Our New Firsts Since Our New House

 

 Our First Sunset

Our First Picnic

Bodie's watching them sit outside.

Bodie's First Time Standing (one of them anyway).

He thought he was so cool!

Just playing

Jack's (my nephew) First Birthday Party

What Laina and Ava (my bro-in-law's niece) were doing during present opening.

 

 Jack

My Little Liddy (my niece) CRAWLING!!!

 

Mike and Melissa's house and one of their beautiful views.

The 1-year-olds!

Our First Sprinkler Time

"Dat!"

Oh, water....

K so I like it!

Then tag with Dad to dry off. :)

My First Girl's Trip
(that I had to plan)

Katie, Jackie, Amy, Liz

Crystal and Melissa

These are from the first day - Sara's missing. She was back at the cabin taking care of something. :)

Emily and Lindsay

On the Boat

Jackie, Liz, Sara, Katie, Melissa

Crystal, Amy, Emily

Our Chauffeur

Melissa and Sara

Amy taking a pic.

Lizardbreath

Katie

Sara

Jackie, Liz, Katie, Fish

Me, Sara, Amy's camera

Crystal

Liz, Fish, and Em swimming (Sara, and I, AND AMY both swam too, but I didn't get pics of that.)

Back: Jackie, Katie   Front: Sara, Me, Amy, Crystal

That's our August and the busy-ness of the first month in our new house!

So I've been up to

Painting and Unpacking

 These are the before of the living room

The living room now

The Kitchen and Dining Room

Before

 

After

Look at that Fridge. Can you tell I have kids?

 

The Laundry Room

I have a white curtain that I'm making that needs to go on the window. I just can't figure out where to put my sewing machine....

The Kids' Bathroom

Our Room and Bathroom

 Befores

There was a big medicine cabinet mirror in the bathroom that I took out and replaced with just a mirror. The lighting is so much better that way and it took up a lot of space. It's not a big bathroom anyway.

After

Ah, the lids up.

two silly boys that weren't supposed to be in the picture...

 

The last few rooms are the toy room that will also have the pool table (that we haven't set up yet) in it, and will eventually be just the pool table room. I haven't painted in there because I haven't figured out what exactly we're doing with it. And then the basement. All we have done is put the guest bed in the guest room. We need to do a few things down there and then paint. Eventually we want to put in a guest bathroom down there so people don't have to go all the way upstairs to take a shower. Then there's the stairs and hallway that need to be painted. I'm pretty sure I'm just going to paint them a cream. For the hallway, I was thinking about putting a dark-brown wall decal Bible verse on the wall (obviously) and that would be about it. I think putting too many things on the wall in the hall (haha rhymed) would be too much. So that's why I thought the verse and then just a little table in a corner with a decoration of some kind. But that's basically it

Will let you know other things we've been up to soon. :D

The month and a half lull unvieled...more

Now for Sutton
He had a breakthrough this morning. He said scaRRR. He has a hard time with his Rs. It always sounds like he's from Boston. But when he pronounced scar this morning, I was soooo excited. I said, "Okay, say car." "Ca ee." "No, caRR." Then he said it!! Then we tried "Purple." And after a couple of tries he got that too! He was so excited. He kept saying, "I did it!!! See, Laina! CaR!"

He's also going to be in Billie's wedding (and so is Laina, a flower girl and Mark, one of two best men). He's going to be the Ring Bearer. So he asked if Bodie is going to be the Ring Pig. I had to take a second and figure out what he meant.........He's the Ring BEAR.

Sutton and Bodie also like their new room. Here are those pics.

The train on top is his favorite part.

The before picture.

This leads to Bodie
He is learning all sorts of new things. He likes to yell and wave at Chester, saying, "Git, Chesser!" (Not sure where he learned that from...*whistles innocently*)  He also likes to say in a high-pitched excited tone, "What is it?" and then he points at whatever he's talking about. And it's usually about anything and everything. He does say mom and dad and Sutton and Laina just not on a regular basis. Besides his "Da da da da" and chitter chatter he says those two phrases lots.

He's also learning how to walk. He'll stand in the middle of the floor all proud, but then when it comes time to move, he'll sit down and scoot. Not brave enough to take a step yet. He just wants to be able to do everything Laina and Sutton do. As they run past him playing, he stares at them longingly. But his time is coming.

He's saying "Cheese" (or Hees in his case).

I could go on and on about my kiddos, but that's the gist. I'll be posting with more pics soon. :) Stay tuned.

It's Been A While....

We're finally moved it and settled (for the most part). I was able to get us all unpacked and most of my projects are done... The only one left (besides this blog) is to paint our bookshelves black. That will get all the rest of the boxes out of the garage which we can actually PARK in! YAY!! The kids still go to the front door when I say, "Let's get in the van!" hehe

So what's new with....

Marky-Mark - is now on days at his wonderful profession! YAY! We never thought we'd see the day. NEVER. Monday thru Friday 7:00 - 3:30. We get to actually see him on the days he works! And he can eat dinner with us and tuck the kids into bed and be awake on his days off!! Woohoo!! :)

This weekend he is off to a bachelor party 9 hours away for his cousin and best friend, Billie. He was pretty excited about it. He's going to win enough money to pay off our house. hehehe Just kidding. He'll be back on Monday. I'll be glad to see Monday. I miss him when he's gone even just to work, so four days is going to take forever!! I'll make it though.

Laina - has a  purple room. She still says that she likes her blue room from our other house better because she like DARK purple not light purple. hehe But she still likes her room.

Below her alphabet is her little reading corner which she uses.

Her new bedding set from her Grandma Sally.

What it looked like before we moved in

Oh and her favorite part of her room....

Her Closet!

Laina also is learning all sorts of new things because her favorite word is "Why?" "Why does the sun go away at night?" "Why is it raining?" "Why is it hot?" "Why can't I see the wind?" "Why does this person do that?" "Why are we eating that today?" "Where is God?" "Why is the squirrel burying nuts?" "Why are we driving there?" Mom says, "Let's go get 'jamas on." Laina, "Why?" "Why?...why?...WHY????" I try to give the most scientific explanation I can so that she is actually learning something when she asks. But sometimes the answer is "because that's how God made it" or "because we have to." hehe It cracks me up.

Her other new thing to do is she likes to check out the time on the clock. She doesn't understand it yet, but she always wants to tell me what the numbers are because she knows that it's time for something. This leads to a another conversation: she asks me "How is it time to get up?" I say, "You mean 'When?'." She says, "Yeah." Or "How is it time to eat?" "You mean when." "Yeah." But then the next time it's How again. Every once in a while she actually means "How" and that throws me off! haha I love it. The brains of little ones.

Well, I'll continue on later. I'll post this for now and will start with Sutton next. :)