November

So this month was exciting. It was the month we bought our very first house!!!! The yard is dead and the inside could use some updating and a lot of paint...a lot of paint. The walls are a tad bit gross. So we're excited to work on it a little at a time. Over the summer we plan to scrape the popcorn ceiling and re texture, then paint, paint, paint.
So I am just no good when I'm pregnant and that made moving a challenge. But my wonderful mother in law SAVED THE DAY and came out to help us pack. I packed a lot ahead of time, but I think she still packed half our house the few days before we moved. Thanks Susie!!!

We took these pictures after signing papers for the new house.

That's the ghostly face of Madie.

The boys playing.


Madie feeling the excitement.




And Nathan reading over our paperwork for the new house.


Then my sister Sarah had a birthday! She was tired.


Me six months prego.


Sarah's new shoes.


Madie intrigued by them.


Thomas provided the music.


Mom documented the momentous day.


So then later that month we moved into our new house, and boy was it dirty. We spent the entire first day scrubbing it down. It's been 3 months and we still have garbage in the back yard to clean out. Madie had no problem moving, but Jared took it a little hard. He misses our old house, but this one is growing on him. Like I said, I was no good during the move and unpacking was kinda hard because I couldn't move heavy boxes around myself. Nathan, being a man, decided instead of unpacking and settling in, would begin his "weekend" project of wiring the living room for 7.1 surround sound and a tv above the fireplace. Turns out that was a crazy, ridiculous project and I don't know what the heck he was thinking!!! (love you nathan :D) It took a month and drove me nuts!

I didn't take many pics, but the house basically looked like this for a month. Ick.

Here is our cutie-pie playing in our very own (if very dead) front yard.


And yep, that's her playing in our very own garage!


Somewhere in there was my mom's birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM! I guess I didn't get any pics there. And Thanksgiving. Did I really not take any pics of Thanksgiving??? Then the day after we got our Christmas tree. We picked one out that according to the tree lot people was just the right height to fit in front of our front window. I guess it grew on the ride home because we had to put it under the highest point of our slightly vaulted ceiling to make it fit. I got it all decorated, then it fell over. Suck. So I fixed it back up and a few days later...it fell again. Super suck. Fixed it up one more time and...you guessed it. It fell over again. So we propped it back up and left all the lights and ribbon sagging and looking pathetic. I hated that tree. Poor innocent tree.

That's the poor thing, surrounded by our still-moving-in and Nathan-still-has-our-house-under-surround-sound-construction mess.

So that sums up November. Busy, crazy, tiring, exciting and great!

Halloween

So there was Halloween. My kids love Halloween so much. M still talks about it five months later. We visited our friends and got some pics with their adorable granddaughter.




Then we headed over to my parents and trick-or-treated their neighborhood. I did the most horribe thing in the whole computer/picture world and did not back up my pictures this month, so of course my computer crashed and I lost all my pictures from that part of Halloween. We had taken a bunch of cute pics with the kids in front of the house all excited to go out that are gone forever (sniff, sniff) So lesson learned...BACK UP those pics!!!!

Oops!

I am the most terrible blogger ever! My excuse is I was pregnent and felt horrible and tired and sore and could barley manage the basics of life...ok, I'll admit, I didn't even do the basics well...but I am back on the horse and ready to blog again.

My brother Peter called last night and told me he hasn't seen pictures of our new baby yet! So a big OOPS and sorry and here I go...