{Happy Birthday Baby Sam}

Today Sam celebrated his 1st birthday, he woke up at about 7.30am and I fed him.... then we got up and waited for his daddy to come home from work and his sisters to wake up so we could give him his presents.

We gave him a ride on tractor which he is way too small for but I figure his sisters can push him around on it! The girls gave him a thomas train each, we are starting early on his collection LOL I hope he takes a liking to trains. His Nan and Pop in cowra gave him a gorgeous winter outfit which will be very handy in Melbourne next week just in case it is cold. My Nana and Grandad in NZ gave him some shoes and clothes which are all just gorgeous.

Grandma and Grandad gave him toy trucks and money.

He really wasn't fazed by the whole thing. He liked the wrapping paper the best I think.

We then had our pancake breakfast which he just loved. This is the first time that he has sat at the girls table, I had to take a photo of his cute little feet that only just came to the edge of the chair :o)

After breaky I tried to take some photos of him, it was much easier when he couldn't move!

This one is my fav of the day....

He had lots of phonecalls today and even said his first hello on the phone to Nan which was pretty cute.

The rest of the day saw him sleeping and playing or wanting to be cuddled. I thought he was extra cuddly today maybe it was because I had so much to do. We had cake in the afternoon with family and friends, he was very spoilt with gifts and money.

Sam enjoying his yummy cake.

Now the cake didn't turn out at all like the picture in my head! But it tasted sooooo yumm! I just love kids birthday cake. I wanted blocks because it is probably the toy he plays the most with at the moment.

Tonight we have just had a quiet night as Salt had to go to work again. My little birthday boy went to bed at about 8.45pm all by himself for a change, but woke up at 9.30 wanting a cuddle so he is now asleep in my bed which he LOVES

I took this photo last night I wanted one last photo of him before he turned one.... as I have said Sam likes to sleep in our bed.......this was him at about 10 oclock last night. His cot is right next to our bed so I am constantly putting him back in his own bed.

Some things Sam's doing at the moment are -

Biting - he is a shocker for it.... toes he bites my toes nearly everytime I am sitting on the lounge or floor he bites... It really really hurts. I am hoping it is just because he is getting his teeth.

Climbs - on everything.

Walks - around furniture

Stands - up holding onto stuff but not by himself.

Talks - he is saying Dad, Mum (occasionally) and Hello and just general baby talk.

Eats - Everything but seems to have an intollerance to dairy :o(

Plays - with a few toys, loves playing in the kitchen cupboards and in the laundry with the clothes. Loves the toilet and the bin and climbing into the bath. Actually he just likes playing with everything he shouldn't.

Well I am off to bed it has been a huge day.

Goodnight.

{What the kids do in the school holidays}

They do alot of this

Brie & Mia are constantly playing their DS's or watching tv.

Now Sam he does alot of this..... He just loves to climb on everything.

Now he has only fallen off a few times you would think he would learn his lesson. We have put a beanbag down just in case he falls. Mia and Brie are pretty good at grabbing him down when they see him climbing.

Other than that if he isn't playing with the bin, he is in the toilet SO GROSS.....I am forever washing his hands.

{Mia got her ears pierced}

On the 14th Jan 2010 Mia finally got her ears pierced. She has been asking since she was about 4 and he Dad said she could so I took her down to the hairdressers last week and she had them done. I had been telling her that it was going to really hurt...... so she was a bit nervous. You should have seen the look on her face when the first one got pierced she didn't know whether to cry or not. I said are you all right/ and she said YES, did it hurt? Yep! Do you want the other one done YES MUM..... so she held her eyes tight shut and it was all done.

She is pretty pleased with herself and I think she looks extra cute with them in.

Forever Always is LoOkiNg FoR

Forever Always is having a New Years Cleanout….not that we are outing the old and bringing in the new, but it is time for something fresh and new. You may have noted a few changes, each of the DT family will now have a role that they are committed to each month to create on specifically.

And we are looking to adopt… So if you think you can add something special to our family on a monthly basis we want you….

Yes it’s a DT call but one with a difference… we are looking for a Cybercrop Queens and Tutorial Queens….

Requirements:
· As Cybercrop Queen – it will be your responsibility to come up with the monthly topic, and at least 2 challenges with supporting inspirational layouts. You will also be required to be present in the forum during Cybercrops.
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· Complete challenges
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Christmas Photos

This is the kids opening the presents on christmas morning at our house.

below are the photos of the kids at Kay and Jims house opening the presents.

We had a very quiet christmas as Salt was on dayshift, but the kids loved every minute of it..... they were all very spoilt of course, the presents they played with the most was pig goes pop, the seesaw and Brie just loved her Nintendo DS. Mia was pretty excited with her ipod as well on boxing day her cousin Adam downloaded a heap of games onto it so she can do more stuff with it.

Brie hasn't been for a ride on her bike yet as it is too big and she is scared.... so it looks like we will just have to put it away for a while. She really needs a new bike though as the one she is

riding is Mia's old one and the training wheels fall off all the time and it is annoying.

. The jellybaff was a huge hit, they all had so much fun with it. I don't think I would buy it again though as it is pretty messy stuff.

This is the waterslide that Salts mum brought the kids for christmas they have not stopped playing on it. I think Salt had the most fun sliding them down it at full speed. You can see the grins on there faces. Sam was just loving it.

Merry Christmas"

Well we have had a busy month doing everything and nothing LOL, I just don't know where the time goes :o( So this post has a huge amount of photos which hopefully will help me remember what we have been doing :o)
Meet Siannah Kaye, my newest little niece, isn't she just adorable. Can't wait to meet her. She was born on the 16th of Dec weighing 7p 3o
Congratulations Kristal, Mark and Alex. I am going to attempt to make her a quilt once the silly season is over.






I am love with these little petti skirts atm and brought a kit to make one..... It has gone in the 2 hard basket when Leah sent me a link on ebay to a shop who is selling them for about $20 (Heaps cheaper than the kit) including postage. I snapped this one up extra quick and I am going to get some more asap.

Mia talking at her school assembly.

Brie taking photos of Sam

Sam is 10 months old in this photo, I try to take a photo on the 19th of every month.

Our dog Banjo he has grown heaps, he is actually heaps bigger since I have taken this photo.

Sam with Daddy in the pool, he just loves the water and I can even dunk him and he comes up laughing.

These are the christmas trees I made for our Ordanment Swap over at forever always, got some gorgeous stuff back too :o) Thanks girls.

Making cupcakes, thought this was a good idea for less mess :o)

Mia and Sam playing with the ball the other day. He thought it was great.

I took the girls to the cobar pool a few weeks ago as it has a water slide and Mia was in her element she had a ball. Ever since Brie has been asking to go back to the place that has 3 pools. Brie climbed up the steps a 1000 times but wouldn't go down by herself. So I put my swimmers on and went down with her 3 times it was so much fun but it was cold :o( and Sam was being very patient waiting in his pram for us. I am going to take them back in January maybe Brie will go down by herself then.

This is my Jack for Dec and below is a LO that I did the other night when I found the template for the owl.

FA's Dec monthly sketch.

At the end of november the girls had there end of year dance concert which was great, not that I really get to see much of it as I am out the back with the girls changing there costumes. This was the first concert where I have had 2 kids in it, Brie had 2 costume changes and Mia had what felt like about 50 but was only 5 I think, when you only have a song or two to change the kids it makes it all very interesting. Friday night was heaps better than the thursday cause I knew what I was doing. The girls had a great time and tigger even made an appearance on the friday night as Brie wouldn't let him go.... it was very funny.

At the start of dec we went to Sydney for a week,

The kids had there Santa photo taken at Sonia's when we first arrived, Sam snuggled into Santa and it was so gorgeous to watch, he would have fallen asleep if he could of.

I stayed with Sonia's lovely family and we had a ball. The kids and I really enjoyed our visit and can't wait to do it again soon. This is the girls playing dress ups while we were in Sydney they had a ball in Biancas room, the rest of the photos are on Sonia's camera it was a classic.

We caught up with my sister most days at the beach as that is what the kids wanted to do they just loved the beach,

I enjoyed watching this pelican he was following the fisherman around and I wondered why the man grabbed his fish so quick, but he told me he had to be quicker than the pelican.

all Sam did was eat the sand but he did enjoy it as he just loves the water.

We also took them to see the opera house,

Brie had an awesome time climbing up all the steps and letting Bianca chase her. Mia well she looked at it and then was ready to go to the beach and sulked until we left.....

After they played on the beach at Manly we went for pizza and Mia took this photo of Sam it was so cute everytime she said "smile Sam" he would just grin at her.

I also took them shopping at Warringah Mall and they were running into people cause they were too busy looking around at everything LOL.

Sonia and I got creative at night time when the kids went to bed, she taught me how to bind which is something I have been wanting to learn. I loved it but it takes way tooooooooooooo long. The christmas runners that we made took me at least 5 hours to bind and Sonia had to end up finishing it for me LOL But I love the way it looks.

Just a bit about the kids atm too -

Mia - is 5y 8m old and has just finished her first year of Kindergarten, it is hard to believe that she is going to be in year 1 next year it all went so fast. She got a great report which we are so happy about. Mia is the youngest in her class and she even got a B in maths, and a few other subjects. Her reading is going great.... She is actually reading this as I am writing it! She told me to tell everyone that her favorite music is P!NK. She is getting really tall as well so many people comment on how tall she is. She is a great big sister to her brother and loves playing with him and helping me out with him as well. Her hair is finally starting to grow and when straight is past her shoulders now which she is pretty excited about as she wants her ears pierced and I told her that when it was past her shoulders she could... Me thinking it would take a lot longer. She is extra excited about santa coming tonight as well. I am backing it in that she is up at about 3 or 4am wanting to open presents. Mia's favorite food is wedges with sour cream and chilli sauce, Pavlova. She also loves prawns, yabbies and oysters. For christmas dinner tomorrow we are having prawns and oysters she is very happy about that.

Brie - is 3y 8m old and is very cute and very very cheeky, when she is in trouble you can not look at her cause the look she gives you makes it very hard to rouse on her. She says the funniest things as well like a few weeks ago when I roused on her for nearly breaking something she said I like your shirt mum.... I don't care Brie you shouldn't of touched it! AND your pants are nice too! The little turd. Brie is starting Preschool next year so that will be exciting for her. She can sing lots of songs, knows her ABCs and can count to 15. Her drawing is still a scribble and has know idea how to write her name but I am sure she will learn that at preschool.

She loves to watch movies/tv she will watch the same thing over and over again, she can repeat lines in movies as she is watching them. I think I will take her to see the princess and the frog when it comes out in Jan. She would love it I really think she would be happy to sit and watch it. She still takes tigger everywhere with her as well. She is my best sleeper and is always happy to go to bed at night and likes to sleep in. Her favorite food at the moment is peanut butter sandwiches.

Sam -is 11 months old, he is extra gorgeous and extra spoilt..... atm he is crawling and climbing on everything. He is still breastfed and will eat everything and anything that we are eating, as soon as the girls have anything to eat he is straight up to them wanting some. They are pretty good at sharing with him. He loves bananas, jam on toast for breakfast. He had christmas ham for lunch today. He has 4 teeth two up the top and two done the bottom. He likes to bite as well which really hurts I hope he snaps out of that soon. I will get him weighed and measured next month when he has his 1yo needles. He likes playing with blocks and pulling stuff out of cupboard repeatedly LOL.

He isn't the best sleeper but over the last week I have been trying to get him to go to sleep by himself he is getting better. Last night he didn't even cry as I finally found a CD with hush little baby on it and so far he has gone down twice with it playing and I don't hear any crying. He loves you singing it to him when he needs to go to sleep. He can say Dad Dad Dad, bub bub and hello, he chatters to himself alot too. He likes to wrestle with Salt which is pretty cute to watch. He is just a gorgeous little boy and is quite placid and into everything. He is such a cuddly little boy too which I just love.

I hope everyone has a great christmas and all the best for 2010.

Hugs Amie xx

{Sunday News}

Lots has been happening this week with Sam, he is starting to do lots of new things like pulling himself up on the couch and stand there until he falls over..... He thinks he is pretty clever too.

On wednesday afternoon he started saying Bub and is now saying Dad as well.

Last weekend I did the santa hat photoshoot Sam and Mia were happy to pose but as usual Brie just didn't want to be in it!

Check out my cheeky little monster at 10pm the other night he just did not want to go to sleep.

How cute is this!!! I found this blog who shared a fab tutorial on how to make them. It is so cute, Brie actually tried to eat it.....

Not much else happening here this weekend. Lots of swimming in the pool. Salt brought a baby galah home from work last night that he found. So the girls think that is pretty good.

My SIL Kristal has some great new designs for christmas cards on her site so go and check them out... Tell her I sent you!!!

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday everyone :o)

{Scrapping Christmas Decorations Tutorial}

MIDMONTH TUTORIAL FOR FOREVER ALWAYS
Last week I was browsing throught the christmas ezibuy catalogue and saw these great christmas words that you can hang on the tree...... The scrapper in me imediatley thought I can make them with all my chipboard letters that I have :o)

You will need:

Alphas

Glitter/Kindyglitz

Dimensional magic

Ink -

string/ribbon/fishing line.... what ever you wish to use to hang it on your tree.

Step 1.

Get out the letters you wish to use.

Step 2. Ink them up with what ever colour theme your tree is :o) I used silver as I didn't have gold or red :o(

Step 3. Join your word together so each letter is touching. Cover with Dimensional magic, it will join at each letter where it touches. It will be messy!!!!!

Now sprinkle HEAPS of glitter on the dimensional magic and let it dry for 24 hours at least.

I think the Dimensional Magic is the best thing to use as it does give it dimension where as kindyglitz is a bit flat once it dries.

These are my finished words, I still need to put something on them to hang them from the tree but seen as it isn't the 1st of December yet!!!!

but here are the photos from the catalogue for you to see how good they look. I noticed BigW has them in there catalogue too.

I am going to make some with our names on them as well I think they would look good as well, something different from the name bauble.

Enjoy making these for your family.... handmade decorations are great :o)

Thanks Amie xx

{Just a few more photos}

These are the LO's I did for the Forever Always cybercrop the other weekend.

And here are a few more photos of Sam being a great little poser for me.

You can see his 2 bottom teeth in this photo, can't wait to print it and scrap it :o)

I will have to get the santa hats out and do a santa shoot for this year.

Not much else happening here. Sam has been a bit off this week I think he is getting more teeth, he has had a few temps and all the other good stuff that comes with teething.

We are off to Dubbo again this weekend for my cousins 21st. Should be a great night.

I have a LO in this months scrapbooking memories magazine it is for the Showcase using My 2 Angels. It was pretty stuff to work with :o)

Enjoy the rest of the week everyone :o)

{Stuff}

On monday Salt took the girls out the bush with him for the day, it was so quiet with just Sam and I. He took the camera with him to take some photos of them in the oats crop. Very cute I would love to dress them up and take them out there again but it is about an hour away :o(

I took these photos of Sam yesterday morning, He is getting harder to photograph as now he just wants to grab things so is always moving about...

Sam is really hard to bath atm as he wont lay down in the bath. He just wants to sit up. The girls were having a shower yesterday morning and I put this tub in the shower and let it fill up. He fits in their perfectly and looks so cute he had a lovely time.

Sam has started to sit up all by himself he gets on his hands and knees and pushed himself up until he is sitting up. You can tell he is pretty happy with himself every time he does it. It is all fun and games until he topples over and hits his head.

Sams eyes have changed colour in the last month I was looking at them the other day and thought Oh how cute you are going to have brown eyes. We all have hazel... I think they are going to be a medium brown.

Over the last week I have been scrapping up a storm I have just been in the mood to scrap which has been great, I have so many photos to get through. Sams album is pretty much up to date which is great.

We are off to Dubbo this weekend for a friends wedding, my aunty is looking after the kids so they will have a great time with her. Sam has had a few bottles of formula this week as well so I am pretty sure he will drink a bottle for her..... well heres hoping.

I can't believe how quick the school holidays are going.... We have been having a lovely time just relaxing, enjoying not having to do anything, no rushing around in the mornings. The girls have been to the town pool a few times it is sooooo cold but they have a quick swim and are ready to go home again in about 15mins.

OMG Brie put Mia's DS in the bath this morning I can't believe it as soon as I saw it she knew she was in trouble. I told her that she had wrecked it now and it wouldn't work.... She told me to put it on the charger that will fix it! I am hoping that it will work once it dries out, when I washed my mobile the other day it started working again after a few days.

Here is the LO we did at last nights recipe scrap, I really love it and can't wait to get the cupcake papers out again and make more flowers. I think they look great.

{Lazy Day Skirts}

The lovely Mel Goodsell is having a little sewing party on her blog this week, atm there are 70 something people participating in making these gorgeous little skirts. They are sew sew easy to make and I made these 2 yesterday morning in about 2 and a 1/2 hours. I brought the fabric from spotlight on the weekend and it just looks gorgeous in these little skirts. The girls are pretty happy with their new outfits too :o)

Also I hope you all come and join me on wednesday night for the recipe scrap, and then again on Thursday for Forever Always monthly Cybercrop. Here are some sneaks of my LO's from the challenges. Why not come and join us over the weekend to play. Bingo is on Saturday night and is always lots of fun.

Have a great day!

Amie xx

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Recipe Scrap 14th October 2009

Last wednesday night some lovely girls joined me over at Forever Always to create this LO. It was a fly by the seat of my pants LO as I hadn't even completed it at the time. We all love how it turned out and it really got my mojo flowing to start Bries 3rd birthday LO.

So join me again next week to scrap this planned LO

(click on the photo it will take you straight to the forum)

You will need
1 Photo 6 x 8 landscape orientation (again I have used a collaged photo.)
1 sheet of cardstock
1 Piece of patterned paper
Alphas for title
Journalling pen
3 different colours cupcake papers - Yes what you use for cooking cupcakes
1 button
1 heart
kindyglitz, paint or glimmermist...
1 or 2 chipboard numbers depending on the age It is only a little one this time
Now this LO will look good for boys and girls so come and join me next wednesday night at 8.30pm
Amie xx

{October Already & Photos}

I can't believe how fast this year is going..... There is only something like 82 sleeps until christmas and then before I know it Sam will be one. We have been quite busy last month, we had Mia's last game of soccer. I celebrated my 31st birthday..... I had a lovely morning with the family and then went to another friends house where we had pancakes for morning tea YUMMO. Then we went to Orange to do our tax, Mia had her soccer presentation that weekend as well and she received the coaches award which she was pretty happy about. Now she wants to play cricket OMG I just want to stay home....last weekend we went to Dubbo for my Aunty's 50th, Salt had a great night. I went home at 9 with the kids as it was sooooo cold. I had a fringe cut and can't believe how much younger I look! Don't know what I had been thinking for the last year or so. Sam has started to do so much stuff.... he got his first tooth on the 23 Sept, not that I would have known, we were at dancing and Kristin was holding him and he was chewing on her finger as he does to everyone!!! And she said Amie he has a tooth - NO he doesn't was my reply. Yes he does.......... NO he doesn't..............anyway she was right and the little turd has been biting me OUCH. He is starting to crawl getting up on those hands and knees and just rocking. He can drag himself along the floor now and is quick I turn my head for a second and he is across the room. Talk about trying to keep the house tidy. He is forever putting stuff in his mouth that the girls leave lying around, Brie thought she would give him a 20c piece the other day so that was a fun experience NOT.

School holidays started this afternoon I just love school holidays . I hate having to rush Mia around in the mornings. She told me when she came home from school today that she isn't getting out of bed tomorrow she is just so tired.

She is going really well at school, her reading and writing is improving, in the last few days she has been trying to write sentences all by herself it is really quite funny to see how she thinks things are spelt.

Brie is going really well, she is ever so cheeky and adorable. The other day one of the kids toys started singing and Brie said MUM THATS THE MUSIC THAT COMES OUT OF SAMS SOCKS!!!!!

I laughed so much because I knew she was talking about sam being in his jolly jumper. He has a music mat under him and it was the same music..... so cute. She has her Dad wrapped around her finger like you wouldn't believe. He just can't say no to her. She went to work with him this afternoon even after he had said no 5 times LOL.

The pool opens this weekend and Mia is just busting to go it is going to be freezing but it is such a kid thing to want to go to the pool as soon as it opens.

We are in the process of getting the plans drawn up for the house... OMG I will be so glad when it is all over and we have only just started :o(

Ok now for a few photos,

My Birthday morning


The pancake cake tradition ( I have a new pancake maker)

Sam being cheeky for the camera

My new fringe

My beautiful Mia posing like a good little girl

Mia and Sam

Now do you think I can get a nice photo of the 3 of them. They are ratbags one is always playing up two guess for WHO.

Sam at 8 months old

My first attempt at applique (Spell??)

Sam loves his walker

Brie with the sparklers at Aunty Julies 50th

This is a new sign up at our Local Caravan Park - my girls are in one of the photos Just a bit exciting for them. Salts sister actually took the photo of the river in the bottom right hand corner.

And lastly 2 photos that I took of Sam yesterday morning. He is so cute I just love him so much and just don't want him to grow up I wish they could stay babies forever.

I am sure there is heaps more stuff that I should be writing down but I just can't think of it atm.

I am off to bed.

Have a great long weekend everyone. We are staying home as Salt is working as usual LOL.

{retromummy}

I have just been doing the rounds of my favourite blogs and Corrie is have a very generous giveaway on her blog so go leave a comment..... Goodluck.

Recipe Scrap with Renae

Renae has some gorgeous sneak peak up in the forum so come and join her tonight to scrap up a stunning page.
INGREDIENTS
cardstock (i've used yummy bazzill swiss dot...mmm)
24cm x 18cm die cut or cut out paper
large tag (with string or ribbon for loop)
6 x 4 portrait photo
25cm string
25cm ribbon (thin)
20cm (length) x 12cm (height) bottom right corner of a shield type shape patterned/plain paper.(hope thats not too confusing an explanation so just ask if not sure)
journal pen
stamped image cut out and raise mount it on a circle (circle approx 5cm diameter)
alpha title
book page or similar paper 6cm x 10 cm and chipboard to frame it or make your own frame for it
diecut embellie to suit page medium size
staples
rubons...something in a straight line small and appox 15cm long.
Now this may sound like a lot of ingredients but its all really bibs and bobs and one of my fav all time layouts i've been saving for a special occasion
So come and join Renae here tonight around 8pm to play.
In other Forever Always news

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What else has been happening in our lives???


This is the kids this morning all snug in my bed watching tv. So cute.... Sam is a quick learner he is starting to smile as soon as I pull the camera out got to love that being a scrappaholic LMAO.


Mia and Brie went to their first disco a few weeks ago, it was a halloween theme and they dressed up as witches. Brie just loved every minute of it. Mia was a bit shy and said it was a bit noisy but had a good time mostly. I don't think it was what she expected.

Some scrapping that I did for the newsletter, I think these are the first LO's I have done in what seems like months.

A few weeks ago I wanted to get a few photos of the kids now why is it that 2 will cooperate and 1 wont! Brie was in fine form and wasn't having a bar of it. This is the one photo I got of the 3 of them I still love it though cause she is just so gorgeous LOL. She has a mind of her own and not one bit of bribery works to get her to do something she doesn't want too. Mia on the other hand I could always bribe LOL. She is just well practiced now and poses for me whenever.

So I ended up with some gorgeous photos of Mia and Sam.

Mia enjoying some soccer at Gilgandra a few weeks ago. Last week she got the most improved trophy again which she was pretty happy about. On saturday we go to Cobar for our last game of soccer. I will look forward to my saturday sleep ins again.

Sam in the last week has turned into a rolly polly baby. He loves it, it is really cute to see him trying to get around on the floor. I cann see him getting stronger in his arms everyday so it won't be long and he will be crawling. He is going to be 8 months old next week and I know I say it all the time but I can't believe how quick it is going. He went into his cot on the 1st of september and is slowly getting used to it. He likes to be cuddled to sleep or at least know that your in the room. It is like having Mia all over again, he has the same sleep patterns as her sleep for about 4omins - 1hr about 3 - 4 times a day and she liked sleeping in our bed too. Brie was the best she would sleep for 3 hours straight during the day and all night and would not ever sleep in our bed if she ever woke in the night I would have to rock her back to sleep on the l0unge.

I can't remember if I have mentioned this on here but we have brought a block of land and are going to be building a house on it over the next few years I say over because Salt is building it himself and it is going to take ages. But today we brought out shed to put up and I am a bit excited cause once it is up I can put our house on the market and move into the shed as it is a 21 square she which is heaps bigger than our house we live in now. Not that it will be for living anyway only maybe a 1/3 of it will be made to live in but at least we will have space to store every thing else.