Painting the new house!

 Before picture of the front room.

 My happy helpers!

Here is the after picture, at night, anyways, you get the idea :) we went with a grey that would look good with the floor and white trim and I think it turned out great. Next on the list: paint the hallway and kitchen.

Scarlett turned 6!

Scarlett had a friend birthday party, she invited all the girls in her class.  We had seven girls come, I am glad that was all that could make it :) Scarlett wanted a Tinkerbell fairy party, but the snow fairy, that I don't even know her name. So I had to be creative, but it turned out really cute with fairies and snowflakes.

We also had my family over that night, even though it was really snowy.

The snow!

We had so much snow! Most of you know that already, but I just can't believe how much snow we had.  I also can't believe that we decided to wait until next winter to get a snow blower! Jon and I almost didn't make it through shoveling all that snow :) Our neighbors even came and helped us, we were so grateful, we wouldn't have been able to get out of the driveway if they didn't.

Christmas 2012

We had a wonderful Christmas, that being said, it was crazy for me! We moved in on December 15, with a lot of help from our poor families that had to help us move so close to Christmas.  The kids were spoiled this year, not that they aren't every year :)

Atticus' 8th Birthday

So life got crazy for awhile, since last October when we were trying to buy a house. SO... I am going to attempt to start blogging again because I really like looking back on my old posts.

Atticus had a great birthday, I remember he didn't want a friend party, but wanted his cousins to come over and play Minecraft all night. So that's what we tried to do for him :) We gave him a remote controlled helicopter.

Fall time with the Mann's!

                                                                Family Hike!

Pumpkin design left to right,  Atticus, Scarlett, Veronica

Dragon clan & Mann clan

Veronica's 4th Birthday!

She had a tea party with Scarlett and her friend Faith to start off her birthday celebrations. 

She has been playing with Atticus' legos alot so we got her some of her own.

Veronica is wonderful, she makes me smile everyday.  She loves to play with her big sister and brother.  

She will play in her room for hours with her toys. We just love her!

Aurora Borealis

 This is pretty much what we did all winter when it was too cold to go outside. The girls played dress-up and Atticus played video games.

 In March we got a family pet guinea pig. After an extensive voting process she was named Aurora Borealis, Aurora for short.  The girls love her.  Atticus still wants a dog.

Scarlett's 5th Birthday

 Making punch, and the cake with my two helpers!

Scarlett chose pink cake and pink frosting and wanted a princess cake.  She is definitely our little princess!

Christmas Festivities 2011

Looking at the lights before heading over to the sing-a-long that we go to every year with my family.

Decorating cookies for Santa.

We did sponge curlers, can you tell? :)

Hooray for the toilet paper ball at Mann's on Christmas Eve! I was trying to take a picture of the action, but you really have to be there in the circle to feel the excitement.

Christmas morning! So much fun this year, Santa was very good to us. The kids all said this was the best Christmas ever! I don't know how we can top that next year.

Atticus turns Seven

Atticus got a bunch of BeyBlade stuff for his birthday.

One nice thing about winter is cuddly movie watching!