Another Addition Update

I thought I would show a couple of photos of how our addition is progressing. Below is our deck. We are really happy how this turned out. The particle board is only to protect our deck while applying the stucco.

Cannon was a big help. He and Julie painted the shelves in our new storage room.

Here is our window seat. This also turned out like we pictured.

Below shows my progress in the tiling department. I should have it tiled this next week. I laid down all of the fabric mesh .

Happy Halloween!

Well, I know it is over a week late but here are some photos from Halloween '08. Below are several pictures of our annual carving jubilee. These are all home grown pumpkins from our garden. They were the only things that actually grew this year.

This is the end result. I bet you can't guess which one is mine.Halloween day is filled with makeup and dress up and Chloe loves lipstick and whatever else Julie is putting on.Here is the Wicked Queen and Snow White. It appears that Snow White has already bit the apple.

Here is part of our crew before they went to school.

We made them pose one last time prior to trick-or-treating. I think they enjoyed getting the candy...I enjoyed the fruits of their labors.
And then there is this freak. Our high school football team had a home football playoff game on Halloween. So, I dressed up as Super Fan. The football team lost but it was fun to dress up.
Happy Halloween and go BYU!

Kirk's Celebrity Collage Look-a-likes

I am not in the elite company like my wife.

Julie's Celebrity Collage Look-a-likes

My wife looks to be in a very elite group!

Oh Cannon!

Today Cannon decided to put a cardboard roll on his leg and walk around like he was Captain Hook or something. The roll came from a vinyl roll and it was really thick. Well, the roll got stuck on his leg and Julie couldn't get it off by pulling it, nor could she cut it with normal scissors or rip it off. Luckily, the stucco guys left some huge "scissors" that Julie used to cut off the thing. Chloe was getting really concerned that Cannon was gonna lose his leg.
Chloe thought mom was gonna cut off Cannon's piggies.
After 20 minutes of surgery, the cardboard cast came off.

Going to Grandpa & Grandma Thornock's House

Last Wednesday night I ventured to Ely, Nevada with Brooke, Brin, Carson and Cannon. I went home to help my dad prune his fruit trees. It seems like everytime my Dad and a ladder are involved, he gets hurt. Below is when we hit the state line. At this time everyone was zonked out except for Cannon.

I can't really tell if Cannon is really asleep or just woke up for the picture.
Here is the end result of our work. I don't have a before pic of the little fruit trees before we pruned them, but they easily were 30 feet tall. Here is my Dad after we finished the little trees.
This is my dad's apple tree. I use to play in this tree all the time as a kid. The before photo is from my phone. It was hard work. I was extremely tired when we were done.
After pruning the trees, I took the kids to the Stepoe Park for a little run around time.

Friday morning Dad and I set out for the golf course and played 18. We had a great time and the weather was perfect. What a gorgeous mid-October day. I hadn't played a round of golf since May 2007. I actually didn't score to badly, my shots were all over the place though. Dad had an awesome back 9.

On the way home on Friday, we stopped at Lehman's Cave in the Great Basin National Park. We went on a 60 min. tour cave. However, before we went into the cave, we went on a nature hike. Below is the kids by an old log cabin.The nature trail took us right by the orginal entrance to the cave. Here are the kids on the trail.This is a little friend we saw on the way. One of the cave tours requires the explorers to pass through this box before caving to ensure that they don't get stuck inside the cave forever!Brooke, Brin and Carson pose at the entrance to the cave. Cannon refused to have his picture taken the rest of the time.Here are several shots inside the cave. It is cool, in fact there once was a B movie made there about a journey to Mars. Long time ago, one's admission to the cave included a tour and one got to break a piece of a formation off as a souvenir. The photo below show that the cave is still living and that it is trying to heal itself. Theory is that it takes 100 years for a stalactite or stalagmite to grow an inch.

The House Update

It has been awhile since I last posted some pics of our addition, so I thought I better (right Jenna?). The three pics below show our addition from the inside. The wall is torn out and it is sheet rocked and is in the middle of being mudded. The only thing we lack is our sliding patio door. It still isn't in.
This is our mud/storage room.
A pic from the outside. It is ready for the stucco; hopefully it is done soon along with our deck.