Welcome to our Home

I really do love our new home. It was built in the 80's it is a very well built home but somewhat dark inside. Jason and I plan to do a little updating to brighten things up a bit by painting cabinets and walls. You will see what I mean when you look at the pictures. Here is a tour of our new place please excuse the mess I am still unpacking and trying to find a place for everything but many of our friends and family have asked for pictures so here you have it mess and all.

This is the view of the front of our house. It has a 3 car garage lots of space for storing stuff.

This is the view of the back of our house.

There is a nice storage shed in the back for lawn and gardening stuff and bikes. Plus a spot for keeping our wood.

There is an apple and cherry tree in the right hand side of the picture they are hard to see.

The Kitchen

I have big plans for the kitchen. I want to refinish the cabinets. They are nice but I am wanting to brighten up the room. It is very dark so I want to paint the cabinets white and do something similar to the kitchen on the blog Saw dust and paper scraps click on the link to see what this gal has done. I love her kitchen. I also plan to do an entertainment center on the wall of our living room similar to the one on the same blog under the basement remodel. I love it as well.

The Dining Room

The dining room is just off of the kitchen and has carpet that we are not to excited about. Jason wants to replace it with tile or wood flooring. (chalk it up to the someday list)

The Living Room

The living space in the house is very open you can see the kitchen, dining room and living room standing in any of these rooms they are all connected. I like it in ways but hate that you can see my messy kitchen as soon as you walk in the front door. Which is a silly thing to complain about. It is just good motivator for helping me keep my kitchen cleaner (right). I love having everything on one floor. I like having my family in closer quarters we have to be closer to each other that way.

This is where the wood stove will go in our living room.

The boys room

We will be fitting 4 boys in here just need another bunk bed for the other wall. It will be close quarters but they are okay with it.

Kids Bathroom

Food Storage room

Some day it will have shelves and be nice like our one in Afton.

This is entry way where you come in from the front door.

We decided to put the computer here it is a good open spot where we can monitor what everyone is doing on the computer.

Laundry Room

I love that my laundry room is in a room right off of the kitchen I can shut the door to the mess but hear the buzzer go off when the dryer is done. I don't have to run up and down the stairs for the laundry. ( It is soooo great!)

We planted a little herb garden on the side of the house in a small strip coming up to the front door.

This is the garden spot in the back yard behind the shed and it has a peach tree. We also have an apple and a cherry tree on the north side of the house in the back. We have big plans for our garden but they will have to wait until next year. I am so excited to live in a place that we can grow tomatoes without a green house and we have a Wal-mart (I know some of you are thinking oh brother, but when you have lived in remote places like Afton and Burns for the past 10 years a wal-mart is big). We pulled almost all of weeds out of the garden all ready. It was a big job and Tyler, Corey and Cole were amazingly good helpers. Jason must of threatened them good because they had it almost all done in a day.

Memorial Weekend

We had Grandma and Grandpa Marchant here for the weekend along with Kyle, Amy and their cute kids. We all went to Yellowstone Jason posted pictures of our trip on his blog . Click on his name and it will take you to it. Grandma brought some early Birthday presents for Abbie Cole and Lyndie (our June Birthdays).

Abbie got earrings and a hot pink dress.

Grandma Marchant made this beautiful pink dress for Lyndie all hand crocheted. It is treasure she can keep and pass down to her own girls. The work is amazing. Our girls are so blessed to have two grandma's that make beautiful dresses and are so talented. Thank you Mom for making this. I love it and the pictures don't do it justice it is gorgeous.

Abbie also got a birthday dress so we had to get pictures of the girls together.

Cole got Star wars guys and a Cute suit for church I need to get a picture of him in it. He looks very handsome.

Spring Fever

This boy brings new meaning to the phrase "spring fever". I took these pictures on April 13th. He looks pretty dang cute in his spring outfit. (Yep!) I might win the mother of the year award for these pictures. But, it was all done on his own accord.

Have a cup of hot chocolate or should I say chocolate syrup!

Lyndie looooooooves Chocolate even more than I do (Be quiet Jason) I know that it doesn't seem possible. But, I think there is actually someone out there that does and its your daughter. Anyway, I should know better than to leave the Can of Hot chocolate mix on the table by her after mixing up a cup for her. Oh brother and I just don't learn because this is not the first time we have ended up with chocolate soup. I think the Book Polar express sums this one up when it talks about the Hot Chocolate being as thick and rich as melted chocolate bars. I think we could probably scrape this out of the cup put it in a pan and bake up some brownies.

One Cup of Hot Chocolate + This Girl =

This

This face is hard to get mad at. It's not even fair.

Christmas Dresses

I love this picture just had to share it. Grandma Isaacson made these beautiful dresses for the girls as well as dresses for her other 4 grandaughters it was a lot of late nights getting all the dresses finished before christmas. And not to mention a lot of work. What a neat surprise! These dresses are so well made and there is nothing better than a handmade gift sewn with lots of love by Grandma! THANK YOU GRANDMA.

We love you.

Cannon Beach

We went to the Oregon Coast for the Isaacson Family Rendezvous July 27th-30th We stayed in a house on the beach and it fit the whole Isaacson clan pretty well. We went to Cannon Beach and walked around it was very humid and misty which made for some fun pictures. We lost Abbie at the beach for a good half hour and everyone looked around franticly Jason found her alone crying. She managed to get quite a ways from us. It was such a relief to find her. And other than that experience we had a great time. We toured the Tillamook cheese factory which was really cool ( I recommend it). We stopped at the Tillamook smokehouse for pepperoni sticks and sausage. We had to get 7lbs. of salt water taffy, which did not last long. The Salt water taffy is the best on the coast and the shop we got it at, Bruce's candy kitchen, makes all the taffy there. We ate taffy until we were sick.

The girls went shopping at the outlet stores in Lincoln city for school clothes. It was loads of fun.

Janzten and Grandpa Isaacson's Birthdays were the 29th. To celebrate we ate crab that the guys and kids caught from a boat they rented. The crabs were not meaty at all they caught probably 25 and we got about 2 cups of meat off of them ( wrong time of year to catch crabs). But we got just enough for everyone in our big group to have a small taste that wanted some. It was lots of fun .

The girls went shopping at the outlet stores in Lincoln city for school clothes.

The House at Lincoln City Beach. It had a Hot tub and a pool table. With a nice little park area just off to the side of it.

Lyndie and Erick

Jason and Lyndie walking on Cannon Beach

Adam, Erick, Emily, Jacob and Addalee

Aria, Leif, Camden, Parker and Owen

Sarah and Matt

Nora and Lily

I love this Picture of Grandpa and Jaron

Kim, Lyndie and Abbie

Owen digging in the sand

Leif

Corey and Janzten running from the waves

Jared loved the water so much we couldn't keep him out. He kept going in face first and was soaked by the time we were done. The water was pretty cold too. What a nut!

Cole with his bucket of shells

Lyndie loved the sand and water.

Kim and Lyndie

Abbie

Grandpa Jaron and Sarah

Seth lost his feet

Abbie and cole trying to out run the waves

Seashells

3 amigos COLE CAMDEN & JACOB

Tyler enjoying the cold water

Jason and Lyndie