Summer at the Steen's

We are FINISHED!!!!
We called the Power company and had them come and unhook our power line so we could put the last piece of metal on the roof. We are finished. Marty added the last bit of trim and voila!! it is complete!! Our house is noticeably cooler and the people who have even noticed the change love it. I love it. I think it is beautiful. :) Marty did a great job. We keep getting asked if it is noisy when it rains. There is a little bit of a difference but it is far from noisy or annoying. again I LOVE IT!!!





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Now for an update on us....

Lacey just got back from Youth Conference. She had a wonderful time and has a whole pile of new phone numbers....mostly boys. Actually all boys. The funny thin is kids now days NEVER TALK on the phone. They text ALL THE TIME but the never never talk. It is crazy. Someone was teasing her about how they bet she was always on the phone at home so nobody could get through. She didn't even understand. What they meant. Things are so different from when I was a kid. :) She is really having a great summer. The pageant is still going on and she is having a blast meeting new friends and catching up with old ones. She works at Annies custard and helps me clean cabins when needed. She has more money in the bank than anyone in the family. She is driving on her permit and is turning out to be my least scary new driver. (Or I am just older and calmer.) lol


Amber.....hmmm. Well we aren't really allowed to comment on that or "bridezilla" appears. She is very frustrated with the complicated Visa forms and I am not a lot of help because It is so difficult figuring out what we need to do. We have no date but the location looks like HERE. The Hardles are trying to sell their cabins and if they don't before this winter then Amber and Luke might be able to live in the lodge and run the place for them so they can move back to Utah with their family. Amber is going to England in September to visit and do some planning with Luke and his family. Then we will know more. For now she is attending her temple prep classes. She just got called to be the new primary secretary on Sunday. And she is working every day at NRI on the grounds with Sage and then working a few evenings a week at the Fudge Factory.


Sage and Zach are at the end of their stay. They both worked all summer. Their car broke down and cost them about $1000 to fix. The sad thing is he was driving it to quincy to the toyota dealership to get it checked out because it was having issues and it died. we were on a busy part of the highway so he jumped out to push it off the road and it kept going and rolled into a ditch. a couple of trucks that were right behind us pulled right over and helped out. We had a tow truck there within minutes and made it to Quincy.

gIt is all fixed up now. Zach went home last weekend and Sage will follow in August. Zach is already moved into their new apartment and is looking for a job. Sage really misses him a lot and it will make us all a lot happier when they are reunited.

I am still working nights in the temple. I LOVE it. I will be starting to drive the bus in August when school starts. I was dreading those horrible hours again but it looks like we have figured out a new schedule that will be healthier and make me a lot happier. I wont drive a morning route so I can SLEEP but I will drive the preK kids around noon and then the high school kids after school. :) I am SO excited!!! I hope it works out I will find out on the 9th. On the 13th we drive to St Louis to pick up Larissa our foreign exchange student from Brazil. She is 15 years old and is friends with us right now on facebook. she seems super sweet and we are really looking forward to getting to know her better. I am also running. YES I said running. I know it sounds horrible and it really is most of the time but I am training to run the Las Vegas Ragnar in October with the "Dickson Scrubs" so We ware planning a trip out west in October so I hope we will get to see a lot of you then. Can I do it...YES I CAN!! lol I hope.... Well thats it for now. It is HOT and Swampy here and we are all alive and well and Happy as clams. xoxoxo from Nauvoo