PICTURES!!!!

YAY! I finally got the computer to read the memory card and now I have to post pictures!

So I will try to get them up in order.


First we had a wonderful visit with Aunt Lorrie and Uncle Fred and Jen, Lydia, and Alexandra in January.




We celebrated Cecilia's eleventh birthday with them. Ben and Lydia had a blast playing together and sharing sippy cups. After chasing them around and switching back the cups, only to have them exchange again, we gave up.

Lydia is such a doll! And it was our first time seeing little Alexandra, she was so cute! I can't believe we didn't get any pictures of her!

We had a very nice visit!

ONE MORE TRY!!! (And a little trouble with paint)

Yesterday started out normal but then two things happened. The first was bad, and the second, awesome!

Firstly yesterday morning three of my younger siblings, (I'm not going to say who), pulled out a can of blue paint from my dad's work shop. They painted the back of our shed, the side of our house, a sled, part of our fence and some of our bricks on our brick patio. Then Rose and our little cousin Emily found the paint that my siblings had left open and painted a tree, bushes and the ground, oh and their shoes.

On a MUCH happier note the house we are hoping to buy is back on the market after going to a sheriff sale and stuff. So today my parents, (actually right now), are putting up another offer. The best news of all is that the house is up for the exact same amount we had originally offered! And two nights ago we started a second novina to St. Joseph, and then we found out yesterday. I will keep you all posted on the process and I will try to get my memory card to work 'cause I have some great pictures!

Computer Trouble

So in case any of you are wondering why I haven't put up any pictures in a while, (besides the picture of the house which I got online), it would be because our computer decided to stop reading the memory card. Hopefully we will figure out something soon!

Well, maybe!!

232 Sheffield Dr, Dallastown, PA 17313



The house that we couldn't get earlier, we have another chance to get! The house had gone on a Sheriff Sale, so now the bank officially owns it. So the bank has 24 hours to accept or not so we should find out by tomorrow if we are getting it. If we do we are going to name it something with St. Joseph in it, because he lead us to this house, and if we get it, we will most likely close on his feast day. We are thinking of St. Joseph's Oasis. What do you think?

Grandad and G's!!!!

We just got back from Connecticut today after a short visit. My dad had a retreat in Connecticut so we all went along and spent a day and a half up there! It was fun, us kids went out in the woods, (which are much different in the winter then in the summer), and found a swamp that was all frozen. We had so much fun playing on the ice! Even though we can't ice skate and even if we could, we didn't have skates, it was fun to slip and slide in our boots!

There wasn't any snow but the stream was beautiful and the hot tub was a lot of fun! Unfortunately we forgot the camera, so I don't have any pictures. But we had such a good time!

Thank you Grandad and G for putting up with our loud household! We love you guys!

Disappointment .....again......

So the third house in a row refused us. Well actually it's a lot more complicated then that and there is a very small chance we could still get it. Make that EXTREMELY small.

So we have to start the whole process all over again. Oh well. We are getting used to being squishy!

SOLD!

Well Grammy's house is sold! Ok, technically it isn't yet. They close on the house on March 6th! And Mr. Charlie's house just got two offers today! They will close on the one on Feb. 27th! Thank you God! (Now all we need is house for ourselves!)

Dora Undercover

I don't how familiar everyone is with Dora the Explorer, but Rose and Max love it so when we get movies from Blockbuster, we always end up with a Dora, (and something else for us older kids). This time my mom came back with, Dora Undercover. Dora has this alarm watch that buzzes every time Dora is near Swiper the Fox. The funny thing is Dora's alarm watch sounds exactly like our timer and so earlier this day we kept hearing this beeping sound and we started looking for the timer. It took us a long time to figure out that we were hearing Dora's little watch!

Not Fun

We have not had a very fun week since all nine of us have been hit by the stomach bug. Luckily it is a 24 hour thing so we are all slowly recovering. But for nine people to all get sick in a row in one week, is not fun. We all hope that by next Monday we can finally get back to school.
And my parents did put another offer on a house. This time we all think this is the house. Their Realitor is so sure that we are going to get it that she already took the house off the listings. The owners already signed the contract and now all we are waiting for is the bank to approve the offer. We will find out sometime in this upcoming week.

We love you all and really hope that none of you get sick!

Bye Bye Nemo!

This isn't very funny since it cost a lot to fix. But one of my younger siblings (younger then 8) accidentally sent a rubber Nemo exactly like the one in the picture, done the toilet. The plumber had to lift the whole toilet of the ground and fish Nemo out. I guess clogging the toilet with sticks and rubber fish runs in the family, because my mom clogged her toilet when she was little by dropping sticks down a pipe! After his poor adventure, Nemo was thrown away. But we still have the Nemo in the picture(There was two of them).

Cecilia's Birthday!

Cecilia is writing the words on her cookie cake

Holding Lauren

High School Musical theme and fun gifts

Max drew the picture he said it is Cecilia(Look above)

Time for cake!

We can't get enough of Lauren!

Happy Birthday 11 year old! January 7th was Cecilia's 11th birthday. We had a party with the family the night before and got more turns holding baby Lauren. She is really so sweet! Then on the seventh our good friends the McLain's came over for another party, (Can anyone guess what was her theme?) If you guessed High School Musical, you were right. She LOVES those movies! Cecilia has every song memorized of the first and second movies! I got the first movie for my birthday and Cecilia got High School Musical 2 for her birthday. Needless to say, she was thrilled! (I think she watched the first one more then me and she gave it to me!) She wanted a cookie cake so she double the recipe for Chocolate Chip cookies and bake it in a pane and ta-da! Cookie cake! (It was very tasty!)

Lauren Nicole!

On January 2nd 2009, Lauren Nicole Anthony, entered our world! She weighed 7lbs, 12oz and was about 19inch. long. My Aunt Jackie and our beautiful new cousin, Lauren, are both doing great! They came home last Sunday and for those of you who don't know this, they live on the road behind us so we see them quite often! I'm afraid I can't make the picture any bigger but from what you can see, isn't she gorgeous? We love you Lauren!!