Okay, Carly again. Forgot to tell you about something. So we have a really good family friend who's living with us. He's known for 13 1/2 years. He's like a brother to us. His name is Jesse and he's 18. He just joined our church recently  He's  in the purple shirt. That's Shannon next to him. She's like my sister. She's at BYU, ID.

Okay, I(Carly) was looking at some older posts and I found a cool pic. On a post labeled "We are back in print" and Monday, December 19,2011 there is a pic with all us kids in the back of our truck. We are on our   land that we just bought. We first looked at it in 2011, said "no" but came back last year and said "yes." Where we are in that pic, we actually don't own that but have hunting rights to it and hope to own it one day in the future.

Hello everyone, it's Carly!!!!!!!  Here's some pictures of our river that iced over, some before of the new house, some cute fall pictures I took last fall, some of both Tyler and Brayden who played soccer last fall, one of Mom looking at something in disgust, and there's two of us in the river at our old rental house.
 When we bought the house, the house was filled with junk and stuff. The owner emptied the house. Then our loving missionaries and us, cleaned and scrubbed walls and floors. Granddad and Grandmom Watson came up to help. Granddad and Brayden vacuumed the whole attic which was filled and filled with bat pooh and insulation. Then we painted and painted. I won the award for the most paint on my pants. We painted ceilings and walls. We sanded all the floors and varnish them.  After that we had friend/contractor come and build the attic, the kitchen, two bathrooms. He also put plumbing in the upstairs and plumbed 2 1/2 baths. There was no plumbing upstairs. There was no kitchen. And there was only one little bathroom. So we had a lot of work to do and it's still a working progress. Now we want to work more on the farm.
 Recently we got a piano. I am so excited. We left our old piano in Culpeper. So for almost 2 years all we had was a keyboard. I teach piano so I needed a piano. My love for piano and music goes really far. I started violin/fiddle lessons almost 1 1/2 years ago. Also I play clarinet. Garrett started guitar a year and a half ago too. Brayden and Tyler were really excited to start piano but after a few months of me teaching them they decided they couldn't listen to their sister, so mom teaches them. I teach two little girls and soon three more little boys.
  Yesterday Brayden had a Cub Scout pinewood derby. He loved it and he loves scouts. Tyler's anxious to start next year. We got some cool pics of the derby. Don't ask me how but every time we have a scout thing(there's a lot) I get stuck with the activities.  Brayden's car is the one on the track close up on the left, it's blue and red. His is a sports car. Tyler's is on the left on the table and it's also blue and red. His is a boat.
 Also two pics of Tyler goofing off.
 Well that's all for now.  See you next time!!!!!!!!!!
     

     

Oh I forgot last summer Garrett and I were in a play. We did "Puss in Boots" In the second pic I'm all the way to the right.

Hello everyone, this is Carly.  I have decided to do the blog as much as I can. So actually the puppy that was on the last post is mine. I got him last year. He was born on Christmas morning of 2011. So he's a year old. Unfortunately he got ran over last July. I was gone when it happened. Dad(Brad) was driving out of the driveway and didn't see him. Garrett's friend Anna was over that day and she is a lifeguard. She took his pulse but, he was already in a coma. I cried the whole night. Three days later I had to leave and go to our church's Young Women's camp. I have to admit I had a hard time the whole week.

  Alright now I am much better. This past Christmas I got two cats...... finally. I have begged for cats for years. Everyone is allergic to them except Tyler and I. They have to live outside. I got the mamma who's Annabelle and her baby Edmund. Just the other day we figured out that Annabelle has a friend coming to see her and she might be expecting babies soon. Dad is not to fond of that idea. Also right before Christmas a friend of ours gave us two more dogs. They will be a year old in July. Their names are Ranger and Walker. Ranger is mostly black and Walker is white. Also more pet news, On Monday Garrett bought two female rats. He built a three story rat cage for them. He named them Zeva and Abby for all those who love NCIS. We also have a boring fish named Bubbles. We hope to had horses, chickens, and pigs soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will put a pic. of them up.
  Now that we are finally settled into our new house, things have calmed down quite a bit.  For three months(Oct.-Dec.) we stopped school and redid a old, 80 year old house. It was quite a fun experience. I will  put some pics up to. We did scrubbing, painting, cutting, and lots more.
   Last week our bridge flooded over while dad was in D.C.. Today our electricity went out and our pipes froze. So we have had some fun experiences lately.
 Granddad, Grandmom, and Aunt Step. Watson came to visit over the new year.
  Over Christmas we were all sick(sad).  The pic that mom is holding a shirt up, I gave her. It says "Will Trade Husband For Tractor."

 So I will try to get everyone to help keep you all up to date!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!