The last (almost two) months have been a blur of activity and my computer still hates my phone.
Last night, Steve and I spent WAY too much time getting my phone pictures onto the computer...so in honor of the hour of my life I will never get back, here are a bunch (boat load) of pictures from the last two months.
The front of our house just a few days before we closed.
My blue door.
Yeah...I love it.
This place is all mine.
(ok...really the bank owns it...but in 20 something years it will be all mine.)
Our move in day was as crazy as could be expected. This included moving our new fridge into place. The fridge BARELY fit...as in maybe a centimeter clearance on the top. The cabinets above it are rendered useless as we cant get them open. But, I really don't care because my fridge is huge and amazing. Who knew I could love a kitchen appliance so much!
We had some fun teenagers help us move in and we paid them in pizza. I so love Andrew's friends.
I think I took this picture for my sisters...the house was obviously cleaned for the photo.
Because lets be honest, our house usually looks like this.
Not long after we moved in, Valentines Day happened.
I made the kids my usual homemade cards and bought them Fredrickson's caramel hearts.
Saylor love the chocolate...wasn't too keen on the card.
She's a fickle one this girl.
Steve got about 6 or so cards from me stashed around the house Valentines Day.
Too bad he was super sick with strep and didn't really get to enjoy them.
It was a rough couple of weeks with almost everyone falling sick. We might have to name those weeks something dramatic like "The Dixon Plague of 2016" as it felt that horrible.
Yuck.
Andrew got signed up for driver's ed.
He officially starts in April.
He's ready to drive and I'm ready to have a driver.
Colby had his second Pine Wood Derby race and he came in 2nd in his den and 2nd overall.
He was pretty happy about the whole thing.
My niece Holly had a bad sledding accident where she broke her eye orbit in two places and has to have surgery to repair the breaks. The day after the accident we visited her and Andrew and Holly compared their Asian eyes.
Andrew may have still won.
Oh...Andrew is growing out his hair and desperately wants a Man-Bun.
I declared what he has now as a Man-Piggy.
Maybe by August he will have a proper bun and not something that resembles Saylor's hair at 12 months.
We have made LOTS of gluten filled chocolate chip cookies since moving in.
Steve had me write down the recipe and then he taped it on the inside of the cupboard for easy access.
I think everyone here is grateful for two ovens!
Colby finished his Native American diorama.
I will say there is big difference between a first child school project and a third child project.
Call it laziness, being overwhelmed, or whatever you want to...but we were just happy it got done.
Our firepit project got finished too.
I'm super grateful Steve was willing to trade this project out for dental care.
The firepit and flowerbed retaining walls are just beautiful.
Steve and I discuss often that Andrew lives a way more exciting life than Steve and I ever have.
He's a lucky punk.
New baby cousins are the BEST.
We love love love baby Cole.
Carter had his spring time orchestra concert.
Steve went and I stayed home with the little kids.
I can't wait until it's my turn to go. Carter loves the cello so much and keeps hinting for me to buy him one. Sigh...I wish I could.
Grady loves to be beautiful.
Andrew is running for Junior Class Treasurer.
I hope he wins, it would be a fun opportunity for him.
Colby rocked the science fair yet again.
(My last year running the fair. Super happy about that one!)
Saylor is adorable...and we really love hand me down boots from cute neighbor girls!
Steve helped our nephew AJ with his Pine Wood Derby car when Jared was out of town.
AJ got 3rd in his den. Awesome!
We've worked in our yard...mostly moving rock where we want it and removing it where we don't want it. I honestly cant wait for our grass to be planted! I get giddy when I think of it being warm enough to plant flowers.
Carter, Colby and AJ played hookie and went skiing with Grandpa.
And really...Andrew has more fun than the rest of us combined!
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