We are moved!!! Let's backtrack a little though. Last week we left our house and went to Sue's guest house to stay there for a few days since our house was completely empty and spic and span. Here are the boys swinging at Sue's house. They love this swing thing. After staying there for a few days, we drove to AL on Friday and checked in at a hotel.
The drive was relatively uneventful except for my van loosing air mid-way through and it was HOT in the van. The kids' faces were all red and they were complaining so we had to fix that. We got in to our hotel about 5pm. We spent the next few days there and at the house. Our goods were delivered on Saturday but it was just tons of boxes everywhere. We took the boys to the new house on Saturday morning for a bit but then Brad took them back to the hotel to nap and I unpacked. Here are the boys in the exercise room (you can see the pool in the background). Here is Eli on the elliptical.
Aiden loves the treadmill so we let him walk on that for a while. Over the weekend and on Monday, we spent the mornings at the new house unpacking, Brad or I would take the boys back to the hotel for nap time, and then we would play around the hotel until bed time. It worked out really well.
We got free breakfast at the hotel and the boys got stuff to eat for dinner there every night too. It was a great spot for us to stay at. Here is Eli being silly one night with his hotdog bun.
One night we even went to a local park that I had heard about. It really was great. It was like 4 or 5 playgrounds in one. The boys had a blast even though it was about 100 degrees (no I'm not exaggerating) at about 6pm. It was crazy hot. Here is Aiden sitting on some apparatus at the playground.
Daddy and Eli climbed up on this old car and Eli had a great time.
The boys have enjoyed a couple of trips to Lowe's to get various things. They like the tractors in particular. By the way, all these pictures have been taken with phones because I haven't unpacked the good camera yet.
This picture below cracks me up because Eli was throwing a fit on the floor because he said he didn't have any packing paper. It was quite funny. It's also funny how kids in an empty room can find plenty to do with a box or two and some paper.
The boys LOVE having bunk beds but they are still learning how to SLEEP in them. We let them play in the beds during the day but they were way too excited to sleep the first day we had them. In fact, they didn't take naps and went to bed late. On the second day, they skipped naps again (yes we were in the room numerous times but .... they didn't nap) but it caught up with Eli. We went around and tried to find a new playground on Monday but struck out a few times. Eli fell asleep as you can see. We finally found one although it wasn't that great. Aiden played for a bit while Eli slept in the car and then we went to the local Chick-fil-a, which was very awesome. Eli had no idea he missed out on playground time. It also worked out at night because Aiden was so tired from not napping that he fell asleep right away and Eli stayed up for a while since he took a short late nap.
Yesterday, Brad took the kids out back and played with boxes while I continued to unpack. He built many forts/hotels/race tracks and the boys really enjoyed it. They also enjoyed knocking down all the boxes when they were done playing with them. I think I'll put an announcement on Freecycle.com that we have all these boxes and packing paper. Someone has got to be moving. Our garbage is their prize!
We are loving the Prattville area and found a very cool castle playground yesterday. I think we are going to the local downtown Fireworks tonight which should be fun. We told both boys they had to nap if they were going to do fireworks tonight. They both took great naps!!! First time in 3 days with the bunk beds!
We are almost done getting the inside of the house unpacked (just a few boxes in the Master bedroom and a few in the office/guest room). We LOVE LOVE LOVE having a house this big and hopefully will not have to go back to a 3 bedroom anytime soon. We love the playroom. We love having enough space that when in our bedroom, you can't hear this kids. It's pretty amazing. In case you were wondering, this is a 4 bedroom house with a split floor plan and it's about 1800 square feet (our other house was 1300).
Happy 4th of July to all of you. We unpacked boxes for Brad's birthday and got a giant cookie cake to eat to celebrate. It was pretty boring for him but we didn't have many options. At least we were all together as a family. What more can you ask for? Not much in my world.
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