The House

After a few months of work and orginization we have finally got the house, except for one bedroom done. After a frantic morning of cleaning we decided that we could take some pics! Enjoy.

Kaden's toy bin

More Kaden's Room

Mom and Dad's Room

Our Bed

Master Bath

Laundry/Pantry (Shelves installed by Robert)

Kitchen

Dining Room

Living looking to Dining

More living room

Dining from Kitchen

Living room from dining

Office looking to living

Kaden in the office

Anniversary Dinner

After Mel's wonderful birthday and a great Christmas we all went out for our four year anniversary dinner. We went to a new place in Huntsville called Cheddar's. It was super packed even though we got there at 4pm and it took absolutely forever to get our food, which was the wrong stuff when we finally got it. But it had a happy ending, they gave us the whole meal for free for our troubles, and they didn't even know it was our special day.

Pre-dinner shot in our kitchen

Kaden happy even though he dosent have food yet

Kaden and Mom

Kaden and Daddy

Thanksgiving and What We've Been Up To

We had so much fun this Thanksgiving. All the siblings went home this year. It was loud, it was yummy and it was fun! We kept in tradition with our sister challenge...which ended up having only one official event, the 5k run. (or the 1.3 mile run...which I think we all liked better) It was a fierce competition as everyone made their way around Dad and Mom's house in a big circle. Our fans cheered us on the whole way. The offical times are as follows: Melanie 11:50, Kathy 12:48, Amy 14:56, JoAnn 15:50 and Florence 27:10. Then we all enjoyed Thanksgiving Dinner...which was especially tasty. JoAnn and Robert fared the crowds and did a little Black Friday shopping at Pahrump's Wal-mart. We were also able to travel to Utah to see family. Robert's two sisters had their babies blessed. Two baby boys (Jack and Gordon) who are very cute. It was so fun to visit with them and have all 4 cousins together. We know you all want to see pictures of the house, they will be coming shortly. Watch the slide show to see 2 pics of when it snowed! Love ya!

Finally in the House!

Well we finally were able to close last Thursday after a few hours of phone calls and lots of nagging. If you are ever buying a home in Huntsville AL DONT use Platinum Mortgage!!!! All weekend Mel and I (ok mostly Mel) worked nonstop to set up the new house and clean out the old Apt. Aside from all the joys of trying to prevent a 17 month old from getting into everything and losing my keys for 2 days everything went pretty smoothly (the DSL and satellite people even showed up when scheduled!) Stay posted for pics of the house as we conintue to get things in place. We took Kaden Trick-or-treating in our new neighborhood, and he caught on right away. For all of our new Alabama neighbors, just because Kaden is in a tiger costume does not mean we are Auburn fans, we are still neutral in the Auburn vs. Alabama rivalry.

Kaden getting his first hair cut!!! He was a good boy... no more curls though :( Give it a few weeks...