Morris Family: 2007

Saturday, November 03, 2007

Halloween with the Johnson Family

We had fun trick-or-treating, dressing up, and eating yummy soup in pumpkin bread bowls! Oh and not to forget the candy!

Sunday, October 28, 2007

28 Weeks Today!!

I thought I would post a picture of my new look...pregnant! We are getting more and more excited to have Thatcher here. We can hardly wait, except for the fact I still need to paint his room and crib. Time is running out for sure. The house is coming along though, and I will post the "before and after" pictures soon.

Sunday, September 09, 2007

Baby Thatcher Morris

http://www.youtube.com/v/UCRfjH9Ruig

Our First Home

We finally got the keys to our house on August 17th! We were very relieved to be over that huge headache. What a mess trying to find the right house and working with a realtor - we won't go into that! We are very happy with our house - it just needs some tender loving care. We haven't moved in yet because we are still trying to clean it up and make it liveable. Our first project was removing asbestos popcorn ceiling. Wow it was a mess and Paul worked very hard but we were very glad to see it go! We also ripped up carpet (orange shag in some rooms) and refinished beautiful oak wood floors underneath, which ran throughout the entire upstairs. We are thankful for Thomas for helping us with them and giving us direction. We are very happy with them. It's a lot of hard work but it is going to be amazing when we're done! We have never had our own place and we feel very blessed to have a house as nice as this!! I will post a second slide show of the inside remodel when it's done.

We Graduated!

I realize it's a little late for this but I wanted to post some proof of my biggest accomplishment yet!! I finally finished school and I am finally taking a break from homework and exams. I thought this day would never come. I graduated with my Master's degree and it was lots of work but all worth it when I saw this cool gown with the all the doo dads and the funny hood! Ha ha ha. I know it's crazy, but now that school is really over and I don't have homework I badly miss it and I would love to be going to class. I especially envy those going to BYU-Idaho. That was my most favorite place and time! After all I met, dated, and married Paul there- hellooo!! Besides that, it is the best place in the world to go to school! Paul also graduated from school in April!! Wahoo! Although we don't have any picture proof of it - it did happen! He now has the job to prove it. We were both in a hurry to get done with school -why I am not sure.?It's a whole lot of responsibility and working now! I think we both wish we were still in school! However, Paul loves his job and really enjoys going to work which is worth so much! I am still looking for the right job and it's stressful, especially being pregnant and trying to hide my belly during interviews. It's tricky!

Monday, June 11, 2007

Crazy as usual at the Johnson's

As some of you already know, Paul accepted a job with Kiewit Engineering company here in Salt Lake City. We are currently staying at the Johnson home while we look for a house. It is pretty stressful...but not to worry because Porter and Oliver are sure to cheer you up!! You can count on that. So we are all playing in the backyard when Gram discovers Oli and Porter have disappeared - easy to do. We go running around the side of the house and the gate is open! Not good. We run up onto the driveway and find Porter and Oliver looking over the side of the driveway, or cliff. Oliver is crying and saying "Porter go tell Gram!" What are they looking at?

Just my car rolled over the cliff into the neighbor's yard. No big deal. It's just high centered on a large 1 ton boulder, that came along with it as it rolled off the cliff. What happened? Well, every time we asked the boys what happened, a new story developed. So we will never be sure. But one thing we know, the Tracker was in the garage and then next thing we knew crashed into the neighbor's yard. Never a dull moment here at the Johnson home!!