We have a "HOLE" lot going on

Well we finally have a hole, footings, foundation and window wells.

Thursday March 1st -Hole

Friday March 2nd Footings

Monday March 5th - foundation

Tuesday March 6th - Window wells and the foundation

The New House

In case you didn't know we are building a new house and we are so excited. The hole will be dug tomorrow so I decided we could actually blog about it now. The house is very similar to the one below but obviously different colors, a three car garage and the roof over the porch is metal.

This is for our master bath

This is for our half bath just off the kitchen

This is our kitchen
This is the color of our stone for the exterior but not the style
This is our color Scheme, but this house has no stucco. It is mostly stone and the gray hardy board with the white as trim and blue as accents.

This is the floor plan but we just did the basic floor plan because we wanted the family room to have the two story ceiling.

Well it is snowing now so I guess we will see if they actually dig tomorrow.

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Snow Angels, Swimming and The Waldorf Astoria

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Baptism gifts

Check out how cute the baptism gifts are for next year in our primary. I am super proud.

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Lyndie Lou 4/12/2007- 8/27/2010

Yesterday was a sad day at the Reichert house. Our Dog Lyndie was hit and killed by a car. We had two Cairn terriers Lyndie and Oliver. Lyndie was our fun, friendly one. She was the one who had all the tricks down, including our favorite trick. You would point your finger gun at her and say "BANG BANG" then she would fall to her side and play dead. The kids took it like you would expect....with alot of tears. Lyndie was a great Dog.

First Day of School

School is back in. Although earlier than I would like, the kids are excited for the up coming year.

Noah is starting the 5th grade which at Monticello is your last year of elementary.

Oakleigh is starting the 7th grade and is 7th Grade President
( I am super proud if you can't tell)

Izabelle is going into the 2nd grade

and is excited to have her friends in her class.

Noah is so excited because he gets his own locker this year. He had to share last year which he hated because his locker partner always put his stinky gym shoes in their locker.

Izabelle with Mrs. Nielsen

Oakleigh with some of her friends.

Family Photo
Ms. Reasor (who is my cousin and teaches art)

Oakleigh, Noah, "Willow" (cousin) and Izabelle.

This year Oakleigh will have Ms. Reasor for art. Also we are so excited to have a cousin at Monticello again. Abby, Britta and Carson use to attend MA until they moved a couple of years ago but now we have "Willow" (who is my oldest brothers oldest daughter) who by luck of the draw (aka lottery system) was chosen for one of the 15 spots still open in kindergarten (500 applied I heard)

My Kiddos playing around for the camera

P.S. Tonya I know you are secretly proud of me for actually posting this.

Rotary Park in Moab

We are at a great park in Moab having a picnic. (check out the pic of my nephew Maverick...I'm seriously wondering if he is part monkey)

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Olivia

Cool I hope this pic loads...then maybe I will be a better blogger if I can do it all from my phone.

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Blogger Droid

Sweet I hope this works. I just down loaded blogger droid to my droid x phone so now I can easily blog from my phone..... Cool huh? Just so you know I will be playing with this for the next several hours (so I can figure out how to post pics) oh and every one should check out Alex's new blog at raeoni.blogger.com

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Alex's Awesome X-Rays

Okay so here is my "Annual" post on my sweet blog. Here are some Awesome pics of my husbands latest injury.

Hi Ho Hi Ho Back to School They Go

Oakleigh, Noah, Izabelle and the new art teacher Ms. Reasor
(aka my cousin Jordan)

Oakleigh wearing black uniform pants

Mrs. Kuhn and Izabelle

(I think I am the only person who got the teacher they requested)

Mr. A and Noah (this year)

Mr A. and Noah (last year)

Yesterday was the kids first day back to school. There are some cool new changes this year at the school, some stupid changes and some cool things that are the same as last year. One of the cool new changes is our Awesome new art teacher Ms. Reasor, who just so happens to be my cousin as well. Another cool change this year is that Oakleigh is now considered to be in Jr. High and so she now gets to wear the Jr. High school uniform, which means she can wear black pants, black shirts and a skirt instead of a jumper plus the regular khaki pants, maroon and white polos. The stupid change this year is their "early" day is no longer as early. Last year they got out at 12:40 and this year they don't get out until 2, which is only 40 minutes earlier then the regular days. I would love to know who's brilliant idea that was. I loved early days it gave me time to do something fun with the kids. The cool thing that stayed the same is that Noah gets to have his favorite teacher Mr. A again (and probably next year too). Mr. A is a great teacher for Noah. Noah is a super smart kid and he knows it. He thinks everything he has to say is the most important thing.(Just a quick funny story. Once when Noah and I were driving in the car when Noah was three years old. Noah was showing of what a smarty he is and I turned to him and said "Noah you are so smart" and Noah replied "and cute too". LOL! he is so funny.) Anyway Mr. A does a great job at letting Noah show what a smarty he is but not letting him get out of hand. Mr. A is a funny guy and his sense of humor really appeals to Noah. I think this year is going to be a great year including for me. I am hoping with all my childless time (now that all my kids are in school full time) will be very productive. Here is hoping to actually keeping up on laundry.

The Annual Guys River Trip

Every year the men in our family do a guys trip and for the last several they have been doing a river trip. It usually lasts about four days (on the Green River) and they eat like Kings. Usually Alex and my brother Brandon do most of the planning and food prep but due to Alex's schedule Brandon did most of the work. Thank You Brandon! We appreciate your hard work.

Oakleigh's Bike

Oakleigh asked for a bike for her birthday but it had to be orange. She looked on the Internet and found this bike and told us this was the one we should buy her. It is cool to have a kid old enough to do their own birthday present research. We ordered it and they sent the wrong one so we had to send it back and wait for the right one to arrive. It arrived the day after her birthday. She loves to put her puppy Oliver in the basket and take him for rides. Oh and because we bought a new camera to replace the one Alex put in a "safe" place, we of coarse found the old one (that we bought clear back in April). Now we have HIS and HER cameras.

Oakleigh's 11th Birthday

Yeah! we have a camera again. Alex put our camera in a "safe" place and then couldn't remember where that "safe" place was.

Oakleigh had a Slumber Party for her Birthday. She only wanted to invite five friends so we also went to dinner at Chick-fil-a and then went to go see the movie Aliens in the Attic. When we got back from the movie we did cake and presents. For an activity we made flower barrettes, which the girls loved. We gave Oakleigh a bike that arrived a few days before her birthday but they sent the wrong one so we had to send it back. The right one should arrive today. I will take a pic and post it when it arrives, if it arrives before Alex takes the camera on his river trip.