The birthday boy!!!! 

Ian opening presents while Nathan plays with the presents Ian already opened. :P 

Ian tearing into his presents 

George got an elephant  

Ian's hot wheels cake 

Ian chowing down on his cake and ice cream 

I don't think any words are needed here......:P 

The whole family in front of the fireplace 

George is saying "Here's my new house!" 

Here we are outside playing.  

This is Grace's seven month picture. Look at her feet, they look exactly like mine, curvy, high arches and all! :) 

And this is what else it came up with.......

Duchess of The Phylum Society, Scrum-Diddly Charity Faith Buchan XIV

Sub General of Deviant Sexual Practices, Charity Faith Buchan, Attorney at Law

Kahuna of The Impersonal Enlightenment Fellowship, Lady Charity Faith Buchan

Footsoldier of The Association for the Promotion of People Who Say "Turn That Frown Upside Down", Charity Faith Buchan

The McNugget of The Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Perky-L'il Charity Faith Buchan

CEO of Lolly-Gaggers, Charity Faith Buchan, The Ubiquitous

Poobah of Paranormal Vegetables, Charity Faith Buchan

And here's what Nathan is......

Acting Deacon of Legos, Nathan Isaac Buchan

Sorcerer of The Impersonal Enlightenment Fellowship, Nathan Isaac Buchan

Minor Alderman of The Woolen Muffler Appreciation Society, Nathan Buchan

Mage Maximus of Objectivism, Nathan Isaac Buchan

Is that quite enough silliness? Thanks Nattie for the inspiration. :)

I just did this internet name thing, and this is what it came up with.....

You shall henceforth be known as:

Contessa of The Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Charity Faith Buchan

What do you think about that? :)

Okay, I thought the coffee one was pretty right on, but I don't know about the ice cream. I don't consider myself very sensetive at all. You would pretty much have to attempt to murder me to offend me. Oh well.

I am finally making bread!!!! My wonderful father in law came over last night and took apart my wheat mill and fixed it. It's been over two weeks since I have made it, and we have all missed it soooo much. I've got some in the oven right now. :) Nate helped me get some more unpacking done last night. We are having a birthday party for Ian on Friday night and I want to have everything moved over here and done from the other house by then. My mil said she would watch the kids for me sometime this week so I could get some things done. They have already been such an incredible blessing. I thank God for them both. I know not everyone is blessed with such great in laws, and I am truly grateful for this undeserved blessing. Our renters are coming back next Monday. We still have to paint and clean over there, but I think Nate is taking Thursday off. Maybe I could go over there and clean one night after he comes home this week. Well, I've got to go check my bread. Blessings to all! :)

coffee and ice cream?

You Are a Soy Latte

At your best, you are: free spirited, down to earth, and relaxed At your worst, you are: dogmatic and picky You drink coffee when: you need a pick me up, and green tea isn't cutting it Your caffeine addiction level: medium

What Kind of Coffee Are You?

You Are Strawberry Ice Cream

A bit shy and sensitive, you are sweet to the core. You often find yourself on the outside looking in. Insightful and pensive, you really understand how the world works. You are most compatible with chocolate chip ice cream.

What Flavor Ice Cream Are You?

I can't believe it's been so long since I have blogged! Okay, I can, I have been a teensy bit busy moving and packing and unpacking. I did so well the first few days, but now I have kind of lost my momentum. I think I am waiting until we have all the furniture over here finally and then I will start unpacking again. There are five boxes of books sitting next to me right now and the empty bookshelf sits next to them, but do you think I am unpacking them. Sadly no. :P All of the bathroom stuff is unpacked, all the kitchen stuff, and our clothes are all put away, (okay, all except the two loads of laundry I need to fold), but I haven't gotten any decorations, pictures, etc. out at all. There is so much room here, especially in the living room, and the only thing we don't have in there yet is the recliner. It makes me excited to think of all the choices we will have to put the Christmas tree. :) We still don't have a kitchen table, we left our other one and four chairs at the other house. We are borrowing a fold out table and some extra chairs from Karen and George. I want to get a bigger table, one with 6 or 8 chairs. There is one I looked at today at the discount used furniture place down the road. I think this guy just buys stuff from estate sales and flea markets. I think I could talk him down on the price, too, if I needed to. I 'll have to ask Nathan about it. We'll see. I would love to have more bookshelves now that we have so much room for them, too. I can't believe how time has flown by since we moved in. It doesn't seem like we've been here for a week and a half, but on the other hand, it seems like forever ago that we were in the other house. Nate took off Thursday and worked all day over there, putting laminate wood flooring in the living room and hallway. It looks so good, he did a great job. Now I just wish we had that at this house. :P Maybe someday. The carpet was really trashed in that other house, though, it needed to be done. Nate told me before he was going to save the patch of carpet that Grace was born on. I forgot to ask him if he did. It was his first solo delivery! :) We still have to paint over there and finish up the trim on the flooring, then do another once over cleaning, and it will be all set for our renters. Nate got home before the kids bedtime last night, which was the first time since we had moved in. It was so nice to have him put the kids to bed. It makes me wish for fall even more, when he will be able to home more. During the busy season, though, I just get so used to doing everything myself, sometimes it's hard for me to let him help when he is home, if that makes any sense. It will be wonderful when he can be home more, though and take a regular day off every week. And now, he won't need to be spending his day off fixing up the basement! We will probably do some landscaping here in the fall, the back yard is pretty rough, but there are no real home improvements to be done here to take up his time. And this fall is when we are taking our looong family vacation. We've never gone anywhere for longer than than 3 days together when we weren't visiting family at Christmas time, and we had been planning for a week in November, and the other day, Nate said we might even be gone longer than that. :) And he is taking a big break at Christmas to drive up to Maine. That will be wonderful. Well, on another subject, Grace is crawling all over the place! She does this little army man scoot thing most of the time, but she is getting faster at real crawling, too. Ian has started trying to pick her up, which is funny because she is more than half his size. She just thinks it is funny. Anything her brothers do she thinks is hilarious. I so need to videotape them all. The boys have started trying to get her to laugh, George especially, and it is so cute. We bought presents and party stuff for Ian's party today. I can't believe my little man will be 2 next week!!! I think we will have the party on Saturday, a week from today. It is going to be a racecar party. Ian almost always carries around at least one little car with him and he loves to play with them. I got Hot Wheels plates and napkins, (half off at Party City) and a banner that has race cars on it and says Happy Birthday. We got him a little matchbox car garage, and I let George pick out a smaller carwash thing to go along with it. He said he only wanted to get it if Ian would share with him. ;P LOL Well, I finally found my camera and posted pictures of the house below. As soon as I get the insides all unpacked and prettyed up, I'll post pics of the inside. Well, I'd better go, I need to start thinking about supper. Cheerio!!!

Okay, I know I've posted way more pictures of Grace than the boys, but look at her!!!! 

Ian on the fourth 

George on the fourth 

Patriotic Gracie 

I love this one of Grace, those dimples always make me smile! :) 

Daddy doing story time. I meant to post this last month, but never got around to it! This is in the old house. 

Here's the house from about halfway up the driveway. I love that we are still in the country so much, with woods all around, but in so much bigger of a house!! 

Here's our new house from the lawn. The front door is by the window under the porch.  

We have moved! We are in, if not settled, in our new home. There are just a few miscellaneous furniture things left at our old house. I got a lot of unpacking done yesterday, the kitchen is done, and the kids and Nathan's clothes are put away. I am very tired. And all the kids are sleeping right now, so I am going to go lay down while I have the chance. I will post pictures of the house as soon as I can find my camera.