So we made our first trip to Georgia a few weeks back and although we didn't get to see much of the actual place we are looking for homes, we did get to see the incredible aquarium!! Jacob's face in the one picture kinda shows how we all felt the whole time!! It was amazing!! The whale sharks that are 23 feet long, wow!!! Did you know that even though the mouth of a whale shark can grow up to FOUR FEET wide, it can only eat things the size of a QUARTER!!!??
The whole downtown area that we saw was amazing, looks like we are going to have a ton of things to check out when we finally arrive!!

movin on....

WOW!!! We are really in shock that the house sold as quick as it did. It felt like it was forever, but looking at the calendar we realized it just wasn't. It went on the market the first week in January!! We feel very fortunate in the state our country is in to have sold the house for a minor profit when so many people are having to walk away from homes or build up debt to try to pay for them.
We now face the task of finding a new place to live in Georgia!! We hadn't really started looking as we didn't want to find something and not be able to get it! We are all really wanting to make sure we get the right house in the right location for ALL of us and the right schools. This takes a lot of work!! John is going to be taking my lists with him when he goes to GA searching and will narrow things down for me to come look at! This way has worked in the past, so we are sticking to it.
The people who purchased our home will be moving in on May 12, so that puts us about 3 weeks ahead of where we really wanted to be, but we'll take it!! We may be living in a box for a while but as long as we are together, we'll be just fine!!

Old Baldy!!

Katelyn was assigned the "bald head" light house for her school project. First she made a base from cardboard (three different size octagons) and used the hard part of a pant hanger to sturdy it in the middle. The she cut strips to form the octagon and then paper mache'd it. After it dried she painted it and added windows (six) and a door. Turned out great!!

Do you notice something different??

So Thursday morning we took a very excited Katelyn to get braces!!
She was so excited and brave and just really happy about the whole thing, she really amazes me!
It went a lot faster than I thought it would and she said it didn't hurt a bit, except for the thing they used to keep her mouth open.
She took some Motrin that night and again in the AM but hasn't asked for any tonight so I think she is good to go!
She will only wear them for about 9 months!! We think she looks sooooooo darn cute with them on!!

Imagination??

Emily comes in from playing today and says, ( very sad, almost crying)

"Mom, I am not playing with Jacob anymore because I want to play being his girlfriend. Not the kissing kind or the marry kind, just his girlfriend but he said he broked up with me"!!

So, I went out and asked Jacob, "Did you break up with Emily"??

He said "yes, she said she wanted to invite me over for dinner"...


This game Emily call's, HANDSOME HUSBAND AND PRETTY LIFE!!

Happy Birthday Jacob!!!!

Sorry it took so long for these pics ( His birthday was on March 7th) but I could not get them off the camera for some reason!!

Jacob had a great 8TH birthday!! He chose to just spend the day home with the family and lucky for all of us it was a beautiful day!! So hot in fact that Jacob said it felt like LAVA outside!! He only played catch outside for a few minutes and even declined a trip to the driving range because of the heat!! What is that boy going to do in the summer??
Jacob wanted to have a cookout for dinner so we had steaks on the grill and they were YUMMY!! For his cake, Dad and I worked together to make what we think was a perfect YODA cake!! It was a surprise for Jacob and he LOVED it!!

He makes all holidays seem so special because he just has the best manners and is so thankful for simple things like being together!! Cant count how many times he told us that he loved us and that he had the best birthday ever!!!

To catch a Leprechaun!!!

My three little Leprechauns!!


This is a picture from the magazine, to show what we were going for!!



The kids had grand ideas of making a trap for the Leprechaun's who usually come to the house on St Patrick's day and make a mess!! They also however wanted to make a treasure box to see if the Leprechauns would fill it for them!! Hmmmmm, trap them first and not treasure!! Anyway, the above pics are the trap we made. The kids just had a ball putting it all together and I think, did a really great job!! they enjoyed some yummy "green" milk in the morning and were very happy to find treasure in the box they made and sat by the light of the moon!!