From "WENTZ" We Came

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Bekka's time in Nebraska....Her first trip from home

This was Bekka's first trip without Mommy & Daddy! She had a blast, didn't get home sick until the last few days. She was gone for two weeks! I called to check on her everyday sometimes twice a day, but most of the time she was to busy to talk. Her Grandma took a bunch of pictures for me. She had her own bed, cuddled with Grandpa and was silly, slept at Grandma's office while she worked, got a new bike, went on bike rides with Grandpa and Grandma, went swimming at the pool, and went camping at the lake! She had a blast, but I was sure glad to have her home! I missed her!!!!!! :) Oh, and she went to the park and played with the Kitty's! She wore out her Grandma & Grandpa! Grandma took so many good pictures, I couldn't pic just a couple, but I didn't want to post ALL of them....

How we spent our 4th of July

We BBQ'ed, watched fireworks from our front yard and Travis's Mom & Hugh came out and put our tile in the basement!!! We now are alot closer to being finished with the downstairs. We are just about to start coloring (painting) the walls after priming them! Once that is done, we will get carpet and get the electrical stuff finished up!!! I can't wait! :)

Catie wins Cutest Personality...

Catie won the Cutest Personality in the Baby Contest at our City's 4th of July celebration!!!! Check these pics out! Yes every single one of these babies (even the little plump one) are in the same age group, all within days or weeks of each other.

Friday, June 27, 2008

Before & After

BEFORE: This picture was taken just before we moved in.

AFTER: Of course, after we got our yard put in!!! Nearly a year from when we moved in.

These two pictures are the extent of any vegetable garden I have! I can't plant a real garden mainly because Maggie would eat it! I had both barrels in the back yard on our patio, but when Maggie ate everything out of them, I moved them to the front of the house! The above picture are my cucumber's and the one below has 3 different tomato plants and also the jalapeno's and 2 different kinds of bell peppers!

This is a picture of the planter I made in the front yard that I said I would take more pictures of once we got sod and my flowers were filling in! I can't wait to see it in another couple of weeks! I have so many flowers, that it will look so great! I will take some more pictures once the flowers fill in more! Below are a bunch more pictures of the front yard! I also included some of the flowers I have found to be my favorite! They are called Dahlia's! I think I will continue to plant these in my yard....they come as a mixture of colors and make it so colorful when in bloom!!

This just shows what I did in front of the house going up twards the front door! Once the petunia's start to cascade alot more down the rocks on the side, I will take some more pictures. They are starting to do it now, but give them about another couple of weeks!

Rice Crispies & Nilla Wafers

These two products have become a life saver in our home! Catie loves to pick things up and put them into her mouth! I have to watch her every second, every minute all day long! Oh, did I mention that she has been crawling now for about a month?

Bekka hanging out!

She was too cute lounging in her little swimming pool keeping cool while eating her popsicle!

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!!!!

Thursday, June 26, 2008

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!