The Front View
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You may not be able to tell from this photo, but our shutters on the second story are different color from those on the first...something I'd like to fix!
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We are loving our home in Indiana. It has taken some getting used to our new environment, but after almost 9 months its feeling not so foriegn. We have neighbors to our left and right, good distance between our houses, and an oversized community pond to the front of us, a nice view in the evenings. Kids are loving riding thier bikes around the pond and around our neighborhood and they love playing chase and baseball in the grassy yard.
This summer we thought our lawn was done for. There was a major drout and if you can believe it, what you see now green was all brown and prickly. The grass actually cut the kids feet when they tried to do slip and slide this summer. As soon as the rains came, our grass slowly turned green again and was thriving. I really couldn't bleive it, but it happened to everyones yards here. I found discovered two rose bushes in our yard, one I nursed back to health and I got two roses from it this fall. The other didn't produce, but I have high hopes for it next spring.
The Entry
Our front door is just to the left of the larger window. And this area functions as our piano room, study, entry, and sometimes lego spot. We have been enjoying our piano and Becca has started lessons again. She has such good teachers to start, she was able to pick up right where she left off. Jocelyn would really like to start playing too, but my lessons with her ususally consist of me trying to keep her seated on the bench. I think she still has too many six year old wiggles to take piano seriously. Maybe when she is seven.
Jocelyn's Room
Its still a work in progress, but Jocelyn is loving having her own room. She has lots of fantastic plans for what we are going to do to her walls. She has one of the best views in the house out her large window. She loves having the power to kick people out...and believe me, it is rarely this clean.
More to come...
Both girls found the perfect outfit, put on their makeup and came back downstairs with lifted chins and high manners. I heard things like, " this is fabulous, darling. This is such a lovely table. These are wonderful little foods. This hot chocolate is delicious." I was giggling in the back ground, at such sophistication. My girls are the best and I don't think they will every grow out of dressing up. If they are anything like their mother...they will find excuses to play and dress up even as adults. :)
We went out and bought a mini itty bitty pool, and a slip and slide. Jocelyn and Becca love the slip and slide (Elijah stayed clear of it). They all loved the itty bitty pool filled with ice cold hose water, I found it very refreshing as well! 
