Our good friend Emilie sent us Flat Stanley for a school project. Stanley helped us move and then went about our day-to-day life with us. He baked brownies with Rylee, ate a cupcake with Taylee (for her birthday), did homework with Treyson and went to pre-school with Abree. He's probably been on greater adventures, but we were glad he came to visit us. ---Emilie, if Stanley hasn't made it back to you yet...he's on his way!
It seems like our life is always busy around Taylee's birthday. Many times we've been on a trip and a few times we've moved. I don't know why, but life is busy around April 29th. This year was no exception. Being in the middle of a move and not being able to be in our new house all day (floor guy was here, puting 2 coats of protection on our hardwood floors), I was unable to bake a cake. So we purchased a chocolate cake and ladybug cupcakes to share with family that came over for cake and ice cream. Sorry Taylee. (Actually, I don't think she even cared.. I guess that's just mother-guilt speaking.)
Rylee and Taylee arranged her birthday gifts and took a picture.
Taylee received 2 "Webkinz", a white kitty and a golden lab puppy. She was totally excited since watching Rylee play with her puppy on-line. ---Have you seen these things? They are just normal stuffed animals, but they come with a code that you enter on-line and then you can do things with your pet in a virtual world. Honestly, I don't know much about the whole thing, except that my kids are going crazy about them. ---She named them Caitlyn (cat) and Cameron (dog).
I told Jason I didn't want to start packing until we had signed on the dotted line. So... after we signed closing papers on Wednesday, we started packing. We did major packing on Thursday and then decided to get the U-Haul and do the majority of our moving on Friday.
Saturday was another big packing and cleaning day. We did take a break on Sunday, but then were back at it on Monday. Jason had taken the whole day off to do moving/cleaning stuff. Actually, he mostly did the moving stuff and I mostly did the cleaning stuff. Monday was a really nice day. As Jason was spraying out the garage and driveway the kids took full advantage of the water and begged to get sprayed. Next thing I knew, Abree was nearly naked. She LOVED to get sprayed and then run off and squeal. Silly kid. ---I'm tired, and I haven't even started unpacking the new house.
We officially closed on our new house on Wednesday and were able to get the keys that evening. Of course one of the first things Jason wanted to do was play with his new "toy". We purchased a receiver and then went over to the new house to connect the surround-sound in our family/media room. Jason was in electronic heaven. How cute is he? Like a little boy in a candy store. :o)
