Life is Good!

We love our new house!  The kids are especially loving the new pool this hot summer!

This pool has saved me this summer being so sick, with the pregnancy.  The kids practically live in the pool.  I usually take the kids on alot of outings in the summer but this summer, with this heat and pregnancy, I am home bound.  So, thank heavens for a pool!

Bryce is learning to mow.  Dad will love his help with this big yard! Did I say it was 2 acres?

Our neighbors have a zipline and the kids love playing on it.  It is pretty cool!

The other night the boys asked Bryan to come play baseball with them.  I went to watch and saw the cutest sight.  The boys had made bases out of old plastic, in the pastor, found a stick and an old small basketball and were playing baseball.  This is why we moved to the country!  So the kids could be outside, could explore and use their imagination and have fun!

To a mom, PRICELESS!  The boys also love going outside finding grasshoppers and frogs!  They love living out here!  The kids had gotten to where they didn't want to go outside and play all they wanted to do was play the Wii with their friends.  Kids in Frisco hardly play outside.  So sad!  I guess with such small back yards it isn't very fun but so sad to me that kids don't use their imagination and explore outside like I did as a kid and all they want to do is play game systems.  So, we put the house on the market and got out of Frisco so our kids could have FUN growing up!

Here are a few other reasons we love it.  Our big front yard with trees.

Here is part of the back yard, barn and pastor.

Pastor and corral area

Koi pond

My large covered patio where I can sit and watch the kids play or swim.

Our awesome new pool!  Life is good!  We love our new home and hope you will come visit us here.  Then you will see why we love it so!

Changes!

 Wow!  Life has been crazy busy lately.  On Friday April 8th we put our house on the market.  3 weeks later, on Friday April 29th we got a contract on our house.  Super fast!  We were very excited and felt very blessed that it sold so quickly.

 Then on Monday, May 9th I found out I was pregnant.  Yes, that's right baby #5 is on the way.  Way surprised and a little worried since we had already put a contract on a house that was smaller and had a pool.  When the kids were little I wouldn't even look at a house with a pool but wanted one now because they are bigger and all know how to swim.  Yeah, fun stuff.  But we prayed about it and felt like the move would be good for our family.  We can raise our children in the country with land to play on which is much better than city life in a big house.  Who would've knew!

So, on Friday June 3rd we moved into our new home out in the country on 2 acres.  We love it!  It fits our family perfectly!  The kids love living out here, and so do Bryan and I.  Hopefully new baby will love it also!

Easter 2011

On Good Friday my mom invites the grandkids over to dye easter eggs!  We always have lots of fun!

My 1 year old niece decided it was more fun to ride the fourwheeler than dye eggs.  What a cutie!

On Saturday morning we head to my cousin Debbie's for our family easter egg hunt.  We have been having this for 62 years and it is a BLAST!

Debbie has this fun kids table for the kids to draw.

And there is always FISHING!

Just hanging out!

Every year there are TONS of eggs!  This year we had almost 1200 eggs for 30 kids.  Needless to say they didn't go home empty handed.

It takes lots of people to hide that many eggs.

Adalynn getting ready to hunt!

And they are off and running!

Oh, and we caught one of these too!  Yes, a baby copperhead that I almost stepped on. Thank goodness I was looking down for eggs or I would have stepped right on him in my sandals.  And my crazy cousin picked him up, while he was alive, to show everyone.

The boys trying to kill the snake.

My sister and her cute little girl!

Cute cousins!

My cuties and their loot!

And you can't miss a chance for a family photo.  We had an awesome Easter and loved spending it with family.