The Kiddos

Presleigh impresses me everyday. She is very much into Dora the Explorer and wants me to read her the Dora book we have over and over again. She has the story pretty much memorized, and I love when she tells it. She has adjusted very well to our new home and wants to be home most of the time, which is new. She says the funniest things to me in the funniest situations. The other day before we went on a play date she turned to me and said "I need to be on my best behavior mom?" Or when we were walking very fast to the store and it was very cold outside and she said to me "Vamanos mom!" She loves to quote movies these days. Her favorite is to quote miss hattie from Despicable Me. The other day I took her to a friends to play. Before we went in Presleigh said, "Noah plays with boys, and I just play with kids."

I am so amazed at how well she puts up with her brother. He climbs on her and hits her and she is pretty patient with him. The other day Wayne and I were organizing our spare bedroom and I found a few things for Presleigh. I gave her my old digital camera and tried to teach her how to use it. She loves taking pictures, and it was so fun to watch how excited she got to take our picture. I also found my old American Girl doll. I gave it to her and she loves it. She is always asking me to change Molly's clothes and wants to take her to the store with her. Pres is at such a fun stage right now.

Noah is growing up so fast. He is such a boy and is constantly throwing jumping and climbing. He is learning new words these days. His newer ones are baskeball, airplane, helicoptor, sorry (which is my favorite), hot, bussy (Lewis family dog), mess (He is constantly making them), Buzz, Jesse, Woody. The way he talks is so stinking cute. He is such a happy little boy, always smiling and always trying to find trouble. He loves to throw his bowl or plate on the floor after he is done eating, which is why mess is one of his constant words. He also like to hit his sister, which is why sorry is also frequently used.

Noah is also very interested in our fireplace. When it is burning he likes to get as close as possible to the screen and sit right next to it and say hot over and over again. He loves airplanes and helicoptors and can hear airplanes outside when we are in the house. When he hears one he always stops what he is doing, looks up and says "airplane." He is also at such a fun stage right now.

I took the kiddos in for their well child exams a couple days ago and both of them were put on medication. I'm not really sure exactly what they have but they are both coughing with runny noses. Poor little kids. They like their medicine though so that's good. It seems like everytime we move, or go to a new place the kids always get sick. Hopefully they will get well soon:)

She's 3!!!!!

We celebrated Presleigh's birthday last Saturday after we got moved in a little bit. She had told us that she wanted a pink birthday so we tried to make the day as pink as possible. That morning we got up and went and got 3 pink balloons so that we could let them go in the sky. It was kind of foggy out and getting dark by the time we let them go, so we don't have any pictures.

Here we are all dressed in pink:)

Presleigh picked out her own outfit, she chose pretty much anything she could find that was pink.

A couple projects

These are the two projects that I have done since we've moved. Noah got the car play mat for Christmas and Presleigh got the felt playhouse for her birthday. It was not really good timing on trying to get these done because we didn't have a home and I didn't have most of the supplies I needed, but they ended up getting done. Both ideas came from here. I love how they both turned out and that the kids love playing with them. The car play mat is all appliqued which is a ton of work but lots of fun. I liked being able to draw the different buildings and try to make them look like actually places that we frequent, like Target. The playhouse fits perfectly over our kitchen table. I would like to make another one, to line the inside so that there are fun things to do inside the house too. That probably won't happen til next birthday though. I'm on a project break:)

A Big Thank You!!!

We have been so busy lately. We finally decided to let our offer on our house go, and we ended up moving into a rental last week. I will give more details later. I wanted to blog about how grateful we are for the Lewis Family.

Wow, the Lewis family is amazing. They willingly put up with us for 6 weeks with no end in sight. When I asked Rhonda if it was ok if we could stay with them until our house closes which we thought was going to be maybe 2 weeks, I'm sure she and her fam didn't have any clue that they were going to be putting up with our messes and two destructive kiddos for 6 weeks. I am not kidding I did not hear one complaint out of any of them, and they have 4 awesome kids, one of which we stole his room the whole time. Not even one complaint, they just loved us and were so generous. We appreciate them so much:) My kids loved being able to play with the lewis kids and loved their dog Buster. I don't think that this could have been done with any other family and we are so grateful that they were so willing to put up with us and all of my complaining.

We love this fam and learned so much from their great example of charity towards us:) I hope that if any of our family is ever in need we will reach out and help them with a loving attitude just like the Lewis' have done for us.

Homeless for the Holidays

We haven't been back to Montana for Christmas since before Wayne and I were married. It's a battle that we tend to have every year. Wayne's not a big winter taveler and I usually can't blame him. But this year due to our homeless circumstances we were able to make the trip to Montana to spend a couple days with my family. It was so great being able to enjoy Christmas with the fam. We played games, ate yummy food, and laughed a lot. I'm not sure when we'll make it back there again for the Holidays but this Christmas was definitely a memorable one.
This picture is of Noah not in Montana but here in Meridian. It was super cold out but he didn't care. He loves this trampoline and I love that he can't fall off.

Presleigh and Aubrey had to show off their new sunglasses

This is as close as she would get to Santa. She shook his finger:)