Random Photos

It is high time I post some new pictures of the kids, their activities, antics and mischief. We are continuing to settle in nicely and thoroughly enjoy our new place. We feel so blessed to have found this place. We settled on our last home on Thursday. We signed the agreement with the buyers the first day of March and closed the second day of April. Not too shabby in this slow real estate market. Again....we feel incredibly blessed!! We know it was basically a miracle that everything worked so smoothly. We are working on the kitchen right now - painting, replacing counter tops, etc. You know how a hormonal, nesting pregnant woman suddenly decides to delve into projects. The kitchen became my priority. The painting is almost finished and then the counter tops will be next. I am loving how it is coming along.
Here are the kiddos watching the train out of the living room window first thing in the morning.

Tristan "helping" unpack. Apparently shredding the Styrofoam is fun....until it gets into your mouth and you try to remove it with your Styrofoam covered hands. I have a great video - pretty funny hearing the distress in his voice.

I'm not exactly sure what Judah was doing here but he was having a lot of fun.

Tristan, Eden and their friend Clair walking back towards the mountain. They were having such a good time exploring and wandering around.

Playing in the dirt on the mountain.

My friend Sara taking all the kids for a 4-wheeler ride on Mark's 4-wheeler. Don't worry folks - I don't think they broke 10 miles an hour. Very slow, safe and steady. My kids thought Sara was awesome!!!

Eden sleeping in her new "big girl bed". She thinks it is great and hasn't gotten out of it one time in over a week. She waits for me to come get her at nap time and first thing in the morning. I don't know how long that will last but she seems to think she is big stuff now!

Judah helping his dad do some spring clean-up. He loves running the blowers even though they are almost as big as him.

The three musketeers watching Judah work.

Eden playing in her room with her baby. She had just gotten dressed and wanted the hood up on her shirt.

The big cheese!!

The kids laying on one of our little plank bridges looking at the little stream. This is their favorite spot I think. We seem to always end up at this bridge throwing little rocks into the water.

Same place, same fun.

The boys informed me it was sooooo hot that they needed to go swimming. I at first resisted the idea since it was only in the mid-sixties but then decided to just let them be boys. They went and got swimming trunks, towels - the whole nine yards.

Judah working at making a better swimming hole. Basically this means digging out the bottom of the little creek, walking down stream and creating a dam so that the water becomes deeper in the swimming hole. He did a pretty good job so far although there is more to be done.

Judah seems to think he has arrived in paradise. Living next to a wetland preserve means there is a tremendous amount of wildlife. He loves walking out by the ponds on the preserve and seeing the geese, muskrats, ducks and any number of other fun animals. There is a bald eagle that lives on the preserve and he has spotted that as well.

I have a very whiny child pleading with me for some milk. I guess that is my cue to sign off.