Wow we are on a roll!!!

Wow after a long hiatus of blogging we are on a roll. We hope to keep updating as the holidays are fast approaching. This weekend is putting up all the Christmas decorations and preparing for Christmas eve dinner at our house. We hope you all are enjoying the blessings of the Christmas Season.

I think we have added about 4 posts so just scroll down and check everything out.

On a huge blessing note my dad is doing really well with his Chemo and we keep praying for it to continue to go well. :)

The New Truck

So, we sold the Green Land Cruiser - which was a total heart breaker - but you gotta do what you gotta do sometimes. We searched for months to find the Land Cruiser, flew to Tucson, AZ and drove it back to Reno. I loved it, but it didn't do anything for us on the new ranch...making us decided that we needed a truck to do the damage on the property we were hoping for. It actually took about 2 months to sell the land cruiser, which made me terribly impatient...however, God had plans of his own and His timing is shockingly nothing like mine. In the end, a young Christian couple with 4 kids from Sacramento bought the LC and that same week we found out that my cousin Greg was considering selling his truck. So there you have it. We made both deals that week and we've been loving the truck since. It is a full 1 ton, diesel, and sits 5 adults. Now, we can ALL go to the hardware store for real and put anything we want in the back. I am already having visions of truck loads of dirt and gravel...trees and trips to the dump...

-Keller

Our big 2 year old

Here are some pictures of Ashy's Second birthday celebration!!!

Thanksgiving

This was a fun year for us we hosted Thanksgiving here at our new house. We had a wonderful time decorating and making a yummy and healthy Thanksgiving dinner. We had help from my parents and Keller's parents in making the wonderful dinner and desserts. We continued our Pumpkin Pie baking contest. My parents have had this tradition for the last 34 years, I joined in when I was able to cook on my own and Keller joined in when he joined the family. Keller's mom joined in this year too!!! And on top of all the fun Thanksgiving celebration we had the best Thanksgiving present of our little boy turning 2!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow yes it has already been two years.

New projects

We have been working on many projects over the past few weeks. We decided to paint our cabinets a creamy white and add black hardware for the doors and drawers. We are also going to change the floor, sink, counter, add a backsplash and lights next.

Keller has been working hard on our new brick hearth. We bought a wood stove on craigslist and we are just waiting for some of our chimney parts that are on order. We are so excited to have a fire for the winter season.

So here are some before and after pics.

Cute Kids

Here are a few photos of the kids since we have been in the new house.