Erich-isms

"Holy crap Bob (Bob Ross). I look away for one second and you've already created a masterpiece."

Birthdays & Easter

{April 24th}

Erich's birthday landed on Easter this year so we had fun celebrating both. We went over to Phil and Julie's for dinner and an Easter egg hunt. We also celebrated Devan's birthday which was a few weeks earlier. It was a fun day spent with family and lots of yummy food. As always. We are never disappointed when Julie is cooking! It was also nice to spend time reflecting on the special meaning of the holiday. How lucky we are to have the knowledge that we have. And a Heavenly Father who loves us so much that he sent his only begotten son to go through what he did so that we might have the blessing of eternal life and be able to live with him again. That's great stuff right there! :)

Birthday boys.

Silly brothers.

Sweet baby girl.

She's growing up so fast. Turning ONE this month already!

Aliyah loves the dogs. It's so cute to watch her with them!

I'm in love...

I can't even begin to tell you how saweeeet it's been going from this..

to this..

I am in heaven. 

Pure heaven.

Our first "home"

The itty bitty kitchen. I so do not miss you.

The dining room.

The wood fireplace that we never used once. It's a lot more convenient having an electric one we can turn on with the switch of a button!

The computer area.

The living room.

We'll miss you apartment C-304. Thank you for being so good to us.

HOME OWNERS

{April 23rd}

We are all moved into our house as of April 30th! We picked up the keys on the 23rd and that was our first day in the house as official owners. Leaving our little apartment was a lot harder than I thought it would be. Even though it was small and we were really starting to get cramped, that was our first home together and it treated us really well. As we were doing the final cleaning at the apartment I kept singing in my head the song, "You're gonna miss this" by Trace Atkins. It's a chapter we are closing in our lives. We're going from no worries and simple living, to the responsibility of a HOUSE. Eeek! And while I'm sure we'll look back and think wow, those were the simple days, we are so excited to be on this new adventure. We know this was the right decision for us at this time and we are already adjusting really well to life in a house. Birds nesting in our dryer vent and all! (that's a story for another time) We really love the neighborhood, we love the house, and we love our neighbors. Who have made us feel extremely welcome. Before we had even moved our stuff in we had a welcome card from one neighbor, another that came over to ask if we needed help with anything and let us know all about the neighborhood, and a third that offered to help us bring our grass back to life and that we could come over and borrow his tools any time we wanted. We feel really blessed about that. It's always a little nerve wracking moving to a new place, no one wants mean neighbors!

So to make a long story short, life in the Winkler household is all good. :)

HOME OWNERS. (still weird to say that)

Here we go...there's no turning back now! :)