We got grass!!!!! :) :) :)

Travis had taken the trailer down to Moab about 2 wks before we got the sod and because he was gone, I had to try to get the final grade done on the yard. Thanks to a few of our neighbors, we were able to get the yard ready for sod and on Friday, June 13th we finally had sod delivered!!!!! We had 19 pallets and each pallet had 500 sq ft on it just for our yard (front & back). We all first went and helped our neighbors accross the street lay the sod in thier back yard, Heather made lasagna and we ate, then we headed to our house and got the entire front yard done in about an hour, everyone wanted to do the back yard, but I thought we should wait until Travis got home so he could help! The neighbors that live to the East of us had sod delivered also (there were 3 homes that all ordered sod to be delivered at the same time so we could split the delivery fee) and they were laying it by themselves, so we all went over and got thier yard done! Saturday we started laying sod in our back yard just after 10:00 and we were done by 12:30 and then I BBQ'ed 24 hamburgers and 20 hot dogs for everyone who helped out! Between all 3 yards, we had 35 pallets delivered which is 17,500 sq ft that we ended up laying in a matter of hours!!!!

Trip to South Dakota....Memorial Weekend

We went to visit our family in South Dakota for the weekend. We hadn't been back there since July 2006 for Travis's brother Curtis's wedding. We visited with everyone and wished we still had more time to visit more. We stayed out at our farm with Grandpa & Grandma Jacobs and every day just after noon, we would take off for town which is about 25 miles and we would visit with Grandpa & Grandma Wentz and George & Lisa and everyone else! It was a short trip but worth it! Travis's brother Curtis with the girls!

Great Grandpa & Grandma Wentz with Joey, Tasha and the girls

Bekka's Grandma & Grandpa Wentz took her on a shopping spree!

This is most of the items she picked out for herself and Catie

On Saturday, there was a big hail storm that hit out at the farm! Check out the size of those pieces!! I have never seen hail that size before!

Tony & Cassandra with the girls

Grandma & Grandpa Wentz with the girls!

Travis & the girls with Great Grandpa & Grandma Jacobs at our farm.

Great-Grandma Jacobs & Catie

Mannerisms & Hazel Eyes

Catie is now 7 months old today and I can't believe how fast the time has gone by already. I am so glad that I get to spend so much time with her!!! I take her to the office with me during the time that Bekka is at school and it is wonderful! Her blue eyes are now starting to turn more hazel, Bekka and Abbi have thier daddy's eye color and Catie has mine! Catie has started to do alot of the mannerisms that Abbi used to do...Travis was watching her the other night and noticed that she plays with her hair just like Abbi used to. She is now at the age when some of the things she does reminds me so much of Abbi. She still isn't crawling, but she is still trying really hard to do it. She does get on her hands and knees and launches herself forward and gets back up and does it again and again to get where she is going. I am sure it won't be to long now before she figures out that if she moves those hands forward, then she can go! Well, here are some pictures of her that I took a few weeks ago....I am going to try to take her 7 month pics this weekend and will post more when I am done with those!

Gage Denver Canfield

Our friends Jen and Travis had thier little boy on April 29th and he is so adorable! Jen let me take pictures of Gage and Hannah last Friday evening and we had a ball!!!! Just wanted to share them with you! :)

Changed My Mind....

Well, I think that I have changed my mind on having this blog be private. I am going to leave it though to where any comments are going to have to be emailed to me before they are published on my blog so that I don't have someone anonymous leave crap on my comments for people to potentially get virus's....I know, I change my mind alot! Hope all is well with everyone! :)

Going to make this blog private!!! :)

I have a friend who is going to make her blog private and I have decided that because of the pictures of my children and personal things being posted, I will be doing the same thing so beginning May 15th, this will blog will be password protected. If you would like to get the access information, please email me and when I get it set up, I will send it to you. Also as of tonight, I will have any comments that are posted sent to my email address for approval until the privacy is set up because of the comment left by someone that I believe if you click on what they are leaving will give your computer a virus!

Thanks for your understanding!

Some pictures since the last post on Tuesday...

Travis bought Bekka a Bubble BBQ Grill today that she has seen on TV and has asked for numerous times. You wouldn't believe the amount of bubbles this thing puts out! :)

Two Days after I posted the pictures of Catie pushing herself up, she had figured out that those knees are supposed to bend! She also is rocking back and forth!!!! Not to much longer! :)

Today I also took her 6 month pictures. I still have to do some editing, but here are some! I think they look pretty good and are just as good as if I was to take her into the studio.

Nearly 80 Degrees!

Yesterday it was nearly 80 and today it is cold and actually snowing! Shorts yesterday and sweats/snow clothing the next not completely unusual Utah weather, but after getting sun burned working out in my yard yesterday this is very unwelcomed! The last week has been pretty busy outside at the Wentz house! I was able to get my raised flower beds in (picked up all of the brick last week for them), planted shrubs and we even got the fence posts put in last Friday. The fence company is coming this Friday to finish putting in our fence and we will be another step closer to laying sod. I just need to finish putting the rings I am building out of brick around my trees and we will need to level the yard a bit more and then we can order sod!!!! If it were up to me, I would have just hired someone to come and put in my yard for me, but it is nice to see everything finally coming together and all of the hardwork paying off! We are also in process of working on our basement. I had to get the plumbers in to do the plumbing last Thursday so that is done....we have just a few more things for electrical in our family room and the sheet rock was delivered this morning. The sheetrockers can get started on everything except for the family room and the bathroom because we have just a few more things that we need to do before that can be sheeted, so this weekend will be another busy one for us! Below are some pics of outside and our basement as it sits right now. I will take some more pictures when the weather is a little bit nicer and I get the rest of the planters done in my back yard, hopefully the fence will be up at that time as well and I can post some updates on that! ENJOY!

The ring I built around one of three trees in my back yard.

View of fence posts.

Another view of fence posts

Front planters (can't see them to well, I will take better pics later)

This will be our guest room

This will be the Office.

My scrapbook and kids playroom

Fireplace in family room

Catie is almost 6 Months old and....

She wants to crawl....she is gets so frustrated, but I love to take pictures of it! :) She looks like she is doing push-ups, she does scoot backwards and she can get herself turned around really well. I think she will be crawling before the end of April!

Yes, We Did Make It Back...Pictures from Our Trip

Catie - Just hanging out!

The girls & I went into town and went to Walmart. We bought kites for both Bekka and Grandpa. Bekka chose a Spiderman kite for Grandpa....we think he liked it!

Grandma even had fun flying kites!

Hanging out w/Grandpa after a hard day of play!

Bekka & Grandpa making a hop scotch...

Grandma helped her make a hop scotch as well.....Bekka loves to color on the sidewalk with chalk.