Trains, Trees, Ice Skates!

Dave and Taylor took a boys night out (without Drew) to enjoy the holiday season. Taylor has been practicing his ice skating around the apartment for weeks and it was time to take him. I didn't feel I could manage taking the twins on the train, walk to Rockefeller Center, and ice skate so we stayed home.

They had so much fun. Taylor could not stop talking about the train when he got home and he loved seeing the big tree and now wants to go ice skating everyday.

Dave got to see a friend from his high school days and enjoy time with Tay.

Winner! Winner! Winner!

We moved to NY in October and thought that home buying wouldn't be too bad. We were wrong. It has been a very long process and have really tested us in many ways. Before we moved out here Dave found a home online that he thought would be the home for us. When we got here the home had disappeared online after being there for 300 days. It had been sold.

Oh well, on to the next batch of homes we were interested in. The problem with online searching is you don't know which home are under contract, which homes smells like smoke, which homes have no back yards, which homes have been torn to pieces in 4 years, etc, etc, etc... Every Saturday we would load up all three kids and go to 5-10 homes. We decided on a home that was at the top of our budget but in the area we liked and had an amazing back yard. Just as Dave and I were ready to make an offer, we found someone put in an offer and the offer was accepted. This house had been on the market for 130 days. What the heck!!! Then we spread our search into new areas. After looking at many more homes and falling in love with a home that was in short sell, we did not have time for this, we found a home and we are under contract to move in on Jan. 15. YEAH! No more hauling 3 kids to look at homes, 45 minutes from where we live now.

Our new home is located in New Milford, CT. We decided to move to CT because of lower home taxes and it is beautiful. We decided against NJ because of the taxes and the commute Dave would have to work (it would be horrible having to come through NYC area and go over bridges). NY taxes were way to high and we could not find many homes in our price range that we liked.

Here it is! Everyone is welcome to come and stay anytime. We would love visitors!

Christmas Time!

After we were not successful in finding a house to move into before Christmas, I was pretty sad about being in this apartment. The more I look at it the more I realize that it is a fun experience and one we won't have often. I am sad we don't have any of our decorations, they are in storage. Mainly I miss our stockings and my nativity scene but we will survive. Dave's mom provided some decorations to make our apartment festive. We love our 2 ft tree and "sweet" ornaments.

Merry Christmas!

Meet Sticks!

An Elf has flown in from the North Pole to stay with us and watch over the children for the holiday season. He watches to see if they are naughty or nice. Then he flies back to the North Pole everynight and reports. Each morning Taylor has to find where he is hiding. It has been so fun to have Sticks in our home. Taylor loves talking to him and being nice so Sticks will report nice things to Santa.

P.S. We had to name our elf and Taylr wanted to name the elf Kassidy (our cute cousins name, whom Taylor loves and misses). I said "that is a good name we will see if that sticks." The next thing I know he is calling the elf Sticks and that is what stuck.