I really do suck at updating this!

So the last time I posted a blog was last march, a lot has happened in that time frame. First off we moved back to Indiana when the lease on our rental house in Illinois was up. We thought it was going to be a temporary move for a few weeks or a month as we had a house in Illinois under contract. We ended up having to back out of the house because the septic was not functioning and would need replaced immediately, and that was just more than we needed to take on. Now we have decided that we are going to buy in Indiana, just in the Valparaiso area, so we would be roughly an hour and 10 minutes from Matt's job and from my school. So the house search is on again ( well as soon as I hear back from the Realtor). As for what is new with the kids:
Benjamin finished kindergarten in Illinois and is now a first grader at Emmons. He is currently doing well in school and loves reading and math, but really dislikes to write anything that requires more than one or two sentences. They write stories in class at least once a week, so we hear from his teacher at least once a week about how she has to pretty much make him write more. He also enjoys correcting her and telling her what to do, which results in a note home several times a month. Aside from his little quirks, Ben loves school!

Lilyana started preschool this year at the First Presbyterian church school. She is excelling at school, her teacher told us at parent teacher conferences in October that Lily is more than ready to go to kindergarten now. She just turned 5 on December 18th, so it was not an option this year. She loves to sing and dance and draw and make confetti out of construction paper.  Lily loves school and would stay there all day if we let her.

Alexander also started preschool this year. He will go one more year of preschool since he is only going to be 4 this year. He is doing really well in school and has come out of his shell. He was very shy around others and was hesitant to participate at school at first, now he loves to participate in everything they do. This is sometimes a problem because his teacher told me at his conference that he does not want to miss a thing even when he goes to the bathroom, so he leaves the door open so he can hear everything and occasionally comes out with his pants off or down and needs to be reminded to put his pants on before he comes out of the bathroom.

Nothing much is new for Matt or I, he is still working in the same job at Bosch and is in Illinois a few days a week. I am still going to school in Illinois as well, I should be ready to graduate by the end of the year. Last but not least we got a puppy, we weren't planning on it, but kinda happened upon it because someone was abusing him and he needed a good home. He is a border collie and terrier mix.

well that is all for now, I will leave you all with some cuteness.

April

They were playing dress up one day after school and Alex found his parrot costume from last Halloween and decided to wear it. 

Posing in the hello kitty dress and my old watch that stopped working probably 10 years ago. 

Bath time, made sure its censored enough to not embarrass them later :) 

Alex took this one in the car one day, didn't even know he had my phone till I found this! 

Our sweet little puppy Wrigley

Being her silly self

Both Boys had to have spiky hair as Ben calls it. 

Alex loves his hair to be like Ben's

My goofy big boy!