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Our first fall in Old House

We have a huge tree in our front yard which looked beautiful this fall with its bright yellow leaves. In the sunset it almost looked like it was glowing. Unfortunately, that only lasted a week. The wind came and knocked all the leaves off the tree which then created a mess of leaves on our front lawn. Jesús went and bought a very large rake and raked all the leaves into a pile and Patrick couldnt resist.

Look at the joy on his sweet face. If only thats what it took for all of us to be happy. How simple.

Then the kids made up a new game. Its called "Lets push the chairs in a circle from room to room." It was a very fun game all of 2 times when the game was canceled due to my bleeding ear drums.

That leaves these final two sweet pictures of the kids. I found them on Patricks bed snuggled up and reading books. I went in now and then to join them while dinner simmered.

Its Christmas time at Old House

I pulled out the Christmas tree yesterday so we could decorate it as a family. The kids thought the whole process was pretty amazing. Elena couldn't stop pulling at the strand of beads and wanted to keep all the decorations to play with. She was a little upset when she couldnt.

But Daddy showed her how to put them on anyway

Patrick got to put the star on this year

Elena loved sitting under the tree to look at the lights and the beads. The pics are a little fuzzy because I liked the light by the tree lights.

The morning I set up the tree I found a couple of Santa hats and the kids loved them. They were a little big and they got a little lost in them.

I did get nice one of Elena

Before this happened....

Check out our Old House blog for before and after pictures.

Update

We are waiting until we can fit the internet into our budget before we are online again but I plan on being at my Moms at least once a week so I can update here. I dont have any pictures because still no camera. We are officially moved out of the condo and all moved into the house. It was great to hand the keys over and be done super cleaning for a few days at least. Old house needs a good cleaning from construction but I'll get to that later. For now we have been unloading boxes and figuring out where everything goes. We did run into a snag yesterday when we discovered all the water backing up. The problem was found and the pipes outside will have to be replaced. For now we just have to deal with some holes in the front yard. No biggie. We couldnt get the heater working at first but Jesus fiddled with it and TADA!!! Heat. We also dont have a washer or dryer so we are having to come to Moms and Dads once a week which might get a little old lugging everything back and forth but since we dont live as close anymore they will have some time with Grandma and Grandpa. It a little difficult not having a washer and dryer so handy especially with the kids. We have some more before and afters to put on the the Old House blog but I will have to bring my computer to my moms to upload.

Update on the kids: Elena and Patrick both have colds which is making them extra whiny but its nothing we cant handle. It took them a few nights to adjust to the new house but now they seem to like it. Patrick is really liking the room to run and has really enjoyed the backyard. Elena loves the little steps from the front room to the family room and just keeps going up and down them on her tummy. Its pretty funny and she's getting pretty fast.

Unfortunately...

We are going off line for a while. We will not have the internet for a while because of the move and other reasons. I will try to update the blog when I can but until we have the internet again our blog will not be updated on a regular basis.

I'm thankful for good friends.

Im thankful for this beautiful house we get to rent from the Hunts. They are amazing people we are blessed to know.