Friday, December 17, 2010

Life in the Country

Before the snow came the girls and I enjoyed a daily walk in the fields. Then the girls discovered mud puddles!! They really enjoyed splashing the puddles. Now they are enjoying the ice and snow! It wasn't that long ago that the outside looked like this! Victoria and Moriah enjoying 'our' field. We have a little piece of field! It was not the plan, we were at first going to own the grass part, but found out that the weeping bed is in the field, so we will own (as of January 15th DV.) a small piece of farm land. We told my uncle to let the farmer continue to use the field until we are ready to do something with it, which probably won't happen for a few years. We dream of a orchard............but we will see!! :-)
Alicia Joy enjoying some sunshine, I was trying to get a glimpse of her muddy boots, but it doesn't really show up!

Cassia boo, running down the drive way! Notice the trailer in the background, it was very handy for moving. My dad has it for work but it was empty when we moved so we used it to move, we also borrowed a friends smaller trailer. Everytime we went to visit the house we would take a load of stuff, but I was still amazed at all the stuff we had!!


Victoria, she is loving the outdoors and has even tried to climb some trees!!



Moriah playing with her new cell phone!! All the girls got one and they just love them!! Bryan's work got new phones so he brought home the old ones and there were just enough for each girl, even one for Cassia. Cassia has to have and do everthing her sisters do! At the bottom of this picture Cassia and Alicia are playing!




What a see when I look down!! I think I have grown since this picture was taken! The baby gave me a good kick the other night, it really suprised me! The girls can't wait to feel the baby more, one morning Moriah was snuggling with me in bed and the baby kicked her. She was pretty excited about it! The girls continue to enjoy the pregnancy too!





A favorite place to play in our new house! It took me a little to get use to Cassia playing on the stairs, but so far no one has fallen down. I was doing school with the older girls and wondered what these two munchkins were up to as I heard them going from the pots and pan cupboard to the stairs! They were playing 'birthday party' on the stairs! I did take away the really big pots as I could see them falling and either someone getting hurt or the hardwood floors getting banged up. The girls love the pots and pans and I will often find a little toy in one when I go to make supper! They also like to play 'train' and slidding down the stairs on their belly is oh so much fun!!


Daddy and his girls sitting together!! This is when we first moved in so it looks rather boring!



A few weeks later I hung a picture!

And then I made curtains!!
I have rearranged since then but it does look better with curtains and a picure. The couch is a favorite place for reading and watching a movie. I love how Cassia sits with the girls now, she loves reading too and is usually up and down for the movie. In this picture she is doing her usual thing sucking her thumb and playing with her hair! It has only been in the last few months that she started sucking her thumb during the day. Ever since she was a few days old she has only sucked her thumb in bed, but not anymore!! It sure is cute though!!

This is Christmas at Bryan's mom's. She had bought the girls these dresses the month before and she wanted them to wear them to her house for Christmas. They all look so grown up!!

Our beautiful 6 year old!!


Our crazy almost 5 year old!!




I use to be so thankful that we never had a mouse in our house, but life has changed now that we live in a country house!! Here is the second mouse that we caught. We gave Mr. Bingley a few nights to catch it, but he didn't so we had to get a trap. In the last few weeks about a week or so after we moved in I noticed what I thought might be mouse poop! It was just a very little bit and I never noticed a mouse getting into our food! But then lately there has been more and the favorite place was under our stove where I keep all the cookie trays! But still Mr. mouse was not getting into anyfood! The first night we.....well, I mean Bryan, put out the trap he put one by the stove and one in the pantry. Both had peanut butter. Mr. mouse was pretty smart and licked the peanut butter right off without setting off the trap by the stove. The one in the pantry was not touched. The next night Bryan wedged a chocolate chip on the trap by the stove and left the peanut butter one in the pantry. Mr. mouse was still pretty smart and got the chocolate chip, but he or his friend was not so smart with the peanut butter in the pantry, we caught him there! I was so happy to have caught the mouse and thought we were done, but Bryan was smarter then me and said that where there is one mouse there is probably another! So last night he set the trap by the stove, this time with a noodle! Sure enough we caught another mouse this morning! I let Bryan take care of the mice, and while he was getting rid of this one he commented on how he wants to get rid of the mice before they have babies and I couldn't help but comment to him that 'we know how quickly that can happen!!' I think one person, who shall remain nameless, once commented on Bryan and I being like mice, multiplying quickly!! :-) It was said in jest..........but I think that person was also hoping we were about done with the multiplying!! Though Bryan and I have enjoyed our babies, we would prefer to not allow the mice in our house to do so!! :-) By the way, I thought I would be so grossed out to have a mouse in my house, but it isn't that bad since they have not got into our food! Alteast not that I have noticed!
There is a glimpse into our country life!!













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