CRAZY!!!!

     Yeah, so, moving day is this week, and I will say, it is absolutely insane trying to get everything ready. Absolutely insane. When we get up there, I'm going to want to sleep for a week. Seriously. Not going to happen, but at least I'll be able to send the kids out into the yard, and have a little bit more peace. ;)
      Speaking of which, we found a house. It's about 10 minutes away from our family up there, as well as about 10 away from our church-house, and in all honesty, probably about 10 away from the stores I'd go to, and the gym as well. So it seems nice and centrally located. We also have it on good authority that the school Jessica will be attending (in another year) is a good one, since my nephew went there for kindergarten. No we haven't been there yet, but I pulled the pictures from their ad off the internet, so here are some pictures of the house we'll be moving into.

Family room, with sliding doors out onto the backyard. 

Kitchen. This looks a little small from this angle, but pictures can be deceiving. I'm hoping that's the case here.

Side/back yard (see, I told you I could just send them outside. Beautiful.)

Dining room, though depending on the layout of the kitchen, and the size of the extra side area I can see in the next picture I may use it more as a room for my piano and my processing

Front room/living room

And last but not least, the front (ish) view of our house. 

I am so excited. It's about 2300 sq ft, 4 bedroom, plus a den, and a workshop behind the garage, and 2 big rooms (living and family) and the dining room, and 2 car garage. Plus, that yard! Which is fully fenced! (Which is good considering it's on a busier road.)

     Packing has brought some interesting things though. First; apparently we've used our bedroom to store most EVERYTHING, because I've been working on packing for the past couple WEEKS, and just barely moved on to the next room. Luckily, as I said, we've used our bedroom to store everything, so the other rooms are fairly sparse. Hopefully I can get it all done without having to stay up too late too often this week. Second; Holy Cow! I've got a lot of JUNK. I've probably tossed/taken to DI about 20-30 garbage bags worth of stuff. (Though, not the big black garbage bags, just the regular ones) And, Third; I am apparently allergic to something to do with packing.

Hives!

This wasn't even quite as bad as it got, but I broke out in hives one evening, and the only thing we can think of is the dust or the cardboard. Yikes! Luckily, my essential oils, and another homeopathic topical treatment were able to get rid of it fairly quickly. It was almost gone within about 24 hours of the first time I applied it. 

        We've also had some interesting times with the kids. Jacob especially. He has decided that hitting is his best form of showing his displeasure. We're trying to teach him that it's not, but he's only 2. Yesterday was the worst. he took a toy and smacked Jessica HARD in the face, giving her a massive bloody nose. There was a TON of blood. Enough that I even thought to check to make sure that her nose didn't get broken. (it hadn't)
       He also says some cute things though. The other day Nathaniel came out of his office and Jacob runs over to his computer pointing and saying "ah rek! ah rek!" He desperately wanted Nathaniel to turn on Star Trek. Yup, we are growing a little nerd. But then, since both he and Jessica said "brains" as one of their first words, I guess that was already known. ;) And it's not just one kind of nerd either. ;) His favorite movie, which we watch every time it's his turn to choose (every other, except when he gives his sister a bloody nose) is "Froven! Froven!", and he very much seems to have a crush on Anna. Any time she is on the screen... "Anna! Anna! Ih Anna!" 

      And now, for everyone's favorite part, I've got pictures of cute kids. ;)    

Okay, oops, first one isn't of kids. But I graduated! And I got my facilitator's certificate! Yay!

I love, and find it hilarious, that we'll go to a park, and Jacob with be there the entire time without climbing on the equipment at all. He'll just sit there with a stick in the sand or bark and play with that. 

And this, and the following picture are what happen when your kids get a hold of the camera. One decent picture (which was surprising) and a whole bunch of nonsense pictures like the one below. 

big, chubby boy. And those are the 3-6 month clothes, getting too small for him. (I just don't want to unpack to pull out the 6-9 month clothes, which fit him... without any growing room)

Sleepy boys, it's naptime. And Jacob has a habit of rolling off the couch, so we put down the pillow bed to catch him. 

Last day of school. 

They got their faces painted like clowns at school on the last day. They also got balloons, but we had a little incident and it got lost, hence the tear streaks through the paint. 

And more sleepy boys. So cute. 

Here's a family movie afternoon. Nathaniel comes out, and they just, well, attack. They won't let him go when he does come out, so he has to limit his times out of the office during the day.

Squee! double chin! So squishy and cute! (only on babies right?)

Woah Mom! You're right down here with me!

Such a big baby. Seriously, he doesn't look only 3 months to me. But he'll hit 3 months on Tuesday.