Moving On...

Hey there everyone! There's a lot going on in the Banta household - as usual :)

We are MOVING!!! We buried a statue of St. Joseph in our front yard and continued praying for our house to sell. And it just wasn't selling so we decided one Sunday to take it off the market. That night we had a realtor call and say they wanted to show the house the next day so we decided it couldn't hurt. Then on Monday another realtor called and wanted to show it Wednesday. And they were the ones! We got a super great offer and we accepted! We spent about 2 weeks looking at houses and finally decided a home in Ankeny would be a beautiful and perfect place for our family to live! It's a ranch on a corner lot - tons of space and an awesome fenced yard. 4 Bedrooms, 3 baths and a 3 car garage. We love it and can't wait to move in!! Move date is January 12 if anyone wants to come help - the more the marrier:)
Here's a few pics of the main floor living are and kitchen and back yard.

It's in a great family neighborhood with parks and quiet streets and an elementary school just blocks away. We really feel it's going to be a great place to raise our babies. Now we just have to get the time to fly by so we can move in!

The kids are doing really great! Silas is moving along at a rapid pace - he crawls all over and is now pulling himself up to standing on the furniture and his little musical table. He's a good little guy and he's (mostly) always happy and a joy to be around. His big smile is so awesome and super contagious and his laugh could make the crabbiest person smile!
He finally cut some teeth - he's got two on the bottom and one that's about ready to break through on the top. He's gotten really good with the pincher grasp and can finally feed himself cheetos and puffs and cheerios. He will disappear out of your site in no time and most of the time we find him in Libby's room playing with the toys. He's a curious little man.
Libby is hilarious! She is still talking 100 miles per hour and just full of energy. She's learning to share with her brother although most of the time it's still a struggle. She's playing with her babydolls a lot - rocking them and cleaning them and putting them to bed. She's a motherly little hen. She tried to put Silas' diaper on him the other night and it was the cutest funniest thing ever. Tonight she wanted to feed him so I let her give him a bite of his peas. They both thought that was the greatest thing! We Skyped with Katie and Mike tonight and she told them a story "Once upon a time there was a ghost behind a tree." She looked around the room and spotted the washer in the bathroom and said, "he went to the washer to get clean." Or something like that! It was pretty funny.
She told aunt Katie she wants a purple dragon costume for Christmas - haha!
We went to see Santa on Saturday. She did not like him and would not sit on his lap. So we got a family picture with him which is not what we wanted, but we do what we can, right?! She did tell him from afar that she wants princess shoes :)
Thanksgiving was last week and we had a great time with the family. Two days with Grandma Sandy and Grandpa Den and the whole family on Thursday. Then two days at Oma and Opas and the whole family there! And on the way home we stopped and saw Papa Lou! It was a busy but really nice long weekend.
I need to get pics and videos off the camera so I don't have any of the babes right now but I will post soon!

Love ya all!!