Happy Thanksgiving and Our New House

 Carson diggin for gold

 Miss Hailey is growing up way too fast

 My brother Mike,Brita, and sister Lauri

 Crazy hair...we all had curly hair

 Desert landscaping for the front yard with a tiny patch of grass

 Always wanted a covered porch...just imagine there is green grass...that is what I do

 So excited for a fireplace...heating bill will love this

 Shelves in the garage...hooray and a garage to park my car!!!

 I was sold when I saw the kitchen

 So excited about my office...Finally

 This is Ty's room

 This will be Tenley's room

 Master Bedroom

 This is the backyard...it is going to be A TON of work, but it will be beautiful by the time we are done with it

 The kids are so excited about all the hills to climb right out our back door...mom is excited too

 I love my new pantry

 Kids bathroom

 Master bath...that jetted tub is screaming my name


 
 Tag's bedroom

 

 Racing down the hill...this was fun to watch

 That is one loaded down rhino

 All the kids were still up playing, but Kate was so tired she went to bed

 My little cowboy Tag

 Lauri was pretty special...even Tam (Woody's wife) hasn't rode his prized horse

 Cowboy Ty

 Tenley finally got on the horse with dad

 Tam called me to hurry a snap some pictures while Tenley was on the horse by herself

Life has been so busy these past couple of months, that I have neglected this blog! I think I can get things up to date, but it might a picture overload! This is our family journal, so I try and put those important things we want to remember and put in our blog book. Since 2012 is almost over, I need to get these last few posts in before the end of this year.

Thanksgiving was so wonderful! I was nervous to make my first turkey and to have so many people in our little home, but it worked out GREAT! Yes, we were all very cozy and were happy for nice weather that allowed us to be outside a lot. Let see...we had 8 kids and 5 adults staying in our house for 3 days! We had a blast playing out on the sand hill and the kids absolutely LOVED riding in the rhino ride. Uncle Josh definitely was more crazy and the kids all loved all that! Our good friends, Tam and Woody Woods were so kind and let us come ride their horses. Woody is still feeling bad for the last time my sister, Lauri, rode his horse and was taken on a wild ride...he wanted to redeem himself. We had a great time. Thanksgiving Day was so yummy and the turkey was AWESOME! I am no longer afraid of cooking a turkey and even want to do one to have some yummy lunch meat. In the evenings we were all so tired that we crashed pretty early. One night we all stayed awake and watched a cute little Christmas movie and had some yummy popcorn. When it came time for everyone to leave, I was really sad that they had to go. It is never enough time, but I was just so grateful that they were able to come down! The kids had so much playing with each other and I love it when they all get together! Our favorite little spot was the sand dunes behind our house! The kids had so much fun playing in the sand and having crazy rides in the rhino. The weather was perfect and they were so happy for warmer weather!

The day before they left, we headed up to Moapa to show them our new home. We are soooooo excited and feel so blessed. We have been in our home for 7 years and orginally it was suppose to be a starter home! However, the market crashed and there was no way we could sell it for what we owed and decided to just make due until we could sell. I had looked at homes, but that is all that ever happened. We had decided we were going to just short sale our home because we were tired of driving back and forth everyday, but I just felt terrible about it, so after a couple of weeks, I told Josh I just didn't think it was the right thing for us to do. Shortly after that, this home came on the market and it was exactly what we wanted and where we wanted to be. This time instead of just looking, I called a realtor. We looked at it and made an offer. It was a short sale, so we were ready to wait a long time to even hear anything, but a month later we heard back from the bank. It wasn't the news that we wanted, but we raised our offering price and they excepted and a month later we closed and were moving into our house! It was crazy how fast things happened! It is a 4 bedroom, 2 bath, on 3/4 of an acre. I also get my office and Josh has his own hunting room...we are both pretty excited about that! I have a huge pantry and can I just say that I LOVE YOU!! All of our food storage fits in there with plenty of room to spare! I just feel so blessed and now pray we can rent out our other home.