Night Out

On our way to see Dierks Bentley and Eli Young Band! :)

-- Sent from my Palm Pre

Home Tour

I finally got our house pretty close to clean enough to share. There are definitely still things to clean up and find home for, but I'm feeling pretty good for being in the house for only 2 1/2 weeks :)

Welcome to our home!

When you come in, you choose if you want to go upstairs or down.

If you go upstairs, here is what you'll see:

the bathroom on the right, the master bedroom and a 2nd bedroom on the left.

This is our living room. It's wide open and I love it!

Some of the furniture isn't ours. The previous owners, friends of ours, left some and we'll be taking care of it in the next little while.

The dining area wrapping into the kitchen. The column in the middle is actually our pantry.

This is downstairs. The door straight ahead leads to the garage. The first opening on the right lead up stairs, the 2nd is a storage area under the stairs. The laundry room and a 2nd bathroom are on the left.

These next two pictures are of one long room down stairs. It is also the least put together. One half is going to be an extra couch (hide-a-bed) and the other half is going to be my craft/sewing area.

I'm going to be painting those tall cabinets and then I'll be able to organize my craft area better.

This is our deck. :) The swing and grill aren't ours, but we have our own grill to put up there. One nice thing about the deck is that it's water tight so the area below it stays dry.

Hope you enjoyed your tour! 

We painted!

So we've been in our new house now for almost two weeks and I am sick of unpacking boxes. I think we've done a pretty good job at getting settled and finding things a home. There is still a lot to do but I was just kind of done with it for awhile. I needed something new...so we painted a wall! This is in our entry way and it makes me so happy to look at it! We found the perfect color to emphasize the quilt but also compliment the valance that Scott made me. The quilt is very special. My grandmother hand quilted it and even though it's hard to see the design in the picture it says "Scott & Stephanie  August 9, 2008 Logan Temple" with a detailed picture of the Logan Temple.  Then we put pictures, our engraved servers from our wedding, and my vase with dried roses that has at least one rose from every bouquet Scott has given me. It makes me super happy to look at it. A lot of work has gone into that wall, more than just the painting, and it gives just the touch to make this house become a little more like our home!

Coaching

I love sports and coaching is a way for me to stay involved with athletics. I've been doing what I can to help get experience. So far, I've coached elementary track, elementary basketball and 2 years of being an assistant coach to a 7/8 comp. league girls basketball. It keeps me super busy, but it seems that I generally get more done when I only have a small time frame to work on it. Anyways, the point of this post is about my 7/8 girls team!

Comp. season is from the end of December until the last week of February. Last year I was introduced to Scott Olsen, a teacher at Colony middle, who coaches middle school ball and the comp team. This year, I joined him again. We had a great group of girls! They came from all different schools but we they got on the court, they were one team. We went into the tournament in 3rd place in the bracket. We beat out our first team and then hung on to win our 2nd game by one point. It was intense! I think I was more anxious and tense than I ever was as a player. At least as a player, I knew I could go out on the court to make a difference. As a coach all I can do it call out what I see and give encouragement, I can't go play it for them. Also, as a player, I know how I played. As a coach, I don't want the girls to feel down. I want to them to do their best so they don't have to wonder if they could have won. I hope that makes sense...

Anyways, we ended up making it to the championship! We'd split the two games we had previously played against the other team. They came out and played hard. We started out behind and just never were able to pull it out, but they still played hard. We took 2nd place (which still got a trophy) and the knowledge that we had at least beat every team in the league once!

Way to go girls!! I'm excited for next year. We only had two 8th graders so if they all come back, we should have a fabulous team next year!

I'll post our team pic with me when I get it :)

House!

At the end of January, Scott and I decided to begin looking for a house. We began to read and learn a lot about looking at houses. We looked at 5 houses one weekend and then found out that our friends were selling their house. The house had been on the market with a realtor for few months and they let the listing run out in December to try to sell it on their own. We looked at it and love it, thought about it and then decided to put in an offer. They accepted! Our closing date is April 13 but hopefully things move quicker, even though that is pretty soon. We are very excited to become homeowners!

This is a picture of a picture so it's backwards. 

You may want to turn off the sound otherwise you'll hear me and one other lady talking.

This first video is headed into the basement from the garage.

This is headed up the stairs from the basement.

Sorry about the videos... I'll try to get them to work...otherwise I'll take pictures next time we go over and post them.

Chocolate!

Who needs a regular box of chocolates? I got a box of chocolates in a box MADE of white chocolate!! :) 

A Modge-Podge of Pictures

 Hanging out in our kitchen

 The bread we made for Thanksgiving with the Breshears. Jewish Sweet bread. YUM!

 Just Chillin'

My 4th graders are required to do book reports every month. Here are a couple of them. I love it when they are creative!

 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

 Eve of the Emperor Penguin (A Magic Treehouse book)

The view out of our window... it's so pretty!