Spring Break Fun

This week was very busy and tiring as we finished up renovations at the new house as well as getting packed up to move. But since it is Amelia's Spring Break, we also squeezed in some fun. On Sunday, the kids and I went to see the new Disney movie Beauty and the Beast. The kids dressed up and so I had my own pretty princess and "bad" dragon. We really enjoyed the film even though there were some scenes in there that were a bit frightening for the young ones.

The next morning, we went to the zoo. You can read here about our adventure. Wednesday afternoon, both kids were invited to celebrate Hunter's 3rd birthday and they had a ball. Running around, playing with friends, coloring, food, and cake....perfect party for the 5 and under crowd.

Carpet was installed this week too at the new house:

The finished product:

The weather was great all week long so when we had the chance, we spent time outside. Spring definitely has sprung and I love seeing all the flowers and the blossoming trees. Hanging out in the front yard with my two munchkin. I love these two so much and I'm thankful that I'm able to spend lots of time with them. 

 Just some normal, afternoon sibling races:

On Friday and Saturday we were busy moving in to the new house. 

This was the most unprepared move (packing up boxes on the same day as we moved), and we have moved now 4 years in a row, but we got it all done. It was a lot but we like the new house and are now working on making it our home. There is still so much to do (especially cleaning as the house was a mess when we bought it) but it is coming together nicely:

The kids did great during the whole process and were delighted to sleep in their new room/ beds on Friday night. 

 That's how our babysitter looked when we needed to get stuff done: Ipads to the rescue.

We were kind of in a time crush as Derrick is traveling for work this week and we still need to do little touch ups at the old house. But after running errands all morning, the kids and I decided to take some time off this afternoon to enjoy playing in the new front yard. It was very windy but they still wanted to try out their new, humongous Frisbee:  

And now, it is time for bed as we will have to get up early for school tomorrow. Amelia switched to a different elementary school and they start over an hour earlier than her last one. It will take some time and effort to get used to that but we have one week to get it down as I will start my new job next Monday.