French Family: A New Home!

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

A New Home!

Spencer and I have been looking to buy a house for the last 3 months. Actually we have been looking since we moved to Utah over 2 years ago. We have seen what seems like a million homes and none of them gave me that "this is the one" feeling. That is... until we saw this home and low and behold it's under contract ... with us! It's seriously our dream home. 4100 square feet. 3bedroom 2 1/2 bath - 3 car garage - flat .47 acre lot - cult-a-sac - walkout unfinished basement - close to huge park and schools. We plan to close at the end of the month. It's so exciting!!! Here are some pictures.

Front of the house

View from the porchEntry way with Spencer's office to the right

Office

The stairs to the basement from the family room

Family Room

Dinning and Kitchen (to the right are the doors to the back porch)

Back porch

Center door to garage, to the right is the laundry room and to the left is a half bath

Laundry room

Two bedrooms

Hall bath

Master bedroom

Master Bath

Basement with two water heaters and a big cold storage

walk-out basement

Back of the house

It's a great house and we can't wait to plant our roots and turn this house into our home.

13 comments:

Allen Family said...: That is awesome. I'm so happy for you. It's nice when you can finally call a place your home.; June 2, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Mitch said...: OH WOW.. I LOVE IT! WHERE IS IT?

-BRITTANY; June 2, 2009 at 10:00 PM
THE RAY'S said...: The house is beautiful! You are a lucky duck! I am glad you found one! Now pray we find one to.; June 3, 2009 at 6:13 AM
Rachel Schanz said...: oh man that will so awesome! Good job guys! we are sooo jealous!; June 3, 2009 at 8:36 AM
The French Way said...: holy cow it's gorgeous!!! we're so excited for you guys!!!! can't wait to come and see it!; June 3, 2009 at 10:06 AM
Sanz said...: Awesome! It looks fabulous. Please tell me you'll be inviting us over again!! I'm glad you won't be too far. I hope everything goes smooooooothly!; June 3, 2009 at 2:10 PM
davidcarriebrownfam said...: Looks great! Congratulations!; June 3, 2009 at 2:28 PM
Duncan Chronicles said...: That house is gorgeous! I hope everything goes smoothly for you!; June 3, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Bartlett Family said...: It is absolutely beautiful. Where is it?; June 3, 2009 at 8:44 PM
Kirsten said...: This is a beautiful home! I'm so happy for you! I can't wait until we can get in a single family home with a yard and not a town home. That's what you get for living in Vegas I guess! I really am so happy for you guys!!; June 4, 2009 at 12:43 PM
Elizabeth said...: Congrats! We're excited for you guys, glad you found just what you were looking for.; June 4, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Armstrong Family said...: Just catching up! Great house! It looks like it's going to be very roomy and fun to decorate!; June 13, 2009 at 7:01 PM
Robin said...: What a beautiful home, Char. You and Spencer deserve immense happiness. I am so happy for you- what an incredible time in your lives!; June 14, 2009 at 5:51 PM

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What's She Thinkin'?

Kate has said and done some pretty funny things and I'm afraid that I'll forget them so I am writing them here where everyone can enjoy them.

10-12-12 Spencer picked up Kate from school today and she proceed to tell him that she told her whole class our phone number. Spencer was shocked because he didn't think she even knew our cell numbers. So he asked her to tell him and she quickly replied "2". 2 is Spencer and my speed dial for each other. Ha!

5-18-11 We got some lunch at Del Taco where the kids could play. There was a boy with long hair playing there too and Kate says in front of everyone, "Mom, hers a boy, for real !" The little boys mom just chuckled.

4-24-11 It was Easter Sunday and Kate asked about the Resurection... the rest of the convo went like this...

Kate: Mom what's the resurection?

Me: It's when you come back to life after you die

Kate: what does that look like?

Me: Oh it's pretty

Kate: So it's Pink?

3-20-11 Kate got some Barbies from a neighbor family who now has older children. She's been playing with non-stop and when Spencer asked her the name of one of the Barbies she quickly replied, "oh her name is Porky". That Barbie is sure to have a complex now.

3-20-11 Spencer and Kate were talking about the garden we want toplat this year and Kate said this... "Daddy, I want to grow a hugen pumpkin and call it Humpkin"

2-10-11 Kate and my mom were talking about riding horses and my mom asked Kate what her horses name was, she took a second to think about it and then replyed, "He's a pink horse named blue. "

9-29-10 Kate was in a bad mood and wanted something that I wasn't going to get her so she gave me the stink eye and then said,"mommy i'm magic and going to disapear from here and then ride my bike to get a treat at the store with daddy!".

9-17-10 Kate is in Spencer's football pool and she makes her picks each week by pointing to the team she wants to win. The other day she was coloring and Spencer was reading off the teams and Kate was telling him who she wanted.

Spencer: Jets or Patriots?

Kate: humm.... Jets because they're in the bathtub

Spencer: What?

Kate: daddy i said Jets because they're in the bathtub!

We have a jetted tub that kate likes to play in and turn on the "jets" and once he remembered that it was just common sense to pick the Jets... because they're in the bathtub.

7-26-10 Kate was telling me how she wanted someone to play with. I told her that I would play with here but she looked at me with her big eyes and said, "no mommy, not you. I want someone little like Brooke, Austin, or D-Bo." (D-bo is my dad)

5-9-10 After church we decided to go to the park. When I asked Kate which park she wanted to go to she said the red one. I told her I didn't know where that one was and then she said... "It's in utah idaho american south." Got it.

10-4-09 Spencer asked Kate if she wanted some ice-cream and she replied, "I sure do!"

10-1-09 Kate was in the tub while I was getting ready when I heard her singing like Ariel, "ah ahh ahh, ahh ah ahhh". When I looked at her she was on her belly and I started to laugh. She then quickly sat up and said, "what mommy?"

9-16-09 Kate's new favorite movie is the Little Mermaid. She was watching it when she turned to me and said, Mommy, I want to go to the ocean floor to say HI to Ariel and all the fishies".

9-1-09 It was past Kate's bed time when she asked to watch "Dora". I told her no because it was time for bed. Then she asked if she could watch football. Spencer perked right up and gave me a look like how was he supposed to turn that down? I guess she was willing to do anything to say up. Te-he-he We compromised by reading books together as a family.

8-27-09 Kate and I were driving in a construction zone in Provo when she saw a very large building crane. Then she said, "Mommy, I want to get in my bathing suit and ride that dinosaur."

8-23-09 Kate went into Spencer's office and said in a very frim voice, "Dad, I need my own computer." My dad says we're done for because Kate is already smarter than both Spencer and I.

8-20-09 Kate's new favorite things to do is hide things in drawers and cupboards. Just recently I have found Monk-monk in almost every drawer in the house - she even hid him while we were camping in Grandma camper. I have also found a hot pocket, a beach ball, sippy cups, hair accessories, shoes, measuring cups, small books and toys, and all sorts of stuff. I still giggle when I find things but I'm sure this will get very annoying very soon.

8-9-09 We were late to church so we just grabbed the first chairs we could see in the overflow. As soon as we sat down both Spencer and I looked at each other and gasped - the young lady in front of us had the worst body order EVER!! Kate didn't notice at first but it didn't take her long before she said very loud, "Eww that's stinky! Stinky mommy stinky!" As most 2 year olds do, she kept repeating those words. Needless to say we had to get up and move after the opening prayer.

7-22-09 "Mommy, see the mountains. I love them so much!"

6-22-09 We were all watching some T.V. when Kate came up to Spencer and I holding her Mrs. Potato Head and said, "What the Chicken?"

6-1-09 Spencer and Kate were looking at a rainbow in the sky when Spencer decided to name off all the colors in the rainbow, "Blue, purple, green, yellow and red" Then Kate looks at him and say, "And orange daddy, and orange". What 2 year old would know what color he didn't say?

5-30-09 Kate was having a hard time falling asleep so I laid in the guest bed with her to help calm her down. I was almost asleep when I heard some strange noises. Then a small voice says, "that was me". This went on for a good five minutes and I couldn't help but to snicker a few times at the silly noises she would make and then follow with "that was me" just in case I didn't know who or what was making those sounds.

5-20-09 A man with brown shoulder length hair walks onto the airplane. Kate points at him and says, "Jesus mommy, Jesus!!" She repeats this about 4 times while pointing right at him and each time she says it louder and louder.

5-9-09 I was taking some vitamins and Kate wanted some so I filled a syringe with water when she wasn't looking and told her to open big for her medicine. She did and then looked up at me with her big brown eyes and a face of disappointment and with a sigh said, "water mommy?" My mouth fell open and for a second I didn't know what to say then I started laughing.

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