Fun in the Snow

What a great Saturday we had here at our house. Lauren was so excited to see how much snow we got overnight and was ready to get out and build our own "Frosty". (She has been watching the movie Frosty and Frosty Returns a whole lot lately) I was a little afraid we might not get to go out because when we got up this morning Bill noticed that the thermostat in the hallway read 65 degrees and it was set at 68 degrees. The fan was blowing but the compressor was not running. Oh know!!!! Fortunately it was nothing major. The breaker had just tripped so Bill was able to get it fixed before we got too cold!
After our traditional Saturday morning breakfast of pancakes and sausage, we got bundled up and headed outside to enjoy the snow. We do not own a sled, but we tried a few things we had laying around the garage to let the girls try sledding. The snow was very wet and they couldn't really get going down the small hill at the side of our house. So on to building our snowman. The wet snow was great for packing.
Below is a picture of Bill rolling a snow ball. It got really big, but it was shaped more like a tire....it was flat!

So they started over with a smaller ball of snow and ended up with a smaller snowman. The girls were quite pleased with their "Frosty".

Allison, Frosty, and Lauren


Here is a video of Lauren and Allison singing Frosty the Snowman.


Allison enjoying the snow.

Lauren enjoying the snow.

Cute little smile.

Their favorite thing to do was to eat the snow!

Lauren eating the snow.

This afternoon Lauren went to a birthday party at Bounce USA. The roads were fine when we drove to the party, but they were very slick when we left at about 5:30. I was so happy to make it back home and up the hill safely.

An Awesome Week

One week ago today Dottie, our real estate agent called and said that a person who looked at our house the day before was going to write a contract on either our house or another one. We had heard several times from her that our house was second on some one's list. I tried not to get too excited. She called later that day and said the guy chose our house. He made an offer and we countered the offer last Wednesday and the guy accepted our counter! What a great answer to many prayers. We were really excited because we had decided on a house that we really liked in the area we really wanted to be in. Dottie called about the house in Summerhall Subdivision and someone had already put a contract on the house. What a major let down after riding on such a high from selling the house.
Back to square one. Allison and I looked at houses in the pouring rain on Thursday and then Bill and I looked at more on Friday. We went back to look at another house in Summerhall that we looked at before and after narrowing our search to that house and one other we were really interested in, we decided to put an offer on the one in Summerhall on Saturday. Dottie called Bill Sunday evening during our H2H meeting and told us the owner accepted our offer......without countering!!! Another amazing answer to prayers! I was so happy that we found out with our friends at H2H. It was nice to share our news with our friends.
We had an inspection on our house today and have scheduled the inspection on the home we plan to buy on Friday. Barring any unforeseen problems we will be closing on our new house on Friday, March 26, 2010.
Needless to say we have had a whirlwind week with very little sleep. Allison is cutting two 2-year molars and is not sleeping well. And Bill and I are waking up in the night and having a hard time going back to sleep. With all the excitement of a new house, when we wake up...we can't go back to sleep easily. Hopefully that will change soon. But in the mean time, we'll just enjoy the excitement of selling our house and buying a new home......and start packing!!!

A First We Were NOT Eager to See

Allison sleeping in her crib

The picture above is the last picture I took of Allison sleeping in her crib. We had her twin bed set up in her room for over a month before she started sleeping in it. She would talk about sleeping in a big girl bed, but when it came time to either nap or go to bed at night, she wanted to get in the crib. We were happy to keep her in the crib as long as she wanted to stay there.

On October 1st she slept in her twin bed for the first time! She was sick that night and I thought if she couldn't sleep and I needed to be with her, it would be easier if she was in the twin bed. Well, she slept all night that night and has continued to sleep in her twin bed every night since then. The amazing thing was that until today, she never got out of twin bed when she woke up. Whether it was nap time or in the morning, she never got out of the bed until someone went in to get her. Now sometimes she would cry for me when she woke up, but most days she would wake up singing, or just calling out Mommy! Sometimes she would call out Lauren!! But she never got up until we went in to get her.

During nap time today I was on the computer and I heard a door open. I thought it was Lauren's door because she was in quiet time. I thought she was coming in my room to tell me she needed to go to the bathroom or ask if she could come out. When I looked up from the computer, I was shocked to see Allison standing beside me instead of Lauren!

I guess three months of staying in the bed is something to enjoy. Hopefully today was just a fluke and she'll continue to stay put until we get her. That's a nice thought......don't really think it will happen though!:)

Allison's first night sleeping in her twin bed.