New House!

June 30th we officially became homeowners or fell into massive debt, however you want to look at it, ha!  Once we got the keys we immediately started moving stuff into the garage of the new place and began a deep cleaning on the new place.  I had the carpet cleaners and bug people all lined up on the first day. Grandma C. watched the kids and Sandy and Larry came to help with the moving/cleaning process.  That first night Chris and I slept on our bed in the dining room and Amelia slept in the laundry room, (since carpet was wet from cleaners) while the boys stayed with G&G Casson.  

Wednesday we continued to move stuff and clean and that night the boys stayed in the house for the first time.  They were pretty excited and the highlight of the new house is this hole...

Basically it is a little laundry shoot that connects our closet and the laundry room.  They were running circles around our closet, to room, and into laundry room.  They were fascinated.  The novelty has worn off a little by now, especially since the washer and dryer are now in place.

So here is a little preview of the place, although things are completely out of place and ripped apart.  I promise once we have everything in order I will get more/better pics.

Master bedroom

Dining/kitchen area

Living room

Living room

Kitchen

Backyard

Backyard 

and backyard

Can you tell I am happy with the backyard! Finally a good place for the kids to run and play!

Master bath

Master closet with child going through the laundry shoot.

Backyard sunset

Chris doing something he has never really had to do before, ha!

Anyway, we are loving our new home.  We still have a few things we want to do and painting is definitely involved and plenty more to unpack.  We still have boxes that haven't been opened since we lived in Virginia!  We finally have room to open them, ha!  I love having a playroom for the kids.  We live in a cul-de-sac which has been awesome and the boys love riding their bikes out front.  It is a nice little area and I think we are very pleased with our new place.  I just am inpatient and want everything in its place, all walls painted, and decor on the walls but it will come together soon enough!  I have failed to take picture of the front of the house and keep meaning to get a family photo out front.  At some point I will get that done.

Phoenix Trip with the Snays

The last weekend of June we took a little family getaway to Phoenix.  It was completely relaxing.  When we first got there the plan was to hit the pool but Grandma forgot her swimsuit so we had to make a pit stop at the mall.  Amelia enjoyed her first time getting to play at the playground area.

The boys rode the train.

Then it was time to swim!

Liam amazed us! He has been doing so well at swim lessons and he completely proved himself.  He can actually swim a little bit at a time.  He gets a little tired but he does really well.  This was definitely his turning point with his swimming.  So glad we got him in lessons this year.

Uncle Matt and daddy tossed Colin around

Amelia chilled for a little bit in her floaty

Sadie getting taken out by her brother

Happy gal with Uncle Matt.

Sadie pretending she is five again

Liam showing us how long he could hold his breath

Liam, Macy, and Sadie (this was take 20)

We ordered pizza and had to eat it upstairs and then came back down and swam some more before bed.

The next day Matt and Chris went golfing while us gals took the kids to Toys R Us and did a little shopping elsewhere.  Then I broke free with the kids and we came back to hotel for some more swimming.  Chris got back and hung with boys while they napped and Amelia and I headed to mall to meet up with mom, Sadie, and Macy.  It was a mad house!  When we got back we all went to Oregano's for dinner. Colin got pasta but didn't care for it to much but his sister loved it and Chris wasn't fast enough at cutting it up for her.

Emily, Matt, and Mom

We planned on swimming some more that night but a dust storm rolled in and they closed the pool.  It reopened at 9:00pm but the kids were already in bed.  So of course we went to the pool immediately after breakfast.

I LOVE this picture!

Colin loved jumping in all on his own and he would even plug his nose.

Amelia is a little water baby too and gets super excited around the water.  She also likes to put her face in the water but has no concept that she needs to blow bubbles so she sucks water right on into her lungs.  It's great :/

Liam and me jumping in

Sweet gal with her daddy

Starting young

Chris and I tried to do tricks, ha!

At least this one I look like I can run on water.

After swimming we packed up and made a trip to IKEA and Costco and headed home.  The kids were wiped but overall we had a great time.

This little gal was pooped at bedtime when we got home.

Here are a few pics of our last night getting the mail at our old place. Amelia loves her little car.

Colin waiting for us to open mail box

Love these guys

June

Okay it has been a little crazy around our household so naturally I am completely behind on blogging.  We bought a house! I am both excited and sad to be purchasing a home in Kingman but for the time being it works.  No worries Aunt Mindy we still have zero plans of staying.  Anyway, the internet connection has seemed to be problematic for the incompetent team at Suddenlink so we still have no internet and I am at my parents house playing catch up, ha!

I have a few things to jot down

1. The boys have recently been doing silly tricks/stunts and then saying "Is that dangerous"  It is fantastic.  Basically, they are trying to come up with the most nerve-wracking stunt so that I will say yes, ha.

2. The boys love to play mom and dad.  While we were playing one day I was the mom, Liam the dad, and Colin was our kid. It was bedtime for Colin and Liam said "Umm, do you want to read to him I gotta get ready for my softball game."  Clearly he watches his daddy who does have to leave sometimes for his softball games.  Then as we were continuing.  He says "I'll put him to bed if you want to start a scary movie." HA!  I asked him about this one and apparently he really thinks that when we put them to bed Chris and I come out to living room and watch scary movies.

3.I was measuring the boys one day and saying how they were getting bigger.  Then Colin says "Then I can watch grown up movies"  I guess they are very concerned with what Chris and I watch.

Now then June has been full of all sorts of activities.  Liam enjoyed his soccer camp and seems pretty excited for soccer to start this fall.

  

 Colin enjoyed soccer camp because he got to play with his buddy Hadley (the one with her head turned)

 

 Kicking the ball

 

 Troublemakers

 

 We had to pick Aunt Sadie up from practice and made a pit stop at the park.  Liam pushing Amelia

She loves her brothers

 We've done swimming lessons with the boys all summer so far.  They both LOVE it.

 

Liam jumping off the diving board.

 

We celebrated Great Grandma's birthday. 

 

 Amelia celebrated in her birthday suit

 

On Father's Day we took the kids to see Inside Out.  They seemed to enjoy it and it was WAY better than Minions, where my mom fell asleep and I only semi laughed one time.  It really was a cute little movie.  The boys had no idea were going and were very excited upon arrival.

We've done lots of swimming and G&G Snay's.  Amelia thought it was awesome riding on her brothers shoulders.

 

We've had some good naps

 

Amelia LOVES bath time.

 

Lots of trips to Home Depot

 

Liam wanted to go to the park after swim lessons one day.  We packed up some dinner and have a picnic at the park. It was an awesome little evening.

 

Colin tested out the big swing

 

and did a little climbing with his mom

Colin pushing Amelia

 

Liam jumping off the swing for the first time.

June was great and we took a little trip to Phoenix to end the month, more on that later though!