Top 10 Reasons I Haven't Been Blogging

In no particular order....

Number 10:

We moved to our new house!!

Number 9:

Disney on Ice in Kearney

Emma, Addie, and I went to the show back in December. The girls LOVED it! If you know Addie, you know she loves everything Disney Princess. And all the princesses were there. This picture shows each one dancing with their prince.

Bruce the Shark from Finding Nemo.
It's a Small World After All

Did I mention the girls loved it?? This is how they looked the entire time:

I realize Emma is not smiling and looks bored, but she was very intently taking it all in.

Number 8:

Christmas!

Here is Christmas with my family.

Emma, Addie, Luke, Jeffrey and Samuel

Luke ready to eat with Great-Aunt Dorothy and Great-Grandma Doris.

Addie was in heaven when she opened this gift!

All of Disney Princesses in one box!

Emma had the best reaction when she opened this Webkinz from Anna.

Luke got a 4-wheeler. He has put a ton of miles on it already.

Christmas Morning at our house.

The girls love Littlest Pet Shop!

Luke loves anything John Deere.

Chirstmas with Joe's family.

Emma and Addie got these cool memo boards from Aunt Carrie.

A John Deere hat for Luke!

Emma, Addie, and Luke with Wes, Ben, and Graham

Number 4:

New Year's Eve Party

This was taken close to midnight. They all made it for the big countdown!
Steph and Nancy

Kendra and me

me, Joni, and Leigh

All the guys were there, too, but didn't get any pictures of them.

Number 5:

I signed up for Facebook a few months ago and am now putting myself through Facebook rehab. This was the most addicting thing I've ever done! It was fun to catch up with old friends, but in the meantime all of my "blog followers" (you know, the 4 of you) were being neglected.

I'm so sorry about that!

Number 6:

The Bachelor is on!

I also love watching American Idol, The Biggest Loser, and True Beauty. AND we now have DVR. Wow! How did I survive without it? I can record all my shows and watch them after the kids go to bed. I am loving it!! By the way, I'm guessing the final two are Naomi and Jillian.

Bachelor Jason:

Number 7:

School started!

Since we now live in the country, Emma gets to ride the bus everyday. This is what she was most excited about when we decided to build a house. She gets on at 7:15am and is home by 3:50pm. Second one on, second one off.

Number 8:
Luke has been writing on the walls.
Look how proud he is of his masterpiece.

Thank goodness for Magic Erasers!!

Number 9 :

Playdates
Luke and Cousin Samuel

Addie and Cousin Jeffrey
Addie and Emma with Cousin Graham

Addie and her friend from preschool, Georgia. They played dress-up all afternoon.

Can't you just see the embarrassment on Addie's face?

Number 10:

I've been decorating my house with Uppercase Living.

I promised Joe I wouldn't put this in every single room of the house.

But I did get these up last weekend.

It's hard to see, but it says "Welcome To Our" about Home. I just ordered a lighter color to replace it. This is by our fireplace and you see it when you walk in the front door.

In the playroom downstairs A picture of the girls' bathroom

This is upstairs by the TV area

In Luke's bedroom

In Luke's bathroom

I will show you more pictures of the house later. I still have little projects to do around the house - organize the store room, make curtains, paint furniture, get pictures hung, knick knacks scattered around the house, etc. I'll keep you updated and it won't take me 2 months, promise!

i'm still here!

WOW! It has been a very long time since I last posted. I have soooo many pictures to share, more than anyone is really interested in I'm sure. I will get around to showing you some of those one of these days.

We are in our new home! We moved on December 13th and are still slowly unpacking. The place feels like "home" already! We did get a Christmas tree and nativity scene up, but that is about it. I don't have pictures on the wall or knick knacks scattered around the house yet. We are going to buy some new living room furniture after the new year so I'm waiting until then to decide where to put everything else.

We had a great Christmas! We spent Sunday, the 21st at my parents with my family. Christmas Eve was at my Grandma Doris's and my Dad's side of the family. Christmas Day we were in Red Cloud for Joe's Mom's family. Last night we were with Joe's Dad's family - all 50+ of us. We will have Christmas with Joe's family on New Year's Day.

On Christmas Eve I smashed my camera on the tile floor of our house. I was sooo mad. Thankfully, one gas station was open in Holdrege so I could get a disposable camera for pictures on Christmas morning. I was so angry with myself for breaking it right before the most important day of being in our new house together. But it all worked out...I hope the pictures turn out ok.

Hope you had a very Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!!

This weekend

The kitchen countertops were installed on Friday. It's kind of hard to get a good picture of it, but it has black trim around the sides and top.

This is the door to the piano room. It still has the protective covering on the glass so it looks messy.

We went to Madagascar 2 on Sunday. It was a good movie. The girls loved it! I read on my cousin Ashley's blog about buying costumes on clearance so when we were at Kmart we looked through the costumes and found this cat costume that Addie refuses to take off. It's a little big, but that's ok since she has already decided to wear it for Halloween next year. We also bought the Little Red Riding Hood outfit. We got both of them for $5, originally $20. They will get a ton of use during dress-up time.

And Luke got a big boy haircut.

Seriously, is there anything cuter?!?!?

I didn't think so.

Halloween

Happy Halloween!

My aunt bought this great outfit for Emma at a garage sale this summer. She loves it!

When Addie plays dress up with her numerous princess dresses, Emma wears this around the house. Tinkerbell

Mr. Monkey. I bought this for him this summer thinking he would need something to keep him warm. Not this year, he was actually sweating.