Monday, November 21, 2011

An update before the holidays start....

I knew it had been a while since I posted a blog, but I did not think it had been two months!! Lots has happened in the last two months: we had a birthday party for Aidan, we added Lenny the Guinea Pig to our family, we had TWO garage sales, a lemonade stand, Halloween, and a trip to the house I lived in for 20 years!

My mom called on Saturday afternoon to see if I wanted to stop by an open house on Sunday afternoon. The house I grew up in is for sale, we went and looked around. It was strange, but a lot of fun. The current owners did a lot of updating and remodeling, so the appearance of the house is completely different. They were nice and let us take a couple of pictures.





 Stephanie and I had many pictures taken in front of that fireplace. The bush on the right was different, but we took all of our back to school pictures in that spot!














 Jama, Christy, Stephanie and I spent HOURS on this staircase! Everytime Jama and Christy cam for a visit, this was our "airplane." We had some amazing adventures here. It looks much smaller than I remember!







The kids loved walking through the house (Lilly was mad that she could not play with the doll house in the little girls room). Aidan wants us to move there. It was a fun family Sunday adventure!

Here are a few pictures of the other adventures from the past two months:

Lilly's new best friend!
Getting to know Lenny!














Aidan was Dearth Vader and Lilly was a dog....in the exact same costume she wore last year (you just can't see it under her coat)! She had a perfectly good Ariel costume, but she wanted to be a doggie.



Garage sale #2...at our house.
Garage sale #1...at the studio.


Between what we sold and what we gave away....we cleared about 4 truckloads of stuff from the shed and garage!!





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 Aidan had his first lemonade stand. He sold 2 cups for 25 cents each and made two 25 cent tips....Lilly drank the rest of the lemonade!