Our Move: Part 3 (New House)

Friday Aug. 30th we moved into our new house. We gained a much bigger backyard, over 1000 more sq feet, a garage, and an amazing community pool with a wading kids area and slides! :) Thank you Lord for this amazing provision!

Luke and Gracie got to go visit with friends for the day and Ben, Jacob, and Caleb stayed to be our helpers!

Having lunch in our new house for the firsts time!

Thankfully, this time we had our friend Andy to help Jeff unload most of the truck. Then Jeff's brother Tim and his wife Gretchen also came down to help for the weekend. We are so grateful for all the help we received to make this move happen.

The favorite part of course is helping Daddy and Uncle Tim go up on the lift gate of the truck! :)

Here are a few highlights of our new house:

Caleb loves the slick floors. His siblings get to push him all over the downstairs with ease.

It is starting to feel like home. We have books unpacked! :)

We have a dining room and a breakfast nook. The breakfast nook is slowly turning into our school area.

We also have a counter with bar stools, which the kids love!

There are lots of projects to help Daddy with like hanging up towel racks and medicine cabinets. This house, although wonderful, is missing a LOT of things which we will slowly try to update.

Gracie says that Baby brothers are not all that bad if they don't mind riding on pink carriages! :)

The backyard is definitely the highlight for the kids. (Mommy personally loves all the walk in closets and huge laundry room, and Daddy likes the garage.)

The kids call our backyard, "the zoo" because of all the lovely creatures they have been finding. The very first day Jacob handed me something saying, "Look Mommy." I held out my hand and then tried not to scream when he was handing me a huge caterpillar! :) Our house backs up to a wooded area and trails (which we have already enjoyed as well). Luke and Ben and Gracie spend hours hunting down all manner of bugs and lizards and other assorted "treasures".  We did discover that after it rains we have a ton of tiny frogs that cover our back sliding door. The kids were enthralled. Mommy, not so much. But, for the sake of my children and learning about God's creation, I can put on an honest smile! :)

Check out this pool! Sadly we moved into our new house at the very end of the season but we made good use of the pool until it closed!
So that is our new home. We are all set for new memories and adventures to come. We are slowly but surely starting to get our head above the boxes to feel like it is becoming home.