week 20 in pictures

sunday: we knew it wouldn’t take long, but by the day after we moved in, shane was clamoring to get out on the lawn mower!

monday: micah is thoroughly enjoying the playroom… in many odd ways. he’s playing his leapster inside of all of that…

this is me, toasting monday morning with a cup of coffee on my porch swing… I anticipate this will be a favorite spot for this… when it warms up a bit. even though it was a nice day, it’s not exactly warm at 6:30am in may!

 

 

 

 

 

tuesday: ugh! more car trouble. this time, the timing belt. got a call in the evening from dave, saying he was dead on the side of the road on his way home from work. boo hiss!

wednesday: another track meet. this time shane did the long jump, 50 yard dash, and relay. took 1st in both long jump and 50 y, and 3rd in the relay.

and this is how you get kids to the car in style…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thursday: this is not an uncommon sight… micah, playing games on my phone, just chilling on the kitchen floor…

friday: summer and I at the MOMS club garage sale. although the sun is out, it was FREEZING! I went and got a picnic blanket out of my car and we cuddled up!

and a few more shots involved with the garage sale… I had micah with me all day on friday, and this is how he spent a good share of the day. he found a spiderman chair that was for sale and a little kid driving game and settled himself right in. eventually someone bought the chair… and then there is me, in the bath, contemplating never getting out at the end of the VERY. LONG. DAY…

saturday: more garage sale for me, but dave and shane had a 70 mile training ride. dave snapped some cool shots of some of the scenery.

there are a few instagrams that I worked in here and there…

book shots:

sunday

sunday was mother’s day, and layla was up before 7 to give me the gift she’d made for me at school.

but way more exciting than that is the fact that we were waking up in our new house!!! (in beds this time!)

shane has been planning to do some trail blazing through the woods to make paths and tree houses and all that fun stuff. he’s asking for a machete for his birthday this year… that morning, he could be found beyond the fence with a hoe and a pair of clippers…

while I unpacked boxes inside, dave and shane (and micah and ginger) got the trampoline put back together.

and FINALLY!!! shane got to take the mower out for a spin. he drove down the road and mowed my parents’ yard first.

and then came back here and mowed our backyard.

meanwhile, the playroom was set up and layla and micah decided to do a floor puzzle. these were one of the first things packed a month ago!

and then dave had to physically extract shane from the mower so he could have a turn… (not really, but there was some negotiating.)

and that box got opened! I had nearly hyperventilated when I packed my current project life album and sealed up the box (last thursday). so unpacking it set all things right in my world!

and micah decided to swim in the water table…

and then shane gave the younger two rides on the mower!

layla got to steer!

check out all those empty boxes! the formal dining room is currently empty box headquarters, since we don’t have furniture for in there yet.

and my parents came over for dinner again. it was a fancy mother’s day dinner of KFC takeout! hey, we didn’t have to cook = fine by me!

and the kids got grandma to read them stories before bed…

great day!

moving day!

so saturday, the 12th, was moving day. we woke up early and dave and shane drove off to get the truck.

layla’s new room has this huge, awesome, built in desk, and she wasted no time finding some art supplies and setting to work.

toby was getting a little bit brave (maybe curious is a better word) about the world downstairs… not that he actually went. I think it took him 2 days before he went down the stairs voluntarily.

of course, I forgot/was too busy to take any pictures of stuff getting loaded and all that, but we had plenty of friends show up to help us out. what a blessing!

as soon as it was out of the truck, we set up the water table to keep the kids busy. mine have been asking about it since sometime in march (brrr!) and I said we weren’t going to use it until after we moved.

adam added to the fun of the water table by introducing us to “amy pee-pee pants”! an empty box is apparently an open invitation to the baby…

micah was helping to carry pieces of the climber into the back yard.and then he set to work making letters out of them…which inspired layla to write her name.

after everything was unloaded, we had some beers/wine and grilled some burgers and dogs. my parents came over to help us celebrate.

dave and my mom on the porch swing.

my dad, demonstrating how he always eats hamburgers… the ketchup is used for dipping, not putting directly on the burger.

ginger, hoping adam doesn’t really want to eat that hot dog.

amy and layla… thumbs up! that’s what I say about moving day!

first night!

so, on friday, we got the keys to our new house!!!!

we couldn’t go there until dave got home, and then he did some prep for moving day at the old house. the climber and the trampoline had to be taken apart so they could go on the truck the next day.

then after dinner, we loaded up ‘camping’ gear and headed over for our first night! it was VERY exciting. the kids were all about their OWN new rooms, the pets were confused, the parents were giddy!

layla, peeking out of her bedroom.

shane and toby, getting acclimated in the master closet (for some good reason, I’m sure).

dave had emptied all the closets into the van, so we all got busy hanging our clothes up in our new closets.

dave, making use of the in-door ice and water dispenser… one of the things he was most looking forward to in the new house!

toby, settling in on shane’s ‘bed’.

ginger got quite clingy and would not get out of my face, while I was listening to layla read bedtime stories.

eventually we were all ‘comfortably’ settled where we needed to be. the kids all stayed in their own rooms that night, as did the pets (well, toby stays with shane, ginger stays with us). dave and I were sleeping on the awesome self-deflating air mattress, and could feel the floor by midnight. not exactly awesome, but worth it nonetheless!

it was a fun, exciting first night in our new home!