Fall and Winter thus far

Yes.  We are still playing catch-up with posts and after this one, there should be one more.  But here is the documentation that we were alive last fall (unfortunately didn't take more pictures than this, mainly due to some not fun morning sickness and me not wanting to do anything or eat anywhere) and some of our winter adventures thus far.

We took a trip on our anniversary down to the new sporting goods store Scheels and road the ferris wheel

Took a hike or tried to take a hike up to elephant rock

Only made it partway up and had to turn around because it was getting dark fast

Our Halloween decorated porch

Mine and the Higgy Baby's pumpkins

Richard's freehand carving . . . way more ambitious than I was willing to be

First big snow!

I was excited

So there's this fun overhang where we will be adding a carport on eventually and the snow melts off and falls into the pathway on the right side of the cars

There's a picture of the outside of our house

We made a couple of snowmen, which then melted a couple of days later

Fun at Trolley Square

Fun at City Creek

City Creek again

  

Richard being cool . . . or so he thinks :)

Temple Square lights

Reflecting pond

Us

Richard hanging up our Christmas lights . . . I made him wear the Santa hat

The only exterior light hanging I did was around the door

The finished product . . . still not sure about the LED lights, they kind of freak out my eyes

Richard made himself an igloo after we got a couple feet of snow

The pathway he shoveled through the backyard

Nice and cozy . . . Sorry we never played board games in your igloo Rich

Yeah, have some snow

New House

So we actually moved at the very end of August to the house next door to Richard's parents.  They've been using it as a rental and we actually ended up buying and closing on the house in October.  It is so fantastic having all the extra space . . . definitely a step above our 500 square foot apartment.  Oh, and the other great part; no wall to wall neighbors.  So wonderful.   What would a new house tour be without pictures?  Welcome to our home!

Entrance . . . I never did get a picture of the outside

Looking into the dining room

Living room

My favorite shelf with pretty things

Hallway with arch (looking into the bathroom . . . oops)

We bought a cute little fireplace and Rich built a beautiful hearth for it to sit on

The handyman hard at work

Love the colored ceramic tile . . . all that's left to do is attach corner tile and grout the entire base

Richard's new "man cave" after my sister moved back in with my parents

Bathroom (unfortunately this is the only one and our bedroom is downstairs . . . makes for a long trip to the bathroom at night)

Kitchen

Other view of the kitchen including our stylish hook-up-to-the-sink dishwasher

Suicide stairs going to the basement (someday we'll finish the stairwell and add carpet so these aren't as deadly)

Storage hallway and under-the-stairs storage

Other end of the hallway looking into the laundry room

Laundry room

Laundry room again

Our bedroom

Again . . . and maybe someday we'll get closet doors up along with the remaining trim and baseboards

Office in our bedroom (it might become a half-bath someday)

Spare bedroom through the laundry room

Spare bedroom again . . . everything else goes in this room

Really.  Everything else.  Although we will probably start working on clearing those things out sooner than later.  Yes as most of you already know and could probably guess by looking at some of these pictures, we are having a baby this year.  We found out on September 26th and our baby is due on June 8, 2013.

Yep.  It's true.  More on this in another post.

The rest of spring and summer 2012

Well, it certainly has been awhile since I last posted anything . . . April of last year, yeah.  A lot of that was due to bad internet through a phone hotspot and uploading photos of any kind taking hours.  We have much better internet now and finally seem a little less busy than the past few months.  To recap the past few months it'll be a lot easier to tell through pictures.  Enjoy!

My parents sold the Woods Cross home and moved to Saratoga Springs . . . makes me sad because they're not close by anymore and I was 6 when we moved into that house

My younger sister Megan (8 years younger than me) graduated from high school and I took her pictures.  The one above is the one that she used . . . the ones below were some of my favorites.

We decided to refinish our dining room table that we bought from the D.I. before we got married . . . it turned out great! (Let's try and forget about the layer of dust that covered everything in our apartment afterwards . . .)

 Oh, and I painted those green table legs white.  Much better.

Our good friends Kayla and Sam got married in June

We took a giant canoe (yes, it really is on top of the Ford Focus) with our friends up to a lake for a few hours.  What we didn't plan on was how windy and cold it would be.

Took the little brother to the car show at the city park.  

Loved the tractor so much that he was willing to go and ask a complete stranger if he could sit on it

Took a hike a year after our engagement to the same spot :)

Drove up to Spokane to see my older brother Andrew get married to a cute girl named Kelsey

Drove up to Grace for the county fair and to visit my grandparents

Discovered the cure for baldness up at Chesterfield

The Higginson ancestors that we are from

The Higginson house

The geyser in Soda Springs

Yep.  Not a complete trip without natural soda water from Hooper Springs

My grandpa when he was in the Korean war

A picture of my Dad and his older sister . . . looks a lot like pictures of my brother and I when we were little

Picture of my grandma

My Dad and his siblings (he is second picture)

My grandma and two of her younger siblings

Richard and one of his brothers digging a pretty deep trench to stop a leak in the basement

Oh, that's right.  We moved.  Into the house shown in the above picture with the trench.  (Yes, that is Richard sleeping on our bed in the living room)

We lived in the living room a couple of weeks until the carpet got put in downstairs.  

Boy, we have a lot of stuff.  Oh and the one bedroom upstairs was being rented by my sister Megan who went to the U last fall and didn't want to commute from Saratoga Springs.  (Mind you she lived in our one bedroom apartment with us for 2 1/2 months during the summer)

Our unfinished master suite in the basement (Rich helped his Dad cut that nice big window with a concrete saw . . . let's just say this house has a nice foundation)

Spare bedroom in the basement

Laundry room

Downstairs hallway and stairwell

I'll be posting completed pictures of the house in a following post along with other news and happenings.  Stay tuned!