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.

Easter

Easter was so much fun this year. The kids enjoyed every minute! That Easter Bunny sure did things right...Candy galore, Lego's, Play Doe, Books, Movies, and Coloring supplies. It was a good day!!

Egg decorating:



Easter Morning:



Sunday Easter Outfits:

For Sale...

Things really just took off these past two weeks. One day we were thinking about upgrading to a bigger house, a few days later we put a contract on a new home. It's a bittersweet thing for us...on one hand we are so excited to get into a bigger home, on the other hand we LOVE our home we have now. We have put SO much into our home, it's going to be hard to sign it over to someone else, but seeing as though we don't want 2 mortgages I guess we don't have a choice. We have a few people looking at the house, so we will see what happens. If you know of anyone who is looking for a home in Richmond, send them our way.

Aphrodite aka Calee

At school Calee's class has been studying Greek mythology. Calee has really enjoyed this section of her school work. The class has just finished reading a book (The Lighting Thief) based on Greek mythology, they dressed up and had a party to celebrate. Calee put this outfit together all by herself, she is so into detail...she made the headband, flower bouquet, found a little bird to safety pin on her shoulder, white sheet, and she even made gold coins and found a little bag to put them in and tied them onto her belt! I wish I had a tiny bit of her creativity, looks like it skipped my generation and she got it! And yes it is really dark when they go to school.

Snow!!

This week has been fantastic!! We had 3 snow days off of school. So how did we spend those days off?!...Playing in the white stuff of coarse. Sledding, snow ball fights, snow man building, hot chocolate drinking, you get the picture. Yeah it was a great week!

Sledding with friends
Calee and her friend Grace, enjoying a ride down the hill.

Gavin and his bud Sam, having a great time sledding.
Calee, Daddy and Brock
Brock loved the snow so much!! If we weren't taking him down in a sled or tube, he would get antsy and scoot down on his booty.

Time for hot chocolate...

Just water for Gavin...we still can't convince him that Chocolate is a major food group.

At home in the snow...

The finished product.