I forgot two very important things.  Bryar had her first day of school.  She is such a big girl now.  It is one of those bittersweet moments that you have as a parent.  She was under your complete protection and guidance and always at your side but then it's over and they are off for the entire day.  She didn't get to get broken in with a half day.  It is all day long!!!  She was exhausted the first day when she got home but that was all it took the next two days she has all the energy she didn't have that first day.  The second picture is her in front of her door to her classroom.  It is great to have a little break but now I just here Bridger around me all day making loud noises and banging things to make noise  Needless to say I love nap time!!!  He has lost his little playmate.  

 And the second very important item I had forgotten was Asher's first time in the corner.  It had to come sooner or later.

And one bonus picture for anyone who was just missing a big huge grin from this little guy (Asher)

These are actually terrible pictures but they will have to do for now.  Maybe in the day time I will take the video camera and give you a tour but for now here are pictures of the inside of out house.  This first view is looking at the front door.  There is a room off to the side where the light is coming from.

This is our living room.

 Here we are looking from the living room to the dining room.

 Moving into the Kitchen.

 This is the front room that we don't really have anything in yet.  Joe's desk is in there right now and we are still working on the furniture in this room.

 All of that is on the main floor.  There is also a half bath for guests on this floor and then you can go up or down from here.

 Now the pictures get kind of dark and I am sorry for that but here goes anyway.  First we have Bridger in his room.   Wow these are pretty bad.  I will get you better video tomorrow.

 Asher's room.

 Bryar and Aiven's room.

 This is the master bedroom.  It wasn't too dark for you.

 And the upstairs hallway which all the rooms come off of. The rail that you see looks over to the empty front room below.

 I am at the top of the stairs shooting down to the bottom floor.  I am not going to show that room yet.  It is the playroom or will be when our stuff arrives from the states and then I will show you that room.  The laundry room is also down there.  Let me tell you how fun that is to do your Laundry on the bottom floor and all the clothes go to the top floor.  I'm just saying that yes, I do get a lot of exercise in this new house. All the pants that I bought just before coming here are all a little big now.

For lunch on Christmas day we went to lunch down at the buffet where there was face painting, balloon animals, and Santa who brought every child in the room a gift.  Needless to say they kids all loved it.  Bryar is always the first to get her face painted.  

Well it has been awhile because we have moved into our house so we have been pretty busy getting stuff and moving as well as Joe and I got really sick and we just couldn't get better.  I almost was and then it came right back.  It is looking good I think now though.  I thought I would start with Christmas and see how far I get tonight.  Below we have Bryar stringing popcorn so we can add it to our tree.  It was a last couple of days addition.

Here is a picture of the popcorn on the tree and Bryar's presents under the tree.  We didn't go shopping for Christmas presents until Saturday afternoon.  Talk about last minute.  We never did get Bryar to the store so on Christmas Eve day she made everyone a present and wrapped it in a towel and put in under the tree.  It was cute watching her figure out what she was going to do.  She drew her dad and mom a picture.  Cut a snowflake out for Aiven and I can't remember what she did for Asher and Bridger but something homemade from the heart.

 We didn't have our real stockings so we just put the stuff under our paper sock.  We told the kids that Santa would just make our chimney real with his magic and come in to put our stuff under the tree.  Bryar then said, "Well then he can make our stockings real with his magic too".  I had to wiggle out of that one but Christmas morning they didn't question anything. Bridger's stocking is shown as well a little later.  I will let that speak for itself.

 Asher Christmas morning riding his little car that Santa got him.

 Bridger's Santa gift.

 And Bryar's Santa gift.

 Asher opening a gift.

 Last but not least Aiven's gift from Santa.

We will probably still be in the hotel for Christmas so we decided to decorate the place.  If you look closely to the tree you can see that they are the kids hands cut out for the tree branches.  There are a lot of them.  The kids drew pictures and we cut them out for the ornaments and hung them by string on the different finger tips.  They had a lot of fun hanging them on the tree.  There is a bed, witch, dinosaur, car, bows, hearts, and many other fun ornaments.

 Here the kids have been cutting out snowflakes that we hung around the room.  Bryar cut most of them out and Bridger hung them up.  He didn't want to cut because he just cut off the top of his finger which was not a pretty sight.  It bled for a long time.

 Here we are just posing for the picture in front of the tree and the fireplace.  Everyone decorated their own stocking.  They are just paper so who know's how Santa is going to fill them.  He will have to be creative.

 Here the kids are warming their hands by the fire.  Kids have such good imaginations.

Just before we left Utah (the day before) we had Kati take our family pictures.  Thank you Kati you did a great job especially what you had to work with that day.  You know that kids never act how you want them to when it is important.  Asher, who normally is our happy little guy didn't want anything to do with the pictures.  But Kati did a great job regardless.