New House....New Furniture!

We decided to use some of our tax refund to buy bedroom furniture, something we had never done before. It looked a lot smaller in the showroom but luckily it all still fit in our room. To let you know just how big it is, Joshua just climbed into the bottom drawer of the chest of drawers without us knowing and somehow he was able to close the drawer while inside it. All of a sudden I heard him yelling and crying for help and we couldn't find him for a few seconds. He is probably traumatized for life now!

We're Back

It has been a long time since we have posted but I think I finally caught us up to date. Things were very crazy here the last month and a half, but I think it is finally settling down. So here are just a few of the things that have happened lately.

The New Addition to Our Family

Yes, it is true. I gave in. But not without some stipulations. Owning our own house means we can finally have a family pet. I agreed to a cat because they can pretty much take care of themselves. Nicole can do the rest. She also had to be declawed. She is 4 months old and a very sweet little kitty. Nicole named her Sunshine.

Four Months Old

Jarom is getting bigger (and cuter) every day. He is now 4 months old and weighs 14 lbs. He is rolling over and starting to eat baby food. I can tell he can't wait to start crawling. He is growing up way too fast!

Freezing Fog

On our new mailbox!

Christmas at our New Home

We had our final county inspection and received the keys to our new house on Christmas Eve. We decided to camp out just for Christmas. The kids all slept in sleeping bags and we tried to sleep on an air mattress until it went flat half way through the night. Santa even found us at our new address! It will always be a Christmas to remember.

Nicole loves the bathrobe grandma sent.

This was the only thing Jacob asked for that wasn't star wars related.

But the boys still got lots of Star wars.

It was Jarom's first Christmas. Here he is with the bear grandma sent.

Nicole got her favorite movie, Phantom of the Opera.

Action shot!

Joshua loves playing with the "Good Guys".

Our tree looks a lot smaller in the new house.

Mom, Dad said you wanted to see our fridge so here you go! This is the best shot I have.

Somewhere in between finishing the house and everything else that was going on we found time to make a gingerbread train. We really did have a great Christmas this year!

Happy Birthday Nicole!

Nicole is now 10 years old! We got her a Nintendo DS for her birthday. It is of course pink! We gave it to her Saturday Night so she could go pick out a game to go with it. That way she didn't have to wait until after school on Monday before she could play with it, and we really wanted her to choose the game she would like the most. She is very happy even though we didn't have a party this year.

More progress on the house

Counter tops are in but not quite finished. He still needs to finish the backsplashes. Our bar area has room enough for 6 bar stools. We also had all of our appliances delivered this week. We love our new fridge!
This is the master bath, the main bath looks basically the same.

Our house is the only one that has any counter tops in it so far. We have been having a lot of trouble with the counter top guy. He keeps making promises he doesn't keep. First he said that he would have 3 houses finished before Thanksgiving. Now he has said that all the houses will be finished by the end of Saturday the 6th. He didn't do any work today at all. If we aren't finished by Christmas it will be because of him. There isn't anything left for us to do out there except for a little bit of touch up painting. It is very frustrating to wait on the sub contractors to do their jobs!

If I had Known I Would Be on TV....

...I would have washed my hair this morning! I usually don't care what I look like when I know I'm going to be spending all day out at the house working. But yesterday I wish I had. A local news reporter came to do a story on our program and choose to interview me. He spend about 20 minutes at our house while we were caulking the bathrooms. He cut out a lot that I said of course, especially the part where I said that we weren't really sure if we would be done for Christmas. They also make it sound like we are just being given this house. No, it will just be a little bit cheaper because we do most of the labor. Dispite the fact that I spelled my name for them they still spelled Curtner with a K. Anyway, I not sure how to post a direct link to he video so if you want to see it go to http://www.kpvi.com/ and scroll down a little bit to a list of featured videos. The title is "EICAP families will be home for the holidays". Let me know what you think!

Joseph did a great job on our floor!

We're So Excited!

Our house really started to come together today. Our kitchen cabinets are all installed except for one.

Here is the laminate floor that Joseph and 2 friends are installing. They are about 1/3 of the way done. So far it looks great.

This is the vinyl in the bathrooms. There was a mix up at Lowes and yesterday they installed the wrong vinyl. It had a wood floor look to it. It was so ugly I seriously cried. They were really great about it and fixed it first thing this morning.

Here are a couple of shots of the carpet that was installed today. It looks really good!

Jarom's Blessing

Yesterday Jarom had his baby blessing. He was wide awake through the whole thing and he was perfectly calm and happy. We know that he could feel the spirit during the blessing. Afterwards, he quietly drifted off to sleep and slept through the rest of sacrament meeting. It was a wonderful day for our family. It would have been nice to have someone from our extended family there, but we hope this post helps everyone feel like they were there too.