Moving In!

5 months to the day we are moving out of our little cabin and into the house. It is still very much bare bones, vapour barrier walls and no electricity or running water, but it is warm and BIG(compared to the cabin) I felt kinda of sad moving everything out of the cabin, it echos as you walk in now. It is great to finally move into the house, and when I look at the cabin, I see our little guest cottage. It did its job well for the last 5 months, keeping us warm, dry and cozy, soon it will keep friends and family warm, dry and cozy on future visits.

Christmasy Activites we have been doing

We have been up to our eyes balls, not only in house building but Christmas activites too. From Building a Gingerbread House to tree hunting with friends, to Christmas concert and of course sledding!!! We have to include sledding as Christmasy because we have never had snow except at Christmas.


This was Gingerbread House building - they had a ball, but the arguing - Holy cow - I can't reach I can't see.... Now its can we eat it, can we have a piece.


Tree hunting with our friends Jason and Bev and their three girls. We had a great time. As you can see the kids rode around on the trailer with the dads, as the moms walked behind for exercise and chatting! We found two beautiful trees, then went back for stew and marshmallow roasting.


Snow angels, who could resist, the only problem, as soon as the kids got down in the snow Shayleigh decided they needed help, and would lick and jump around them.



Thats Russ second from the right, Dylan is in the back. Tayler and I ringing our bells. On the far left is my friend Bev with Cora and Baby River, Sheila is in the festive vest, she is Taylers teacher. Tay loves her!!!


The kids were all in a Christmas Concert at Forest Grove. The boys were elves in the skit The Shoemaker and The Elves. And Tayler and her classmates from Strong start rang jingle bells to "Jingle Bells" Tayler was ringing so hard the bells almost fell off.The concert was 2 hours, we had lots of community participation - from the Forest Grove Church, to the Volunteer Fire Fighters, young piano players, singers and a belly dancer. In the end there was an audience of almost 200 people -pretty impressive for a school of 25 kids!!! And of course Santa made an appearance!
They are getting so confident with sledding, they have jumps, and now they are standing on the sleds, future snowboarders!

Winter Pictures

I was enjoying a walk in the snow. when I decided there are very few pictures on me on this blog, So I took one and amazing it turned out

These are pictures of our driveway. I love driving out as it is soooo pretty!

Clearing the driveway behind the house. Ed has become a pro in the last few snow falls. And I think he really enjoys doing it too !

Christmastimes a coming

My Christmas wreath for the cabin. This is the first wreath I have made in a very long time. Pretty Good if I do say so myself.

Temperature Sunday Morning

I had to take a picture of this, it will get colder than this but this is the temp. we woke up to Sunday morning!

My Farm fresh eggs

I bought eggs off one of Taylers classmates at Strong start today.He was so happy to get more "Bucks" to put in the bank. I had to take a picture because of the three different colours. Brown, white and Green. Now where did I put that green ham to go with them.

My new outside Christmas tree

Sledding

Enjoying the snow !