OUR OWN HOUSE

Well we finally bought our own house and now are home owners.. it has been a long time coming!! Back in August Chase parents bought a house and Acers with it.. Chases grandpa went in and re did our bathroom and also the kitchen for us. I with the help of my sisters and my mom went and painted the whole house! We also put new carpet down in the girls room and the front room! The before and after pictures are amazing! I cant believe how different it looks now.. I love the location and it just feels like home now!
We bought the house and 6 Acers from chases parents. Signed the papers on February 14, 2014.
Here are some pictures to show before and after.

Family Pictures

We had our family pictures taken this year up in the City of Rocks. I sure love how well they turned out!!

pumpkin patch/halloween

This year my mom, Tana, Tara, the girls and me decided we would go to the pumpkin patch. Madison and Ainsely loved it. They thought it was pretty cool that they got to go pick out their own pumkins and loved the different things they were able to do. After the pumpkin patch we went back to my house and the guys were they and we all carved pumpkins and ate soup!
Madison got to go to her Halloween party at school this year, and she thought that was so cool. She got to wear her costume. All the preschool classes got to do a little parade and walk up through the halls and get candy. Then we went back and had a Halloween party in the classroom.
For Halloween this year Madison dressed up as Bell off of beauty and the beast, and Ainsley was a little witch! They both were so cute and had so much and got very spoiled. We went out to Malta and went to a few houses and then came back to Rupert and went to chases grandparents and also to his parents and his sister!

Elf on a Shelf

This year we decided to do Elf on the shelf. Our little elf was named jingle. It was so much fun to watch the girls try to find Jingle in the mornings. They sure loved him! and was sad to see him go.. some different things that jingled did was: toilet papered the Christmas tree, had a marshmallow fight, un decorated the Christmas tree, wrote on the mirror, brought each of the girls a Christmas movie, played board game and puzzles, and helped with laundry.
I also decided that on Christmas eve the girls would go through their toys they had then and get rid of some that they didn't play with anymore and jingle would take them  with him back to the north pole for some other kids that might need toys. The girls loved this idea they thought that was a great idea!
Saying goodbye to jingle was hard for both girls.. they got to hold and hug jingle so that made it a little better!!

Christmas 2014

Christmas this year was amazing!! Christmas morning we got up and the girls opened their stocking and one present. They both got new boots for Christmas!!
We then headed out to Malta and ate breakfast with my side of the family and celebrated Christmas there.
We then got ready and headed up to Almo to celebrate more with my mom side of the family.
Then that evening we went back to our house and chases parents and sister and brother in law came over and we celebrated Christmas with them.
IT was a very long day but a great one.  I love being able to spend time with family and being able to see them! Everyone got very spoiled especially the girls!