Life By The Hay

Thursday, April 4, 2013

Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving 2012.

Austin was very grateful for his Mom. ;)

The spread. It says, "Give Thanks"

My cheeseball turkey. Thanks Leah for the recipe! We had Adam and Whitney and kids over for the feast. We were both moving soon (us to our new house here, and them to California) so we wanted to keep things easy.

After dinner the kids and Dads played football outside while Whit and I cleaned. Once it got dark, we set up the bounce house and the kids had so much fun jumping

The best picture I got of the boys. Sweaty and full tummies...a great combo.

We went upstairs and Audrey had us each say our favorite Thanksgiving food and what we were grateful for. I'm grateful for her.

Orange Dream

My friend, Michelle W., introduced me to this amazing orange shake. When she told me about it, I wanted to gag, but then I tasted it, and I was hooked. Orange sherbet and chocolate syrup. It tastes like those chocolate oranges. But much better. I don't normally like those chocolate oranges, but I loooooove this shake.
11.21.2012

We went to Braum's one night, and alllllllll the kids wanted to drink my shake. Notice they each have their own ice cream cone, but all they want is mine!

Little Friends and Soccer

Still trying to catch up...
Austin and his lovely friend Riley at the park. (Wiweyyy!!)

End of the soccer season and getting his much anticipated medal.

Joshua and Troy. Sweet little friends.

Ivy and Austin. Love these two together!
They love each other, and their binkis!

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Home

It was time. It was high time that the 38 and 32 year old buy their first home. We were (finally) done with school and knew we wanted to settle here, so we started looking for a home to buy. We started looking in late October, and we come across a neighborhood we loved and decided to build. My parents come to visit and we took them to our site we were planning on buying, and we were so excited! Until...

One Sunday morning afternoon, Austin feel asleep at church (church was from 12-3). This never, ever, ever happens (I had to take a picture to document). He usually falls asleep on the way home from church and sleeps for an hour or so, and this day we didn't want him sleeping more so he could go down at the normal time. Dave knew of an open house, so after church, instead of going home like we usually do, we went to the open house. I walked in and was sold.sold.sold.

Walking in the house for the first time. November 18, 2012
We put the offer in on December 7, closed January 11th, and moved in January 15th. We had them paint the walls, and add crown molding, but I always want to remember what it looked like the first time I saw it.

It was in the Parade of Homes in October, and people kept putting offers on the home but for whatever reason they kept falling through. Dave and I feel so blessed that we were able to put on offer on it, and move in so quickly. It feels so nice to finally be a home owner!