A Buddies Birthday Party

Kai turned 3 on May 13th and had his birthday party at a Train Museum. It was a fun time with friends and ended with a ride on a real train....

Strawberry Time!!

I love strawberries. Every year we take advantage of strawberry season and pick our own strawberries. Last year I carried Johnny on my back while Emma and I picked berries. This year, we all got to participate. Johnny ate a lot more than he picked but Emma was able to pick a half basket herself this year.

This is Johnny eating cream cheese during one of our picnics at the strawberry patch. He is possibly the messiest child I have every seen.....

And, of course, with strawberry season comes Grandma Stagge's Strawberry Pie...yum yum...

House for Sale

On May 1st we officially put our house on the market. We decided to try and sell our house without a realtor to save in fees but used a service to list our home. We had lots of showings which meant our house had to be spotless for the months of May and June. Keeping our house "show ready" with two little ones was NO FUN! If you have young children and do not have to move I do not suggest going through this. We had three open houses, several close offers and last Wednesday accepted an offer and are officially under contract. Wahoo!!! We are so relieved that we were able to sell our house in this market and can move forward instead of having the worry of a house payment following us to the west coast. I wanted to include some of the photo's of our home so that we have them for years to come. We have loved our home and neighborhood. It is the home we brought both of our children home to and will miss it dearly......

Dance Class Picture Day

Emma's dance class has come to an end but I wanted to make sure to post some photo's of her picture day at class. We signed Emma up for a Creative Movement class at the Cultural Arts center downtown and it was well worth the money. She loved it and I loved how relaxed and fun it was for three and four year old girls. The teacher, Elizabeth, was amazing with them and taught them a lot about dance but her expectations were that they would have fun and try to listen to directions. I think that sometimes we push our kids into situations that are too intense too early instead of letting them enjoy being kids and not taking life so seriously. I loved this class because it was mostly about learning to move your body and love dancing.....

Emma and Miss Elizabeth....she will be missed...

Easter Fun

Pre Easter Craft

I thought I would try blown eggs again this year as Johnny could paint while Emma painted the eggs. Johnny insisted on getting an egg to paint too...

It started off well with Daddy helping prep the eggs for painting...
Then Johnny shoved his finger through an egg and he was DONE.....

Lindley Park Easter Egg Hunt

Easter morning. The kids loved their baskets from the Easter Bunny.

We go to a church in our neighborhood we can walk to so we were able to walk to our Easter Sunday service. One of the many reasons we have loved living in this neighborhood.
Emma and Will holding hands walking back from church....

We had a gathering at our house for Easter complete with egg dying, egg hunting and lots of yummy food...



Baby James even got into the egg hunting...sort of...