American Girl with my My Girl...

Calee and I were able to skip out of town for a day and get some much needed "girl time" in. Calee had no idea what we were doing. I packed her bags, had them in the car...and we drove off to run "errands" (that's what she thought) for the day. When we pulled up to the airport she was very confused. I waited until after we checked in, gave her a little package from American Girl, and she was still confused. I then told her I was taking her to New York to the American Girl Doll Store. She was thrilled as you can imagine!

Still confused, about where she is going.
Finally in the know, and loving it!

Things were off to a great start, we got to the Omni hotel and were pleasantly surprised when they upgraded us to a suite! Calee then got to open some fun things that Grandma Z sent...Matching jammies for Calee and Kit (her American Girl doll), matching pillow cases, a robe for Calee, and sleeping bag for Kit. Thank you Grandma!!

Our first stop at the American Girl Place was to the doll hair studio. It was time to get Kit ready for her special day.

Calee and Kit in front of Kit's part of the store...Let me just tell you this store is AMAZING!! 3 stories of girl heaven!!

We had a fancy lunch at the Cafe.

Photo Shoot with Calee and Kit.

Oh boy did she have fun, so did I!!!

We still had some time left over after our day at the American Girl Doll Store. And since we were in New York, we thought we should hit Central Park. We had such a great time walking around, seeing street performers, playing at the park, snacking on goodies, and climbing on rocks and statues. Calee was so intrigued by the street performers, she couldn't believe her eyes. Calee has always been a climber, the rocks in the park made her very happy. We spent a good deal of time just relaxing on top of rocks, Calee said, "Isn't it nice sitting on a rock and listening to music"...it was so nice to spend this time together.

We had to hit the massive Disney store too...again 3 stories of fantasticness!!

I couldn't believe the pizza slice they gave Calee, it was as big as her head. Everything at New York seemed to be Jumbo-Large!

Field Day...

Today Calee and Gavin had field day. We were so worried that it was going to rain...but we got lucky with a wonderful overcast/partially sunny day. So it was relays, water activities, parachutes, dancing, tug-a-wars, and more fun games. I was running like crazy between their two classes, trying to spend as much time as possible with each of them.

Gavin celebrating, his team won the tug-a-war.

I love her face here. The water games were Calee's favorite.

That Gavin sure can jump.

Gavin's class.

She fought a valiant fight, but down Calee went.

I just had to take a picture of the top of the roof at the kids school, so many balls!! I'm sure the Toomey kids put a few of them up there.

Random things...

The only way we can really describe our lives at the present moment is random. We have a million things going on and seriously I don't know how we are still standing. The kids schedules have us running all over, school projects are wrapping up, and boy oh boy the house moving process!!! So on to the random updates...

Our old house:
Our house is under contract, man was it hard keeping it all shinny and pretty for people to look at. We got really lucky once we put it on the market, the first people that looked at it gave us a full price offer...we also received another full price offer. So we only had to deal with it on the market for one weekend, but I'm still exhausted from it. The couple that is buying our house sound really sweet, the husband is a kindergarten teacher (cute huh?) and the wife is a Nurse (we love those). They are so excited to move in, they are house stocking us like crazy...but that's OK we know they are just excited and it makes us feel good knowing the people want it so bad.

Our new house:
We close on May 26th and we will slowly move in for a week...we have to be out of our old house by June 1st. We are so excited about this house, we fell in love the second we walked in. We are going to have some empty rooms for a while, the new place is over double the size...so ya things are going to be empty while I figure out what to put in all the empty spots. I'll get pics up once we are in. Our new place is about 2.5 miles from the home we live in now, we will still be in the same ward, but the kids will be changing elementary schools.

Brock and his tomatoes:
See how random this post is getting. I just had to put some pics up of a shirtless Brock enjoying his favorite food. Brock can eat tomatoes for every meal. Last time we went to the park I told him it was time to go, he of coarse put up a two year old fuss...but once I told him he can go home and eat a tomato, he ran straight to the car as happy as could be. I always have to have these red things available.

Gavin's 1st grade program:

Goin' Buggy was the program title, it was such a cute performance, it's all about bugs going to capital hill to demand equal rights! Black t-shirt, black soccer shorts, black church shoes and 4 pair of black socks and we have ourselves a "Gavin spider". Gavin did a great job, even though the kid standing behind him was singing annoyingly loud...Gavin told me that Drew (the kid behind him) was "bugging" him.

Grand"paw" Wolf comes into town:

Grandpaw Wolf was in DC for business and he had some down time so he paid us a visit. The kids loved to be surprised by their Grandpaw's visit. Even though it was short (too short), we were so happy to have him visit us. Calee, Gavin and Brock ran right to Grandpaw and smothered him the whole time he was with us.

Soccer games:

Calee and Gavin had soccer games the Saturday morning that Grandpaw was visiting. It was so great to have him see them play. Grandpaw's lap was always full with kids.

Calee's gymnastics

Calee had a gymnastics exhibition right before her soccer game. Grandpaw got to see all the fun while he was here.

Spring Carnival:

This is the only picture I got!...Why?...Because I got ditched, Calee and Gavin ran around with friends the whole time. The only time I saw Calee and Gavin was when they needed more tickets or money.

The white squirrel:

This is our little bus stop buddy. I have always wanted to get a picture of our friend, and I finally had my camera with me at the bus stop and snapped a few of this unique guy. We love to watch this fella run around awhile we wait for the bus.