Christmas in February

I knew that one of our favorite things about moving into the new house was Grayson getting to rediscover toys that we had had packed for about 2 months!!  Well, these were toys that he had gotten for Christmas and never got to experience.  He loves his Smart Cycle.  He loves to pedal to play games and collect letters and numbers, and he learning all about the joystick and is having fun with this.  Thanks Grandpa and Gran!!

Grayson also got this adventurers kit equipped with a tent, sleeping bag, and flashlight!  He loves camping out!  Now he's ready to camp again for real.  We have done everything from reading, playing games to having snack time in the tent.  Thanks Papa and Grandma!!

Sleepyhead

You know the phrase, "Never wake a sleeping baby!"  Well, in my opinion that applies to an almost 5-year old too.  This was the scene the morning after Daylight Spring forward.  A full weekend of 4 grandparents and beautiful weather.  What mother wouldn't let this precious thing sleep in?  After all it is just preschool!!  It was 8:00 when I took this picture and school is supposed to start at 8:30.  Trevor brought him in and they arrived at 9:45!  Nothing like making a grand appearance!!

Assembly

Yes, it took a little while, and I was definitely over going to the garage for the fridge, but I love my new fridge.  It was one of the "only me" decisions in the new place.  I love love my new fridge and it is finally starting to look full with several trips to the grocery store and left-over containers!  Trevor and Grayson assembled it on a Saturday morning as I prepared breakfast.

Dinner and Wii

Until I can get back to the Apple Store to get this laptop all figured out, my pictures will have to remain as they are put in.  Anyways, we had our first dinner guests this past week.  It was grandparents day at Grayson's school and so all 4 of them were here in town for the festivities.  Our dining table was all put together and 7 of the 8 chairs are here, so for the first time since Trevor and I have been married, we had that many people around one table with matching chairs!!  What a tremendous blessing!  As you probably see, we have no curtains, there is still moulding laying on the floor, and there is no chandelier to light our dinner.  Good thing we ate early!!  It was marvelous just the same.  

And what better way to end dinner than to pull out the Wii and burn some of it off.  My parents had already headed back to their hotel down at the Oceanfront, but Trevor's parents christened the Wii with us!!  I bought it for Trevor for Christmas, but with the move it was still in the original packaging.  As many of you know because you have one, this is an amazing way to be together and have fun!!  Puts a new spin on Game Night!!  

Chalk Art

Recently, we had some pretty cold days and we were going a little stir crazy!  It was just that, crazy, the idea that Grayson had.  He had found some sidewalk chalk amongst his newly found toys and wanted to go outside to color.  We bundled up as you can see and went out.  We didn't last long, but we had a blast together.  We created stick figures of ourselves, Grayson traced me and I traced him.  Grayson then informed we that we had to draw in our bones, as you can see in the one picture.  It was bitter cold and we didn't last long, but it was fun.  We were so dirty from laying down that our clothes and coats had to go right into the laundry, but of course, we did it right away upstairs, and they were all clean and ready for the next day!

FINALLY!!!!

So after 2 hours trying to figure it all out on this laptop, I am finally able to get some pictures off my new camera and "color" up some posts!  Yeah!!

This is one I took of Grayson before we moved into our new house, on a day that we stopped by so he could take his fire truck out for  a spin.

Pure Bliss??!!

I have just officially completed 22 loads of laundry in 2 days!!!!  Thankfully that breaks down to 11 regular loads seeing as my washer holds double the capacity, but still 11 nonetheless.  And it has all been done with a smile on my face ... in the comforts of my own home.  Oh the absolute pleasure to fold clothes that have come straight out of the dryer in my own Master Suite as I watch a favorite "oldie" movie on the TV!!  And the other awesome thing is that I didn't realize that clothes could smell so good!!!!!!!  No more burnt smelling-way too hot-smelling like someone else's laundry detergent clothes!!!!  That is what I call a little bit of pure bliss!!