Home...

So we finally have a house. We are so excited to be in a house and to have enough room for us and my mom. The other great part of of our house is that it sits on three acres. We are in love with that. 

This is the view from the front door. Love it!

Part of our yard and beyond the fence is two acres that we also purchase. 

Before we had the keys for 24 hours, Hubs had already started planting a garden. Yard work and gardening is his happy place. 

Our first meal in the house. Pizza of course!

The kids had fun exploring the back yard and making a "fort".

We did pretty  much all the moving ourselves. We were exhausted! My in-laws did come and help move one day which was a super big help.

This is Mac's favorite spot. 

I had fallen asleep on the floor and woke up to these mini roses laying next to my head from a cute little girl. 

Ice cream to celebrate!

cute kids, new baby, cotton candy and a good book...

She's just too cute!

Hubs and I started walking in the morning. This was one of the first mornings and we had the sunrise behind us and a rainbow and thunder storm in front of us. It was beautiful...and scary.

The kids were watching a thunderstorm on their fun dirt hill.

My friend had her baby and Oak was dying to meet him. She finally got to and she was so cute with him. She held him perfectly and bounced him just right to help him not be fussy.

Again, she is adorable! 

Me and my boy!

Being silly.

We decided one night to stop at the snack shack and get a treat. 

Oak loved her cotton candy. 

Oak dancing and eating her cotton candy.

The kids wanted to do an activity out of a pioneer activity book we had gotten from the library.  They had a lot of fun weaving with paper.

Binge reading our library books before they had to go back to the library. 

I got this book for Oak because it had a horse on it and she loves horses. I wasn't quite ready for the impact it had on me. I ended up crying all the way through it. Such a powerful story of sacrifice and love. At some point I want to own this book. 

Pretty good impersonation.

As we were moving a truck load of stuff to our new house we drove by a garage sale and I saw some wooden ladders. So we stopped and I bought this awesome weathered wood ladder for five dollars. I am so excited about it. I actually plan to cut it in half. 

We also moved into our new house this week. I will do a separate post of that. 

Sunday...twenty four...

summer fun has begun...

Two silly girls.

They woke up and decided to pick out each others clothes. The theme they went with was "western". So Oak is Annie Oakley and Mac is Jack Kelly from Newsies. We had just watched Newsies for the first time the night before.

Oak wanting to take a picture of me. This is where  you find me most of the time when the kids are riding their bikes outside. Me sitting in a lawn chair to make sure they don't get ran over by a car.

Oak and I were bouncing the ball back and forth and she just looked so cute.

Silly girl ready for Taekwondo.

The cool neighborhood hangout is the dirt hill right across the street. We have four shovels and the kids are always coming over and getting them to dig on the hill.

Making banana bread.

This last time we went to the library the kids decided they wanted to get books on space. It has been fun to read about, And I have learned a ton so I am pretty sure my kids have too.

National Donut Day and Summer Friday Donut Day.

The kids are always wanting to go up and down this steep street. Every once in awhile I humor them. 

One of their favorite things to do at Walmart. 

We are excited to try to do all these things this summer. We also need to add the river and Lake of the Woods.

I started reading this for the first time ever. I am about half way. It's good but I am a slow reader.

We were making pizza and decided we needed a little flour on our faces. 

Saturday morning we headed down the road to a neighbors house of someone in our ward. His yard needed some work done and his health isn't the best. So we spent a couple hours weeding and cleaning up the pine cones and pine needles. It was so great to help.

After the work we headed to the river to play. And Mac brought a book to read and was actually reading it. I was so excited he did this.

Cute girl on the way home from the river. I will do a post on just the river soon.

Tired out after playing in the river for a couple of hours.

Extreme hopscotching.

Goofy girl riding her new bike.

Daddy has been reading The Fellowship of the Ring to Mac and Mac has been making a map of the journey while listening to daddy read. 

Beautiful sunsets here. My phone camera never does it justice.

We tried going on a walk to walk out our wiggles and grumpiness. It was a disaster and my kids were so poorly behaved. Oh well!

But they sure looked cute in the setting sun.