Random Things

Another week past, and I still feel like I am playing catch up with everything. We had a wonderful weekend of swimming and unpacking. There were requests of more house pictures, so here they are. This is our eating area. The french door open onto a patio, and they both open, so it is a huge opening. It was nice when furniture was being moved in! Looking from the table into the living room. I am still working on the placement of things, and furniture, so it is always changing, but this is the general idea. I want to paint, Chris says leave it red and move this furniture to the other empty half of the house, and get new stuff in here. We will see, all in due time!

My Mother's day present. We have been without a grill since we moved to Georgia, so almost 3 years. First, how did we last that long without one, and second, has it been almost 3 years???

Just a very cute picture of Jed!

Busy, Busy, Busy

We have had an eventful past week with the move and Chris being gone for work, so I am now just catching up. We are now in the house and are thrilled with the space. We are still working on getting everything in the right place, but are very excited. The kids have a play room(below) that is doubling as a guestroom(so come visit!) that is a life saver. At night I just shut the door and we are good. No clean up necessary. Grace and Jed are again sharing a room.
Olivia has her own room. She thinks she is hot stuff now because she can open doors. We have the door handles that you just pull down, so I pretty much hate them. She goes into the bathroom and gets the stool, and then takes it to all the rooms and turns the lights on. What a helper.
Otherwise we are doing well. One funny story, the other night we were getting ready for bed, and Jed had just put his pajama bottoms on. He had no shirt on and he looks at me and says "Look, I am a Lamanite!" Confused, I asked why he was a Lamanite, and he said it was because he had not shirt on. In the pictures they don't wear shirts, so it makes sense in the 3 year old mind!

Swimming (in April!)

A few days ago, the kids and I were walking/riding our bikes around the parking lot at the apartment. We decided we wanted to put our feet in the pool water. It turned out the water was pretty warm, so yesterday we went swimming. The kids had a blast, and were really good about listening and being careful. Olivia shaking like a dog.
Grace shaking like a dog.

Jed shaking like a dog.

Grace jumping in. It only came up to her armpits.

Just being cute!

Too bad we are moving in 3 days, so no more pool, but we did buy a pass to the city pool, so we will get all the swimming we want!

Easter Pictures

The kids had a wonderful Easter. The bunny brought simple baskets, but totally scored with them. Who know the dollar bins could be so fun. This is the best picture I could get of the three of them. Of course Olivia did not want to cooperate. Once again, Olivia did not want to stand still, so here she is running away from me.

Jed being super fly with his hands in his pockets and handsome boy shirt on. He loved his new shoes and belt!

Grace is the prettiest 5 year old ever. She loved her pretty dress and how it looked when she twirled. I can't believe how big they are all getting.

A big shout out and thank you to Grandma for all the Easter outfits. They were perfect!

Easter Egg Hunt

Today was our ward's Easter Egg hunt and the kids were so excited to get there. I am in primary, so I had to be there early to set up, so they were tortured and had to wait a bit until all the eggs were sorted and hidden for 3 different age groups. Chris went with Grace and Jed while I stayed with Olivia in the nursery age group. Olivia didn't understand at first, but once we started, she was all about it. I had to take her to the side and let her have her basket once she reached her limit. No pictures since Chris had the camera.

I do have a picture of her fully enjoying her ice cream and strawberries we had for dessert the other night. This way of eating it is much more efficient.

Fun for all (except Olivia)

On Monday as I was putting all the stuff away from our Georgia weekend, the kids found the empty suitcase. They decided they were going to play in it and go to "Timbuktu". Grace would lock Jed in and fully zip it, and then try to tip it up or over and go on a trip. It was fun that lasted for hours. This is Grace taking her turn. Jed isn't quite as strong, but she had some short trips to Timbuktu. Also, her hair would get caught in the zipper. Jed was actually very nice and tried to be careful.

Olivia thought she wanted a turn, but as it was being zipped, she thought different. Here she is getting our as fast as she can while screaming!

News

We are going to Georgia to do some more work on the house this weekend, hopefully a few minor improvements will make it sell (as well as praying a lot!) It has now been raining for a week straight, and my kids are going crazy. We have little room here, so we are anxious to get to a new place.

Like this one. We are buying this house when ours sells and are renting it until that happens. We are moving in the end of this month and are very excited. It has over 2 times the space. I think our family relations will improve with the ability to spread out a little. Perhaps less fighting between little ones?