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.

25 weeks preggie with Jesse Levi

25 weeks. Only 11-12 weeks left depending on when he schedules my induction

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)

Jesse Levi

He was SPREAD eagle, that big thing on the top that looks like a leg, well.....its not! haha, great boy shot

Yawning

Kissy face!

Jesse was a VERY wild boy for the camera. I knew he was wiggly, but even the tech couldn't believe what a ham he was. He was shaking his head, doing flips, and kicking her probe while she got the money shot. At one point, he pointed at us and shook his head and then grabbed his earlobe and pulled it and stretched it out and let go. He was opening and closing his mouth lots. It was one of the funnest ultrasounds I have had in 7 kids! I was 21 weeks, 2 days today and he measured mostly 1-2 weeks ahead on everything. His heartrate was 141.

Camping in Hartbar

Setting up camp

One view of camp

Another view of camp

Wyatt reading RugRats Campout haha

Kayla ziplining

Wyatt ziplining

Kennapoo ziplining

Everett zipining (he was an animal)

Tanners turn

Kayla lol

I Loved this pic of Maddi, the lighting was just perfect

This one too

The river that ran through our camp

The kids made a damn with Nate so they could swim

Everyone having a reading moment before dinner

playing in the river

We went up to hartbar last month and stayed a few nights. We got a GREAT campsite with a river running right through it. Nate put up a zipline accross the river for the kids. They had SO much fun. We fished, hiked, fished some more, played, read books and just enjoyed ourselves. We ate s'mores and hotogs to our hearts content. The last morning it was VERY cold so we all got up and got in the car and drove a ways to the nearest town and got breakfast and warm coffee. I guess you could say we wimped out, but it was part of the adventure. :)

Our Newish Horsey-Dolly

I have been so bad about not blogging lately, I completely forgot to mention our new horse. We got Dolly about 2 months ago and she is a wonderful mare. She is 10 so she has maturity and wisdom and is past being afraid of all the silly things that our baby horses are afraid of. We love her to pieces, she's a keeper for sure and beautiful to boot.

The Regional Park

I am a little late blogging this, but this was from our trip to the regional park in June. It was a fun day with all our homeschooling pals and it was nice for Nate to be able to come along as well as Jenahe and Lexi.