Thursday, September 16, 2010

Monumental Events since my hiatus from blogging......

So much has happened since I stopped blogging regularly I have decided to do a little review...

The biggest event was in December when we closed escrow on a home. We are so excited about our house, but it has been a LOT of work! When we got it there was green carpet and mustard walls in the entire house. The walls have since been painted and we have put in Mahogony floors on the main floor and recarpeted the upstairs. Now we are in process of finishing the basement. When we are finished, we'll have an 8 bedroom 3 1/2 bath home. This means everyone has their own room! THE KIDS ARE LOVING THAT!
The colors before
New floors and paint!
The newlook in the livingroom/formal dining area
The kitchen after

We were excited to debut our new home to the Stanger side of the family at reunion time.
Papa Nick even made a surprise appearance!
It's really hard to get 4 five year olds and a three year old in a cousins picture!

 


Uncle Eric taught Jacob to ride his bike without training wheels!
Kloe loves her cousin Kaden SO much!

This cutie is Lucas. Jonah and Kayleigh were his cousin buddies!
Tyler is always willing to strike a pose. I love this kid, he's a blast!
Papa Nick and Tyler at the Olympic Museum
Jon and his brothers and sister in order from oldest to youngest:
Jon, Nicole, Danny, and Eric

THEN......June 4th
JARED GRADUATED! (On Kami's 23rd Birthday no less!)


My Mom, Grandma, and Bestie Lauren all came to town for the event!
Special thanks go to all of them for subjecting themselves to the Stanggang lifestyle on CRACK!
(It was seriously insane!)

 
My Mom and Grandma liked our afternoon up Mill Creek Canyon.

A special thanks to Janae for taking Jared's senior pictures!


We have also been blessed with a summer filled with special friends coming from near and far to visit!

After Mom, Gram, and Lauren left we got to see my friend Dawn and little guy REW for a few weeks.
 They came all the way from South Carolina!
We had fun at the sidewalk chalk fest, sprinkler park, Herriman Days parade and carnival, the sprinkler park, and several other fun places.

We introduced REW to red snowies which he LOVED!

The same day Dawn and Rew left to go stay with Ang and Mike my best friend since kindergarten came. Uncle Donnie is a crowd favorite!
The guys took him shooting, we introduced him to the PIE pizzeria, saw a bees game and more! I think everyones favorite activity with Uncle Don was blowing stuff up! Fireworks aren't legal in California so we made the most of our ability to purchase them in Utah.
 (We may have accidentally had some illegal Nevada ones on hand too!)

While Don was still here our old neighbor and friend Tiffany came to stay with us! Her sister Jennifer didn't make it this time because she has a job now!
We had fun at the Days of 47 parade, fireworks, several trips to the lake with Jonah's kayak,
the copper mines, a few movies, hikes, feeding the local horses, and exploring Wheeler Farm.
Then, because summertime at the Camp stanggang is NEVER boring, after Uncle Don left, but while Tiff was still here....CALEB came to visit. Caleb is a friend from San Diego as well. Our families have been friends for 15 years or so thanks to a theater group (CYT) our kids performed in.
Too bad Caleb didn't use sunscreen at the lake!

We also had fun seeing our friend Mike from San Diego and his daughter Lydia who lives here in SLC.



Friday, September 3, 2010

It's been awhile!

Dear Sadly Neglected Blog,
It sure has been awhile. It's been almost a year since I've made a post. SO much has happened in that time. I started this blog so my parents could see what was happening in our lives and then my dad died. Without him reading my blog and my mom checking in on facebook I had a hard time coming here. It made me miss my Dad too much! I really have missed it though, so I'm ready to be back.

I will be adding pictures, changing the look of things, and bringing everything up to date. Check back soon, as "construction" starts tomorrow!
~K