Shades!

Super cool kiddos in their shades...

No shades, but still super cool and cute!

It's official... we're moving!

Yep, I'm doing a banner job at keeping up with the blog. I'm glad I don't make New Year's resolutions, because it would be a big fail.

It's been a busy month or so for the Plothows. We finally got a signed contract on the sale of our condo. There was a lot of back and forth after the inspection and we had to keep extending the attorney review period. Then, we found a house we loved in Downers Grove and made an offer. Unfortunately, there was another offer and we ended up in a bidding war. After a week of negotiating, we lost. We were really disappointed. So, we went back out and looked some more. We found another house we love. More negotiating. We had to change our close date on the sale of our condo in order to close when the sellers of the house wanted to close. Luckily, our buyers agreed to the earlier close date (with a little incentive). SO, we are now closing on our condo/house on April 30th and moving to our new house in Downers Grove on May 2nd. :) We have SO much to do in the next six weeks!

Now, a few pictures...

Loving the new hat and scarf set from Grandma Ruth

Crazy bed-head Morgan

Celebrating our contract on the house at Steak-n-Shake

Baby Nolan and Sandi

Nolan's baptism

Aunt Stacia and baby Nolan

Nolan, Sandi and Brett

Got her purse, hat and shopping bag - she's ready to go

Doesn't everyone watch tv like this?

Flowers of the month

As part of my Xmas gift, Matt got me flowers for every month of 2014. I managed to not take a picture of the January flowers, but they were beautiful. They were Costa Rican flowers and reminded me of our trip there. This month, I received orchids, which reminded me of our wedding reception. :)

White out

Could barely see out my window at work yesterday! For some reason, it made me feel very claustrophobic.

A few more pics

I am always snapping pictures or videos of the girls... I'm trying to get more of them on this blog.

From yesterday - this is how I found them after their nap
Avery had taken her shirt off and Morgan was giggling - typical

This is what I like to call "mullet pigtails"
She still doesn't have much hair up front

Loving the fact we finally have two of these chairs

Such helpful girls
Love to put away (and take back out) the groceries

Valentine's Day

We celebrated Valentine's Day with our annual brunch at Theresa's house. Gets crazier every year with the addition of more kiddos! Luckily, Theresa's house has a big playroom and loads of fun things for the kids to play with.

Valentine's Day card for Daddy

Getting ready for our annual Valentine's Brunch

Beautiful flowers from my three favorite Valentines

Moms and kids at our annual Valentine's Day brunch
(me, Avery, Morgan, Lauren and Mason, Grayson, Erin - row 1
Kayla, Hany, Corina, Shannon, Theresa - row 2)

Dads and kids at our annual Valentine's Day brunch
(Grant, Matt, Lee, Matt, Ross)

My little Valentine Avery

Princess Avery - such a little girl
Both girls had a blast playing with Lauren and Mason's toys

Random pics from Matt's phone

So, I finally uploaded the pics from Matt's camera and found a few fun ones to share...

At a wedding last fall

Before - Matt did an experiment to see what the girls would run to first

After - Avery picked the dolls and Morgan picked the stacked toys

Thanksgiving pic - the girls and their 2nd cousin Quinn
(who was born less than a week after them)

At a HUGE xmas tree display in Ohio - gymnasium filled with pretty trees

I think she liked it!

The girls like to eat!

Matt was watching the girls and hadn't seen Avery for a bit
Turns out she was sitting in a box at the end of the hall

Hey Dad - what's up!

Got the fire gloves on to fry up the turkey!