Our New Home

Ok so here is the start of my catch ups...We are finally moved and settled into our new home.. The kids are fitting in great at school and have made friends and they say they are really liking Michigan.. Where we live it is just beautiful. We live up against a pond and a nature preserve so there is so much forrest and nature around us.. It is very peaceful and relaxing.. We have a nice big deck where we put our porch swing and I love to go out there in the early mornings or early evenings and just listen to the geese and birds.. At night hundreds of frogs come out and its like a froggy opera . They are so LOUD!!!!! But it's really cool.. And yea I even got my favorite birds here (humming birds). in NJ we didnt have any so I was excited when I put my feeders out and soon started seeing them come around.. we have had deer, chipmunks, ducks, squirrels great big brown one's diffrent then what we had in NJ and today we had a ground hog run across our back yard. we also have blow snakes wich I am not fond of and just pray I never run across one.. I was riding my bike the other day and just about run one over and it jumped up at me and I thought I was gonna kill over right then and there.. I screamed and about crashed my bike.. It took several minutes for my heart to get back to a normal rhythem.. I HATE snakes..... It is so fun to just sit out and watch.. Here are some of my neighbors that live in our pond and love to come over and eat our bird seed. The baby goslings are just the cutest.. Mom and the babys usually eat while daddy stand guard and watches..

This is the back of our house and some picts of the deck and our gazebo on the deck and also some of the views from our deck.. You can click on the picts for bigger sizes..

We have a built in ground fire pit on the back yard rock patio..

Isn't it just gorgeous... I will post pictures of the inside of the house tomorrow. I am working backward and starting here and then will eventually get posts of before the move in here if I am able to find the little digital camera we had.. I took out small one with me to NY when I had a girls weekend out in NYC and I took some picts of the moving process and other things I wanted to post about but we have not been able to find the camera since we got here.. We have unpacked everything so i am kinda thinking somehow we lost it or misplaced it or it dissapeared somehow when we were in the process of loading up the moving trucks.. So Iam kinda bummed and hope it shows up someday...

My parents went home yesterday after living with us for the past 10 weeks bless their hearts. They were such a tremendous help with watching the kids for us while we house hunted then when it got time to pack and clean and move then unpack.. I think I killed them off.. My poor dad was sick most the whole time.. My kids had colds when he came out and he ended up getting it and then we all passed it around again so he got it right back so he has been pretty miserable most of the time. seems he always catches a cold everytime he comes to see me.. I guess thats what happens when you have sick kids.. Anyways it was so nice to have my mom help with homework and meals.. I think I took advantage of her.. It was so nice to not have to worry about it. It was so hard on us all to have them go.. There wasnt a dry eye in the house.... If your reading this mom and dad you guys are the BEST!!! Thank you so much for all you did...

And now I am down sick with a horrible cold that has gone into a sinus infection. I cant smell or taste anything and I am so sick of coughing.. My ears are plugged up and that drives me insane. I hate hearing myself talk.. My head feels like its going to blow up.. I finally went to a dr. yesterday and got put on antibiotics so I am hoping I will start feeling better soon.

So until next posting..