Thursday, June 12, 2014

Our new home

It does exist!  Yes, you all know we moved to Alaska (Justin in February, and the rest of us in April). You also know I have completely ignored our blog since November.  In my defense, we have had a bit going on in the past 6 months! I am hoping to go back and post old pictures, so we have record of them....at some point :). 

The house is all unpacked.  Everything except for our crawlspace (basement storage) is organized.  We are getting settled, though it took much longer to accomplish than during our last move!

Anyhow - here are pictures of our house:




If you stand in the front door, to your left is a coat closet and the stairs to go up to the second floor.  To the right is the living room.  

Opposite end of living room. One of the first things we did in the house was to knock out the marble around the 2 fireplaces and replace it with slate tiles.  We are very happy with how it has turned out!

If you turn around at this end of the living room, you can enter our kitchen and go through to the dining room.  

Standing in the dining room.

1/2 Bathroom off of the dining room.

If you stand in the doorway of the bathroom you can see the kitchen (dining room is directly to the left).  You can either walk through the kitchen back to the living room, or through the hallway right in front of you to the living room.  It's nice that the kids don't have to run through the kitchen all of the time! There is a doorway slightly to the right of the hallway that heads downstairs to the basement area.  Directly to the right is the door to the laundry room/entry to the garage.

Laundry room left side.

 Laundry room right side.
 

Head upstairs and you enter: (I'm actually standing in my bedroom doorway for this picture).

Master bedroom: (I couldn't get a good picture, so I took a panoramic)

Our bath


Kids' Bath

Logan's Room (yes that is him sleeping in the bed - nap time!)

The girls' Frozen bedroom (if you have Facebook you have probably already seen most of these pictures).



Coming down the basement stairs.


Playroom (4th bedroom) off of the basement living area):

Basement bathroom:

Ok Ohio/Pennsylvanians:  This is our basement door.  Here in Alaska, most people do not have true basements, just a crawl space for storage so we have this cute little half door.  The kids thing its neat :).

Here are some outside pictures:
Our backyard from the deck.

Butterfly on the Lilacs (we have 2 huge lilacs on the side of our back deck)

New gutter drain my mom made out of her rhubarb leaves.  I have a bird bath that matches.

Fresh lilacs on the windowsill.

First backyard moose, but not a great picture.

Sunday, November 10, 2013

October continues on....

...and finished.  And today I found myself in the 2nd week of November! 
How in the world did that happen?

Here is this month's picture journal :):

My mom found these really cool building toys at a yard sale.  Here are some pictures of what the girls can build with them.


 Pumpkin carving with our friends the Cranks. 
Our girls did 2 pumpkins.  They each carved one with Daddy, 
and then decorated one for a competition at school.



K's finished school pumpkin - a burger!

Obviously Logan was thrilled with pumpkin carving.

This is what he did while we all worked on pumpkins - tv and played.

H's Carved Pumpkin

K's Carved Pumpkin

H's finished school pumpkin (a purple minion)

K won 2nd Grade Grand Prize!

 H was super girl for gymnastic dress up day.

 K's Classroom Party - Mummy Wrap

 Her whole class

 Hailey's official Kindergarten Pic

 Kaelin's Official 2nd Grade Picture

On Friday Logan had a doctor appointment for his 2 year well check.  
He is 37 & 3/4" inches tall (over 100% for his age), and 31 lbs (87%).  
Basically, he is a BIG boy :).  
He is quickly growing out of 2T clothes. 



Ok, so funny story. (not really, I am kicking myself) I do not have pictures of my kids in their halloween costumes.  This has never happened to me before! :(  I am so good with pictures usually.  AND they all wore them multiple times!!!  The girls wore them at least 3 times - for their school parties, for trick or treating with Daddy in Grove City (Logan and I stayed home while he had Hands, Foot Mouth :() and then for Trunk or Treat at our church on Halloween.   So I guess we are going to have a dress up night this week, so I can get some picture proof of their costume cuteness.  

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Can you keep up...

We always seem to be running! Our lives are fun, but constantly busy.  Besides the normal work, school, church, Justin's birthday, and Logan's birthday, here are some adventures from the last month:

K lost another tooth! All she wants for Christmas: 
(is an ipad if you as her! NOT GOING TO happen!)

 Hailey is still loving Gymnastics!


Haircuts for everyone - but the girls decided to loose several inches each!



 Picture day: here are my before school pictures.


Awana Crazy Hair Night




 Old North Church Fall Fest 2013