This was the view from the front door last May. The driveway is on the right and a grassy area with apple trees and one plum tree are on the left (out of the picture). Rhododendron, lavender, roses, mint and some kind of mallow (not marshmallow!), lambs ear, are some of the plants in front there.

Finally here are the beginning of the pictures of the house. This was taken last May. The window with the light on is the boys' room. The one right next to it is Mom and Dad's room. Sarah's is directly behind the boys' across the hall. The living room is on the left hand side of the front door in the front and the kitchen behind that. The garage doesn't show in this pictures but is still further left. In between the living room and the garage is the schoolroom.

I hope to enter pictures room by room with before, during and after pix. Some of the rooms haven't changed much and the garage is now quite full where it was quite empty when we moved in!

I finally captured that mischievious look Isaac gets now and then. He is 7 1/2 mo in this picture, under the apple tree in the front yard. At the time of this picture he can stand with legs spread apart and shakily stays a minute or so before he falls kerplop! on his bottom. Now he has taken a few steps. Usually 2 or 3 at a time but I saw him take 6 (tiny ones) and Benjamin saw him take 8!

I'm still working on getting pictures of our house in order and labled and then scannned onto our computer. Then I hope to get some new pix for this blog. Meanwhile if you want to read about some happenings around our place, Mountainstream Acres, see my other blog www.homeschoolblogger.com/imlne/