May 1st - 16th, 2014

Hello Everyone!

An update on our house transition is below...

But before I get into that, I've thought for a long time of using one whole blog post of what a typical weekday at home is like for us. But, since our routine is going to be changing I decided to take some time to post some things that we do at home to keep ourselves busy and learn. The boys learn about the world around them and I learn more about what it means to be a mom. :)

We swing on trees...

We take care of our kitty and play with him...

 We get to attend Story Time at the library... (last time we went to the fire station)

 We play in the sand...

 We do puzzles...(and make weird faces)

 We do activities...(like practicing our scissor skills) 

 We ride our bikes (a lot) up and down the driveway).... and we pretend to mow the lawn (a lot) :)

 We eat oatmeal...almost every morning...(not usually with chocolate chips) 

 We do more mowing...and work on our tan...

 We go swimming on our deck...

 We sometimes give the babysitters a hair cut in exchange for babysitting...(yes, he is holding his own hair I just cut off!)

 This week we went strawberry picking...

 Blake and Seth have asked at least once per week for the past year when it's time to go strawberry picking. Their dream finally came true. They can eat one for every two they put in the basket. Thankfully, the farmer doesn't mind the kids "grazing" as we pick. I offered to weigh the boys before and after we did our picking and pay for the difference, but they declined. :)

We picked over 40 pounds this season!

 After we fall asleep at night, Daddy checks on us every night and we are very tired...  :)



News

The past two weeks have been a whirl wind around here. Along with deciding on and going under contract with our next house, we have done some traveling. We've been to Virginia Beach and Newport News, VA and Dayton, TN and points in between to celebrate two graduations and one anniversary...ours! Six years! The happiest of my life. 

Me and Owie at Regent University where Micah's sister, Hannah, graduated.


House update....We have found a house! If all goes as planned, we will be moving out of our little house on Gurney St in 15 days!! 

 We have officially started packing! 

Sometimes I wonder why we keep toys at all. Between, dirt, sticks and cardboard boxes the boys can be perfectly happy for a long time. :)

I'm excited about moving to a some more space and yet going to miss our little place a lot! So many memories. I have so enjoyed it these past four years. This will likely be the last post I do while we are still in our Gurney St. house. Maybe next time I post I'll have pictures of our new house and probably more moving pictures. Did I mention the new place has 2 acres?! I'm looking forward to telling you more about it in our next post.


Funnies

While strawberry picking Seth announced after about 15 min of the pick-two-eat-one policy, "Mom, I have an idea. How about you pick and I eat." :)

I wish I could post the video of this, but at one of the graduations we went to Seth had a funny incident. After we were seated a man came around with a bucket of candy. Seth picked out a nice big piece in a wrapper. He opened it and popped the whole thing in his mouth. Suddenly, he got a shocked look on his face and spit it out as fast as he could...turned out to be a pencil eraser! You should have seen his bottom lip drop. Poor fellow, had never seen such a colorful eraser before. :) Luckily, Daddy had a spare piece of candy at the ready.



Thanks again for your prayers for us about our house transition. We still have a few more steps to get through (inspections, appraisals, etc.), but we are getting closer and things are looking good. Thank you, Lord.  

Have a good weekend!

Kari, Micah, Blake, Seth and Owen