Butterfly house pics are finally here!! It's been a crazy couple of months, but our house is finished, and we moved in about 10 days ago - with lots of help from our amazing friends. So here are just a few pics that still show some chaos since we still have lots of settling to do. The first pic is of the house on Christmas day, a month before we moved in, but it shows the completed front. Next, we have the fam - Lucy, Emily, Brent, Jared, me and Susan - about 15 minutes after we got the keys. And now we're finally getting our kitchen settled, so I can show it off a little, along with the wet bar. Can you say margarita station??? Miss Emily shows off a bit of the living room, but is far more interested in modeling her new leopard dress. Work it. There's a few more pics in the post below. It'll probably take us a few more weeks to get everything together the way we want it, but we're all just completely thrilled with the house - it's definitely a dream come true for us!!!

Butterfly House pics. The room with the china hutch will soon be our scrap room. Emily hugging the walls on our first morning there. And a couple of pics of her bedroom after I painted it to match her bedding. Plus the bathroom she shares with Lucy.

It's a tradition around here to let Emily open one present on Christmas Eve, which always includes some new Christmas pajamas. Well, mommy messed up and gave her the wrong one to open, so she scored and got a Care Bear first. Oops! So then I had to let her open the right present with the jammies and the doll, so she was one happy little stinker! I'm just in love with the first picture since Stella (left) and Chewy (right) are tilting their head one direction, and she's playing along in the opposite direction. Cracks me up. I think they all deserve a bone!

More pics of Emily tonight with her new doll and Care Bear. And a couple of a typical snuggle session with me and my 3 kiddos. If one wants to cuddle, the others have to pile on as well. Silly monkeys!

Here's my sweet Emily. I've been trying to get a great picture to send with our Christmas cards, and I just haven't quite gotten the right one yet. But these are pretty cute I think, so one of them just might have to do. The ones in the purple were taken just yesterday. She really wanted 2 ponytails, which has only happened 3 times in her life. She usually won't let me mess with her hair at all. The other pic of her in the black and red dress was taken Friday after her school Christmas program. If you care to comment and let me know which one you think would be best with Christmas cards, I'd sure appreciate the input!!! Merry Christmas!!

Home Sweet Home. Here's our new house in progress. The outside is now ready for paint, and they just painted all the walls inside a gorgeous soft butter/wheat color. The stair rail is in and stained, and the cabinets are sitting in the garage just waiting to be installed. So exciting! The picture of Emily and me was taken in her bedroom. She has really loved getting to visit her future room in all of the different stages. I can't wait to paint some girly colors in there for her - that's always my favorite room to decorate because she just gets soooooo excited about it. Less than 2 months to go now!!!

I made this TinkerBell wall hanging for Emily's room with my brand new TinkerBell cartridge. Thank you, Michael's for such an awesome sale. Woohoo!! I can't wait to do more designing with this cart - it has so much on it!