Kendalan's 100 Good Wishes Quilts

We had excitement when the mail person delivered a big box a few days ago. Kendalan's quilts are HERE! She was thrilled and very anxious check them out. Our friend, Pam, has outdone herself again! http://www.originalquilts.com/ She has been the midwife on three of the girls' quilts so far. The only sad thing....Jordis Li wants to know "Where are my quilts?" I explained to her several times that we collected the wishes and squares while we were waiting for her. Now Mommy just needs to find the time to put the quilt top together. (Yes, I have been brushing up on my sewing skills in the last couple of years!) I plan on putting together Jordis' quilt top and hopefully I can convince our friend to finish it for us. My sewing is better, but I am still not THAT good at quilting!

Our new house!

Several have asked about our new house, so here are some of the details. This house is technically considered a four bedroom house. However, one bedroom does not have a closet, a window and is Super small. A great room to have for someone who works the night shift and needs a dark space! Thankfully that is not me! So it is our guest room AKA Grandpa or Bubby's room just depending on who is here with us. For all intense purposes, we consider this a three bedroom house!

There are two bedrooms downstairs with a bathroom in between them. These are the Princess suites! The girls have always pretty much shared a room, this has been their choice. So when we were shopping for a house we had to think of this and involve the girls in our thoughts. When we decided that this was the top of the list of contenders, we told the girls that we would have to have two girls to a room. RaeAnne quickly called dibs on having Jordis for a roommate, thus leaving ZoraLin and Kendalan for roomies. We are thinking that this arrangement will change over time, but it is working right now. One nice thing we have noticed since being here....Daddy and Mommy are not having to share their bed as frequently! It seems since our BR is upstairs, the nightly visits have dropped dramatically!




We have had some new noises to get used to. We are between two busy roads with quite a bit of traffic day and night. We don't notice it during the day with our doors closed, the TV on and the girls chattering away. The other thing is, we have a train track fairly close. I have visited with others who live or have lived in this area and they said that you can almost set your clock by the trains! The girls were questioning "What is that noise?" one night after bedtime. I am surprised that RaeAnne and ZoraLin did not remember living in Texas. We had trains there all the time! Personally, I really like listening to the trains passing in the night. To me, each train has it's own individuality because if you listen carefully, you can hear the train's whistles have different pitches and sound totally different! (Okay, or maybe I have just grown to believe that and have watched too much Thomas the Train!)




Now for the good news/bad news. The good news....we have sold our old house! The bad news....we have to rush and get everything out by the end of the month! YIKES! We have TOO much stuff! Most of the things we have left to move are items that it would take too much time to individually pack, ie photos off the walls, dishes, clothes, etc. So we have been making frequent trips there and back with a load. We have someone who is going to tear down our playhouse and move it up here for us soon.

The front of our new house faces North. I have said that I never wanted to live in a north facing house! The snow/ice does not melt as quickly on the north side! Oh well, live and learn to never say never! For the time being, we do not have any houses straight north of us, there is one to the northwest and the northeast, but the lot straight north is still vacant. The backside of the house is a walkout basement that faces South. We have a pretty good sized lot stretching out behind us and behind that is a pasture with horses! So we get to see the horses each day!

My don't they sparkle!!

Today was a big day at our house. Not only did RaeAnne and ZoraLin start school here today, Jordis Li had her ears pierced!

We drove RaeAnne and ZoraLin to their new school this morning. We were able to tour part of the school and see each of their classrooms. RaeAnne was a little pale when it was time for her to stay in her class with Mrs. Kraus. ZoraLin was very quiet when we said goodbye to her in Mrs. Day's classroom. But watch out this afternoon when they came out!! They are both excited to return to school tomorrow! Yeah!

While the girls were in school today, we decided to check out the mall. Jordis decided that she is tired of being mistaken for a boy. So she had her ears pierced today! She was such a trooper! NOT ONE TEAR! In fact, after the first ear she got a BIG smile on her face!! Kendalan kept pouting wanting hers pierced too, but I will make her wait until she is 5 years old too.

Jordis was so excited about her new, blue sapphire earrings. She couldn't wait to tell her big sisters and show them! RaeAnne loves the color of Jordis' earrings, but she still does not want hers done!

Our New Year started with a Crash!

And that was not the sound of cymbals being hit together. No, it was my husband as he rolled the 4-Runner over, not once, but TWICE! Good thing he and his passenger was wearing their seatbelts. Other than being pretty sore, bruised and slightly lacerated, they are fine. My 4-Runner on the other hand....well, we are waiting to hear what the insurance adjuster has to say. We are thanking Him that the girls were not along for the ride!!

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Ho Ho Ho all the way home!!!!

Who was that fluffy man? Why it must have been Santa Claus!! We are in our new home and Santa managed to squeeze down the chimney to deliver presents to all the good girls and boys. It was a pretty marvelous feat for the guy, especially as our furniture had only been unloaded at the same house Christmas Eve morning!

The movers were set to arrive at 10AM on Saturday morning. Saturday morning, Mark and I woke to the sound of wind whipping around our house. After catching a quick report of the weather we called the movers and asked them if they could delay our move by one day. Fortunately, it was not a problem for them to come down Sunday morning to load. It worked out great! The girls were at church and by the time they came home, most of the furniture had been loaded. The girls had a picnic in the dining room as the table was packed away.



Monday, Christmas Eve day, the movers were at our new home bright and early. The girls worried many times to themselves and us while the movers were unloading our things, "Will Santa know that we have moved?" "Will Santa bring our presents to the new house?"

After the girls FINALLY went to bed, the jolly fat man came along and put a tree up and many presents under the tree. ZoraLin and Kendalan came up the stairs very soon after and saw the tree and presents. They were both excited, but were very willing to go back to bed when Mommy told them that Santa may "Come back and get the presents if he knows that there are little girls who are up!"



Christmas morning the girls came jumping into our bed yelling "Mommy, Daddy Santa has been here!" Santa saved the day! Now if he would just come back and help Mommy and Daddy put everything away in our new house!!

Merry Christmas!!

We were supposed to move today. Mother Nature had other plans and she brought blizzard conditions to our neck of the woods. We woke to the sound of the wind whistling around the house carrying snow and bitter cold. We called the movers at 6:30am and asked them if we could delay our move for a day. We did not want to be responsible for any injury that may occur to them if they would have an accident on the way here and I wasn't too happy with the thought that our furniture could land in the ditch if their truck slid off the road after they loaded it. They phoned tonight and said that they were glad we had called them off this morning! We are hoping that they will be able to make it here tomorrow morning now. The snow has stopped and the sun came out late this afternoon, but the wind has continued to blow.

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