Finally another house update!

I've really been slacking on getting a house update on here. Frankly I just have been so busy with everything that I completely forgot to. So here ya go...

This is the house at frame-officially :) This view is looking into the kitchen from the living room.

This is the view from our master bedroom to the master bath

There's a phase of the foam insulation not here because of my dumb internet. So I'll have to do it a bit later.

This was last weekend. Curtis and all the brothers and his dad minus Lan, spent the entire day roofing the first half of the roof. Looks good. This project has been put off and put off for so long because of the weather. Been very frustrating and stressful, but its half done.

While that was going on, I took pics of the inside since drywall had gone up. It has totally transformed the entire house. Its now taking shape. Things are looking way better :)

So here's the living room

This is in the kitchen. The arch on the right goes to the front door and the arch on the left goes to the pantry.

View from the living room looking toward the front door.

This is looking down the basement stairwell. Its so tall.

Here's more pics of them out on the roof.

This was today. They are taping currently. We are going to be stuck at this phase for another week or so and then we really get going with paint, flooring and cabinets. We're getting there.

This is our master

Our master looking toward the back wall

Master looking into our master bath

Living room

Living room at a different angle

Dining room and kitchen from the living room

View from the front door.

My preschool room!!

So its getting there!!

Kids!!

The kids have been so funny lately. I just thought I would take a second to document some of their little funnies before I forget.

Brecklynn has been all about what everyone else does lately. Every morning she LOVES and BEGS to get her hair done and insists on bows in her hair. She also likes to stand with me in the bathroom and watch and 'put on' make up with me. Quite cute ;).

Ridge and her have the cutest relationship. Whenever one or the other wakes up, the other gets excited and they have to give eachother a long hug that usually lasts awhile. Then they end up in a wrestling match where Brecklynn is holding onto Ridge from behind.

Brecklynn loves to give hugs to her siblings right now. Cambree doesn't enjoy the love as much but we're working with her :)

Brecklynn refuses to talk. Yep she is like her brother yet again. She totally could talk but she chooses not to. She understands everything you say to her. She does say shoes, mom, dad, nana, and little (as in Nana and Papa's dog) and recently says pretty. Just frustrating to have her choose not to talk. But that's her!!

She is truly the funniest baby I know. Her facial expressions and her body movements. Every evening she gets into the mood that just cracks you up. She does and says funny things. I love it.

Its been so stink'n cold that the kids have hardly had any time outside in a very long time. Today was the first reasonable day that they were able to go out and enjoy some time in the sun. They all insisted on having strollers and babies-yes Ridge too.

These next couple pictures literally crack me up and really show Ridge's personality lately. He's so emotional and 'bi-polar' with his mood swings that it really drives me crazy. But pictures bring out the humor in these things.

So here he is taking a picture for me. Then I ask him to show me his stroller and baby....

The blanket fell off-that's it- and look at his reaction.

Total melt down.

I still get amazed at how quickly he can change his mood. Truly gets me at my breaking point really fast-but I am hoping its just a phase.

Cambree. Well she's still the same ol' Cambree just getting more and more in the 'teenager' attitude. She is too smart for her own good, let alone her age. She is all about helping me out lately. We started doing chores and I was leery about how this would go. She reminds me that she has chores and loves to do them. We'll see how long it lasts, but hey I'll take it.

I am wondering how they all will be in the new house. With Ridge in a new room alone, I wonder if he will last in there. Currently they've been in their room for over 2 hours for bed and they are all up and playing hard. You continuously hear laughing and playing. We don't care until they come out. But I truly wonder how nights will go in the new house. My heart kind of breaks for this change because these are definitely sweet moments I will miss hearing.

I'm excited to see what kid #4 will do to this dynamic. Gonna be interesting for sure.

First day of church in the new year!! Ridge is a SUNBEAM!!

This is the last post I promise ;) I will finally be caught up for a bit. So Sunday was the first Sunday at our new schedule of 9 am. I was so glad to go at that time. We actually weren't late either. Before church, I decided to grab a few pics since it was Ridge's first Sunday as a Sunbeam and Cambree as a CTR 5 and Brecklynn will be joining nursery in about 2 weeks.

Brecklynn has learned quickly from her sister and brother what the camera means and loves to pose for the camera. Sunday went well considering Ridge's teacher is actually a cousin and he was dressed 'like a cowboy'. Ridge was in heaven and they were great with him. His teacher even drew him some cows and horses. Cambree has a new teacher and a class of just girls. I think she's going to enjoy her class a lot this year. At least I hope so. So we're off to a great year so far.

Kids!!

I've really been bad lately about getting pictures up or even taking picture of the kiddos. So when they all got into the tub the other night, I wanted to catch a few of them all together. They play so well together. I love their relationships. I just hope it stays that way :)

SNOW!!

Well it happened again!! It snowed. But the great thing about this time, it was during the day and we could actually watch it. It had been lightly snowing since about 9 am but then about 4 that afternoon for about 20 minutes, we got a little snow storm. I loved watching it. No nothing ever stuck to the ground but it was fun to watch.

Christmas!!

Christmas day started early. Ridge got up with quite a fuss about 5:30 and immediately woke up Brecklynn and Cambree. I went out and situated everything before they came out. They made out so good this year. They all got more than they should have.

Cambree got a HUGE barbie house. Notice its taller than her. It cracks me up. So yes it will be great in the new house, but man does it become a HUGE issue now. It doesn't fit ANYWHERE and makes it hard to play with. She loved it though and got a barbie car and the 8 barbie princess dolls.

Ridge loved his race track. It came with 20 hotwheels.

Brecklynn got a stroller with a new babydoll and took her turn and pestering her sister and brother with their new toys. It was a good Christmas. We did have to put a majority of the new toys in storage till we get to the new house but hey that will make it like Christmas all over again :)

Christmas Eve

This year, Christmas flew by for me. I don't really know where it all went. Christmas Eve didn't even feel like Christmas Eve. I had to occupy the kids all day. It finally came around to evening and we had dinner and the kids got to finally open their one gift. Of course it was pjs.

After they opened and put on their pjs, we went around and looked at Christmas lights. This was interesting because Brecklynn enjoyed it but the other two were having more fun playing with each other that they didn't even see the lights. This was also one of the only nights that the kids went to bed without fight and never came out :)