"The Big House"

Last weekend we had the wonderful opportunity to stay at the "Big House" in Lead, SD with my family. Despite the bad weather...and a minor accident by me...it was a fantastic weekend. If you want to see great pictures of the place, check out "big house". It really is an amazing house...and we could move in there RIGHT AWAY if they would let us! Here is a little picture show of some of the fun we had!! :)

First, just look at this house!!! Here are the main living room, dining rooms, and the fireplace in the main room.


Here is the basement....pretty!


And the room we stayed in (in the basement) with the bathroom too. The 3rd picture is of the loft area (also had 2 bedrooms up there as well).


We had craft time (painting Easter eggs, perler beads, coloring, etc)....and of course games (playing trouble!).


It was fun being all together on Sarah's birthday too! Happy 2nd Birthday sweetie!!


On Friday, the kids all went outside to help clean off the deck...and throw snowballs at me (behind the glass door!!). Then, they went down and went sledding too! There was SO MUCH SNOW!!!


A few miscellaneous fun pictures of the kids. (1) Allison, Ryan, and Hailey on the top bunk playing. (2) Hailey's make-up done by Allison! (3) Ryan decided to use the marker on his nose instead of the paper!


We even had an Easter egg hunt! This was a lot of fun for everyone....especially Sarah! She was so cute and had a great time finding the eggs! Ryan, on the other hand, just wanted to sit and open his eggs one at a time and wasn't worried about getting more. :) The "big girls" did great too! They had their own area of the house for their eggs.



On Saturday night the kids also got to go in the hot tub. They all loved that...and the big boys had more than their share of fun (I won't post pictures of that!!).


And, in the basement was a Foosball table....that was FUN too! Ryan of course loved taking all the balls for the game and playing with them, so it was an adventure trying to find all 4 of them before we left!

We also used the self-timer on our cameras to get some pictures of our family!

What a great weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!