Mixed Emotions....

So Amy and Harland close on their new house tomorrow. You can see the excitement and the little bit of nervousness with in them. Amy is currently downstairs packing. Madison, Abby and Grace are downstairs watching a movie for a little relaxing time. I am upstairs being unproductive as I think about this "move" they will be embarking on tomorrow and Saturday. They have lived with us for aprox a month. Over all the experience has been great.. Madison is so in love with her cousins I am scared for what life will bring her when they are not here every day. We were in the car today on our way home from Carters and she asked me to drive past Abby and Graces new house. She is still having a hard time understanding that the house is someone else's today and will be Abby and Grace's tomorrow. Anyhow, I began to talk to her and explain to her that they will only be sleeping with us for one or two more nights. She was very sad to hear this. She does not want them to leave. For this makes me sad. Funny thing is, they will be less than 1 mile away. I can just see Sunday morning... "Mommy I want to go downstairs now." for her to find an empty Abby and Graceless apartment. She is going to be so sad. Amy, just forewarning you that we will probably be at your house a ton now. Or we will have more pool/park dates than we have in the past!

I am excited for the Ponds that they will be able to live in a better neighborhood and have a bigger house... but I am really not ready for how Maddie is going to have to adjust to life without her cousins! I know this sounds like you are moving across the country, But we will miss you guys!

Update

I just thought I would update you on what has been going on at our house. This weekend was jam packed with STUFF. Jeff worked like a race horse and I tried to help a little where I could. We finally landscaped the corner of our property where we ripped out some bushes last year. It looks really nice, but now we have to fend off the deer. I was told they do not like Black Eyed Susans... WRONG! They ate them like candy, so now we are trying to save them. Madison, Abby and Grace have been playing nonstop on the new "playground" (as Abby and Grace call it). We opened the pool to find is greener than the grass. So we are waiting patiently for the water to warm up and the chemicals to work. We went to the memorial day parade in Somerville. The parade was "ok" but was nice to just go do something different. We did more yard work on Monday and Harland made a Mexican style dinner and we just hung out for the rest of the day. After a bit of cleaning up from the fun all day, Jeff, Harland, Amy and I hung out around the chiminea and enjoyed some left overs.

Madison's school is over and she put on a little show for us last week. So cute! I videoed it, but it really was not that good because I really could not see her from where I was sitting. She was very proud to have her daddy, mommy, grammy, mema, cousins, and aunt in the audience. She continued to wave at us and yell, " Hi...."

I will blog some more Disney pics soon. Please be patient... I have 1200 to go through. I also have Savannah's 10 M page almost done. Maybe I will get that up tonight!

Well on its way...

My Dad, Bill, bought Madison and Savannah a large swingset for the back yard. He told her he would buy it for her for 2 summers ago and I asked him to wait until she was big enough to play by herself. It was purchased hours before we left for Disney. Madison thought the set would be up to play with the next morning. You try explaining to a 3 year old that the directions state that this will take 2 skilled men 20-25 hours to put it together. Well, Jeff has been determined!!! He has worked on it for about 23 hours and is almost done. Somethings can not be done until it is warmer out. He has worked on it every possible second he can. He is excited for her to play on it tomorrow. It still has to be moved into place and then a million yards of mulch need to be spread (gee am I glad I am pregnant!! Tee hee hee). Here are a pic of the set 90% done. More pics to follow soon. THANK YOU DAD!!!

Another Maddie Story!

Last night at while Jeff and I were eating dinner Maddie came out of her room with a really small silver seed bead. These are those really small beads that bracelets are made out of. Well, one of her watchs broke and the beads were on her floor. She came in to ask daddy, very innocently,"Daddy, did this fall out of your teeth?" Jeff has many silver fillings in his mouth that she thinks are very interesting. This made me laugh so hard I almost fell off my chair. I love what kids say sometimes!!

Sorry, I was too tired to scrap last night. I will work on Savannah's 10M page tonight and get that up!!

Minnie and Daisy

Cinderella

These are two quick layouts that I did for Cinderella, I might tweek them more later, but here they are for now!

Dumbo

This is the one page I did while I was on vacation. This was the first day when I was not super tired and had some drive to scrap.

A little Vacation Teaser

I am still recovering from our awesome vacation to Walt Disney World. We had a great time. We vacationed for one week with Jeffs mom and dad and his sister and her family. So all together there were 10 of us including 4 kids. For the most part we all did great working out the kinks of 3 families vacationing together. Savannah was a very good baby (except for the flights.) I think I am most worn out today from last nights flight. Savannah cried for most of it and then passed out the last 30 minutes. Ugg. Anyhow, we saw all we wished to see and more. We were in the parks for 5 days visiting, Magic Kingdom the most. Grammy treated all the girls (but I left Savannah home) to a princess breakfast. There we saw Snow White, Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty), Jasmine, Mulan, and Belle. The girls were told that if they did not eat the princesses would skip our table (that really worked for Maddie.) Madison was on a mission for the whole trip to find Cinderella. So on our last day we managed to find her, wait in a big line and... OH THAT IS WHAT DISNEY WAS ALL ABOUT! She was in aww of Cinderella and Belle. Her vacation, and mine, were made when she saw Cinderella. Abby and Grace's vacation were complete when they saw Peter Pan and Wendy. I have over 1200 pictures to sort through and scrap. I am ready to start tonight. I planned to work on it as the days went by on vacation, but I was so tired come bed time that is all I could think about.

Grammy and Pacca were nice enough to take care of the girls for us while we went out as husband and wife two nights. It was so nice to be alone with Jeff. I think is has been since before Savannah since we got out alone doing something we wanted to do, not things we had to do. I will try to post a few good pictures right now and then I will share my scrapbook pages as I finish them. I am going to make an 8 x 8 book and print it. Might take me a while, so hang tight! Thank you Grammy and Pacca for making this vacation possible. Please also visit Amys blog soon as there will be more stories and pictures of our travels.