Seeding the yard

Standing on the front porch looking out toward the driveway.

Daddy and his helper

The driveway looking back at the house.

Front yard

Side yard

Josh's tractor, Matthew's favorite thing.

Side yard again.

Looking at the garage side of the house.

The back of the house, back yard.

Daddy and his helpers.

Kristen inspecting the well.

Ben

Matthew, "Cheese"

Other side of house.

Right now we are thinking we made the yard a little too big.  Oh well, the kids will have plenty of room to run and play.  It will also possibly keep the ticks further away from the house.  I found my first tick of the season yesterday. Yuck!  The mild winter I'm sure greatly increased the tick population for this year.  Something to look forward to ; ).

The house is finished!!

We have the finally walk through with the builders at 4:30 today.  We are planning in getting the keys then and moving in this weekend.  We are very excited to get settled in.

The entry way.

Dining room

Front door, stairs, looking into living room.

Living room, family room.

Kitchen

Family room, gas fireplace.

Ktichen breakfast nook, halfwall between nook and family room.

Guest room/office.

Downstairs bathroom.

Master bedroom

Master bath

Kristen's room.

Kids bathroom.

Matthew's room.

Ben's room.

Laundry closet.

The kids rooms

Kristen's room

Ben's room

Matthew's room

The porch is on

I had a lot of fun thinking of ideas for the kids rooms.  I hope they like them.  Ben and Matthew's rooms are similar.  I'm just going to put car stickers on Ben's road, while Matthew's room will have Pooh and Tigger and Piglet stencils all around.

kids and cupcakes

Before

After

The artists at work

Concentrating

Lauren

Kristen

Zoe

Matthew was much more interested in eating than decorating

Avery

Ben

The finished product.  Not too bad for 1-5year olds.

We thankfully had a lot of help with staining our trim for the new house and painting the kids bedrooms.  It was my turn for kid duty so we decorated some cupcakes.  It was a big mess, but I think everyone had fun.

Snow much fun!

So excited!

Our first snow of the winter.

Matthew loved to sled.  He kept saying again, again after every run.  We had a hard time convincing him it was time to get warm.

Foot prints in the snow.

The kids were proud of our snowman.

We had a perfect post snow storm day.  The weather was close to 50 so we could sled without getting too cold.