Stormtrooper Ava

Ava and Luke had so much fun yesterday playing dress up with their stormtrooper gear.  They love running up and down the front hallway of the house and Mommy loves it because it gets their energy out.  Funny how they have their own playroom and they still spend most of their time lugging all of their toys downstairs.

We're Back!

It has been a crazy 2 weeks.  We moved into our home, celebrated my 36th Birthday, Mom had a double mastectomy (and is doing well, strongest lady I know), Nana was in the ICU, Sydney and especially Ava was real sick last week, and we still don't have cable/internet and won't for I don't know how long.  Our conduit is damaged and apparently no one seems to want to prioritize it!  Steve's generous company sent him a hot spot today so at least we have internet.  We got the whole house unpacked in about 6 days and we are so happy at our new house.  It is everything we thought it would be and so much more.  There have been glitches here and there with new appliances, the thermostat and other little things but I guess that is what you can expect when everything is new and just getting up and running.  Hopefully I will dig out my camera soon and start taking some pictures of my sweet babies.  More to come soon....

First Snow of the year!

What a fun surprise to come to preschool and see that it snowed here.  2 minutes away at our hotel we got nothing! 

A Clean, Almost Ready House!!!

After months and months of dust and dirt from all of the hard work that went into putting our house together, it is all clean and that much closer for us to move in.  Steve and I met some new neighbors tonight with 5 children and we really liked them!  Our walk thru is next week, closing on Thursday and move in on Friday!  We started this whole process about a year ago and had NO idea that it would take all of this time.  It has been such a fun and rewarding adventure as Steve and I have chosen everything down to the color of the electrical outlets, not knowing how it would look altogether and now finally seeing the finished product.  There are a few more small details here and there that they will fix this next week and after we move in but the house is pretty much ready for us to move in!

Sod is going in probably tomorrow and we have a backyard.  Tonight when we stopped by the house, Luke made a run for it when we opened the front door.  A minute later I asked where he was and Steve, Joe and I looked up and saw him running back and forth on the new back patio.  It was awesome how excited these kids are to have a yard!  Too bad we are not supposed to walk on the sod for 3-6 months.... that will be pretty hard!

Growth Spurt

Sydney has grown more than 3 inches in 6 months!  She is 94th percentile in height and 49th in weight.  She is estimated to be between 5'6 and 5'10 when she is older.