Happy Valentine's Day!

Yummy cookies we made and brought to Daddy and his friends at work for Valentine's Day

Cole and Sawyer helping make the cookies!

Cole carefully decorating the cookies!


Valentine Buckets we made for the kids in Cole's class

Happy Valentine's Day! We have been busy this week with Valentine's Day projects to share with our friends and family.

Dubie and Kids!

Cole and Dubie

Sawyer checking out Dubie!

The boys are having a blast living in a house with a cat...Dubie! Cole and Sawyer love letting Dubie in and out of the house, helping with feeding the cat and playtime. We have only been here three weeks (about five to go) and Dubie has already got us wrapped around his little paws!

We Just Can't Stay Away!

Ken and Sam (our contractor/builder)

Ken excited to take a peak inside

Cole, Sam and Carroll

Cole helping Carroll in the kitchen

Every weekend we head to Hinesburg to check out the progress on our home and then raid Sam and Carroll's! We think when we move into our new home, they might have second thoughts about the family who moved in next to them. Why you may ask? Well, the moment we pull up to our house, Cole requests to visit Sam and Carroll at their house. We might just have to put up an electric fence and change their locks to keep our children out of their hair!

The wood floors are in!

A litte peak at the inside of the house now that the wide pine floors have been set!

Then and Now of Lot 8!

Lot # 8 on August 23, 2009

Daddy and Cole put a bird house on Lot 8

August 2009

Staking out our home...September 2009


Checking out the foundation ...November 4th, 2009

Our new home...February 6th, 2010

We are about two months away from moving into our new home and we are so excited! With each visit it is getting harder to leave, because with each visit is feeling more like home! We are looking forward to moving day when the kids can be settled and start putting dings in the walls and scratches in the floors! For now...I thought it would be fun to look at a few pictures of our journey!

Breakfast with Sam and Carroll

Carroll and Sawyer check out the birds

Cole, Sawyer and Carroll


Sawyer sneaks a sip of Cole's chocolate milk


Carroll and Sawyer reading books



Cole at play!

Pancakes, omelets, bacon, sausage, toast, oranges, grapefruit, coffee...a perfect way to start the day. Thank you Sam and Carroll for the yummy breakfast, playtime and chocolate milk!

Colchester Winter Carnival

Sawyer riding Spankie the pony with Mommy

Cole on the pony

Sawyer checking out the playdough


Sawyer crashes after a busy morning at the carnival...

and Cole too!

We met our friends Natalie, Joel and Kate for a morning at the Colchester Winter Carnival. The kids enjoyed all sorts of fun activities inside and outside: rock climbing, bouncy houses, playdough, cotton candy, sugar on snow, pony rides and hayrides.

Wordless Wednesday...Say cheese Sawyer!

Sawyer the Painter!

some of the hired help

Sawyer checks out the orange room

Ken and Sawyer in the kitchen...plum!


Sawyer was really excited about the paint colors!

The drive from Burlington to Hinesburg often put Sawyer to sleep, but today, Cole was the one to fall asleep and Sawyer had a blast seeing all the changes in the house with mommy and daddy.

A Peak Inside!

Let a 3 year old pick a color and this is what happens!

Cole, Daddy and Sawyer in the family room!

It looks like dill pickle to me.

Picking out carpet for the bedrooms

As you can tell...Cole is happy about his orange room!