Pears!

My sister Jenny got a good deal on Pears up near her house so we bought a couple boxes so we can have canned pears! After doing salsa and all manner of jam's within the last few months, pears is a treat cause they are so easy! All you gotta do is peal them and quarter them, throw them in the jar, add a little sugar and a little water,put them in the bath, 20 minutes later you have canned pears that will last for years! It was actually a lot of fun to do as a family and Link really enjoyed helping (eating). Hopefully we will be able to do some peaches before the end of the season, so if anyone knows where we can get some on the cheap, let me know!

Photo shoot with Reba

These are some pictures from a little impromptu photo session Angie had with Reba... She is such a beautiful little girl...

Harvest time

Link at grandma and grandpa's house

They have a much better garden than us this year...

Just a pic i took while we were canning our salsa. Its got the chicken coup, and yard in the background and kinda embodies everything i love about living at our house.

Miscilaneous photos

Just thought i would take a few minutes to post some of the latest pictures of the kids.

This is Link and Reba laying on the bed. Link is starting to get used to having Reba around and is turning into a great big brother.

Reba is going to be a thumb sucker im afraid...

 What a cutie huh?

Link ont he swing at grandma and grandpa's house

 One of our two new goats. This one is name Queedo!

Link finally ourgrew his little dresser and this is him helping to fix his new one. He is all about using any screwdriver he can find for any purpose he can get away with. Lucky for him this is an aproved screwdriver activity. As opposed to sticking it in an outlet, which he learned is NOT on the approved list.

The finished product. Link is so excited about his new dresser that he cant stop opening the drawers. He woke up yesterday and said to Angie, "mom i love my dresser!" 



House update.

Its been a while but here are some updated and semi updated pctures of the house! We have come a long way, and still have a long way to go, but we love living here and love the journey!

This is the living room. Its kind of dark in the picture but you can see that the sheetrock is up and painted and the green carpet didnt end up being the eye sore that we feared it might. Also we will be replacing the two windows in the picture in the next 2 weeks or so. They are on order! yay.

This is the new kitchen! the cupboards are the same as before, we just painted them. We replaced the outside wall and you can see part of the new window which is a big improvment over the drafty old ones.  Other than that, all we did was throw up some yellow paint and called the kitchen good! New floors to come! 

This is Link's room. We went with the Buzz lightyear, star command theme since he is such a huge Buzz fan. Check out that killer storm trooper coin bank he has. Im jeleous!

Link Playing in his room.

This s Link helping me build the wall to seperate the new washroom from the kitchen. He likes to help dad with the tools.

Link helping dad some more. He has quite a tool collection these days!

This is the finished laundry. Its more of a laundry nook than a laundry room since there are no doors. The wall does help make it feel seperated though.

Link yet again helping dad in the tools shop. He is a great kid and i love that he wants to help me so much.

This was taken last fall when the leaves were still fallins but i think its a great picture.

This is a pitcure taken from Reba's window. There are actually 15 deer out there making themselves at home. Unfortuantly thats exactly where we were planning on having our garden... Well i guess we can still try...

Mre pictures are to come...

Reba!

Please say hello to the newest member of the Petty family; Reba Kaye Petty! Reba was born February 4th around 8:00 p.m. weighing in at a small but healthy 5 lbs 9 ounces. Contained in that small bundle is a precious little girl full of love and attitude. We are so happy to have her in out lives and cant wait for her to start showing her personality more.

This is Reba shortly after she came home, wearing the hat her aunt Becky made for her.

As many of you know, Reba got very sick with RSV at about 2 weeks old and was in the NICU for an additional 2 weeks. We were very scared, but thanks to the power of prayer, as well as the priesthood, she has now made a full recovery. This is a picture of her in her isolation booth from the webcame above her bed.

Cute picture of Reba with her great big, pretty eyes open. Look at that smile!

what a little angle huh?

New old house!

For those of you who dont know, We have moved back to South Weber! Yes we have a "new" old house that we bought and are in the process of fixing up. Most of these picture are a month or two old so they are kind of "before" pictures, i will put some after pictures up in a bit. If anyone every came to our BBQ's at the pond then you drove right past this place. Some of you even know it as the Peacock lady's house. Yes that one... As you can see, it hasnt had a lot of love for a while so we have out work cut out for us. Luckily we are moving into a great ward, and have already had 3 service projects! A lot of the trees were overgrown and the pfitzers in the back seem to have organized into a crude tribe of barbarians. Luckily we were able to beat them back and they are now submissive once more. We are very happy to be in our new house, even though it is 40 years older than the one we are leaving behind. Cant wait to show everyone the finished project!

This is the view of the front. Obviously.

Most of the interior work being done right now is in the living room. This picture is after we tore down the old wood paneling (long live the 70's), removed the old insulation, and this is right after the new insulation was blown in. Those of you wishing you had olive green wool carpet, eat your heart out.

Link is helping Angie remove the cabinet doors just prior to painting them white. We also had to take the cabinets down in order to reinstale them to make room for the new appliances. And yes, the old stove and fridge matched the carpet perfectly.


This is a picture of the back of the house... What you are seeing is a greenhouse/atrium that was built onto the back. This is where the pfitzers were organizing against us. If you lool at where the grass starts you can see how far out they had grown. Believe it or not, i even found a dead deer in them this spring... Talk about killers!

The north side of the house. You can see where we framed in a door and window.

Dad and Tim putting up sheetrock in the living room.

We have a couple deer that call the place home, but i couldnt get the pictures to load