New Year, New Home

We are finally here in our new house and we finally have internet! We moved in a week before Christmas. We had a lot of snow over Christmas and I was never so happy for snow. It got the kids out of the house to play and Scott and I were able to put our new house in order. We still have boxes and clutter, but we are feeling at home. We even hung pictures and I am enjoying decorating.

Our back yard has a little hill that was perfect for the kids to go sledding. They had lots of fun with the sleds Santa brought. Even little Violet had a turn sledding with Mom.

Christmas was lots of fun, but went by very quickly. We bought a lovely live tree on Christmas Eve and kept it up until the new year. This year with each gift we gave each other we included a coupon for something nice we would do for that person. Most of these were doing chores for each other (or not complaining about chores, which is a wonderful gift to Mom and Dad). I made Owen a batch of cookies all to himself and that was a big hit, I may have to repeat this for birthdays.

We are excited for this new year in our new home.

 The pond in our backyard

 Violet's turn on the sled

 

Sam and Ruby playing in the snow

 

 Excited children on Christmas morning