Update

These are the latest pictures of our home.  These were taken 7/20/12 at 1:30pm.  They are working on the upstairs of our home now.

Teeth

Nate has been teething for over a month now and all that hard work has finally paid off.  Yesterday morning we noticed that his bottom front tooth finally broke through.  He is now the proud owner of one little tooth.  He has quickly discovered that he can bite people and they will yell.  I couldn't get a picture of his tooth since he won't open his mouth for me to see, but here is a picture of the happy little guy.  He has also started reading stories with his brothers before bed.  He gets to read with us when we are doing small stories, but as you can tell in the last picture; he absolutely loves it.  He is such a fun addition to our family.  We love him so much.

Building!!!

 For those of you who are not aware yet, we are building our dream home.  We got started on the whole project at the end of April beginning of May.  Our builder is James Ray Construction and the house is being built over in the Heyburn area.  It is still in the country, but closer to town then we are now.  We will have 2.1 acres of land.  Here are the first pictures we have taken.  They have poured the concrete, built the sub floor and have started framing.

From the garage view.

Storage room and kitchen

Family room

Office

Front view

1st Annual Reddington Family Reunion

As a family we decided to start our own reunion this year.  My sister Crystal's inlaws do a service project/family reunion every year so we kind of copied them.  It was decided to roof my parents house for our service project and then go to Dierkies Lake for the family reunion the next day.  On June 29th my sisters all drove to Rupert to start work on my parents roof.  I had to work that day so I did not join them until 5:30 pm.  They started work at 1pm and were still hard at work at 6pm.  They did come down for dinner and then got back up to work until it was too dark to work anymore.  I took my boys home at 8 pm, but left Kyle over there working.  The next morning we got up and headed over to Grandma and Poppa's house for breakfast.  After breakfast I joined my family up on the roof to finish up.  We got a system going and fell into a rhythm.  I came down at 10 to feed Nate and they finished up before I had a chance to go back up.  Afterwards we packed up and headed to Dierkies Lake, outside of Twin Falls, for swimming and a picnic.  It was a fun day with family.  The boys really enjoyed playing with their cousins.  However, my parents discovered that babysitting three 2 year olds is like having triplets with different mothers.  Jon, Shayne, and Carter our nine months apart in age and all two.  Just wait until they are teenagers together and really drive us crazy.  Oh well.  It was great to hang out with my family and hopefully we can continue getting together every year.

Nate at Dierkies Lake

Wesley, Grandma, Jon, and Shayne at the picnic

Catherine, Hallie, and Carter at the picnic.

Kyle fell asleep with Nate.

Wesley sitting on Poppa. (Good thing my dad is such a good sport.)

Welcome Home Grandma & Grandpa Meyers

Kyle's parents have been in Sri Lanka for the last 18 months on a mission.  On June 25th they traveled back to Idaho.  I had the day off so we headed to Boise to meet them at the airport.  Their flight did not arrive in Boise until 7 in the evening.  We went earlier and did a little comparision pricing.  Then we spent a little bit of time at Kyle's brother's house in Star, ID.  At 6:30 pm we left Jason's house to go to the Boise airport.  Kyle's sister, Mandy, made a large banner that said, "Welcome Home" for the grandkids to hide behind and then run out from behind to give Grandma and Grandpa Meyers hugs.  The kids seemed pretty excited to do this.  Wesley and Jon did not really understand it, but their cousins enthusiasm was contagious.  Once they saw Grandma and Grandpa Meyers they ran to them and gave them a group hug.  After we picked up their bags we went out to eat at Applebees.  Afterward we headed home, since I had to work the next day.  It was a long day and we did not get home until after 11pm.  We are happy Kyle's parents are back home.

Waiting at the airport.



Hiding behind the sign (you can see their little feet at the bottom)

Running to hug Grandma and Grandpa Meyers