Teddy the Horse Dog

Tonight Henry climbed into his wagon full of blocks, obviously wanting to be pulled around. After giving in to his wishes for a bit, I had a brilliant (or stupid) idea. It turned out to be an injury free activity and quite fun for all (except for maybe Teddy who tired out quickly). I tried to upload a video, but obviously it did not happen.

While I'm here, here's some house information I forgot. We are still in good ol' Payson, Utah. We're less than a mile from where they are going to build the new temple and might be able to see it from Henry's room. Hopefully! Wouldn't that be cool?! Our church building is right next door to the temple plot and I am rather excited to see the changes every week. Hopefully they can start on it soon!

Inside House Pictures

I don't really want to take and share pictures of our the inside of our house just yet. Things are mostly unpacked and rooms are settled, but I just don't want to share pictures yet. It's getting there.

BUT, I found that I did save the pictures from the posting online. They aren't the greatest, but they give you the general idea of the house and the boring-ness of the walls. (I really want to paint! Someday.) Now I just have to remember where they're at...






(Still looking)






Found them!

The living room.

The kitchen and living room.

Kitchen again.

The family room from the kitchen. You can see the stairs going up and the door in the family room goes to the laundry room, 1/2 bath, garage, and basement.

Before The Snow Comes

There were two things I really wanted/needed to do before it starts snowing. Since that could be as soon as tomorrow morning and as late as tomorrow night, I got them done today.

Task #1:
Move Grandmothers red rocking chair into the garage. Snow does not do good things for wood.

CHECK!


Task #2:
Take a picture or our house. I didn't want my first picture or the house to have include snow, so this was very important to me.

CHECK!

This is our house. It is no color that is very exciting, it's awfully close to the neighbors, the yard isn't huge, but we love it! When we were looking we saw all kinds of houses. We saw twin homes, old homes, one meth house, but nothing like this as far as bang for your buck. We weren't expecting anything nearly this size or young, so when we saw it, we just put in an offer. Two months later, it was ours.

It has 4 bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, a living room, family room, mud room area, and it's on a cul-de-sac with a walking trail and field at the end. There really isn't anything special about the house itself besides the layout and the $$/sq ft, but we like it!

You can't really tell, but we have two trees in our front yard. Not in the picture is the maple and leafless, in front of the window, is mystery tree. I'm 99.9% sure it's not a Quaking Aspen. The trunk looks like one, but the leafs do not. If you know me, you know that trees are important, hence them earning blogging time. The back yard isn't huge, but it doesn't have another house in it (also important to me). There's some grass space, then a rock wall and a hill.

That is our house. We like it. There are lots of improvements I'd like to make over time (a long time), so I'll have to report as they happen. Any donations for Butterfield Home Improvement Fund would be greatly appreciated. We could even throw in a nights stay in our comfy "guest suite" as an appreciation gift.