Our visitors!

With pretty much all my family living in AZ my whole life, we never ever had any visitors stay at our house but I always wanted to be able to host a visitor. Now that we are away from family we finally get to play host and hostess! Last week Noah's Mom and sister had a reunion in Mississippi and then drove to stay with their Dad in S.C. The last few days of their trip they drove up to stay with us and we had sooo much fun! The kids were going crazy to having them here! The weather last week was actually really warm and sunny for this time of year (so they tell me) so it was great to be able to get out and enjoy the weather. We headed down to the beach and showed them what V.B. is all about. It was a great beach day! Water was freezing but fabulous weather. We went to Brody's school book fair, pumpkin patch/carnival, colored pumpkins and enjoyed the great company.
Our door is open for the next visitor!!

Testing the waters with Photoshop..

Crossing my fingers...

The new place....

I finally took pictures of the new house. Things are pretty tight here but we are making things work. You just have to be really creative with where to put things! We didn't have a washer and dryer for the first 3 weeks! We didn't bring ours because the other house had them and this one you have to bring your own. Let me just tell you it was not fun...especially when your 4 yr. old still has a bed wetting problem and your 1 yr. old was throwing up for 3 days! BUT...a fabulous family in our ward gave us their old ones! It was the biggest blessing ever. I didn't even know what to say...I was beyond grateful.

Sadie's room
(I was still catching up on laundry at this point if you can't tell)

There is a lot going on in this tiny room.
Laundry room, Pantry, Microwave and toaster room, yr. supply room, hair chair storage, water heater/air conditioning unit.

Dining area. For some reason it just looks odd having a high chair next to a piano...:)

Kitchen

Family room

Master bdrm/office/craft room

Brody and Ronan's room
(this room is actually really big!)

So there has been quite a lot of talk of Noah riding my bike to school. He gets made fun of on a daily basis (which he could care less). But really it's not like it's pink or anything. Since this pic I took the basket off so it's not too bad.
In the back ground is what the apt looks like. They are real cute! Everyone has a porch to keep bikes and what not on. Ours is filled to the max. It looks pretty funny because our neighbors don't have one thing on their porch so we look a little WT.

Brody and Rone being cute.

I went to a hardcore bow making night with some of the student wives. I learned lots of new tricks! They even use a lighter to stop the ends of the ribbon from fraying...who new? I learned how to make these cute pom pom bows. I love them and they are really easy!
Sadie's bangs are coming in nicely. If I slick them down, you really can't even tell they are 1 inch short.

I just got all my Halloween decor all put up! I'm so excited for Halloween! The kids are getting really excited about dressing up. Brody wants to be Iron Man. Sadie wants to be Ariel but I'm trying to talk her into being a dress up we already have. Ronan is being a cowboy....wranglers and all...I get so happy just thinking about him in wranglers and boots!
Have a great week!