Lots to be Thankful for

Since today is Thanksgiving I figured I would write a post about the many things I am thankful for. As I look at my life there are so many different things to be thankful for. I am thankful for my dear parents that raised me with love and the gospel. They gave me every opportunity to grow and develop talents. I am so very thankful for the gospel in my life and how on an everyday basis it is there to help me. With out the gospel it would be hard for me to find thanks in some of the things in my life. I would not have the knowledge of an eternal family. If I did not have this knowledge I wouldn't be able to be thankful for my two angel daughters. They are a joy in my life. To know that I will get to raise them and spend eternity with them is a great blessing in my life. I am thankful for the many trials I have had to go through to get children. These trials are what brought me to the point in my life that I was ready to accept my sweet Baylee into our home as if I had given birth to her. She is such a blessing in our life's. She keeps us smiling and having fun. She has a sweet spirit that our home would be missing if she never joined our family. I am thankful for my wonderful husband that has stood by and loved me through it all. He has always been there to comfort me when I am down,& make me laugh when I didn't see anything in life to laugh about. He has had the faith when I lacked it, and would tell me to just have faith it will work out. He is always out working hard for our family even as I type this on Thanksgiving he got up early and went to work. I have such a wonderful support group around me that includes family and those who are not blood related but might as well be. I am who I am because of the love of the savior and those around me. So thank you to all of you in my life!

New House!

This is Baylee's bathroom before we painted it. We wanted to add some fun color to our new home and figured Baylee's bathroom was the perfect place to start. It is the only room in the house that we could decide on a color.



This is the After we painted picture. I love the color. I know it seems like a lot of green but it is fun!!!

Baylee loves her Bathroom she helped us pick out all the accessories to go in it and she even helped with the color!! From here on out the pics are of the rest of the house that we are still working on getting organized and put together. Don't mind the mess. We will be adding color and I will add pics as we do.
Master Bedroom.
Baylee's bedroom. We are going to paint one wall in her room purple. I made curtains for her windows in our other house and I have to make some adjustments to them so they will fit this window.
This is the most unorganized room in the house but it will be better next week so Danielle's kids have a place to sleep. We call this the office. It has all the computer stuff plus my craft stuff. When a sweet baby joins our family it will call this room home. These are the 3 bedrooms and bathrooms upstairs.
This is a view of the front room from the stairs. This is one of my favorite rooms. I love to sit and play my piano in the morning with the sun shining in on me. The boxes you see hold all of the pictures we have not decieded where to hang them.
My kitchen. I can never seem to keep the counter cleaned off because every box I empty seems to have some little thing I have no idea where to put so it goes on the counter until I can find it a home. if you look at the cupboard on the left you will see the color samples we are thinking about for this room. I have always dreamed of a yellow kitchen!!!
This Bedroom is the Spare bedroom/ play room, Danielle like to think of this room as hers. I am not sure if we will paint this room or not. It is always a mess right now because Baylee and Grace like to play in there.

There is one more room in the house I didn't have a pic of yet and that is the family room. it is just off of the kitchen. We are loving the house and are enjoying making it ours.