New House!

So, the main reason we have been so busy - we bought a house in March!  We were at the holiday party at Riley's school, and talking to the other parents, and we realized, that registration for Kindergarten was in January!  We had planned on buying a house this summer, but as North Carolina elementary schools can either have a traditional calendar or track calendar, we needed to decide quickly where we wanted to live.  Track calendar means they have school for 9 weeks, then take 3 weeks off, so no "summer break", they have more little breaks.  So, we mapped out schools, and housing, and started driving around (and around and around). We ended up with this: a 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath house, around back is the garage (which is in the basement!!!)  Being able to buy a house with a basement was the icing on the cake for this house (as that is an oddity here).  The house sits on right at 1/2 acre of land, fenced, with lots (LOTS) of trees.  We finally moved into the house in April.

Christmas 2013

Super behind with posting, so I will just put some of these up. Downloading the photos just now made me realize that we really don't have any pictures of Christmas at our place from last year, whoops! And, I only have one sad picture of Riley and the tree.