A hint of Spring!

My front door is swung open and the sunshine is beaming through the house!  Spring is on it's way!  I took a walk with the girls today (which was quite soggy, since all the snow was melting) and I realized how excited I am about Spring.

It is long past time to write another blog.  I guess my lack of blogs shows my busyness these days.  I will try to make blogging more a priority now that we're almost settled in our new house.

We have a new house!!  I would show a picture of the front of the house, but you almost can't see it because of the WAY overgrown bushes hah!  We will remove them in the spring when it gets warmer. We moved in in December, right before Christmas.  Terrible time to move, but it was nice to be in before Christmas.  We got a great price on the house, except that almost nothing in the house had been updated since 1973.  We add new projects and updates to the list almost daily!  A little overwhelming, but one at a time and eventually we'll have it just like we want it.

 First order of business was the flooring.  Because of the gross linoleum and olive green shag carpet, we decided to get new flooring right away.  We hired it done (so that it would be done fast) but unfortunately it was only done 2 days ago at the end of February!!  The new floor that they put in, bowed and dipped and was quite bad.  The company tried to come back and fix it again but after going round and round with the company and their terrible customer service and products, we finally got a refund and Josh just did it himself.  This isn't a great picture but this is our new floor!  Josh did a great job!  Amelia and Charlotte were often found helping him.

Our kitchen is semi torn up because we had to remove a couple of cabinets in order to put the floor down.  Hopefully this summer we can get some new cabinets!  That will totally change the look of the house.

Last weekend we took a trip to Kentucky to visit Grandmother and Grandaddy and Phyllis and Bill.  We enjoyed our time and it was nice to catch up with them, since we hadn't seen them since August!

These days, Amelia is talking non stop and she's very thoughtful!  She constantly told Josh, "Good job Dad!" and "I like it!" when he was preparing and laying the floor!  Amelia is now potty trained!!  Woohooo!  No more diapers :)  For her anyway...  She plays pretend all the time.  When at home, she's usually found playing with her baby dolls, cooking in her toy kitchen or playing dress-up.

Charlotte is almost 15 months old now.  She is talking up a storm too, we just can't figure out what she's saying!  She is very sweet and cuddly, yet talks very loudly!  She bosses everybody around in her jibber-jabbery way :)  She is in the process of getting all 4 molars, so nights aren't very fun these days.  She can walk and run now.  Her and Amelia like to hold hands and go round and round the center part of the house. They play well together now, which can be pretty funny at times. She also likes to play with dolls.  She loves to "brush" her hair (which is super curly!) and brush her teeth.  Man, you almost can't get the toothbrush away from her!  I guess that's a good thing that she likes to brush her teeth.

I'm in my last couple months of teaching 7th grade online with my student Rayaan.  I'm also teaching the Chinese students each morning.  Both are going well!  I'm excited to pick up more Chinese spots during the summer when I'm not teaching Rayaan.  I've also been working on the painting the whole house.

All is well!