Happy Birthday and Halloweens!

The end of October brings lots of excitement in our family... Scott's birthday and Halloween! We celebrate with Scott first. He took the day off (wonderful) enjoyed going to the movies with Micah, out to lunch for really great hamburgers and chocolate cake and ice cream. There's no better way to celebrate another year! Halloween was great. As youc an see by the pictures we're starting to take our pumpkin carving VERY seriously. I look forward to it all year. We had Cinderella, a Jedi (with new, real suede Jedi boots) and a baby bear (not pictured). I realized I don't have a picture of Cade, I need to dress him back up and take one post holiday! oops! Our little elephant friend is our cousin Jack. It was super fun having family around to trick or treat and party with!

Children's Museum

Maybe our favorite part of the move... a fantastic museum! Here are a couple pictures of our last trip- favorites are the wind tunnel, bubble and water works. Thanks Marcia for coming with us!

Happy Birthday dear Lauren!

Lots has happened in the last month, a big one of them being Lauren turning 3!
She enjoyed the day with cupcakes, pizza, presents and a trip to the museum. Her favorite- a new Cinderella dress and princess bike. Thank you to everyone who remembered her birthday and made it a special day!

The end, post 3!

Cute kids sleeping in the hotel and the boys with the great plains behind them. Fun, but we're glad to be "home"!

Road Trip Part 2:

We made a couple stops but we weren't good about taking pictures. Here's a few of our stop in Provo where we saw Manda and Ben and Alex and Hayley (but we missed a picture due to a dead camera battery), Winter Quarters in Nebraska and Cade's 6 week birthday picture. Happy travels! Oh. we know our baby can be funny looking, like picture two, but we love him!

Road trip part 1:

So, we loaded in the car, three kids the youngest being only 5 weeks old and drove almost across the whole country, Northern CA to Chicago in 6 days. Micah and Lauren couldn't part with their peloved goldfish, Ben Kenobe's Ghost and Sushi, so they came too. In this set is a picture of everyone in a packed car and eating pizza at a sweet Marriott in Nebraska.

Chicagoland

Well, we've made it. Two parents, three kids and two goldfish all survived the 6 day drive, unpacking and settling. We are not totally moved in but things are looking pretty good. Scott said it best, it doesn't look like we just moved in just that a messy family lives in this house :) So, to catch you up a quick recap about things we miss and things we like:
1. We miss the sun! It's been raining everyday since we got here which makes the 40-50 degree weather seem much colder than it really is. Today and yesterday are sunny and we hear were headed for "warmer" weather like 60 degrees. We'll see
2. We miss our friends. Just this morning Lauren asked to go to our old church... so sad!
3. Tiger Yogurt. She asks for that too...
4. Scott's truck- his new car ain't quite as cool...
5. Traffic free commutes. No comment.
Things that are great about living here:
6. Warm wear like fluffy socks, hooded sweatshirts and snuggly pajamas. We do sort of feel like nerds bundled up all the time.
7. A beautiful big backyard. Nevermind it's full of leaves, LOTS of leaves. Oh and our house. I liked it before but with our thigns inside, I love it! I am getting a serious workout between the basement, main level and bedrooms upstairs.
8. Walking around a new neighborhood full of super friendly neighbors.
9. All the new shopping, sights and restaurants. I felt like I knew most neat things about Stockton. This is insane in comparison! I will never be able to keep up on all the fun things for kids to do. This is definately a family town.
10. We're all here, together. So no matter how strange and cold it seems we're a family.

Sorry, no pictures yet but I'll post some in the next couple of days....

Cade Catch Up...

Well, with three squirrely kids and a move happening, I haven't had much time to update the good old blog. Needless to say, we have been busy but having fun with our new baby who Lauren says is "ours forever"! It's been going well, everyone has adjusted well. Micah is a loving big brother who loves to snuggle, Lauren can't hold him enough. We're glad he's ours for keeps! We enjoyed a nice visit with Grandma Cindy who helped us out a lot!

Jog A Thon!!!

Micah was a big winner at the jog-a-thon a few weeks back. He had ten laps!!!! They had to run all the way around the outer perimeter of the large playground, it was huge! I think kindergardeners averaged about 6 laps so Micah really did good! Thanks to all his "sponsors" he'll be awarded an official jog-a-thon t-shirt and other prizes. Yeah Micah!!!

Ready for bed...

First bath

I know, this was a long time ago but they are still really cute. I hope you like them! The kids love to help give the baby a bath. Poor Cade, he's used to noisy and rambuctious kids already!

Oh, what do we do in the morning time?

Micah is now in Kindergarden int he morning so Lauren and I have the baby to ourselves. Some of her favorite things to do- sing him songs, hold him and decorate him with... stickers. Yes, I counted them as they came off, 42 stickers! They have individual backs so getting them to stick is quite a bit of work, worth every penny because is keeps her so happy!