Back again

Okay, so I'm not all that good at keeping this blog thing up to date. It has been 4 months since I did any updates. Based on what I have been doing it looks like I will be updating this about once a quarter. Since I last wrote several things have happened. I was called as a Sunday School teacher with Kacee as a team teacher for the every other week that she can make it to church. Our ward was then split and I was also called as the Finance clerk. We had our first anniversary on August 8th which we will be celebrating next week by going to Seattle Washington. Hopefully I'll have some information and pictures to post. We did celebrate on the day of our anniversary, but our big plans are for next week.

One of the things we are most excited about is that we finaly finished all the work that our back yard needed. I have a bunch of before and after pictures below. The earliest pictures show just dirt, but we did start with nothing but weeds. The first pictures are after we tilled everything up and started removing weeds and preparing the ground for everything we were planning to do. Sorry about the quality for some of these pictures. I had to pull some of them off my phone instead of the camera.

Here is the side of the house behind the garage.
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After


Here is the Back Porch
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After

You can see a distinct line in the grass. this is because we werre able to get some grass for free and it was lain a month or so before the other stuff.

Here is the back yard
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After


And down the other side of the house.
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After


In the front yard we had this nasty pipe sticking out of the ground. It feeds to our sprikling system and has to be there, so we covered it up with our very own wishing well. It still has a couple of touches that need to be added but it looks pretty good.

Before

After


Since I last wrote we got two new kittens so now we have 4 cats. Here is a picture of each. The kittens are growing so fast that these pictures that are only a week or two old don't show them exactly as they really are. WE moved the litter box and everything for the cats downstairs in the unfinished basement. We installed a cat door so that they can all get downstairs without us leaving the door open.
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We have only been able to get one picture with all four cats in it at the same time.


On my last post I included a picture of the view from the front of our house. The piicture was taken on a really bad stormy day. A few people told me that I neede to replace the picture. Well, I have included some panoramic type pictures that I took today (a nice sunny day) There are pictures from the front and back. I also took a trip up the hill to the east and took some pictures of Cedar Valley (Eagle Mountain is in Cedar Valley). Cedar Valley is the valley located west of Utah Lake and Lake Mountain which is right next to the lake. These pictures didn't turn out too good, but if anyone wants to see them I will post them in the future. Kacee and I love the beautiful peaceful nature of this area.

Front Yard


Back Yard



Well, I hope to give an update before another 4 months goes by, but we'll just play it as it goes.