Trent and Katie Brownlee

2009-03-29T17:53:00.000-07:00

The sheetrock is going pretty well. We are just getting excited to start painting!!
This is a pic looking at the front door from the dining room.

This is the downstairs. Bridger LOVES to go to the New house. Any time we go over he HAS to go with!!

Another pic of the basement. Those are two guest bedrooms. So when people come to see us they will have a place to stay.So come on up!

Bridger is standing on the stairs going up to the bonus room and 3 bedrooms.

This is looking up stairs from the front door. It is open to the second floor.

This is the family room looking at the kitchen, an archway to the entry way and an archway to the dining room, and an archway to go out to the garage.

This is in the masterbath. Can't wait to use this!!

This is the master bedroom.

Bridger in his room. He is always hangin out in here. He loves it!

Bridger by his window in his bedroom. He is so excited!

2009-03-15T17:05:00.000-07:00

I haven't been very good at keeping up with this thing. Any way the outside is almost done! It should be completly done(except for the front and back porches, we still have to pour more concrete) in a few more days.

We had it insulated last week, and the sheetrockers will be here tommorow(Mon.)

We are getting excited to start to see walls and get ready to start painting.

2009-02-22T19:31:00.000-08:00

We are still working on the house if you were just wondering. As you can see we have siding going up. Its really starting to look like a house on the outside!

We had the heating and air passed off last week! We hope to have the plumbing and electrical passed off this week. Then the insulation guys.
We hope to have the sheetrock guys starting within a week to a week and a half.

As you can see we still have winter up here. Its been cold to work in the house and out! I sure hope spring comes quick!!!

2009-02-22T19:21:00.000-08:00

Today Kenadee had a little accident. She was up on a stool trying to dunk a basketball, slipped , the stool went over and her foot hit the metal on the bottom. She ended up with 3 stitches on the bottom of her foot.
Bridger thinks he got hurt too, so we had to put him with Kenadee.

This would be the stool.

She really did good in the ER.

She sure is a tough little girl!!!!

2009-01-25T17:05:00.000-08:00

I know, I know, I know. These pics are long overdue. But we have been busy. Its just hard to see much progress now that we are on the inside.

Dad and Dusty came up to help me install our garage door and opener. It was good to see them.

As you can see we have the heating and air going on right now.

Right now this is up stairs .

We are working on the plumbing. We are not plumbers, but we are learning. We are not very fast.

2008-12-14T14:29:00.000-08:00

We didn't get anything done on the house this weekend. Brooklyn had her district basketball tournament. They went the season undefeated averaging 75 points a game. Infact they beat Firth 109-15. Needless to say they walked right through the tournament. They went 11-0.

If you couldn't find Brooklyn she is number 14.

2008-12-07T14:12:00.000-08:00

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!!!!
We got our roof on!!

We hired out the top and garage areas. These guys came in and in one day knocked it all out.
Then with Dustin's help of course we finished the back porch and over the one side.

Our windows and doors will be here on Thursday.
So we will be completely inclosed by the weekend!!

So what do you think???

2008-11-30T15:53:00.000-08:00

We started shingling this weekend. But we didn't get as far as we wanted. That roof is STEEP!!!
Actually, the front porch isn't bad, we were able to get it done. But the rest of it, Oh man!

We actually started back here. We ran some ropes across the top and down to the truck to tie ourselves off. Which came in handy since Katie fell 3 times. The wind was terriable this weekend.

2008-11-23T15:31:00.000-08:00

As you can see we just have one gable left to sheet. We will be doing shingles over Thanksgiving weekend!! Windows will be here in about a week and a half.

We got the back porch done.

We still have to rout out the windows and doors on the main floor. We are just waiting for the windows and doors, until then it stays warmer this way.

We got the gables on the top on too!! What do you think???

2008-11-16T14:53:00.000-08:00

We are still plugging along. We aren't were we wanted to be by this weekend. But the weather hasn't been the best either.

We just about have the bonus room ready to sheet. We had to build trusses thru the middle.

We are getting ready to build the back porch. I think the covered porches are going to be nice!!!

This is in the bonus room. If you look at the left it looks like a little door, well it is. It going to be for storage. But Kenadee says its for her play house.

We got the front porch done! I think it really changes the look of the house.

2008-11-09T16:05:00.000-08:00

We've still been working on the house even though we haven't posted anything for a couple weeks. We have got all the trusses up and just about got the bonus rooms floored.

Our ceptic is almost done. We just have to have it inspected.

With the weather turning on us and the time change we've really slowed down. But we hope to start puting shingles on this next weekend!!!!

2008-11-09T15:53:00.000-08:00

Halloween did come our way! And oh did they have fun, and LOTS of candy!!!

Brooklyn was a geni

Kaden , we'll ya, dracula

Does Sherawn look like a good witch or a bad witch??

Isn't Kenadee the cuteist ladybug??

And then there is our little monkey. Bridger loves his costume, he even has a bannana in his pocket.

2008-11-09T15:44:00.000-08:00

We do have other things going on besides our house. Sherawn had her 9th birthday on Oct. 28th.

Katie took her over to Idaho Falls and went shopping and took her to the new High School musical 3. They had a lot of fun!!!

Trent and Katie Brownlee

2008-11-07T19:34:00.001-08:00

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2008-10-26T17:25:00.000-07:00

It's time for another up date. We got the stairs for the upstairs done!! Yea no more ladders to go up stairs. That makes it nice.

This is the back of the house. We did finish the trusses on the one side of the house and got it sheeted. We got half the upstairs trusses done.

Trent's parents came up to help us on Sat. Gail was a big help. It was good to see them, we don't get to see them very often.

We are hoping to finish the trusses this week. We ran into a snag Sat. we wanted to set the trusses on the garage, but we couldn't lift them. So we are hoping to get a crane lined out this week to get them up. They only weigh 200lbs. a piece!!
And we have to nail 4 of them together. Ouch!

2008-10-19T18:44:00.000-07:00

We are working hard. With the help of some friends again this weekend we got a lot done. Wayne that works with Trent came out for 2 days, and Byron, Chris and Howard came out Sat.
These guys are awesome. They came all the way
out from IF.

We are working on the second level, and set some on the trusses.

Its really starting to come together. We just gotta get it enclosed before the snow flies!!!!!

2008-10-12T18:01:00.000-07:00

We still have some piles of dirt for the kids to play on. But not for too much longer. Kenadee, Bridger, and Jayten love to climb up, and slide down.

We are trying our hand at stairs. They are not easy!!! But I think we have them figured out. We got half of them done yest. since it was soo cold and snowy outside we worked in the basement.

We got all the outside walls up and sheeted, and just about all the interior walls on the main floor done. We are going to start the garage and start the second floor this week!! Its starting to come together, just hope the snow will stay away a little longer.

2008-10-07T20:03:00.000-07:00

Well, we are a little late getting this on our blog. We got some framing done on the main floor this last Sat. Trent had a fried from work come out and helped us frame. We got half the house done on the outside walls.

Trent and Byron getting ready to put the sheeting on.

Dustin's been a BIG help too!!! He's always there to help. Thanks Dustin!

2008-09-28T18:47:00.000-07:00

Another update!!! We got the floor joists on. We did have one problem, we hadn't gotten all the joists nailed on the one side when the wind came up and knocked 8 of them over. Trent and Cleve were in the basement. Pretty scarry.

We got the weight barring walls are up too!! The basement is starting to take shape. Its getting good.

Hopefully we will have walls up on the main floor by next Sunday.

2008-09-21T17:25:00.000-07:00

I guess we better get everyone up to speed on our house.
We are still slow, but we are moving along. We finally finished all the concrete. We will be starting wood this week.

We had a guy show up the other night, and brought us a tree. So now we have our first tree.

Our trusses showed up on Fri. and with all the wood for the basement, the main floor, and the trusses it looks like we got something going on.

2008-09-21T17:16:00.000-07:00

Trent had his 38th birthday on Sept. 3. The night before we were in bed watching tv. All the lights were out and we heard this banging. We went outside and here was this sign.
Come to find out Dustin, and Cleve were responsable!!

A lady at the grocery store made this cake. Pretty good huh?!?

Bridger wanted to help blow out the candles. So he made sure he was right there.

2008-09-21T17:09:00.000-07:00

Bridger had quite a month. He had to have his tonsulls ( I know I spelled that wrong!) out.
He did really good!!! In fact the next day he was out playing and people would come over to check on him and would say are you sure he had surgury??
That was a long day though. We had to be at the hospital at 5:30. So we had to get up at 3am.
We were dragging by the end of the day

2008-09-21T16:50:00.000-07:00

Bridger had a birthday on Aug. 11. We had a party for him. As you can see, he is into the movie Cars. He calls it cachow.

He got a remote control cachow car.

He's 3 now. Saybrey had to make sure he had the right amount of fingers.

The Atomic's Day Parade

2008-08-05T11:04:00.000-07:00

We sat on the side with all the kids. There was us with our 5 kids, Lynette and Lynette's parents, Lynette's grandchildren Gage and Madie, Doug's kids Madie and Colby (we thought Danette was going to have a baby, but not yet) Cleve was bailing hay. Total watchers about 14, but of course there was enough candy for all.

Jaten was in the parade with his four weeler and Lydsen was riding a scooter from Thursdays.

Dustin was showing off his moves.

Brooklyn was playing in a band. We all had a great time.

Oh, what do you do in the summer time?

2008-08-05T10:49:00.000-07:00

Kaden plays games with Gage. (Lynette's grandson)

Kenadee and Bridger watch Dad and Mom work on the house.

We love to climb up hills,

So we can slide down.

Swim in the pool with Madie, (Lynette's grandaughter)

Or, just smile as the days go by. Is that what you do, so do I.

What to do with 2 acers?

2008-08-05T10:28:00.000-07:00

You may ask what are the Brownlee's going to do with 2 acers? Trent came to the rescure he found the right toy for the kids...or was it for him. I am not a very good mom I forgot to take pictures of Kaden ride it. The kids are having fun. We told them if they wanted to ride it they have to start it. They are doing really good, sometime they still have trouble.

Sherawn was riding one time and went to stop, the bike tipped over. I think she thought we were going to get mad. I just looked at her and told her that she needs to pick it up. I keep telling them how do we learn if we don't learn from out mistake and try to make things better.

The new house!

2008-08-05T10:02:00.000-07:00

The new house is still coming along. We hired out someone to do the walls. The came in one day and pour the next. Much faster then we are.

And the sun set on another day....We will start again in the morning.

Then came the fun part of painting tar. What a mess. We had it everywhere. The only way to get tar off was to use gas...Now that was an expense bath.

What a trip!!!

2008-08-05T09:00:00.000-07:00

What a trip. We went to Redfish Lake for July 4Th. There was a micro burst (you may have to look this one up on the Internet, I did because I didn't know what one was) and tree's went down. We were all okay, but it was about 10:00 at night and you could hear the trees cracking, but you couldn't see where they were falling. Cleve, Kenadee and I were not with the others, we were down by the boat dock. There were so many trees in the road it took us about an hour to get back to our family. I think that was the hardest, because all I wanted was my husband.

Bridger's hurt again!!!

2008-08-05T08:42:00.000-07:00

Bridger came into the house screaming with blood streaming down his face. OH yes you guessed it....Kenadee strikes again. I do have to stand up for Kenadee, Bridger hit her with a batton and Kenadee through a spinkler at him (what is the deal with throwing sprinkles at siblings anyway.) We had to take him into the emergency room where they glued his wound shut. The part they glued shut is the part in his in his eyebrow, if you can't tell

Trent and Dustin's Bigest Fans

2008-08-05T08:32:00.000-07:00

Trent and Dustin were in a Basketball tournament in Mackay sometime ago, and the kids all had to make sign for their dad's. Even if their body's don't hold out their fans were their to cheer them on.

2008-06-15T17:40:00.000-07:00

We started the footings this weekend. WE are hoping to be ready to pour concrete this weekend!? We'll see how it goes. The weather has just starting to get better. Thats a plus.

2008-06-15T17:34:00.000-07:00

The other day I went to go work on the truck, walked out in the entry area, and this is what I found. Bridger was in the flour!! He had flour EVERYWHERE. But as you can see, he was having fun.

2008-06-15T17:18:00.000-07:00

We have a hole!!!! It's almost scary cause that means there is alot of work to be done!

2008-06-08T18:20:00.000-07:00

Katie and I couldn't wait to kiss in our new bedroom.

We were trying out the new bathroom.

2008-06-08T18:13:00.000-07:00

We will start digging tommorow,6/9/08. So we decided to have our own little groundbreaking.
The kids really had fun with it.
I think they are getting excited.

2008-06-08T18:08:00.000-07:00

We are getting ready to start our new home!!
We had to move the fence to the new property line.

The Road Show.

2008-04-22T18:15:00.000-07:00

Brooklyn was in a Road Show for our ward, but they thought she needed a mother. Can' t you just see how much fun we are having.

Dustin was also in the road show he is the bad guy on the right. So when you watch the video his shirt says "BAD". He was trying to kill the stripling warriors.

Jaten was a bad guy too. He just didn't want to kill any one.

They asked for people to be angles in our play. As you can see Lynette makes a perfect angle. I can hear you say, "Where is Cleve?" Oh that right they didn't ask for devils. HA HA HA. Love you Dad.

We just love to get our hair cuts.

2008-04-22T17:58:00.000-07:00

Sherawn wants her hair cut really short, but mom only look off a inch. Oh, well maybe next time.

" I did realize my hair was getting so long or is that hair growing on my chest?"

Kenadee loves to get her hair cut, just look at her smile. " How much are you cutting off?"

"I don't mind getting my hait cut as long as you do not put on the cape."

Kaden hears a who!

2008-04-22T17:33:00.000-07:00

Kaden was in the play "Horton hears a who." He had such a great time he is such a ham. He just loves it.

He is the green monkey with the smile from ear to ear.

Here we all are waiting for the play. Get on with the show.

I'm it!!!

2008-03-30T15:57:00.000-07:00

Some times blogging is not the safest thing to do. This one was a little hard for me... I am it. I have to tell you seven interesting things about me, then list seven more people to do the same. hee hee hee. So for not being the most interesting person in the world this one was a little bit hard.

1. I love candy...I have my own little candy stash. This started when I was very young. I would buy candy and then hide it so one else would eat it. I also used this as a bargaining chip when needed. I still have a candy stash, but the kids or Dustin seem to find it. I do come about this pretty naturally...How much candy did you throw away Lynette??? Dad had more then he knew what to do with, but I can't blame Dad for it all Mom helped too.
2.I do not like to be given flowers like rose or anything. I find they die, give me a movie any day of the week. For Mother's Day or Valentines Day, Trent will ask if I want him to send me flowers. I always tell him no, it is a waste of money. I do love flowers that are hand picked or plants. The hand picked flowers do not cost anything and plants last a lot longer.
3. I LOVE TO SING. I have always loved to sing ever since I was very little. The louder I sing the better I am. Oh, if I do not know all the words I can make those up as I go along. Just ask my sisters...They used to tell me "Katie just mouth the words please don't sing when you are sitting by us." I have also past these wonderful skills on to some of my children.
4. I have a hard time closing my eyes (not just because of Bridger hurting me) I have always had this problem. When the prayer is being said, I have to concentrate hard to close my eyes all the way. I also sleep with my eyes half open. This helps me see those who come into my room when I am asleep. Trent is now used to this. He used to say it bothered him, because he wasn't sure if I was awake or asleep.
5. I do not ever sweep the floor. This may sound very gross, but it really is not. I will vacuum the floor. This helps to pick up those things the broom misses or at least that is what I think.
6. I always have to pick up the house before I go to bed. This is a phobia that I have. When I was little I heard a story about this little kid who did not mind his mother by picking up his toys and in the middle of the night, he had a bad dream and yelled for his mom to come in. She fell on the toys and broke her leg. This is why I will pick up all the toys before I go to bed or at least make a path to each of my kids beds.
7. This is the worst. I have holes in my sheets. I bought new sheets at Thursdays about a year ago. They were the best sheet ever. When I washed them once I put to much bleach and now they have a few holes. Trent would ask me if we had other sheets to put on the bed. I told him that I still liked these the best. So I took off the sheets and patched the holes...JUST Like New...except more holes are starting to show up now. Trent even bought me two more new sheet sets a couple of months ago. Those are sitting on the top of our TV. I just keep telling him they are not as good as the ones with hole. The only bad part is when you catch your toe in the sheet and rip it a little more, no big deal.

You are now it...Angie, Anita, Gail, Mary, Kristi, Dusty and Barbara....Some of you might not have a blog site yet...Well my advise to you is...GET ONE.

You just can't have to much fun in the snow.

2008-03-23T12:22:00.000-07:00

Dustin, Cleve, and I went snowmobiling up Pass Creek this last Sat. It was a nice day!! We had a lot of fun just cruising around. I put a couple videos I took on my camera of Cleve and Dustin jumping. Dustin kinda went up sideways so his landing is kinda off. Cleve was a little sore after our ride. He said he's too old for that. I think your only as old as you want to be.

This shot was on the summit of Pass Creek. It's a pretty view.

The Boys know how to Play!!!

2008-03-23T12:15:00.000-07:00

We have a star in out mist!!!

2008-03-22T20:07:00.000-07:00

We have a STAR in our mist!!! Brooklyn was in the spring play Cinderella. She did really good,and I think she had alot of fun doing it.

She was several different parts. She was a cook, a mouse, a maiden, and a mother.

Easter Egg Hunting!!!

2008-03-22T19:57:00.000-07:00

Easter Egg Hunting!!!!

Can you believe we had to have the easter egg hunt in the snow?? It was 10 degrees outside. But that didn't slow the kids down.
Brooklyn and Kaden are too old now, so they took pictures and help with the little ones.

Katie was helping Kenadee. She found an egg by the tree. See the snow is trying to go away.

Katie you are sooo hot!!!

2008-03-22T19:46:00.000-07:00

Katie had a little accident with Bridger.
The other night Bridger was in our bed watching tv with us. He rolled over and caught Katie in the with his finger. Katie couldn't open her eye the next day, so she went to the doctor. He said there was a chunk of her pupil taken out. Her eye was soo sensitive to light that we would watch tv with all the lights out and she would have sunglasses on and it would still be too bright. She is doing good now!!! She can see again!!!!!!

The Sugar Tournament.

2008-03-16T18:29:00.000-07:00

Brooklyn had another basketball tournament. Bridger liked to watch brookyn run up and down the court. And as you can see from his head he took another fall. He was running with his hands in his coat pocket when he went down. He couldn't get his hands out to protect himself. He actually looks pretty good here.

Brooklyn's team won the tournament!! They had 3 games on fri. night and 2 on Sat. Here is the team with their coach holding their shirts that they won .

Heres Brooklyn playing a little defense. She has really gotten good. Its been fun to watch her and her improvement.

She is even getting into the shooting thing!! Trent still needs to work with her some more, but things are going good!! The high school varsity coach is puting this team in a tournament pretty soon that will compete against 9th and 10th graders. They are all 7th graders. They are pretty good.

Oh, Yes another Birthday!!!

2008-03-16T18:09:00.000-07:00

Kenadee had her 4th birthday! She was so excited. I think she got everything she wanted and more. But all she kept talking about was the birthday cake.

To many Birthdays!!!

2008-03-03T17:09:00.000-08:00

Here is Kaden with his birthday cake. We just bought a cake at the store and let the kids decorate their own cake. Kaden did pretty good, he spelled his name right. Kaden thinks he is getting old now he is 10 and now in double digits he tell us.

Brooklyn our first teenager this year. The big 13. We are not old enough to have a teenager. She is loving every minute of it and loves being in Young Women's...even if she is the only active one.

Brooklyn thought even mom needed to blow out candles....Mom was out of breath before all the candle were out. Three birthdays in one week...That's enough to make anyone sick of Birthday cake, but Kenadee birthday is only days away.

Who is the real Guitar Hero champ???

2008-02-29T21:44:00.001-08:00

Oh, yes even Dad and Lynette are Guitar Hero fans...Lorie and Dustin you better watch out...they will beat you before you know it.

As long as dad has his Diet Pepsi, Lynette might have a chance or is Lynette dad's other distraction???

Boys and their Toys

2008-02-29T21:35:00.000-08:00

Trent just can't get enough snow...but when he is not pushing the snow around...

You guessed it, he is playing in it. Bridger is always up for a ride, just don't ever stop, because he is never ready to quit.

Oh, but Bridger has his own toys too. He runs his Tonka truck back and forth so much and so fast he is wearing out my rugs. He also has as much fun giving rides as his Dad. Kenadee will sit in it and Bridger will give her rides... You have to watch out, because he will not watch out for you, My toes have been ran over a number of times.