Spring Fun

Taking turns and sharing with Cousin Ella!

Well, sort of....

Big Guys, and Little Guys!

Something has changed on blogger and I can't move my pictures around anymore. This is very annoying and time consuming. I need to know what pictures I want to use, then download them in order from last to first. Then, write the text. Not even kidding...

Nothing in my life, is even close to being that organized!

I've gotta talk to someone...

Wrapping up May

Well, it's official, May is over and it is Summer Vacation.

Ummm, yeah ??

Catelin passed third grade with flying colors.

Thursday was Honors Day, when each child is recognized, by their teacher, for their hard work during the school year.

Catelin was on the A-B honor roll every semester, had perfect attendance, earned the Presidential Physical Fitness Award and received a medal for earning over 100 points in the Accelerated Reader Program. Only the kids who earned over 100 points received a medal. She had 110.7 points

Yeah, Catelin!!!!!!!!

Catelin with her teacher, Mrs. Blackburn. (She wouldn't let me take a picture of her wearing her medal!)



Alexander got a haircut this week:

BEFORE

AFTER This was Alex after his haircut. Stunned.

This was Alex after I told him not to worry, it WILL grow back. And then Mommy will take you to the "girly-place" again.

What Limb?

At 7:00 pm last Thursday the kids and I were hanging out in the backyard. Alex was playing tractors in the dirt and Catelin was turning cartwheels.

Suddenly, Catelin remembered Friday was "puzzle day" at school. Everyone was supposed to bring a puzzle.

Of course, we do not even own one puzzle! Tears began, whining continued, etc, etc... 'she'll be the only one without a puzzle, she won't get to play, life ruined, etc...'

After a few minutes the guilt got to me. There wasn't really any reason we couldn't go back out, I just didn't want to.

We pulled Alex out of the dirt and we piled into the car and went looking for Dollar Tree or someplace to get a puzzle.

("NOT a baby one and it can't be more than 300 pieces, and I want it to have a dog....")

About 7:40 we cruised back home, crisis averted. The day would not be ruined, we had a 300 piece dog puzzle.

Mark asks from the back deck, "When did this happen?"

Me: "What happen?"

Mark: "That Limb, that fell."

Me: "Huh, WHAT limb??"

THIS LIMB!

In the 30-ish minutes that we were gone the top broke off one of the trees. And it fell down into the backyard.

RIGHT WHERE ALEX HAD BEEN PLAYING IN THE DIRT!!!

If you look closely you can see 2 green John Deere tractors in the leaves.

The view from the deck.

Hmmmmmmm........

Hoppy Easter!!

It was a beautiful day today! Happy Easter and Happy Spring to everyone.

Mad hula hoop skilz...

The easter egg hunt...

sometimes you need a little help.

True to form; Alex spent more time worrying about the plastic grass falling out of his basket!

Happy kiddos!

Still Kickin' Down Here!

Well, we are moved in to the new house!

The carpets are no longer perfectly clean, the kitchen vinyl has black scuff marks, the microwave needs cleaned, sink is full of dirty dishes and there are dirty hand prints along the wall in the stairs.
Almost every door in the house has a childproof doorknob lock. "We're hooomme..."

It is nice to have so much space for everyone to spread out with their stuff.
As I sit in our bedroom, there are NO TOYS scattered on the floor. Rule #1 in the New House: No toys in Mommy and Daddy's room!

Rule #2 is: TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES! And yes, it is usually yelled after the stupid orange, wet, sticky, clay/dirt is tracked across the beige carpet. This is a rule I would love to strictly impose, but it is very hard for all of us to remember!

I can't imagine why they even sell carpets in GA that are any colors other than dark brown, red or orange. Maybe black.... except what would the green pollen look like tracked in on black carpet?

Skip the black carpeting idea...

The backyard fence is finished, Alexander and Abbey (puppy) are very happy. It looks great.
We have furniture coming this week for the family room downstairs and hopefully the satellite will be hooked up by next week. The kids are missing their 'electronic nanny'.
Catelin may be in Disney-Withdrawal. I'm pretty sure that is a real diagnosis.

I say we are moved in, and we are fully functioning, but there are still many-many-many boxes to be gone through. Therefore, we still can't get a car in the garage. And there has been no decorating at all.
How can you decorate without furniture or curtains? So, it's really out of my hands at this point..... uh, huh... **nodding head**

I cannot even contemplate all the boxes that are in Mom's garage. We'll have to fetch those this summer.
"I can't think about that right now... If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow."
Name that movie!

I will try to get some new pictures of the kids up this week.
We'll talk to you all soon.

Busyness

I know, I know. No new posts. Just what the heck do I do all day anyway? I should have plenty of time to blog.

We closed on the house Friday. Mom and Catelin started boxing up toys and books today. The movers will be here next Friday to move the furniture over to the new house.

The utilities are all taken care of and two fence companies have come to give estimates for a fence. Wow, fences are expensive!! And, here we were complaining that the backyard wasn't that big...

So, everything is rolling right along. We can't wait to get settled and get back into a routine. It just seems like everything has been crazy for a couple months now. We have all passed-around a stomach flu and cold virus. Even The Big Puppy was sick for a few days.

The Big Puppy is now called Abbey. Abbey and Alex are going to be best buddies. He just thinks she is great. She will probably be housebroken before Alex is potty trained.

The glamour of puppy ownership has worn off for Catelin, as she realized that she would actually be expected the help care for Abbey. *gasp*
A puppy is alot of work and you have to take them outside and walk around the yard with them and you have to play with them and feed them. WHO KNEW....

Well, better wrap it up for the evening and get some sleep. I may have to go hunt up some more boxes for packing tomorrow!

New Home!

It rained the whole morning of our inspection, of course.

Driveway-end of house.

The redwood deck is off of the breakfast area.

Front Door. Dining room is to the left. Hallway to right leads to bedrooms. Living room behind me.

Living Room, with Breakfast area to right. Gas fireplace.

Dining Room, this is the bay window you see on the front of the house.

Breakfast area, door leads out onto the deck. To the right is the kitchen.

Kitchen, looking into the breakfast room.

Kitchen from breakfast room. At the end is the laundry room. Thru the doorway is the dining room.

We are not really digging the green formica countertops, but it will be easy enough to change when we're ready.

Family room in the basement. Wet bar. Thru the door is the bathroom.
Catelin is playing a slot machine.

(Please Lord, make them come back and get the slot machine...)

Wet bar area.

This is the other end of the family room. The door out to the backyard is on my left. Thru that door is a bedroom. Around the corner to the right is the garage entrance, stairs up and another bed room on the front of the house.