Sandra Visits

We had our first overnight visitor in the new house. Sandra came from Bermuda for a week to help us unpack and get organized. Her help was greatly appreciated. She organized the basement with all the kids toys and would probably be upset if she saw what it looks like now...the kids LOVE the basement. I'm sure she went home needing a vacation from her vacation! We all miss her tremendously.

Our New House

The last post for 2009 is a picture of our new house. We have been here for almost 4 weeks and absolutely love it. The boys have adjusted amazingly well. Colin enjoying his new John Deere Green room - yes, GREEN!! Carson likes the extra space to run from his brother. Bowman has actually had the hardest time adjusting. He is scratching the carpets, follows us everywhere and sleeps on the bed which he never used to do before. He's made friends with the neighbors dog and hopefully he starts to cheer up soon. John has been busy with painting and stripping wallpaper. Hopefully by spring we'll be able to park the cars in the garage if all the boxes are gone. We still don't have pictures on the wall, but it's work in progress and we are just so happy to be here. We are looking forward to all the future memories in our new house, but will never forget the memories in our old house.

Christmas 2009

This Christmas season was very hectic, but enjoyed by all. We packed up the house for most of the month of December and our move in date was Dec 30th. We spent Christmas at our old house and it was nice to have one last Christmas there. Colin and Carson enjoyed the presents Santa brought. Colin's Raven's jersey was probably his favorite gift and he loved the gumball machine that our dear friends the Krauszer's gave us. It has proven to be the worst gift in my book... Thanks Krauszer! Carson probably liked the boxes the best and of course his new power wheels since Colin does not like to share his jeep. My mom got me the coolest gift... she was able to print my blog into a book for the last 2 years, so now I have to keep up with it so she can do it again next year! MY favorite gift by far was spending time with my wonderful family.

GHS Gang

We finally were able to get the Glenelg girls together, although we missed Taryn. We went to dinner with all the kids and we were able to catch up. Kara will be having her 3rd baby this summer, Noelle has moved to NC and will be getting married in the fall, Seri is in her new place and we got to meet her new boyfriend and Taryn has moved to SC with husband Ben.

Snow Storm

The past few years, we have gotten very little to no snow, but we were hit hard one Saturday with about 22 inches of snow. It was so beautiful and we were all able to enjoy it because it fell on a weekend. The only downfall was that the whole family was sick (you can't tell in the pictures though!). Carson had been to the ER for dehydration and didn't eat for almost a week. John had something nasty and Colin had a small bug... Luckily, I didn't get it. Somebody had to take care of the family!! Anyway, lots of shoveling, hot chocholate and some sleding. Carson was NOT a big fan of the snow, but I think it had to do with him being sick.

ICE

Wow, it's been awhile since I updated anything. I'm going to try and catch up and finish 2009. We took an Eyre bus (sometime in December) to the National Harbor to see ICE. We had to all wear these special lovely blue jackets because it was so cold. It was quite amazing to see all the ice sculptures and the kids loved it because they had an ice slide for them to go down. The bus then took us to see the White House Christmas tree and it was beautiful. By the end of the trip, the kids were exhausted. It was a long, but fun Friday night.