After a long wait for a short sale home, we loaded up a truck with all our belongings (almost all.. we had to take a few trips.. :) and drove 40 miles north to our new home. Here came hopes of finally feeling settled, a closer a commute for D, and great schools for the kids. We have enjoyed being in our home. There is quite a bit of work that needs to be done, but we will do a little at a time. We have painted the family room which started as a neon green. It is now a neutral brown. We are almost done painting the BRIGHT yellow kitchen and then will move on to the VERY blue great room. :) We have mostly unpacked and the kids (and mom) are enjoying the basement for play time.
A major highlight is the master bath tub because it's jetted!! LOL
Nobody could wait for turns!! LOL
Christmas was great! Although we were still in many boxes and in a bit of a mess, the kids enjoyed Christmas and were happy to know that Santa found us in our new house! :)
(Christmas Jammies)
Eating Christmas stocking candy! Doesn't her hair ROCK!
PRESENTS!
D spent most of the time putting things together!
One of my FAVORITE parts of Christmas is breakfast. We have peach syrup with french toast every Christmas. We usually don't have this any other time, so this is special for this day. I remember having this periodically as a child and LOVED it every time we had it. SERIOUSLY, one of my favorite 'presents' of Christmas. :) YUM!
Play time!
J's lava lamp getting warmed up!
Christmas trees the kids and I made. :D
D gave me an AWESOME present this year. He gave me a plane ticket HOME. I had a niece getting married over the Christmas break, so I got to see a lot of family and had SOOO much fun! I LOVE my family!
Some of my nephews!
Beautiful Karli!!! :)
I loved catching up with some of my friends. Some in the city, some in the country. All were fun!
I was able to go to the Logan Temple with my parents. I think the last time I was in the Logan temple was for my own wedding about 9.5 years ago! :)
AND I love my mountains! I couldn't believe there wasn't snow on the ground, but at least the mountains were snow capped and lovely!
Although things were VERY VERY busy for a while, I finally feel like things are starting to settle. :) The kids are getting use to their new schools and are starting to make friends. Everyone in our new ward has been so kind and and accepting to us. :) We feel like this is where we are suppose to be and hopefully good things will happen as we are here!
3 comments:
You guys have had an exciting couple of months! Congrats on the new house. Also, you take great photos.
LOVED the pics and of some VERY familiar faces from MC. :)
But you're right, your little girl's hair ROCKED every picture!!! ha ha ha. Love it.
Oh, and will you PRETTY PRETTY PRETTY please send me your peach/french toast recipe. My kids LOVE french toast and I would love to find a breakfast food to use as a tradition on Christmas. We've tried 5 different ones in the past 5 years, and well, nothing is stickin'. :)
It was so fun to see your pictures of your cute family. So glad to know that life is coming together again. When viewing these pictures I could hear your contagious laugh. We sure miss you and your happy, beautiful, positive, fun family. You will all be loved and do great thing in your new place.
**hugs**
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