Micah's first birthday

Mr. Micah has had a birthday!  Hard to believe it's already been a year since he joined our family!

(If you ignore the first post, here's some from this time last year.  Miss that baby!)

Mr Micah is not so interested in the present.

Daddy helped a little, and he couldn't resist peeking!

But maybe someone else can finish opening this!

PLEASE??

Hmm, this is kind of cool.

(And yes, I had to hold onto Selah to keep her from "helping!")

 He likes it!

Fierce concentration!

Guess he's not the only one who likes it!

Listening to everyone sing "Happy Birthday" to him!

Oh boy!

Now what?

Daddy giving a little help.

Got it all figured out now!

Is this really okay??

Well, just in case you change your mind, I'm going to eat quickly!

A little tired, it's past my bedtime...



But I can still eat, don't worry!

Selah liked hers, too.

Hey Noah, you going to finish that?

I seem to be all out.

Can we have this everyday?

Micah on his First Birthday

It worked!

It all started the Friday before Thanksgiving...

Have you been wondering where we are?  Well, the short version is that the Friday before Thanksgiving we were supposed to close on a new house (the 8th we have tried to buy in Michigan) but of course that didn't happen. So we were out doing errands that day and the van, who had been acting up for a while, just really wasn't doing well.  By Saturday, we were afraid to drive it all seeing as we didn't have a second car in case we got stuck somewhere. So Monday, we got a new van.  And the old one gave up the ghost one exit early on the way home. I was very sad, and then we sold her to the junk yard.  But we were lucky enough to make it to get a new one, and thank God for that! Tuesday, I got a new phone...which is a great thing, but I haven't figured out how to blog from it so that is why you haven't heard that on Wednesday WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!!!

Things have been crazy trying to get everything moved over and put away.  We have a 3 car garage now...but it's so full of boxes we can't even park our one car in there.  Guess it will be a while.  But I know you would like to see it, so here you go.  Be kind, it's a work in progress!

And we went from 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and 800 sqft to 4 bedrooms, 3.5 bathrooms and 2700sqft. It's nice having a little space!

The new house

The jacuzzi tub in our bathroom.  The kids were bathing unsupervised. 

Micah's room

view 2.  It's so huge for a nursery! Usually all the furniture has touched, now we added a chest and still have room left over!

And his closet is incredible!

right side of closet

left side of closet. Used to be he had 2 drawers in the changing table. Now he has those plus a chest of drawers AND this whole closet!! 

the road leading to Selah's suite.

her awesome closet

Her own, boy-free bathroom!  (Which is bigger than the one we all shared at the old place!)

Her furniture...aka the guest bed. COME VISIT!!

Selah's bed.  She's a pistol and still needs that tent on her crib.

The boys' room, looking at the closets.  Yes, plural.  There are two closets!

This is the bigger closet.  We have big plans for it.

This is the smaller one...it's just going to hold clothes!

Their room from the closet.

I know that there are many more rooms but I don't have pictures on them on my memory card right now.  I'll post some more soon.