A friend of Jeanie's from the SMM school (where she works) came to Will's birthday party to take pictures if the kids. She took tons and they turned out great. Here are a few for your enjoyment. We really wanted a nice one with all four of the cousins but it is next to impossible to get them all to look at the camera at the same time! Sophie slept through most of the party so there are very few pictures of her.

Pictures!

Kitchen




Playroom



Livingroom



Sophie!

Connor, Laura and Sophie's room!





Some recent photos of our resident monkeys!

I'm Back!

We finally have phone and internet again! HURRAY!!!!! We moved a little over three weeks ago and have been without phone or internet since then. Patrick had his cell phone and I was able to use his work cell phone (he only uses it during the summer) for local calls but it sure wasn't fun being cut off from family and friends in the rest of the world! So after lots of stressful miscommunication and misunderstanding, we finally got our phone and internet installed today! A lot has happened in the past couple week, we moved, we've had company from Alaska and Maryland, Sophie's vocabulary has exploded and Connor and Laura are helping me plan our veggie garden not to mention all the paint I've used and that we got new living room furniture! We are slowly getting unpacked and I will hopefully get a pictures and a more detailed update posted soon!!!

Happy Valentine's Day

Too Soon!

Yesterday Sophie climbed out of her bed by herself. I had put her down for a nap and about an hour later, I heard her crying. Figuring she had just woken up, I went to get her and she wasn't in her bed! I looked around and though I could hear her, I didn't see her. Turns out she had been at the door trying to get out of her room and when I had opened the door she just stayed behind it. Up 'till now, she has been sleeping in a playpen/pack and play type thing. When we move to our new house, in 2-3 weeks, I had planned on getting another twin sized mattress so each if the kids would have one. Unfortunately, she figured out how to climb out of her bed just a little too soon! Sooo, not wanting her to get hurt in another attempt to escape from her bed, I decided that she could sleep on a crib mattress on the floor (Connor and Laura both did this when they were smaller). This seemed like a simple answer until I went to find a sheet for the mattress. I had given all my crib sheets to Emma! Aren't I smart! She has a crib and I don't. It made sense at the time. Oh well. So at 6pm I set off for the Goodwill to find a cheap crib sheet. Luckily they had some and they were half off so for $1.50 I got 2 crib sheets and Sophie has her own little bed. She really likes it too, except when she is supposed to be going to sleep, them she just wanders around her room crying!

Snow Fun and Our White Christmas!

Over a Week of Snow!

The unheard of has happened! We have had snow for over a week now and it has not started to melt yet! Not only that, but we have had snow fall on just about every day this past week! I think we probably have 18 inches on the ground this morning. It is rather hard to tell just how much snow there really is because we had some high winds yesterday and the night before. The wind blew the snow around a packed down really hard. We are all enjoying this unusual weather. We have gone for a few walks and done lots of sledding. It is too deep today to go for a walk. Laura's little legs were really struggling yesterday and there is at least 8 more inches this morning than there were yesterday when we went for our walk! It has been really nice. Patrick has been home since last Wednesday. The pool closed on Wednesday, he had Thursday and Friday off for his weekend, the pool was closed Saturday and Sunday for painting and there is too much snow so the pool is closed again today. The kids have loved having Daddy around so much and I sure have enjoyed having another grown up in the house. I even managed to get a nap yesterday!

SNOW!!!

Hurray! We got snow and it is supposed to last until next week! There is a chance that we will get more on Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday ans next Sunday! I hope the weather man is right for a change! I love the snow! The kids do too and after church yesterday spent several hours playing outside in the snow!




The only way I can get everyone looking at the camera at the same time is to have them stick out their tongues at me! Ahh! There has to be another way! Maybe they are really trying to catch snowflakes on their tongues!




Connor starts pulling
Laura
They are going straight now

Oh! Crashed into the bush!