#4 reason I love my family

#4 Well, it isnt because we have awesome girls in our family!

However, being a family of all boys and "your's truly" we love to have girls over!

Yesterday I had the pleasure of spending the day with this cute friend of ours Kelsey.

She is one of the many cute girls from our ward in California  She is such an easy-going, and fun loving young woman.  She is living in Utah now and she came by to spend the day with me.  The boys love having girls over, as you can probably imagine.  And Mike especially likes to cook for beautiful girls! We had a great meal and a wonderful visit with her.  Kelsey is the 4th girl we've had come and visit from Sacramento since we moved here.  Hmmm, do you think it's because they enjoy my company, or because of my handsome men?  I guess we'll never really know.  I'm just glad they like to come and visit us!

#3 reason I love my family

#3 Well, it isnt because we are all professional singers!

However, they all love music. And I love that!  You will never catch Mike singing in the shower and you can barely hear him singing in church.  However, when it comes to encouraging the kids to develop their musical talent, he pushes them much harder than I do, and he is their biggest fan. (And he is always trying to bribe me in some way to sing to him.)  I basically forced us to buy this old piano many years ago and I am so gald I did!  I love that the boys love to sing and dance and write love songs.  They truly are a bunch of music-loving romantic heart-throbs!  And they are all mine! 

#2 reason why I love my family

#2 Well, it isnt because we are all great basketball players!

But I love that we play together and have fun!  Even though my boys are so competitive!  Michael was the basketabll player of the family and now Bryce and Stephen are getting more and more interested.  What sport do they not like?  I love that my family is so athletic and sports minded.  There are other things in life I know, but when I watch my boys play sports, my heart goes pitter-patter!

14 reasons why I love my family

#1  Well, it's not because they are neat freaks!

This is Stephen's room and I just had to find a reason to use this picture.

Just the night before he had cleaned his room only for me to find it like this the next morning after he had left for school(a daily occurance).  So, what's the use?  However, I will never give up reminding my boys to keep their surroundings clean.  I am glad that they keep busy doing lots of productive things and enjoy developing their talents and haveing a good time.  So, even though I have to constantly remind my men to clean up after thenselves...I love that they are usually anxiously engaged in a good cause!

Now lets see if I can come up with 13 more!  Shouldn't be too hard should it?

I AM - Nichole Nordeman

Have a beautiful Sabbath. We are so blessed!

Slowly but surely

Well the house is coming along.  That roof has been a HUGE job.

They are now sheeting it and then we can finally be dried in!

In the meantime Dad has been working on the stairs going down into the basement.

And here is where we will have the stairs going down from the family room.

I'm excited to see some progress being made down stairs as this is where

the boys rooms will be.  3 bedrooms and a bathroom on this side next to the stairs.

Looks like Dad is getting ready to put the wall up between the mechanical room

and the theatre room here.  On the othere side of the wall will be room to put in

a small kitchen area....someday.

Here is the back entrance into the basement.

Here's a look at the family room looking out the windows on either

side of the fireplace.  Master suite on the right and kitchen on the left.

Here is a view thru the wall into our master bedroom closet

and then thru to the bathroom where you can see the window in the middle.

And on either side of these rooms is our bedroom on

 one side and our office on the other.

Here a view of that whole side of the house.

Here is a view of the kitchen area looking from the bay window

and out thru the kitchen into the laundry room and pantry.

Last but not least is the back of the house.

Tomorrow is a big day as the weather is supposed to be pretty good

and Dad is anxious to get us all dried in.

We've been picking out colors of stucko, tile, hardwood, granite, windows and stone too.  I'll try to get some pictures soon to post later.

  So, we are getting there slowly but surely!

More Trusses

Well, the week started out with the trusses over the entryway and familyroom in.

Then the big guys showed up and started placing more of them over the garage and rest of the house.  It has been a slow progression trying to get all of them on and set.

It's been like peicing a puzzle together watching these trusses go up.

Here's a view from the street.  Still lots of work to do before it looks like a roof.

Jut thought I would give you a peek at how it is going.

Stay tuned and I will show you the finished product!

It's getting there.