Update...

I am glad a week has past! Everyday gets a little easier. We have found out that our house has to be completely gutted and rebuilt. The rebuild is suppose to take about three months. In the mean time we are going to be living at Kreig's grandmas house.
The kids are doing better still saddened by the loss of there stuff and our house. Although they are getting exciting about picking out new things and getting to decorate a new room soon.
As for Kreig and I we are hanging in there and keeping a positive outlook on everything. We have alot to be thankful for. Our kids are alive and we have alot of people around us that love and care about us. Our communtiy has been great to us this past week. We have been very blessed with the out pour of generosity from everyone around us.

House fire:(

Sat. night around 7pm our chimney caught on fire and we lost the whole upstairs and part of our living room.

2009

Wow it's 2009 can you believe it?? I'm so excited for 09, it means a new start! We are right where we want to be. Last year was a little crazy to say the least..... We sold our house unexpectedly to be homeless for a while. We had to live with my husbands dad for 10 long months! Although at the time we were unhappy to be living with someone and to have our kids lives turned upside down, we learned alot about ourselves that we didn't know. To look back on that whole experience I think it was gods way of helping us and teaching us new ways of living and to help us through the rest of our journeys through life. So for that I am very grateful and I know I never want to go there again:)
As a family we are very happy in our new house. This house is so us, it's like this home was waiting for us, from the four bedrooms, new kitchen, country living even down to the paint color on the walls that matched our stuff perfectly! I love old houses and this house was built in the 1800's, but completely remodeled so beautifully. The only down fall was no garage but we are planning to build one this summer. My husband has alot of big plans for this place this summer haha..... who know what this year will bring. All I know is that we are very happy and looking forward raising our kids in our new house and making alot of awesome memories!

Ice Storm

The ice storm came in late Thursday(Dec.18) night. The girls were very sad to wake up to a school cancellation. They were suppose to have their school christmas parties that Friday. We had no electricity so that made them even more disappointed, so Kreig and I took the kids outside and played in the ice for about 4 hrs. They had so much fun. For a day with out power and the mess we had to clean up turned out to be an awesome family day:) The iced trees were beautiful!

2008 Famliy Christmas Picture.

My beautiful family!

Many faces of my little man & I.

First snowman of winter!

Madisen and Chandler were so excited to get outside and build their first snowman this winter! I hate that it gets dark so soon, this picture was taken a little after 6pm. They didn't mind the darkness though. They played outside for another 2 hrs.

Thankful!

I find being thankful is coming easy for me this year. The list of what I thank God for is just as long as ever, but the passion with which I am thankful is stronger. Of all of my blessings, I can't get my mind off my husband these days. For him, I am truly thankful. I could go on, but I'll refrain. I am so very blessed to be where I am and for this I have my wonderful husband Kreig to thank!
We should all hold our families close and thank god everyday for what he has given us:)

Just some neat pics I tooks of the kiddies:-)

The girls are done with basketball for a while.

The girls got to the championship game of the tourney Sunday. The game went into double overtime and we lost by 1 point. But the girls were very happy to wear there silver medals.

Mikayla and Madisen playing basketball.

Madisen # 11 throwing the ball in to a team mate.

Mikayla #4 and Madisen. It's alot of fun watching the girls play ball together:)

Mikayla loves this picture because both of her feet are off the ground. She said look daddy girls can jump. LOL :-)

All dressed up!

Carving Pumpkins : - )

All of our pumpkins carved. Mikayla's, Angie's, Kreig's, Chandler's & the one on the table was Madisens's. Madisen worked harded than anyone on her pumpkin. She carved a ghost, moon and a tree it was very artistic she was so proud of it. But as you can see it was detroyed by a lil booger named Chandler. LOL

Halloween

We had to stop by great grandma Oswalt"s for some yummy chocolate chip cookies : - )

Mikayla was an army girl.

Madisen was a rag doll. Wasn't she cute!?

Chandler was the cutest little scarecrow!

The kids at grandpa Leas's with a friend and two of there cousins, Mya & Jacelyn in the middle.

Fall harvest~ my favorite time of the year!

This was a fun day for the kids farming with grandpa Leas. It was a bitter sweet day for me knowing that this would be my dads last year of farming. I am glad the kids got to experience the joy in farming like I did growing up. The weather was beautiful with all vibrant colors of the leaves changing in the back round. As dad was combing my brother Mick and I stood back watching as we reminisces about our childhood. What a great day:)

The kids had a blast playing in the spilled beans! Grandpa told the kids he spilt the beans on purpose so that they would have something to play in! LOL

To end the day my brother Mick took the kids to a hog farm to pet the baby pigs! They loved every minute of it. Madi was so proud of herself she cought 4 baby pigs on her own!

Our beagle puppies

We are so in love with our new little friends, but sadly they will all leave us next Sat.:( Madi is a big animal lover she has gotten very attached to the puppies. She is so cute she asked Kreig if he would take her to the bank so she could withdraw some money out of her savings account to buy all the puppies.