Disney on Ice :)

Our whole family got to see Disney on Ice for $50.00!!!  That's a lot less than I thought it would be, but it's still a lot of money.  Since our first house payment isn't due until November we justified going though!  Haha!

The kids absolutely loved it!  Cooper was holding a cracker in his hand for the first fifteen minutes and didn't even pay attention to it because he was mesmerized by the show.  He also kept clapping and saying, "YAY" and pointing at things.  When it ended, Lindsey asked if we could watch another one and Gracie started crying because she didn't want it to be over.  It was a good two hour show too so that's pretty good that it kept their attention that long.

The show we went to was called Worlds of Fantasy and it had Cars, The Little Mermaid, Tinkerbell, Toy Story, and the hosts were Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Goofy.  It's fun to live so close to Huntsville where fun things are going on all the time!

In the photo below the kids are trying to pop the bubbles that they blew all over the stadium during The Little Mermaid!

On the way back out to the van, Tim carried both girls.  It was so cute and Lindsey was laughing so hard!  I love my cute little family!

Tool Time!!!

Tim gave the kids some of his tools to "help" him fix the John Deere tractor. They were so cute and so proud to be helping Daddy! Sadly, the tractor was only fixed for a short ride and then broke again so Tim will have to try something else sometime. He had this tractor growing up as a kid and his family surprised him by bringing it out when they all got to visit in July.

I had a cute video of the kids helping but for some reason the blog won't upload videos from my new camera, only my old one.  You would think it would be the opposite but oh well.  I might just have to pull out my old camera for when I want to post videos.

Having church at 11:00 am makes for a more relaxing morning but it throws off lunch and nap schedules.  This is the kids eating their brunch/snack before church.  We just barely bought Cooper a booster seat instead of his high chair.  They are all growing up so fast!  Next Sunday will be Gracie's first primary program and I'm excited to see her!

I guess our ward will always be at 11:00 am because the Spanish Branch shares Sunday School and Primary/Relief Society/Priesthood with us and then they have their sacrament afterwards.

The Circus!

We ate at Steak and Shake one night and they had free kids tickets to the circus, with each paying adult.  The kids really liked the circus, but before it started and during the long intermission they did face painting, elephant and pony rides, etc. and you had to pay cash to do those things.  We didn't have any cash and the kids need to learn that they can't have everything they want anyway, but they were so sad and didn't seem to understand why they couldn't do it when the other kids were.  We'll be better prepared next time.

The first few acts were not very good and Tim and I kept glancing at each other thinking we would probably leave early if it didn't get better since it was already past the kids bedtime, but thankfully it did get better.  The kids were exhausted when we left but we all had fun.  The circus was held at the Von Braun Center in Huntsville and I guess they do Disney on Ice and a whole lot of other fun things throughout the year so we'll have to keep checking their calendar and prices.

The famous "avoid eye contact with the camera and fake a smile" poses!  HAHA!

My Babies!

Gracie is spending today and tomorrow with Aunt Kirsten at a nice resort/hotel in the Smokies. Uncle Roger and Aunt Bethany invited all, but with our recent HOME purchase and moving, the rest of us stayed. Lindsey would have gone with Kirsten too but we thought it would mess up her potty training and she is a stuffed up mess ... poor thing. She keeps telling me, "Mommy, I can't breathe." Breaks my heart. She does NOT understand how to blow her nose. She always just sucks it in. Any ideas on how to teach her?

I carried little Grace out to Kirsten's car and told her that I would miss her so much. She said, "Mommy, I'll be back soon." I said, "Yep, and Kirsten will be with you." Then she said, "Yep, but I will go to Kindergarten by myself." She is so ready to grow up, but I am not ready for it.

Cooper has been sleeping in the toddler bed and he has been doing great! The first morning he came walking out of his room looking confused, but since then, he just stays on the bed until I come and get him. I don't know if he thinks he's not allowed to get out of it or what, but it gives me a little bit more sleep so I think it's great! He always wakes up around 6:30 am so it's nice that he'll just sit/lay on the bed, talking to himself sweetly for a bit. He's also been trying to sing primary songs with us and it is adorable! One day when Tim knelt down for family prayer, Cooper knelt down beside him (trying to be just like Daddy) and folded his little hands. It was so adorable!

I love my cute babies!!!

The first photo below is of the kids singing. They kept pretending the book was a songbook and they would make up songs.

The kids are excited for their new baby sister to come! Cooper doesn't really understand yet. We told the kids to put their hand on my belly and after we took a few photos, Cooper started lifting his shirt up to show off HIS belly!

Little Grace is all legs and Lindsey is such a character!

Me at 27 weeks!

I mentioned above that we bought a house!!!  We are so excited and just wish the cleaning and packing/unpacking part was done.  The previous owner took such great care of the place and he left tons of shelving in the garage, a table and chairs, entertainment center, etc.  There's a shed in the back yard, shade (YAY!), a covered back patio with fan, a little garden area, and a kids playset that the owner built himself!  It's only 3 bedrooms, but both bathrooms have double vanities which is great because I've been feeling so cramped doing the girls' hair in the smaller bathrooms here, and the living room is carpeted!!!  Hopefully we'll have a lot less slips and bruises from the kids now!!!

I'm frustrated because we haven't seen any brown recluse spiders around our house until we got our boxes back from a friend.  We've kept them in the garage thankfully, but the very first one I pulled out to start packing had a brown recluse on it.  I was so mad!!!  We've inspected every box thoroughly before bringing it in to pack but I will be so angry if we bring them to our new house.  A lady in our ward got bitten by one and it rotted away a huge chunk of her leg and she was hospitalized for awhile.  So scary!  Plus we already had black widows in the garage.

Running spider total:  4 black widows and 4 brown recluses.  I am so grateful that we've spotted them before they spotted us and were able to kill them quickly.  Hopefully we haven't missed any of them.  Every time I feel anything on me I freak out and quickly check for spiders.  Between that and tornadoes, Alabama is not winning any points as my favorite state!