The House

Finally getting around to posting some pics of the house.  We have so many projects and things we want to do and decorating that it is a little overwhelming, considering I haven't even begun to do a nursery for little Ivory yet.  So these are the before pics, I hope to have some after pics before 5 years passes at least.


It was kinda cool to see our house go from this

to this in a few months

Probably the room we love the most.  The builder put different countertops in at first that we didn't feel like matched the sample that we had picked out so they were super nice and replaced them for us, we love these ones so much better.  All these pics are a little dark, we took them Friday evening after finding out the loan had funded and it was actually ours before moving in the next morning.

 Mud room, coat closet bathroom door

Downstairs bathroom

 Formal living room.  We plan to make it a library/office at some point.

Family Room

 Stairs, which will be painted a light gray like the rest of the downstairs soon, and stair railing which we want to re-stain a darker color.

 part of the hallway

 upstairs kids/guest bathroom

 1st bedroom- turned into Ryan's man cave- music room

 hallway

 laundry room

 Master bedroom and Tristan checking things out

 Master bathroom,  I guess we didn't take pics of the separate shower and tub.

 closet

 2nd Bedroom- Tristan's room

 3rd Bedroom- Ivory's room

 4th Bedroom-  Guest room

 Back of house,  looking forward to putting a yard and fence in next spring and letting Tristan run wild

Bell Family Reunion

Part of our summer activities included the awesome 2nd Annual Bell Family reunion.  We rented a cabin in Heber and basically hung out, ate and played games for a few days.  The day before we all got to go see baby Brynn be blessed.  Here is Tristan hanging out with Aunt Penny and Uncle Tim.

 The three boys hanging out on the hammock.

 At the fish hatchery we got to get a little tour of.

 Tristan looking at the fish.

 Its a shame we didn't find this cool tepe until the very last day when we were packing things up, we had to take it out anyways for a bit to play with.

 Silly family picture right before leaving.

 It was basically impossible to get a good picture with grandma and all the grand kids.

 But this turned out pretty cute with grandma and Richard's kids, although Elliot looks a bit worried

 Richard's Family.

 Annaliese's Family

 My Fam.

 These two cute girls had a blast playing together.

 Penny and Tim and Orson must have escaped during the rest of picture taking time.
Picture with the whole family.

Can't wait for next year! With at least two new additions to the family!

Summer Activities

This summer we were pretty wrapped up in our new house, getting the financing figured out, going to look at it every day, preparing for the move.  We did take a little time out for a few fun things though.  In no particular order.

Went to the pool a few times, Tristan caught a ride with his cousins in their fun red wagon.

 Went to the dinosaur museum.

 Relaxing with daddy at a bbq.

 I'm bummed you can't see them in this pic, but Ryan took Tristan down this fun slide, this is also the American Fork pool where Tristan took his first swimming lessons.

 A couple of times on afternoon where it was too warm to go do anything outside we went to the McDonald's play place, Tristan loved going down this piano slide.

 Don't make fun of us, but we went to Comic Con (we had free tickets from Ryan's work).  It wasn't really our scene and way too crowded, but we did get to see a video Ryan made for a panel where William Shatner (original Star Trek guy and more recently known as the priceline negotiater) and the original Batman guy were there in person - tickets were $50 +, the crowd really liked the opener video Ryan made to introduce them, he might put it up on facebook soon.

 Tristan hanging out in the shower at our new house one of the many times we went to look at it.

 Tristan hanging out with grandma Egan at our neighborhood kids bike parade on the 4th of July.

 Waiting for the fireworks to start on the 4th.

 On my birthday we got to go out to City Creek and spend the afternoon shopping, ate dinner at the cheese cake factory and stayed in a hotel up in Slc just the two of us for the first time since Tristan was born.  It was so nice to have a little mini getaway.

 Relaxing:)

 Tristan giving hugs to his best buddy at the petting zoo.  He also got to ride on a little pony, the video is way too long to post though, but he loved it.

 Tristan loved this ride at Trafalga.

Tristan's first parade!

Stealing the neighbor's toys.

 Going to Lowe's with daddy.

 Stealing toys at the splash pad at least he had the decency to wave goodbye this time..

 Hanging out with Aunt Penny after our first time at 7 Peaks water park.

Well there's some of what we did at least that got recorded. Stay tuned for new house post and Bell Family Reunion pics.

San Diego

Ryan's family booked a beach house in San Diego beginning of May for a week.  We had declined going due to our finances being allotted out this year to a new house and a new baby.  We got talked into going just for the weekend as a few family members wouldn't be there for the first couple of days.  So, we decided to be spontaneous finding it hard to turn down a free weekend stay in a beach house and hit the road.  Although we had a fun time at the beach and enjoying being with family we weren't sure on the very long drive home whether the fun to drive ratio equaled out.  We mainly got a few videos so hopefully they work.
 Tristan had no fear of the water, was eating the sand and drinking the salt water, so basically he loved it.

This is right after we got there, we are both very happy to have arrived! Thank heavens for the kindle and seasame street that helped us get thru the last couple of hours

 Tristan takes over the pool

 We went to Old Towne San Diego on Cinco de Quatro (May 4th) so it was crazy, all the Cinco de Mayo celebrations were in full force, this is the only pic we got as the majority of the time was spent walking from our mile away parking spot, finding a restaraunt and waiting to be seated and eating yummy mexican food! We briefly checked out the Mormon battalion museum but pregnant me could only focus on finding food to eat!