Virtual Tour of Our New Home

 Foyer area to the front door

 Right inside front door and to the left is the entrance to the homeschool room

 Homeschool room is a work in progress but its coming along really nicely

 Homeschool room

 Got the easel at our homeschools curriulum sale this week for 5 bucks yay

 Nate just hung that fan and I love it

 Now onto the kitchen

 Where all the food is made

 My brother painted those saws!

 From dining

 The blessing of a huge dining area for our big family

 The living/den

 Its hard to get a good pic of this room, but its a wonderful and large yet cozy room

 The barn

 Hallway bath

 Hallway bath

 Girls room

 Boys room, 2 sets of bunks

 My room

 My bathroom

 a double showerhead shower yes I am way excited!

 front of house

 garage and extra house(rental)

Horses in pasture!

God is soooo gracious to make provisions such as our new home. I am so very blessed

To Answer a Few ???s

1. We are all moved in and almost done unpacking. Have a few things to do outside still.
2. While I think skirts and dresses can be(if worn correctly) more modest than anything else, we don't entirely wear dresses and skirts. I am trying to get myself and my girls to wear them as preference over other things, but I do think for horses, trampoline and a few other select things like gardening, bermudas or jeans are more modest/comfy for us.

That's all for today and I am just so greatful to God that we were able to get moved down the mountain safely and smoothly. Its wonderful to be back in our hometown. Getting to see family and old friends means the world. I have missed them all so very much!

Moving!

We made it just shy of a year up here in the mountains. We learned so many valuable lessons and most importantly, that we are not mountain folk! We will be moving tomorrow morning. I will post pics of the new house when we get settled in and for now I will be missing for a bit. Everything is packed and we are "camping" in our house tonight. We will start our move early tomorrow morning. Please pray for us that we will get everybody/thing off the mountain and to our new home safely. Thank you all in advance:)

Moving

           I'm sorry, I didn't mean to fall off the map. We have been super busy and are getting ready to move off the mountain back to our old town and I am soooo excited. I miss our homeschool group, family, friends, church.........everything. Its a very busy time for us but I will be updating more once we are in our new place. It has 1.25 acres, the horses have already been moved off the mountain and are loving their new pasture and sunshine! We are working hard to get the house ready for move in. We are praying that we will be in by May 1st but there is a lot to be finished. Oh and for those who are wondering why we are moving, well the mountains have caused us way too many health issues including all of us being severely vitamin D deficient and our horses have had a terrible time keeping weight despite shelter and blankets so its just not for us. We made it 10 months but they were long, VERY long.

View as you walk in the front door, VERY open floor plan, which I love

kitchen facing the front door

dining room

living room

view from living room windows, 3rd story up, we are literally in the treetops:) Beautiful birds up here

upstairs bathroom

our only flat portion of property!

The horses(looks flat, but they are actually on a pretty steep hill lol)

play area again

loft

Wyatts room(he got his own because the autism makes it difficult for him to share a room with others)

loft(messy sorry)

loft again

girls room

Everett and Tanners room(also a bit messy)

So this is the house for the most part. We are settling in nicely. If you looked and thought my kid's rooms were plain, you were right. We use rooms for sleeping and clothing only and maybe a few very special toys/books that each child wants to keep to themselves. I like it this way so rooms stay clean and tidy for the most part. We are starting to really enjoying living here now and the neighbors have all become much nicer since seeing Nate pull up daily for lunch in his cruiser. He has worked on several headline cases out here already as well so people really are begining to respect our family up here. Lastly, I am so proud and wanted to mention that at Nate's going away BBQ last week at his old station, he received "Deputy of the year nominee" for his station. We won't know if he actually makes deputy of the year for the entire county until years end, but either way it is a HUGE honor that his station nominated him. He really is a great cop, he works hard and I couldn't be more proud of him.

All Moved In

Well we are all moved in and unpacked except for the trampoline still needing to be put together. The swingset is all together, horses are here, and the kids have even made friends with our neighbors who have an 11 year old girl and 9 and 7 year old boys. The chilly weather is WONDERFUL and simple to get used to. We have already had encounters with bears, spiders on steriods that can live through an entire wash cycle, altitude sickness, getting the cars stuck and almost driving one directly off a cliff stopping a few feet shy of hitting a tree. Oh but all of that is mild in relation to the batty neighbors. Thus far, we have 1 nice and sane neighbor(the people with the kids). We have a crazy old lady who sits on her knees in the middle of the street, 2 people who introduced themselves while complaining about where we parked(parking is very limited in the mountains), a person who introduced themselves whining about the horses, one whining about the dogs and another who warned us that we better not be druggies, partiers, have too many people over, leave trash out, or let our kids be noisy or play in the road. The last person was the last straw. I told the old bitty to tell the neighborhood to quit being jerks, come back with pies and introduce themselves so we can start over. I also informed her that Nate is a deputy and good luck to any of these jerks if they call needing him. GRrrr. I hope her busybody self lets the neighborhood know we are disgusted with the poor treatment. I am not taking kindly to such a RUDE neighborhood and the neighbors are all a block apart with tons of trees so why they all care to nitpick us to death just days after moving in is beyond me. I feel like having a VERY loud party just in spite! Thankfully they are mostly all temporary people who leave at summers end! Praise God, bring on winter!!

Moves in 2 days

Well, its been busy to say the least. We have been packing, throwing everything and then some away, had a garage sale, Sold our trailer/washer/dryer/Nate's jeep and have 2 trailer loads of stuff to go to the dump! Its been GREAT to purge of our lives of so much stuff. We gave away our chickens because we figured they wouldn't last in the mountains because our area is VERY animals infested or so we hear. There is a bear or deer or mtn lion there several mornings a week. No, my kids will never be allowed outside to play alone! I have about 20 boxes packed thus far and probably have only 10 more to go until the entire house is packed up~ I will update when we get up there with pics of the new house as we get it all set up:0)

Our Mountain Cottage

Well first off, I am 5 months preggo today!!! I am finally getting somewhere lol. Next, we were approved for the house! AHHH, we sign papers and take the deposit up tomorrow morning. Its so exciting, but scary. Anyone who lives in snowy places during the winter wanting to give advice.......please do so:) So obviously these are pics of the new place, nearly 2000 sq ft with 4bd and 2ba. It feels like a mansion compared to our current 3 bd, 1 ba home. There isn't much sunshine and its a north facing slope so I suppose we will stay snowy longer than the average house up there(EEEEK). I have so much running through my mind, but I can't seem to organize any of it to put it in writing.......so I will leave you with that.