The latter part of vacation week was mostly for productive work.  We cleaned out the entire garage which was quite the project, but I find these kinds of jobs done as a team with my hubby are always enjoyable.  As you'll see in the above pic, the kids wore their rollerblades as they worked so it was half fun/half work for them!

Selife stick pictures after a delightful afternoon walk:

Here's our first Skype meeting with the Grahams to begin the plan on the new house.  I am posting this on Jan 23 so everything is complete now, but I wanted to document our first official meeting.  We had about 3 of these 90+ minute Skype calls with them to work out the layout of the house and we had such a fun time doing it.  I can't believe we get to do this project with our amazing friends!  We definitely would not consider building a house otherwise!

The children have fire duty in the mornings and are able to get beautiful fires going in the fireplace all on their own!

Homeschooling at it's best :)

Lucia loves to crawl into bed with Alexia to read books: