Kacen is Four!

Kacen had an awesome birthday.
I took him to the store earlier in the day and he picked out the cake that he wanted
Sams club had a Cars cake that was small and cupcakes surrounded it
and had a Car ring in each cupcake.

(which is awesome for eating and clean up for kids when outside)

He opened presents, he got TWO Thomas movies and a Diego movie! He has been loving these! He asks to watch them every morning when he wakes up.

He got spiderman and cars games
he loves playing them and is great at doing the puzzle.We invited friends and family to come play at Kangaroo Zoo with us
so many friends came, he had lots of fun with all of them
riding on grandpas shoulders, bouncing in all the jumping houses
and going down the slides
Happy 4th Kacen!

cute things

Jesse is running around carrying three balloons every time he loses one he runs to it screaming "Loon" until Alona comes and gets it for

whenever Jesse hits you and you get a sad puppy dog face he gets all empathetic, and exclaims "hug, hug" in the sweetest little boy voice. He wants to make you better.

He told me "no" today. I asked him if he needed a new diaper, he squished his nose and round his mouth, "no".

Hiking Y Mountain

A few weekends ago I drove up to "Y" mountain to hike all the way up to the "Y". Even though the children were willing and excited at first, we soon realized how tough the hike really is especially with small children and just one parent for support. But man my kids are tough! The were pulling me along and encouraging me, "Mom you can do it!" Kacen a top the Y with his hiking stick

Sisters walking down the trail together :)

Alona and Abbi at the very top of the Y, they were brave. It was steep up there, too steep
for me to take the younger kids up there. Love the fall colors in the back of the picture.


A nice lady asked if I wanted a picture with all of us in it and kindly took our picture!

Love the picture and the view

All of the kids on the Y

I could do without

surprises every time I go in to the bathroom!
Even though we have a children's bathroom and a Mommy bathroom,
whenever the children's bathroom is occupied and someone needs to use the restroom
the "Mommy" bathroom gets used by a child

I dont know how they manage to do these things or why
a few hours ago it was water drenching the trash can in the restroom leading from the top of the toilet where the full roll of toilet paper is dripping, soaked...
I could have used the toilet paper roll knowing that I would be clean but still dripping wet
or would I be, would they actually use the clean running tap water from the sink or
the infamous toilet bowl water
knowing my children, I didnt dare use the toilet paper

a few days prior, the toilet paper met an even worse demise
walking in to the bathroom I could see the toothpaste more than half way empty
having been squeezed from the bottom up noticing blue streaks on the counter tops
I undoubtedly knew the child behind it
but then as I look around the toilet paper is not in any
usable location but in the waste basket covered on all sides with blue Mommy toothpate
as if to say Mom I didnt want you to go to the bathroom or have clean teeth today

just waiting

Front of house

Back of the house

Kitchen...it is missing the refrigerator and the stove
to the right is the dining room

Upstairs living room

Paul and I went and put an offer on this house on Thursday (yesterday) I love the downstairs living room as well, but there aren't any pictures available for show yet. The house is in a cul-de sac in a neighborhood in Orem there are 5 bedrooms (the 5th is real small) there are 2 bathrooms and 2 living rooms. I am excited and nervous and skeptical all at the same time, the last time that we tried to buy a home it failed horribly. The interest rates right now are really low and in the past five years we have increased our income dramatically. I hope its good news from the realtor next week.
I am totally spazing out

UPDATE: Today, Monday October 4 we were suppose to hear back from the other realtor/ bank about our offer to see if it was accepted. Well, I guess our pre-authorization letter was supposed to get to them with our offer and it didn't! So the pre-authorization letter got there today. So now they have everything they need and we are still waiting to see if they accept our offer. Waiting game, ughh...I will be thinking about the offer every day and waiting for their response, but trying to keep busy so that I dont go crazy.

Update: Tuesday October 5th
heard from the realtor around1:00. There has been another offer put on the house. We go in tomorrow to our realtors office put in our final offer, the most money that we are willing to pay for the home. So it is so up in the air if we will get this house. It is all depending on if we bid more than the other people. Here's to hoping.

Update: Wednesday October 6th, we put in a new offer on the house 5,000 more than our previous offer and they accepted our offer! Now the next steps, the inspection and getting the loan...
Update: Monday October 11th, I know its not a big update today, but the appraisal has been ordered! Which means the appraiser has a date to go and do the house and has the codes so within the next day or two he will go do that and then we will get the report from him. About 48 hours after the appraiser is done the realtor will have his report and we will see what if any repairs need to be made before we get the closing date.

Update: Tuesday October 12th,
appraisal on the house is done! it all looks good and we are paying 12,000 less than what it appraises for :)