Life happening

 I don't want to forget life when we first moved into the new house. But it's been so busy between, work, school, unpacking and the holidays that it all seemed to flow into one long day.

I broke down and bought a fake tree this year. it was too much stress to figure out how i was goin to cut down a tree and get it home in my car. I'm not very confident with the trailer and struggle with trying to find someone to help me. So we pulled in to menards and picked out a fake tree. Lucky for me it was on sale and rebate. :) I will say its been a lot easier to take care of and it came lit. 

we slowlly put on the oranments since i couldn't locate them all right away. 

the start of decorating for xmas :)

 

So the 2nd night we slept in the new house, Max slept in his new tractor bed. It probably helped that St. Nick was coming. 

 So we managed to dig out enough christmas decorations for our stockings and stocking holders. St. Nick was able to come and bring the kids new John Deere jammies and a movie.

The 3rd graders and 7th graders decorated cookies to be handed out to those who could use a little extra holiday cheer. Here's my silly girl! 

Gingerbread duck!

The next weekend before the huge snow fall, we went to make cookies at my sister's house. This was about the only time my kids did cookies. 

Gingerbread house

Then we went to see Drew in Elf Jr:the musical. he played Buddy the elf's brother. 

matching carhartt camo hoodies! 

Snow fun!

One of hte last picutres i have of Josh was in his skidsteer moving snow. The man was pretty miserable, but he wanted to move snow, so we let him. This was the first real big snow. I cleared out the driveway once and had a guy come plow it the 2nd time. We got like 8 or 9 inches of snow in 24 hours! 

We walked out to the mail box to mail letters.. I pulled Max in the sled. It was tiring! 

We then made some more hay stack cookies since keeping xmas cookies until xmas is hard

The snow came! It looked so pretty..until it froze and then craziness happened. Trying to haul buckets of water from my house to the cows was hard and long. Thankfully after a day i got it all working again. I then had to get a plumber to fix the leak the pipes created when it froze. Ugh! but proud to say everything is working now and still working.. 

So our one cat has had some troubles adjusting to the new house. This meant she took out the tree skirt to do her business and got the presents that the kids bought. So we had to have xmas a little early. Bella got Max a thomas dvd, Max got bella a new horse and i got an angel nightlight. 

Bella rehearsing for the xmas program at school. I do like the perk of being able to see her during the day

We got more snow! and out of school and hour early

The girls in class... i was subbing for an hour and we were playing game

Fresh water means happy cows

Max and lily

This girl and her duck

Legos are a big hit again. its been so nice to get out old toys and have room to play with them

Aunt Diane came to visit and see the new house. She also brought with wonderful presents. The kids were so excited! it was so nice to be able to catch up with her too, since i missed that at Max's birthday

Aunt Diane is always known to find the fun little random toys... even ones that just don't work are fun

Our Advent wreath...we made it two years ago with josh ;)

He wanted his monster truck and slept with his monster truck!

Max rehersing. I got to sub in his class too. It was fun to see him playing with his classmates and it's always entertaining with the 3 year old class. 

Back to the crazy

Going back to work and school was rough. All four of us enjoy the time we had off and being off. No alarms, no early moving, no rushing to and fro, no homework  or work.  Monday was a long day and can't really remember what happened. My mom took the kids overnight bcause josh had to be at the hospital early the next morning. This worked out since Josh was pretty miserable and i'll admit things got a bit hairy.  

Tuesday we got up early to be at the hospital by 830am. Josh needed blood work too which we didnt' make it to the lab in time so that meant they had to draw it in IR. The nurse we had coudln't get an iv and left Josh with two bruises before he got another nurse. The drain change went well though. the only thing was Josh was really tired through it all. WE think we figured out why, one of his pills, but still it made for a long day. 

 

The lion by the cafeteria 

came home to kid who were playing so well together.

Wednesday was crazy busy. Josh was still feeling so so after his drain change, he still has added fluid and back pain. Neither are related to the drain change.  Max has speech in the morning,which he did really good at. Josh and I ran to the grocery store, which i thought would go faster, but actually it was slower with Josh along. Poor Guy can't walk as fast anymore. Picked up Max and headed home. Then so Josh could get some rest, i took Max into school with me. that was fun. He's not a fan of the sitting down and "resting" like the other kids who just had school for 3.5 hours. But once it's playtime he's all good. Josh came to get the kids around 4 and took them home so they weren't at school the whole time. 

cuddling with mama at school

outside playing with real snow

inside playing with pretend snow

Thursday was suppose to be a good day since i was off work. Josh and i were going to go to church and then i was going to get stuff done . finally we would finish up with family time. 

Well none of that happened... Instead Josh couldn't keep anything down, so i went to church alone. Max was in school and Bella's class was in charge of Mass with the 8th graders. Bella got to bring up the gifts. She just loves having a "job" during Mass. I went to coffee with the girls , which was so good for the soul, but that was cut short when Josh said he couldn't keep anything down and the clinic said to come in anytime. So i called my mom to pick up Max from school, and i spent the rest of the morning/afternoon with Josh at the clinic getting fluids. He was feeling a bit better after that. We think he had a 24 hour stomach bug that was going around school. Bella had Poms practice so I went to pick up Max from my mom's then headed to school to get Bella.  it was a crazy busy day one that i was glad when i could go to bed, but i feel like i probaby didnt' sleep well. 

presenting the gifts

playing with daddy

Friday josh was a little bit better, but not 100%. I had to work and he kept max. Max did have speech were we found out he can do the 't' sound, which is important. He's making great improvements and hoping by kindergarten he no longer needs speech. 

Other then that I can't remember what all happened. 

Painting their gifts from Aunt Rachel and uncle joel.