Cinco de Mayo

We love celebrating, and if it includes Mexican food, we are ALL in!  After hiding and doing cannon balls in the moving paper, Savvy picked out every ones outfit 

 once we were all properly dressed she had us do a parade around the house, this cinco de Mayo was serious business

                                                               Here's our fancy shoes

                                                        and Michael's famous guacamole

               we partied so hard Cohen fell asleep on the floor, with swords for protection of course...

I'm baaack

Oh Oh OH!  It feels so good to be back blogging, almost two weeks without Internet and so much to catch up on.  We have moved into our new place and I'm so excited to say that I'm loving it. I had my doubts at first, but seem to love it more everyday.  Having the kids pictures on the walls, our beds, our dishes...it feels good.  

We moved on a Monday and Michael took off work to help.  I took the older kids to school then Caleb and I headed to our "old" place to finish cleaning and make sure we didn't forget anything.  It was 9 (the time the movers were supposed to arrive) and I had the old house clean, keys on the table, ready to go, pick up Caleb to head out the door and he has a dirty diaper.  I run to the van to get his diaper bag and come back to a locked house....with Caleb inside.  I freaked....like picked up a rock to break a window freaked!  Caleb was standing at the top of the stairs, with no gate up because I had just taken it down, staring at me.  Long story short, the baby was rescued.  My neighbor was home, we found a key, a broken heart not a window.  

By 10 he didn't even remember the traumatizing morning.  He stayed in here playing for almost 45 minutes (which is several days in Caleb time)

Getting our stuff was just as exciting as Christmas

 But let me say that moving with kids is just CrAzY. They have so much stuff...  This is savvy's room, her bed is out, dresser is put up, clothes are put up, all toys are downstairs and still all of these boxes are stuff for her room.  After getting some great advice, I unpacked the kids rooms first and tried to make it look just like home.  Savvy does miss her pink walls though:(

 I had a sweet friend call and ask if she could get some people to bring us dinner during the week.  I had a strong no, I told her I didn't have a baby and no one died, I felt silly having someone bring us food. Well she still did it and hands down this was probably one of the most appreciated meals we have ever had.  Moving is hard:)

 I think this video might shine a little light oh how the moved affected us.  Warning:  we get goofy when were exhausted

Wednesday

It's been the little things today that have made us laugh.  Like Cohen hula-a-hooping...naked

                    Watching a gorilla play the drums on you tube

 Photo booth.  It doesn't matter how many pictures we take, they still get me.  I was looking through all that we had taken and was crying from laughing so hard... these aren't even the best.  I will save them for a day I really need a pick me up :)

And finally the kids saw the "Charlie bit me" video and this is what happened afterwards

Weekend

Michael got some snow shoes and wanted to try them out before all the snow melted, so off we were.  I feel like I need a "What in the world is going on" for Michael.  I never know where he will take us.

Don't, I repeat don't challenge Cohen to a snow ball fight

 On our way home we stopped by Michael's boss' house and the kids got to ride one of his horses....this made me a bit nervous but they loved it

 Caleb didn't ride, this was just for pictures

 this picture might need some explanation :)  There is an organization here called Mom's Network and this is the second year they had a mom prom.  I borrowed a homemade dress from 1991, pulled out my bright pink lipstick, blue eyeshadow and danced, danced and yes danced!  It was so much fun, my legs are sore this morning and I will be back next year.

 Sunday was such a beautiful day, we had the neighbors over for dinner, ugh, I'm going to miss this street so much.  We will be leaving in a week and I'm SO excited to get our stuff, AND SLEEP IN MY BED, but I'm sad that the kids won't be able to run next door to play

 Lemonade stand...they sold out!!!  Savvy was yelling "lemonade 5 cents" Then Cohen would yell "free lemonade"  My entrepreneur and social butterfly

:)

What in the What?

I was brushing my teeth this morning when Cohen walked in with tape over his mouth. I asked "what in the world is going on" He tried to smile and walked off. I finished brushing and wondered how many times a day I say that. Then the brilliant idea hit me, today I'm going to try and take pictures of every time I would say it. So here goes a day of our wonderful chaos.All the dinosaurs had a bath in the morning
then all got stuffed in this later
These are teeth marks in the half of the cantaloupe
Cohen panced Caleb which got major giggles from all parties
Cohen left the house in my sweater.... excuse me.... his cape
These are just thrown in because It's way to cute to see the kids with a puppy, his name is Charlie

Then Caleb walked over, got my bottle of water and poured it on himself
pretty girl was doing an interpretive dance of "Twinkle Twinkle little star" this was the end
then the night was ended with cannonballs on the bed

Rocks in my pockets

Cohen is in love with collecting things, particularly rocks. If we have been outside for 5 minutes I know his pockets will be full of goodies to add to his collection. They have names, are loved and get bath's. He told Michael that "he bathes them so much because they are precious to him." This is how I found him and "the precious" the other day
today I found a cup with 10 rocks and filled with honey. I didn't even ask:)