A glimpse into the next three years...

So after about 5 hours of traveling and a layover we finally made it to Virginia. I hate flying. I always have. My ears kill me every time and I get so nauseous when we start the descend but I made it through and was so excited to see what V.B. was all about! Let me just say, I learned the true meaning of the color GREEN! The place is amazing. Every where you look there is a forest or gigantic tree or lake or a river running right through a neighborhood. It's crazy!

So our mission for the trip was to find a house to rent. The first day we spent driving around on our own looking at different houses that had been emailed to us. We were a little discouraged because every neighborhood looked really dumpy and nobody uses a garage so the streets are lined with a million cars. But we were still hopeful. The next day we met with a realtor. I can't tell you how blessed we were to get hooked up with this realtor. He has been doing realstate for 30 years, member of the church (which is not common around there) and knew every house and neighborhood in V.B. He kindly drove us around for 3 hours and we found some neighborhoods that we fell in love with. Their was one house we loved but wanted to make sure their wasn't something else better. So the next day we met with the realtor again he showed a few more houses and then went back to the "one" and still loved it so we said "we'll take it"! We got to the Remax office to start the credit application, got it filled out and went to pay the lady, when the realtor came out and said there is another couple in the other room already pulling their credit on this house and everything checks out good so since they were here 15 min. before we have to give it to them. What?!! Are you kidding me?! Talk about the biggest let down. Meanwhile our plane was leaving in an hour so there was nothing we could do. I was so sad. And then to top it off, on the way home, Noah and I didn't get to sit together so I had to just sit there by myself being mad at everyone!

But, at least we know where we want to be and not want to be. We totally know the area good (since we literally drove around for 2 1/2 days straight) so we feel like we can just find something online now. We are keeping our fingers crossed!

We were able to do a little tour of Noah's school. So fun! Doesn't it look cool? Kind of makes me want to go to school...but not really.

We made a quick stop at the Beach. Like 15 minutes away...ya can't wait!

There was this little area where kids can play and build sand castles. I loved it!

This is a RVCA shirt not a VA (Virginia) shirt. I thought is was funny he had it on.

And here is the cute house we tried to get. How fun huh? Ya, I was pretty sad.

The night we got back, Brody threw up and started having a really bad asthma attack. I took him to the Dr. the next day and his oxygen level was really low. So they put him on an oral steroid and will start an inhaler for at least the next year. Not too fun for a five year old boy.

I had to throw this one in. How cute is he? I now have pics of all three kids asleep in the high chair. I mean, who could ever fall asleep while eating?!

Schooools out for the summer!

Name the movie that song is from.

So we are finally out of school! Yahoo! I love being on the modified year round school schedule but when everyone else has been out for 2 weeks it kills us! The kids both had an amazing school year and could not ask for better teachers. Sadie was in pre-school with Mrs. Becky and Brody was in pre-k with Mrs. Swanson. Sadie's teacher had a little graduation for them which was the cutes thing ever. My camera was out of batteries so when I get pics from my neighbor I'll post them. Then Brody had a fun program on his last day performing a bunch of songs they had learned. They even did a song while signing the entire alphabet! Brody did so good and I can't believe how quick he learned the alphabet in sign language. We will soooo miss these two teachers next year. We made them a cute little summer treat basket for thank you gifts.

Brody and his best friend in the whole world...Bailey. I don't know what these two are going to do without each other next school year...:(

If you look closely you can see a not so fun incident Sadie got into which is a post in itself.

We also just finished swim lessons so our Summer is looking wide open! Just the way I like it. Sadie has done so good in swim lessons. She started out screaming the whole time and only wanting floaties but now can swim the whole width of the pool and is learning the breath stroke! So proud of her.

I would sooo love to win this

{Pied Piper Photography}

Pied Piper

About a month ago Brody got to be in a photo shoot for Lindsay of Pied Piper. She was doing a shoot for a clothing company in London called Their Nibs. I'm not so sure of the boy clothing but the girl stuff is seriously sooo cute! I wanted everything for Sadie. Brody did so good and looked like quite the ladies man! If you have never heard of Pied Piper photo please do yourself a favor and check out her blog or website. Someday when I can afford it I want her to photograph our family!

Have you forgetten about us?

Well, we are still alive! Just haven't posted in awhile. I hate when I get behind!

What have we been up to? Well...Ronan turned 1! (I can't believe it), I turned 27 (sounds old), Sadie's dance recital, Mother's day (had a great day and got some good stuff including: homemade bracelet from Brody, new running shoes, and a super cute growth board that Noah made), Signed back up at lifetime and am loving every minute of it, finding renters, looking at houses in V.B., Graduating from ASU (Go Noah!), Sinus infection (me..bleh!), Started swim lessons, being sooo sad that our neighbor/brother and fam sold their house and is moving this Sat., GNO, and just staying inside because it's too hot outside!

I hadn't seen these two cute kids for way too long so I was really excited to see them!

I promise I won't take as long to post again.

Attention!!...(Please read)

Noah's sister and her family is having a garage sale this coming weekend (Friday and Saturday) and needs your help! She has been doing this garage sale for the past 5 years to help pay for therapy for her son Caleb with Autism. It has been a huge success in the past and I hope it goes just as good for them this year.

So how can you help?? Clean out those closets, cupboards, under beds, playrooms...everything and donate your "treasures" to help a great cause. They will come pick up anything or you can drop it off at my house or any of Noah's family members houses and we will get it to the garage sale. If you don't have anything to donate you can still support by coming by and buying these "treasures". The garage sale will take place at Noah's Mom's house which is at 1540 E. Grove...off of Harris in between southern and baseline. This garage sale is the mother of all garage sales. If you like garage saleing you don't want to miss this one! It takes up 2 full yards! Hope to see you there!

Our Easter week

Our Easter week started out with Activity day girls. I can't tell you how much I love this calling! And have the best group of girls. We did a little activity where we went through and talked about each day leading up to the Crucifixion. I think their favorite part was washing each others feet!

We ended with talking about Jesus getting resurrected. I made these cool and delicious "tomb" rolls....get it? If you can't tell, they are hollow inside!

Wendsay was Sadie's pre-school Easter party. They had fun finding eggs and got the cutest things from their cutest teacher. Thx Becky!

Friday we decorated eggs with my brothers and their families. This was supposed to be a great night but turned really bad when Brody erased my WHOLE talk I was going to be giving on Sunday at church. Ya, it ruined my whole night and was so mad, but I guess I learned a great lesson of SAVING your work!

Saturday morning we had a little Easter egg hunt down at our park. It was freezing and raining but we all still had a great time. The best part was Sadie Rogers taking a bath in the huge puddles of water! Love that girl!

Sunday morning the kids found their baskets. They got new swimsuits and sandals for the summer!

In between re-writing my talk I made these little balls of cuteness. They turned out pretty cute and tasted even better! But...I will never make them again! Too much work.

Next we took a few pics in our Easter wear. I think the kids looked fantastic. And they loved being all matchy!







After church we had a fabulous dinner at my Mom's and another Egg hunt afterwards. My kids came home with enough candy that will last till next Easter!

It was great day in all and am so grateful to get that dang talk out of the way!!