New House

Current state of house, 5 days post move-in. I'm pretty impressed with ourselves.

Living Room
Master Bedroom

Guest Room

Kitchen

View from kitchen

Holy lots of boxes Bat Man! I had no idea we had this many sice we packed in 2 sepearate phases. Thanks Stephen, for pointing that out that that's not even all of them.

Groundbreaking

It's a good thing we took this picture before the meeting.

This is about 15 minutes in. Notice Zoe is not happy.

This is about 20 minutes after it started. "A" for effort? No shovel pictures for us.

Who Needs Toys?

This is what I caught my kids doing for fun after I'd packed up the entire kitchen and nearly all their toys. It was adoreable!

Halloween Night

Despite my best efforts, all Taya really wanted to be was a princess. It didn't help that Adalyn was Cinderella. Taya asked if she could wear a crown with her witch costume, then she wanted to wear her princess dress up shoes, then she wanted princess make-up on her cheeks. Thanks Addie for letting Taya wear the wig. I really think it made the costume. Don't you?

Halloween

Halloween was a little crazy this year since it was the week right before we moved. Somehow, we fit it in. Taya was a "nice" witch (thanks to cousin Tasha for the costume). I thought Taya wouldn't really care as long as she got to wear a dress and I put make-up on her, but that wasn't the case. See next post...

Flower Girl Dress

Here's Taya's Flower Girl Dress for Aunt Kim's wedding. Horray!!! After much to-do, it fits perfectly and Taya threw a fit when I made her take it off.

Preschool

Mason Morse, Lilly Whiting, Ginger Petersen, Bethany Jensen, Taya Sturdevant, & Preston Lewis

Just the girls.

Taya started attending a co-op preschool this year. Basically a bunch of my stay-at-home moms were all going crazy trying to keep our 3 & 4 year olds intertained all day every day, so we rotate "teaching" 2 days a week for 2 weeks at a time. After my first day teaching I thought, "Wow! That really wasn't as bad as I thought it might be." Quite honestly, the biggest challenge was really Zoe. She was the total bully of the bunch. Taya, Bethany, and Ginger were a real three-some always wanting to all sit next to eachother and do just what eachother did. I have to say I think Taya's favorite "teacher" so far is Sister Lewis. Hats off to her!