Announcing...

No, no more kids...

What does this 

 

and this mean?

 

Hopefully this!

We are having a house built, LOTS closer to Mark's work.  We are so excited!  It is a custom builder and I am getting to make a bunch of the decisions on what goes on the inside.   

Here is the progress so far.
 Our closing date is the end of June so hopefully he stays on track.

 

Safe Homes For Children: In honor of mother's--giveaway

Safe Homes For Children: In honor of mother's--giveaway: "As I am sure you notice, we have a new look! Thanks Jane (and Meredith), you are both amazing!!! In honor of our new look and Mother's Day ..."

Easter

I love Easter.

It is my favorite holiday--probably because it is not quite as commercial as Christmas and it is a little easier to focus on the real meaning.

Saturday we drove up to the mountains to hang out with my family.  We had a huge Easter egg hunt and an even bigger lunch.  We drove home that same night.

We had our party near the same spot where Mark and I had our wedding reception.  Katie is really in to that kind of stuff, so it was really fun to show her around.

Katie, Seth, Marcus, Gabby, Karleigh holding Chole, Emmie and Tony

Easter morning we checked out what the Easter bunny brought (following Mark's family's tradition, the Easter bunny hides the baskets in our house).

After hanging out for a little bit in the morning, we put on our Easter outfits (sadly only the kids got new clothes for Easter-maybe next year the Easter bunny will bring me new clothes as well), and headed to church.

Not super professional, but at least we are all looking at the camera at the same time!

Spring Break

We had Spring Break last week.  I wasn't really looking forward to it.  This was what was on our schedule:

1. Potty train Addy

2. Sleep train Marcus

Fun right, both those things meant we were going to be stuck in the house the whole week.  

We did start our Spring Break a little early.  Flossie came down with her two boys and Bryan's two boys (and to bring Bethany to the airport - tear).  We went to the Discovery Place with them and Sarah and her kids.  The cousins had a little too much fun together.



 

Thursday, the kids had Easter egg hunts at their school.





Friday the fun started.
Marcus has been sleeping in our room (on a mattress) since last time I posted about this.  I had been warning him for a week that he was going to be sleeping in his room.  Friday night I moved his mattress into his room.  He fell asleep fine, and woke up around 3 am.  We locked his door (I also warned him about this) and turned on 2 fans in our room and Mark and I went back to sleep.
Did we feel terrible, yes; did I sleep well, no.

 The next night Marcus slept through the night without waking up.  The next couple nights were a little rough, but we never had to lock his door again.  He is now sleeping in his room, and usually wakes up one time at night and goes back down without any issues--we'll deal with this when we have more energy.

  Mark put on his glove to play catch with Marcus--Marcus ran inside and got his 'glove' (as an aside, Marcus got his first real baseball glove on Easter).



Sunday we started potty training Addy.  It was not fun.  I almost gave a up a few times, but I think we are there.  She is now doing pretty well.

The weather was great all of Spring Break, so we blew up up our little pool and spent a lot of time outside.



We got ready for Easter.



 Mostly, I just went a little crazy dealing with all three kids by myself all day long.  Is it bad to say that I am a little nervous about this summer?