House Hunting

As you know, we sold our house in Woodstock the end of February and have been crashing at mom's and looking for another one since. We have spent hours on the internet, dragged our realtor all over and even made a couple of offers, but nothing was happening. Last week, we saw a house we are totally excited about, made an offer, and finally yesterday we settled on a price and our now in contract! We are super excited! We should close the end of April. Here's what it looks like:

It is currently a duplex (one up and one down), so we plan to live in the bottom and keep the top rented for about a year to help getting the roof done, etc. After that, we will take over the whole house. When we do convert the house into a single family home, we should be able to have 6 bedrooms and 2 baths upstairs as well as 1 bedroom down. We feel so blessed and just hope and pray things go fairly smoothly. Thanks so much for all your prayers! We'll keep you posted.

A Birthday and Stitches

Carter had his 5th birthday on Thursday. We had a great day. He decorated his own cake with frosting and gummy worms--It looked great! After the festivities, we got the kids in PJs and in bed. About 9pm, Dexter carries Kennedy up the stairs and says she is bleeding. Sure enough, she had a big cut right in the middle of her forehead! She was playing and fell off her bed and hit a toy. Off to the ER we went. It must have been a slow night, because we were in and out of there in 30 min! They strapped her in a papoose so that she would stay still. That made her MAD!!! She screemed and gave the doctor and nurses dirty looks the whole time. She left with 3 stitches and a bandaid. She seems no worse for the wear, though, and is back to her old tricks again. Never a dull day!!!

Warm fuzzies

I've been thinking about things I can do to help the atmosphere in our home (or grandma's home!!). The feelings of cooperativeness and love need to increase and the feelings of anger need to decrease. Since I know that everything starts with me, I need to make some changes in myself in order for those changes to occur in my family. I had a thought this morning of looking for "warm fuzzies" that my children give me each day. Look for them and let them cause my love for that child to grow. I'm know that I will need to do more than this, but it is a start.

Warm fuzzy for the day (on of them): I walk in the bathroom and see a pile of band-aids on the floor. Kennedy has been practicing putting on her own, again. I just thought of how she wants to be independent and be grown up. It just made me smile:)

A Budding Artist

Last night Kennedy would not go to sleep, so we finally gave in and brought her in the office with us. While Todd and I were looking for houses, she was busy with a paper and crayon. When we saw what she had drawn, we were pretty impressed. Notice that almost all of the faces have eyes, at least one has a nose, and one even has sunglasses!! I love kids' artwork!

She sits..but doesn't roll

Emiline has yet to roll over. She is now about 41/2 months. At first I thought it was because she never spent time on the floor. She is either being held (yeah, she's spoiled!) or in her swing or carseat for safety reasons (lots of action in our house). So the last month, I've given her a lot more floor time. She still doesn't roll. She'll lean over on her side, but then look at you and fall back on her back or tummy. Funny girl. I'm not worried at all about her developmentally, because she is starting to sit up (Madison counted up to 26 the other day). She's just going to be stubborn. At least she'll be able to hold her own in this crazy family of ours!!

Sisters

I was driving along and saw this billboard. It really sums up what my sisters mean to me. Thanks for being there for me!

I thought coats were for people!

I guess I was wrong!!

The Snow-woman

We had to build a snowman, so the kids have been working on this one for the last few days. Lacy informed me today that it is a snow-woman, not a snowman.

We start them young

The Big Snow!

So last weekend, we had tons of snow!!! The new said that 20" hit Columbus! Todd and I went for a walk on Saturday as it was still coming down and took a few pictures.

Look at that snow drift the plow made!


Every car that hadn't been consistently dug out was looking like this one! I think we shoveled about 4-5 times during the 2 days it was snowing. You'd shovel the walk and an hour later there would be another inch. I LOVE SNOW!!!

Grass Heads: Before and After

A couple of months ago, grandma came over and helped the kids make grass heads. Here are the before and after pictures:

BEFORE:

AFTER: