Whoa!

Has it been THAT long??? Geez!! LOVING living in the country! We've had tons of rain though and I've learned that the bridges you must cross on our road flood and also if you happen to get snow down here - you're on you own! No plows, no salt no one coming to get you out here. All the same we're loving it. We've had Thanksgiving (although we weren't really unpacked yet) Christmas and Alex's birthdays here. FINALLY have some paint on the walls and both fireplaces are going although only one is actually all finished...ok, even that one we still need to put the tile down in front. The downstairs is pretty much finished except I want to change the paint color and finish the fireplace. The upstairs living room is coming along - I almost have enough furniture for it now!
In other news my mom has had some health problems including mini strokes. She was down here for Christmas, we were up there for New Year's came home and then were back up there the very next week. My mom was in the Rushville hospital so the boys and I stayed up in Illinois for 2 more weeks. Ethan celebrated his birthday at the hospital with my mom and then later that day our cousin Billy Kay surprised him with a visit and cupcakes. Mom is down here with us for the month of Feb. to see how she does. We're heading back up yet again for the first two weeks in March and will decide then if she is going to try and stay there on her own.

My Best Guys! Zacy's snowball



Snow Fun!

Snow Trampoline!
Happy Birthday Alex! Ethan and Zac with Gram-Gram at the hospital
Zacy washing some grapes. Mmm

Zac "helping" paint.

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