The first picture is the frat room. =) Since the downstairs isn't finished (that's where the kids' bedroom will be) they are all sardined into what will be the office. It is a rather long, skinny room, with a small closet, so the kids dressers are in our closests. They are doing ok with it, but sometimes the going to sleep is hard. The next picture is the bathroom. I like this room, it was fun to decorate.

This is the garage entrance, down the hall into the kitchen. Hope you can still see with the sun light through the windows. No drapes yet.

Master bath and bedroom

These are the most recent pictures of the house. Our bedroom is kind of the "catch all" room right now until the downstairs gets done. Some of the kids' toys are on shelves in our room, the computer is in our room, bookshelves are in our room. And the Thomas table is in our room. Not how it will stay obviously. The master bath isn't completely done. We're still working on the tub and the shower. Hopefully it will be done in a week or so, but for now, we shower in the other bathroom, then finish getting ready in our bathroom.

"A room with a view"

This picture turned out rather dark, but can you beat the view behind us?? There are so many things that I miss about Texas, but looking out our windows, all the windows of this new house, these majestic mountains are what we get to see!!

First meal

This was our first family lunch at the new house. It was just fish sticks, but how fun it was to be in our space.

ugh.. Christmas morning documentation is so scary! But, we all got new Nerf guns, so we had a big Nerf gun war, and it was so much fun. Dallin even got in on the action, although he ran from the camera. This was before we moved into our place, but it brought back some fun memories, so I posted it.

Ethan's birthday

Ethan's 6th birthday was Feb. 25th. Again, we had a simple family party, and we had fun. We played the mummy game where you have a race to wrap someone up without tearing the toilet paper. They had a lot of fun with that. Hard to believe he is 6. He is doing so great at school and still loves going. He is reading some 2nd grade books and just soaks everything up like a sponge. He is a joy to be around, and he always says the funniest things. We love you Ethan!

Dallin's birthday

I finally found the camera cord, but I really didn't want to go back and post as much as has happened, so I just picked out a few pics that I like. This was Dallin's 3rd birthday last Feb. 14th. yep, a Valentine baby. We had just moved in to the new house, and we had a little family party. He got a Thomas bike and a simple cake with Thomas on top and life couldn't have been better. He was so happy. He loves the bike and his "Blue" which is his blue binky. How nice to be so easily pleased!!

neglected

Wow, I can't believe how long it's been since I've updated this blog. We have moved into our house, at least the upper level is livable. I do have pictures, but the camera cable is somewhere still in a box. We still have a million boxes in our unfinished garage. there is still so much to do!! Hopefully there will be a weekend where I can update and post pictures. ugh

Answers

Before Christmas we were fasting and praying that we might have the means to finish building our house. Well, not long after that, I was offered a long term subbing job at one of the elementary schools. We then realized, that this might be what we needed. Although it is a sacrifice to leave Dallin, and have someone else pick the other kids up from school, it will definitely help pay the bills. It will also help us to work together, as mom can no longer be the only one "pushing" things along in the morning, I now have to get myself ready. This job is definitely out of my comfort zone, and a ton of paperwork being in the special ed part, but I will learn a ton I can see. It will also sharpen our organizational skills by getting things done and ready the night before.