Choo-choo!!!

There is a train at the little zoo downtown. We rode our bikes down there this weekend and Alex just about died when he saw that train...he was trying to climb out of the bike trailer going "choo-choo, choo-choo, choo-choo...." For him and a parent to ride it is only $1.50 and the smile on his face when he went by was sooo worth it! Unfortunately the zoo is closing the middle of this summer :( I guess they are keeping the train but moving it somewhere - hope it stays close by and cheap!

A few more party pics!

Carter is the fireman in the first picture. They both loved the t-ball set!

Party!!

Memorial Day Alex got invited to a birthday party for his friend Carter! It was HOT! The kids played in the neighbor's huge sandbox, then in the pool. Carter was really great about sharing some of his new toys with Alex.
It took a little while for Alex to warm up to the whole pool idea but once he got used to it all was good. He did try to run in the pool a couple times and went swimming but he got back up and wanted in the water again.

Alex loves his room, loves books and loves Thomas the train! So here he is (with a new big boy haircut) in his room reading a Thomas book :)

New addition!

We've been making do in this area for quite a while so it's a big relief to have a reliable vehicle! It's a 2003 Saturn VUE, we've had it for a week and so far love it. The newest car we've ever had has been a 1997 and we've never had anything power at all so we're trying to figure out what the heck all the buttons are for!

We had company!

We had people over this weekend! It was so much fun to be able to have guests and actually have room for everyone to sit and room for the kids to play. Not everyone could make the same day so we had company saturday and sunday evening. Alex was in heaven, he had friends to play with both days!

Some pictures of our hard work

Just so you can get an idea of the colors we chose. Alex loves his room and has been sleeping pretty well in his big boy bed.

We're here!

First of all - Ben graduated!! The ceremony was really nice, Ben's mom and 2 of his brothers came for it along with my parents. My mom watched Alex and my dad came to the ceremony.



Then we moved! Ben had a good drive down with the big truck. Alex was awesome in the car. Just really, really good. We got to Traverse City around 6pm sunday night. Our friends here in town came over to help us unload the truck. Ben and Brandon got it about half unloaded that night! We worked really hard painting and unloading the next day. Brandon came back and helped Ben finish off what was left in the truck monday night so we could return it on tuesday. Mom stayed until supper time tuesday night and then headed home. We worked HARD, mom painted Alex's room by herself, all 3 of us worked on painting the basement and we got both rooms totally finished.
Mom had quite an adventure on the way home on top of everything! We couldn't have done it without all of her help.
Wednesday morning Alex started throwing up and that continued for 3 days. :( Not so good for the unpacking and yard work. Then Ben and I were sick over that next weekend. So last week we had TONS to get done before Ben went back to work. We worked really hard though and I painted the whole kitchen and we got totally unpacked. We still have the garage to clean up, our room is a mess and we have lots of outside clean up but everything else is pretty much done!
Please email one of us if you need our new address or phone number. We still have our cell phone, same number for now, but we also have a new land line.

The best part of moving....

Is getting to play in the boxes!

Moving update.....

Our closing date has been pushed back from monday to the end of the week. So it looks like we'll close the end of next week and then move April 30th!

Being silly around the house

Drumming!

Park Pictures

The last of the museum pictures

Ugh!

I have one more set of museum pictures and then park pictures but every time I try to upload them I get server errors.....so stay tuned.

Children's museum continued....

Children's museum!

We spent a week in Green Bay!

a couple weeks ago. Ben and I got to go through all the stuff we have stored at his parent's house and get it cleaned up and organized. Then Ben headed to Traverse City to start his job - just for a couple days. Alex and I stayed in Green Bay and were busy! We went to the park, went to the children's museum in Milwaukee, went to the park some more w/ Maddie and Joy this time and got some shopping in!
The following posts will be pictures from the week.

Spring in the UP

We got home from our house hunting trip in the nick of time. The very next day (monday March 13th) we were greeted with a wonderful "spring" snow storm that dumped 20 inches of snow in less than 24 hours.


Nice 'Eh?!

We have an offer signed and accepted on a house!

This weekend we went on our second house hunting trip and saw 17 houses on friday! What a day, some of them we didn't go inside once we got there but it was still a busy day. Today we should be nailing down a closing date and more details will fall into place after that. We're really, really excited. The yard is awesome and it's only 5 min from Ben's office.