Kindergarten!

We registered Ryan for Kindergarten this morning how crazy is it that I have a kid that old!!! He was so excited to go see where he will be going to school in the fall, or hopefully will be since I guess they had to ship 22 kids other places last year because of over crowding so hopefully he will get to go to school with the kids in his class at church!

We sold our house!!!!!

So it actually isn't sold sold but we got an offer and we accepted. It isn't as much as we originally wanted for the home but it was our full current asking price! It will be awhile until we close because of loan issues but they way the offer is written up the people who are buying are already living there and renting it from us until we close and they are in charge of all maintenance and everything so they can do any updates and will basically own the home it will just be in our name until we close. This is very good for us though because we moved a week before we got the offer so this will make it so we don't ever have to pay both rent and a mortgage. We feel very blessed on how it is all working out and are very grateful for all the prayers that have been offered in our behalf. We are now renting a town house for the time being and we really like it and are excited to get to see Christopher more! I may post some pictures of our new place if we ever get unpacked!!!

Olivia's First Hair Cut

Olivia had her very first haircut today. I got lucky with her and her hair grew in fairly evenly and the ends were curly so it hid any unevenness but it started to look a little stragley so I decided it needed to be cut. Just a little though she has such long hair and I am hoping we haven't lost her cute ringlets at the end!

Before shot with it wet so you can see how long it really is!


Before shot when it was dry so you can see her curls!
Getting ready to get it cut
during
after shot the we only cut about 2 1/2 inches so not a ton but it looks healthier now. The bottom is already starting to curl under so I am hoping her ringlets will return.

Christmas!

Christmas Eve presents Ryan got Toy Story, Olivia got princesses and Christopher got Superman!

Olivia Christmas morning we could hear the kids whispering by the door so we waited for them to knock to tell us they were awake but they never did so we gave it about 5 mins and went in but they were both back in bed awake but in bed!

Ryan Christmas morning
Olivia opening up her Littlest Petshop Veterinarian clinic
Ryan opening up his football!

The kids with their haul, I realized later that we didn't get any pics of Christopher and I on Christmas morning oops!

Putting up the Christmas tree finally!

We finally put up the Christmas tree last night, we had planned on moving back upstairs so we were going to wait until we did that to put one up then Chris got a full time job offer in IF that is pretty much going to require us to move there so we decided to stay in the basement instead of moving twice in a month. Anyway so after all of that we decided to just go get a fake tree that was marked down to $20 instead of getting a real one that would cost more than that. So we got a fake one with the promise that we would never use it again! So here are some pictures of us putting up the Christmas tree!

Christopher helping Ryan put on the bell angel. He really was excited we just didn't get a picture of that!

Me helping Olivia put the angel on top
The kids presenting the finished tree!

New Moon Party!

So on Friday night a bunch of my girl friends from high school go together for a sleep over party and to watch New Moon, this was a no kids, no husbands party (we did make an exception for Julie cause it was at her house!) We stay up until after 6:30am and just talked and had fun and caught up it was awesome! Thanks Jules for hosting and thanks Chris (Julie's husband) for putting up with us. And thanks all of the other great husbands for making it possible for us to all come! (Jacqui's husband surprised her and got the night off with out telling her and then just had me come and pick her up at the house and kidnap her!) And no we are not all psyco Twilight fans (although we totally love the movie) the movie was just a good excuse to get everyone together!

Right before the movie started, (really bad quality because it is a cell camera!)
After the movie!


After the movie we went to Macey's quick to say hi to my cute sis who was working and she took a pic of us (again cell phone camera so not the best quality)
We woke up Julie's poor husband at 2:30 to take pictures he was awesome!More pics from 2:30am
You have to have a silly pic especially since being all back together makes us act like we were in high school!
Julie trying to take a pic of all of us by herself! (good thing she has long arms)