Dale's stray cat. It took some convincing, but I was able to take the kitten to the vet. They told us she's a girl! Shortly thereafter we got her some tests, shots and had her spayed. She's been recovering from her surgery in our guest room for the last few days. 
Baxters original habitat (aka the fireplace in the basement of the big house).
Here's an up-close picture of what our siding looks like.
Mom & Dad standing in front of the main house. The siding is all up, and now our next step will be to put up natural looking stone on the opposite side of the house. (August 2009)
The guest house, with its siding mostly up. (August 2009) 
This is at Pocatello's version of Chuck-E-Cheese, called 'Outer Limits'. Mom said the girls had a lot of fun doing climbing and playing arcade games. Even Dad and Mom had fun! 
Marissa obviously takes after her grandmother, as she is hard at work on her latest project. For those of you who don't know, Marissa has become quite the author. She has pages and pages of fairy drawings and she puts them together as little chapter books. She also makes drawings for potential websites.
I'm not sure what this is of, but Mallory looks dang cute! I can't believe how long her hair is getting. She looks like a teenager! (Mom said the girls had fun playing dress up with my makeup and jewelry, so this is probably of that).
While the girls were in Idaho with their grandparents, this little guy was getting treated for asthma. Everything is supposed to be okay now though. Heather says these are two of Nathan's favorite things--playing in the water and collecting rocks. He is already such a boy!
