New House!

We are finally here in our new house!





We moved on Saturday with the help of some friends and family (thank you!!). We spent the first half of the day (starting at 9 am) moving, and then spent the rest of the day cleaning. I don't think we left the old apartment until it was about bed time for the kids. What an exhausting day!!!

We went to our new ward on Sunday and it was great! Everyone was very welcoming and friendly.

Now, I'm just trying to get everything unpacked as quickly as possible. I'm excited to start decorating and hanging things on the walls, so that's my motivation for getting the unpacking done. :) Then, I'll be able to take pictures of the inside, which I can't wait to post because the whole inside of the house is just as charming as the outside!

Back to normal

Well, after that sweet exchange that I blogged about on Friday, here was the exchange at nap time yesterday:

"Night, Evan."
"Night, Asher. Love you, stinky pants."
"Love you, too, stinky bum."

They're back to normal, I see.

In a house full of boys...

If someone were to pass by our house on any given day, they might get a bit of a laugh at the words they hear drifting through the windows. Sometimes I have to stop and shake my head and wonder if I ever would have thought I'd be saying some of the things I do. Most of these words of wisdom are entirely due to the fact that I live in a house full of boys.

So, here are some of the very boy-ish things that have been spoken in our house in the past few months... some of them straight form my own mouth and others that I've overheard:

"Stop shooting lasers at your brother!"


"Mom, how do you spell 'truck'? (I spell it.) How do you spell 'car'? (I spell that, too.) How do you spell 'Voltron, defender of the universe'?"


"Get your head out of the toilet!"


"Dude, you're almost good at playing basketball!" (Evan said this to Asher)


"Let's fight, Evan!"
"My name is 'Fighter', remember?"
"Let's fight, Fighter!"


"My super powers made me do it."


Evan, after passing gas: "Did you hear those barking spiders?"
(This one he gets from his father, who got it from his father, so I guess it's good we're passing on the fatherly wisdom here.)


The favorite thing I've overheard, though, is this exchange between my boys at naptime today:

"Goodnight, Evan."
"Goodnight, Asher. [pause] I love you, Asher."
"I love you too, Evan."

Just about melts my heart.... and makes all the boy-ish stuff bearable. :)

New house, packing, and the last time we were packing.

So, as I mentioned in my previous post, we're moving to a house at the end of the month! Yay! We'll just be renting it, but we're super excited to be done with apartment life and live in a real, actual house! The house we found is adorable and I'm so in love with it (pictures to come soon!).

Needless to say, I'm in the middle of trying to get everything packed up. As I've been packing, I've been thinking about the last time we moved, almost a year ago. So much has changed since then!

For one thing, we were pretty much already packed. Most of our stuff was in a storage shed while we lived with Ben's parents.

Asher was just a baby,


and my big boy wasn't so big, either.


I was a blond.


My handsome hubby was working hard to get his practice going.


We've really loved this apartment that we moved to almost a year ago, but we're super excited about this move! Anyway....enough reminiscing from me... I have to get back to packing! :)

Magnets!

So, I've been feeling incredibly crafty lately and have been loving crafty blogs like Mod Podge Rocks, which will make you want to mod podge everything you own (Ok, not really, but close!) and Make It and Love It. I can't wait until we move into our new house at the end of the month so that I can do all kinds of fun decorating! (Oh yeah.... by the way.... we're moving into a house at the end of the month. I don't think I've posted about that yet!)

So, when it came time to decide what to give my mom for her birthday, it was only natural that it be something crafty! I made her these cute magnets, using chipboard, scrapbooking paper and embellishments, and mod podge (of course).



I'm quite proud of them and I think I'm going to have to make myself some. To go with my new house. :)

CTR

Because it's the new year, Evan has moved up in primary and is no longer a sunbeam. He got his CTR ring this week. I can't believe my little boy isn't even a sunbeam anymore! He was super excited about his CTR ring and couldn't wait to tell me what it stood for (Choose The Right).

Winter Walk

I decided that the boys and I needed to get out of the house this morning. We've been cooped up in here too long! So we bundled up and went for a walk. It was COLD and we only walked for 15 or 20 minutes, but it was just what we needed.