Our New House

As promised, here are a few pictures of our new house.

This is not our house but part of our backyard. One of the things I love about our new house is that it is in the country. We have a hay field behind our house and a rooster visits daily. We also get a large variety of visiting wildlife. This hawk was on the fence at the edge of our backyard today.

This is Alaina's playroom (our bonus room over the garage). Right now it is missing large furniture, but our current living room furniture will be moved up here in the near future. 

This is Alaina's room. It doesn't have decorations on the wall yet, but everything is unpacked!

This is Alaina's bathroom (also the guest bath). She and Harry were getting ready for bath time. 

Our living room. You can see the backyard and hay field through the windows. We will be getting new furniture for this room, soon. 

Our kitchen. I LOVE our kitchen. I've gotten used to cooking with our gas stove (it scared me a little bit at first) and the convection oven is awesome! I can't wait to have a little more time to cook in this beautiful kitchen.

As you can see, we still have a long way to go; but for only being here less than 2 weeks, I think we are doing pretty well. I'm hoping to get more unpacking done this weekend so I can share more pictures, soon.

We've Moved!

You may have noticed that I haven't posted lately... that's because we've moved!

We packed up the house we lived in for 7 years and moved into a larger house. We are currently settling in, so please forgive me if I take a little more time off. Lots of pictures of the new house and us living in it to follow. 

Enjoying Birthday Presents

Alaina spent most of her day today playing with her birthday presents. Here are a few pictures of some of her new toys. 

Happy First Birthday, Alaina!

Today, our little baby turned one. It's hard to believe that a year has gone by this quickly. We celebrated with a party in the park. 

 Alaina and her cousin, Madison, dressed alike for the party. I can already tell these girls are going to be lifelong friends.

More girl-time... Alaina's other BFF, Emma, was at the party, too, but I didn't get a photo of them together. Hopefully I'll get a copy of one, soon. 

 

An attempt to get a photo of Alaina, her cousins Madison, Luke, and Alex with grandma and grandpa.

 Alaina got her own mini cake.

 

Happy First Birthday, sweet baby girl!

Busy Little Baby

Now that Alaina is up and walking she is constantly busy. She LOVES playing outside and has fun helping out around the house when she is inside. Here are a few pictures and a video of Alaina's play and work time.

All Business

Today, Alaina and I got to spend Labor Day together and she was all business despite the relaxing nature of the holiday.

She started out taking her "brief case" to a very important meeting. Harry noted that it must be business casual if she can go in a PJs, but it's Labor Day so I think it's ok. 

Then she sat down for a good read. She did sit in her basket of toys (something she started doing yesterday and seems to love) but she didn't play... no, no. She was very into her studies.

Happy Labor Day!

On a side note, this was Alaina's due date 1 year ago. She was 5 days late so her first birthday is coming up on Saturday!!