The big O-N-E

 Our Baby Girl is One Year old. Early in the morning she climbed up on the stool all by herself for the first time. Then she had to show us that she is SO big! Big enough to comb her own hair...

 Baby Sister has been so much fun this past year. We have been soaking up the days with her and the rest of the kids too. With Big Brother in school it seems a bit quieter than the 'normal' but the days are still full. Especially with someone who has learned to walk the last couple weeks. There is no where in the house that she cannot go. Up and down the stairs bathrooms and even can climb up on some of the beds. And if the door to outside is open she will be out there.

 She is full of mischief and smiles. Snuggles and giggles.

 This is what she thinks you do with the stuffed birthday bear.

 Due to sick kids in the house and the fact that she loves chocolate chip cookies we just made her her own personal pan cookie instead of a birthday cake and had a quiet celebration at home. Happy Birthday to our Baby Girl and may there be many more years of sweetness to come! :-)

The House!

 We are loving our new house! Coming in the drive the above picture is what you see. Then the next picture is where most people park and the side with the garage and deck. The deck is right off the kitchen/office area. 

 Front entry into the living room.

 Living room/ dinning room area. Windows! I am LOVING all the windows!

 Office

 Kitchen

 Guest bedroom

 Kids room

 Master Bedroom has been painted so will get an updated picture soon.

 Basement living room

 Little Lady's room

 Big Guy's room

 Moving in.

 Stuff, stuff and more stuff!

 Our first few nights in the house were in the guest room. Which is currently all ready for company!

 We had some really good help! 

 Moving our appliances in from the old house.

That is all the pictures for now of moving in but we will take more of what it looks like with everything settled. We would like to do a bit more painting some day but it might be awhile before some of that happens. Right now we have our hands full getting everything settled and little projects done.

A little bit of everything

 I know it has been quite a while since my last post and a lot has happened since then! As many may know we have been looking and hoping for a new house to open up in the community...and one finally did and we got moved! There are pictures to come on that soon but thought I would update everyone first on the kids. Baby Sister is crawling all over the place and just since we got moved has started pulling herself up to a standing position. Even brave enough to try standing without holding onto anything but that only lasts for a short while.

Big Brother has started Kindergarten and is loving it! His teacher is great and keeps the kids busy. He is in a class of six boys and one girl so it is a very lively, active class! They had their first school performance the other night and it was fun to watch.

 The family clown keeps us all laughing! He is having the hardest time adjusting to the move. For the first week we would tell him to go to his bedroom and he didn't know where to go. Now when you tell him to go to his bedroom he says 'what bedroom' or you tell him to go to the kitchen and he says 'what kitchen'. Also everywhere we go he says we are going 'home'. He has a good attitude about it all though and is such a sweet brother. He will walk into a room where Baby Sister is and say 'you my cootie pie'.

 Little Lady is becoming quite the helper and along with that is coming the 'bossy' sister syndrome! She does like having a live doll to play with though! Much to the frustration of her parents that is! She is trying to keep up with everyone and everything and it keeps her quite busy.

 Here is Mr. Sweet loving his sister! He was reading her a farming book.

 Big Guy is also a big helper when he puts his mind to it.

 This is what happens when Daddy baby sits for a little while so mommy can get something done! He put her to sleep in a little wagon. Sometimes Daddy's have some pretty good ideas!

 Baby Sister often has some wild hair.

 "Yes. I did dress myself today...what do you mean my socks don't match?!"

6 Months!

Our Little Sister is six months old. Taking pictures of her was a lot of fun and there were so many fun ones that I could not settle on just a few. They all give you a glimpse of her personality!

Garden

At the beginning of the summer we had a bad storm. This is what my garden looked like after it passed. Not sure what would recover and what wouldn't I watered it then left it for a week or so. 

 The above picture 'center' is the leftover 'sticks' from my pepper plants. No leaves left. behind them is the lettuce, flattened.

 In front of the fence was flowers and cantaloupe. It all looked pretty depressing.

 This is what all came out of it! Oh the miracles of nature! The onions never did straighten up. Nor the garlic. But they have grown some none the less!

 And now the harvest is in full swing!

 My good helpers!