Five

SNOW

It snowed our first week in our new house.  We live on a great hill where everyone comes out to play, so it was pretty fun for the boys.  Ellie enjoyed going down the hill too. Haddie and I enjoyed making the snow cream, hot chocolate, and keeping warm inside :)

Ellie turns 2

Ellie had her birthday and party on the 15th.  We had a rainbow polka dot theme for the day.  She is our spunky, sweet, fun, singing, not sleeping girl.  She currently loves numbers, letters, all things Jake and the Neverland Pirates, jumping, not sleeping, blueberries, her brothers and sister, praying, singing made up songs, applesauce (which she calls Jabu for some unknown reason), juice, chicken nuggets, and wearing big bows. 

the boys enjoyed helping get ready for the party

colors of the rainbow

great planning super early means you can get Christmas decorations on sale 

My mom made these and I am going to move them into our playroom

I got this cute banner and plan to use it a ton

Oreos with sprinkles

Sprinkled 2

Rainbow goldfish

Rainbow Rice Krispies

Rainbow fruit skewers

Ellie and Daddy selfie

Ellie and mama selfie

Moving on Up

Goodbye to our sweet, little, first house.  We have loved this house well for 6 years, but we are out of space!  We are really excited to move to more room, a neighborhood with close friends, and the school zone we wanted for Zeke.  We are so so sad to be further from the church (it's a whole 8 miles away instead of 2, but that makes the commute for Spence jump from less than 5 minutes to about 15-20 depending on traffic), leaving our neighbors who we love so much, and being super close to everything! Pretty sure that Haddie will be the most excited because she will be moving out of a bathroom and into a real bedroom.  

Goodbye Suda!

Hello Englehardt!

Four

Andy and Lindsay got married

Our sweet, dear Lindsay got married.  We have known and loved Lindsay since she lived across the street from Spence in college.  She is pretty much a part of our family and we see her multiple times a week.  When she started dating Andy, we knew he was different.  We have fallen in love with how well he loves her and how much he has jumped into our family.  Spence was honored to perform the ceremony.  It was the ultimate worlds colliding wedding with a ton of our college buddies and many of our friends from here all in the same place at the same time.  It was a great wedding and we look forward to what God will do through your marriage. 

Married!!!

They had a photo booth and it was so fun!

Haddie is seriously the best baby. She was passed all around and still was so sweet.  

Going all hippy

Well, after MONTHS of researching I have done it.  I took the plunge and bought a Young Living Essential Oils starter kit.  I started researching them a few months ago and then decided that I am just sick and tired of always feeling like someone in our family is sick and tired.  I mean really, we are a family of 6.  Haddie had her first ear infection before she was 6 weeks old.  When one gets sick, we all get sick no matter what we do.  After looking into all this I found out that not only could they help us with general sickies, but could help with Zeke's eczema, Ben's migraines, everyone's seasonal allergies, and glory hallelujah maybe even with Ellie's sleep.  So, here we go.  I will update after we get into them more and have tried things out.  

This is how the kit comes

These are the oils, aren't they so pretty all lined up?

Put the bad boy right to work