House #6

Well we moved in over a month ago and I have finally got around to getting some pictures done. I thought I would show you my top 6 favorite rooms/parts of the house.

So #6 is the Exterior
it would probably rank closer to the top but its not finished, we still have the yard, a few stone walls, a fence etc to do, and probably wont be done realistically for several years.

My favorite things about the outside are:
The white siding. There aren't very many here but every time I see a white house it brightens my day. Im not so sure that many people really like a white house, people in the neighborhood seem to ignore the subject but it is my favorite.
Our lighting
The backyard hot/cold spout to rinse down the kids with when they play in the mud/sand/dirt
The deck
Our horse neighbors
Our amazing views
A big driveway for the kids to ride around on
A pile of sand the someone dumped in our yard (I love it and hate it;)

Sunset

One of our favorite things to do since we moved in is to sit outside when John gets home from work and eat dinner on the front porch, or ride bikes, or walk or anything fun outside. We have loved our view of the sunset and tonight it was especially pretty. Here is a picture from a few weeks ago. The days are getting colder and shorter now and we are trying to get as much fun from the outside as we can.

a few things from the summer

We went to Mount Vernon several times this summer, it turned out to be my favorite place to visit, here is a family picture of us when we went and had a picnic there. Also, Mae had her first haircut this summer, and I did not do a very good job.

summer reunions

This summer the kids and I went to me and John's families reunions. It was a ton of fun and so good to have some vacation. I didn't get any pictures at mine, but here are a few from John's. (Mae found her curly hair twin;)

Vera is One!

Vera turned one on Sunday and I can't believe she is that old.

She got her first tooth on August 1st and now has five.
She said her first word while we were in Newport: "Uh-Oh"
She is now crawling on her hands and knees (no more army crawling) and is cruising along the furniture

Vera is my little treasure.

Moving Day

It's moving day and it feels like Christmas morning :)

Also, before we even moved in we had a tub of moonsand dumped in the carpet and a set of poster paints emptied on the carpet. Luckily our neighbor owns a floor cleaning business and came over and steamed the mess.

A few days ago Vera caught a bee with her little tweezer fingers, she started crying when it stung her finger and when I came to help her she was still holding on tight to it and it was wiggling to get free! While I was helping Vera, Wes and Mae found of big bag of bbq charcoal to dump out and play with, they made black hand prints and foot prints all over the driveway and rubbed their faces black ... wish I had a picture:)

How am I going to keep this house clean when we have a Mabel and a Wesley moving in?

hello...

We are still alive. living in a very small basement. waiting for our house to be done. two weeks left...