Graduation

Bet you thought I was gonna say it was Josh again, and he did graduate...again. But nope the man of the hour is Jayden graduating from preschool. I didnt expect it to be so cute, but I was all choked up. They had them walk down one at a time while playing the music, and it was so sweet. He had his hat pulled down so low. What a character. Then we ate cake and took another picture. He'll tell you now he's done with preschool and then theres a summer break then next year he'll be in kinder. (If you ask he'll tell you some people call it kinder for short). Man they grow up so fast!!!

kids kids and more kids!

Some days having four kids feels like having a hundred, and sometimes surprisingly, when they are all quiet, sleeping, or eating happily, it feels like just one. Anyways, here's some pictures of all my kids. Josh went on a fishing trip this week to Oregon with my brother, and I conquered life with four kids all on my own. Who am I kidding, I asked Steve to babysit like a hundred times. I really do love living near family, and right now I'm really living close to family, with Steve here and Andi just a couple blocks down, I'm not sure what Ill do when we move. Which feels like years away, they still haven't broken ground we go this week to pick some more things, so Im not sure how long from then until we move in. Im torn, Id love to move in before school, and I feel like a dork when people in our new ward ask us when we are moving in and I say October, that feels like forever away, but at the same time, it's nice here, (besides my lack of orginization) and it's nice to be saving. Last week we went to our new ward and some really nice people who live in our new neighborhood invited us over for dinner, then we found out that our next door neighbors are mormon and so are the people living down the cul de sac, and one of them is in Jaydens primary class, another little boy. So now we are even more excited. So Ill keep you posted.
Heres Josh and Ty at one of Jaydens games. He is loving interaction now, and is so cute with all his new tricks.
Rylan loves Jayden's helmet. He says "hat" and then puts it on.

For those of you who haven't been on my blog in awhile, the little girl is not mine. I know you might get confused easily with all the kids I've had. But she is the daughter of the "french fry" lady at Jayden's games. In case you forgot or I didnt tell you the french fry lady is the coaches wife and she always would get french frys and let Rylan eat all he wanted. He loved her!! This little girl just turned one and Ty is 10 months, but she can walk, and she loves babies, I missed taking the picture while she was hugging him and kissing him. She didnt want to let go.
Heres Ty pulling up on Ash her face is so funny.
Heres after Ty pulled up and let go. Hes so good at that now. Still not walking yet.
Here's Tys new trick, he figured out the stairs, YIKES. But Rylan liked climbing up with him, they just giggled the whole way up and then Rylan kissed him. He's really such a sweet brother, he gives thing to Ty Ty all the time. Oh and ALL these pictures were taken with my iphone. SO thats why some arent so good, outside it looks great but inside if they are moving its blurry. I dont know what happened to my other camera, my guess is Josh packed it in storage?

Fishing with Daddy

OK so the first pictures arent fishing but really cute park pictures. The weather has been surprisingly beautiful for Texas, and we've been enjoying the park. Jayden loves pushing Ty and couldnt help but give him a sweet manly brotherly kiss. Jayden is the sweetest brother. And Ty was lovin it.


Josh took the two oldest fishing with him and his good friend. They caught lots of fish and even a poor little turtle. They used team work to get it in, so cute, and they worked so hard at it. They came home glowing. (And very smelly)
The boys playing out in the rain.

closed

So itsofficial we closed on our first house on Wednsday. It went smoothly although moving didnt. We had a few hiccups and the first day here was hard, I felt closterphobic and unorganized and of course so much loss for the first house that we ever owned. I wish so badly we could have kept it forever, and just moved it around with us to new neighborhoods and make it bigger. It holds so many memories, and all really important ones, its where I brought all of my babies home to (at least the ones so far) and watched them learn how to walk, and all of the little things we did together in the house. The baseball and dancing and snuggling. That house is so much a part of who we are. And I cant believe the youngest two wont even remember it. After the first night Ashlyn said "I cried a lot last night because Im so homesick." Later she told Josh she was sad but she would get over it. And everytime we drive past the house she said "everytime we drive by I get a little sadder" And I said "me too."


But after the first night here we got acclimated pretty well and I cant believe weve already been here a whole week. So far actually Im lovin it. Steve is so helpful, while the babies are napping I can go to walmart and get groceries, how nice is that? Plus I, wait for it, having been making dinners almost everynight. I actually enjoyed it. Weird I know. Its been nice being near Andi, and so far things have been nice. Although I will always love that house for what it means for my family, its ok to move on.
Last dance fest in our empty house.
Picture outside the front door. It was raining outside, it was right before the flood started.



Rylan wouldnt sit for this picture. He was to busy walking around saying Sit? trying to figure out where everything went.

These are the people who bought our house. They forgot their camera so we took a picture for them. She was so happy theyd been living in apts for a long time, so she couldnt stop smiling. I was so happy for them I ALMOST forgot to be sad for myself.



Bah bye House, bah bye big back yard!
On to the next.