Peek a Boo

Creighton loves to play Peek a Boo with Kiley. First is his "Peek" face, then his "Boo" face- which is overdoes sometimes. He hold his hands over his eyes for an unusually long time and then gets very excited when he finally decides to take them off. Its cute.

Packing makes Kiley tired.

After a long day of packing (Kiley didn't do that much) I guess she was too tired to make it the two feet to the bed and passed out in the container that is filled with clothes. I tried to wake her up, but was unsuccessful. At some point during the night, she made her way to her bed.

Some updated photos of the kids.

Creighton loves bath time. After he eats, he runs to the bathroom door and says "bath, bath, bath". If I say "no", he throws a huge tantrum that consists of hysterical crying and throwing himself on the floor in front of the bathroom door. Needless to say, he is a very clean baby!

Disaster of a week-sinus headaches, broken teeth, huge bruises, a sick dog, no keys, tons of packing, and luckily-a very funny husband

This week has been one accident after another. First, I broke a tooth on a hot dog-a hot dog? A crown will cost $750.00. Why is dental care so expensive? I always wanted to be a dentist. I should have done it, then we could have free dental care. It has been cool and overcast in Colorado for a few days now and that is a nice change from the 90 degree weather, but has left me with terrible sinus pressure since Wednesday. Yesterday, I locked the keys in my car-again. Poor Chad. The night before we met with our insurance agent, who saved us $1000.00 a year on our car insurance and homeowners insurance, but talked us into buying better, more expensive, life insurance policies. That's important though, with all these kids we are having. He was telling our agent how he wanted to pay more per month to have a free, unlimited, emergency road side assistance because I am always locking my keys in the car. I defended myself, even though I did do it three times last year. It was funny that not even 12 hours later, I called him because I locked my keys in the car. So, he came home right away, made fun of me, let us in and headed back to work. Then, I was cleaning off the porch and I lost my balance and fell down a few stairs and landed on this oddly placed piece of wood. Of course, Chad made fun of me for that too, until he got home and saw the giant cut and bruise it left. Then he felt bad and even suggested I go to the Dr. to make sure I didn't do anything to serious. He did let me know in advance that he would make fun of me for a while about this one and tell everyone it was just a small scratch. It's not. I sat on ice the entire day and night, and it looks worse today but feels a little better. Creighton fed the dog Captain Crunch. Our dog is allergic to everything and got sick and threw up three times. I was so happy to see my husband at the end of the day, I needed his help. This is the last weekend we have before the move and next week will be busy with family coming in, walk-thru's, and closings. We really need to have 99% of it done by Monday. I am looking forward to spending the weekend with Chad, even though we will be busy packing.

18 weeks pregnant

About 18 weeks pregnant. Still not showing a lot, but its bound to turn a corner soon.

Okay, I forgot how much of a procrastinator I can be

10 days till we move and I still have done very, very minimal packing. We have been busy with other things, so that can be somewhat of an excuse. I just don't know where to start. It's not easy to pack up things when we still use most of them. I have been having dreams about decorating the new house. I guess I am most excited about that. I have some great ideas for the Master suite, but am still torn about the main level. Kiley has given me some ideas about how she would like her room to look. I am going to decorate her room when she is in Omaha for a summer visit. Hopefully, it will be a nice surprise for her. I still have no clue what to do in Creightons room or the nursery. I have some time to think about it. We bought some patio furniture last weekend and that will be very nice to have. Colorado has great weather and it will be awesome to sit outside and eat dinner and watch the kids play. We wanted to get a pool and hot tub this year, but lost the money we set aside for that on the sale of our current home. I went to Target and bought the kids a pool and we decided next summer we will get the big pool and maybe the hot tub. Chad is still convinced that he will lounge in the kids pool, even though its only 18 inches deep and 8 feet around. I know that I will find him on a raft floating in the pool and the kids watching from the side, because they can't fit in there with him! It will take us several months to get our savings built back up and then we can start remodeling, which I am very excited about. I can't wait to start posting pics before and after of each room!

Not much new, but a busy, busy week.

Okay, I think this has been the busiest month of my life. Moving is the worst, why do people put themselves through this? We have had both inspections done, one appraisal, the furnace certified, made some repairs to our current home-small ones, like fixing GFI outlets, cleaning a vent in the attic (those inspectors are picky). Still to do in the next two weeks: two closings, packing, moving, one more appraisal, meeting with a new insurance company to discuss a new homeowners insurance policy, meeting with ADT to set up our security system...and learn how to use it, changing our address with everyone, transferring Qwest and Excel, setting up trash, water services, getting Kiley enrolled in a good school-Cherry Creek is the highest ranked school district in Colorado receiving a state accreditation ranking of "accredited with distinction". The state ranks using "low, average, high, and excellent performing, and the highest is "accredited with distinction". I want her in a great school, so I am doing choice enrollment in the district. Besides just packing up some of the kids clothes, I really haven't done much in that area. I don't even know what to start packing. Maybe I will make some more progress this weekend in between all of our commitments. Despite the stress of moving, we can't wait to get into the new house and put our own touch on it....eventually.