Its been awhile project wise...

 So since last March when we put the mudroom together and the new flooring in the mudroom hallway has looked like this.  We planned on doing this floor in the kitchen but well last spring we frankly ran out of money. So we left it like this. No use wasting money on a transition piece since we knew just a few months later we would be ripping it up. So we are finally ready to finish this project. Last time we ordered the flooring from Home Depot it look over 3 months to come in. So we figured we would order it now and maybe do it after Christmas. No one wants their house a mess over Christmas!. Well this time the flooring took ust a few days so here we are with stacks of boxes of flooring all over the house. Its time to get it done. Good bye faux vinyl wood floor!!

 The other part that really excited me is there will be some more ripping up of 20 year old white carpet. Who puts white carpet by a door? Its NH. Two of our seasons are snow and mud, along with summer and fall. :o) So the plan is to put down the floor into the kitchen and extending down this front hallway all the way to the front door and at the bottom of the stairs.  The trickiest part is going to be getting someone here to unhook the gas stove since Mike doesn't want to touch the gas line and then coming back  the next day to hook it back up.

Happy 8 months Samuel!

Growing boys

I took the boys in for Israel's 4 year and Samuel's 6 month check up. Samuel is 7 1/2 months actually. Israel finally hit the 30 lbs mark at 4 and Samuel is 17lbs 1 oz at 7 months. He remains our biggest baby. Nairi and Israel were 17 lbs at 12 months and Keira was 17 lbs at 9 months.

Kids and Leaves

 I love how she stoops down to his level to talk to him. She coos to him just like a mother would and always makes him smile.

 Always working

Neighborhood Trick or Treat with cousins 2013

You get the idea...... its a classic rushing to get ready to go Trick or Treat in cold weather. :o)

Harvest Dance at SBA

Just an October morning

Samuel 7 months and first haircut

You are still a lovable guy although the sleeping 11 straight hours at night thing has ended for now. Apparently you now need to snack at the milk bar every few hours. Not sure if its related to teething ( you still have no teeth) or what. It was nice while it lasted.  You inchworm crawl EVERYWHERE and put everything in your mouth. Just this am I have fished leaves, Legos and paper out of your mouth. You are enjoying tasting some food but don't really swallow much at this point. We trimmed your bangs because they were constantly in your eyes.

Israel's 4th birthday party with his cousins-- snow plow themed.

 Israel holds the party favors. A kid sized snow shovel and a bag of snowman poop ( aka marshmallows)

 The decorations are a mix between snow and winter themed stuff and John Deere Tractors since we weren't able to find any party goods that had actual snow plows on them.

 Mike did all the work of hanging the decorations and making the garage look winterish

 The road picture for the game " Pin the snow plow on the road" played like pin the tail on the donkey

 Party favors

 Nairi playing drop the ice block ( aka sugar cube) into the bottle

 Mike's mom set up a craft station and helped the kids make lots of crafts

 The cake- all Mike's doing.The snow covered vehicles are sitting on the road which is edible paper and the John Deere tractor with snow blower attachment we found on Ebay.

 Food! Big huge roasting pan of chili, all the fixings for chili ( cheese, sour cream, Fritos), fruit salad, corn bread, mac and cheese and chicken nuggets