It's Official

We are now officially renters of our old house. The documents are signed and we are on our way out (hopefully soon). We are still waiting to hear about our next house but in the meantime we are packing away.
Here are some pictures of the boys that I tried to take this AM. Jacob was much more interested in leaving than taking the picture oh well.

Birthday Weekend Fun

Friday, May 23th
Meg told me that she was going to take me out for my Birthday. Our first stop was Starbucks so that was and is always a great treat. After that she told me we were going to Margot's a spa in Birmingham. I thought it was kind of an expensive gift from Meg but assumed that either Josh or Mom were involved somehow. I walked in and when they took me back to the room for a Manicure and Pedicure Erika and Carolyn were there. It was a great surprise!!!! After the wonderful pampering they girls told me that they wanted to go to see our new house. We headed out down Big Beaver and Carolyn turned around in the wrong spot. We then stopped at Melting pot. At this point I knew that something was up. As we walked inside 11 of the greatest friends were there to have dinner and say Happy Birthday. What a great surprise. Our little room that we ate in was filled with balloons and Carolyn had a crown and necklace for me in the car. The crown said Birthday princess which I gladly wore all night long and the necklace said 30 :). It was so much fun and great food too. After dinner we went to a movie. It was a great night and so much fun. I am so blessed by all of my great friends especially for Carolyn who planned the whole event for me :)

Saturday, May 24th
I woke up very tired very early to head to a morning of teaching at Goldfish. Josh took the boys to the zoo and they had a great time here are some pictures
from their adventure.

After the zoo adventure and swimming we headed over to the Nast's to celebrate. It was lots of fun and Karen got me the greatest bedding for our new master Bedroom. I was/am so excited about it :) (If you remember my yellow bedding a few posts ago that is it) It was very fun to see everyone and the boys had a blast playing in the back yard. Oh I forgot to mention that I proudly wore my crown and necklace again.

Sunday, May 25th
We decided to not go to church so that we could stay home and get started on the packing. It is time since we have less than a month until our projected move date. So we started some packing in the morning and then headed to the Coats for another party. Again I was wearing the crown and necklace. It was fun as always to spend time with my family. My sisters are the greatest :)
After the party is was back to packing the basement!!!

Monday, May 26th
Probably the least amount of celebrating happened on this day. We woke up bright and early at 6:30 and the boys took me to breakfast. It was very fun. They we stopped at Meijer to look for some boxes and then off to GAC's to see the kitty's. We dropped Ben off at my parents so that he could go be in a parade with them and we took Jacob home to do some packing. luckily Jacob slept the entire time Ben was gone so we got a lot done. I was rather grumpy however. It is not the most fun to be packing in a basement on your birthday. We had a picnic in the afternoon with our Sunday school class which was fun. It is kink of a crazy picnic now with all the kids running all over the place. In a few years we will be playing softball games I am sure. It was still a nice day and it was beautiful outside so that was nice. We came home and packed some more. We still have tons to do but it was nice to get a good start on everything.

Sunflowers Last Day

Today was the last day of Preschool for Ben. The kids had a "picnic" with lots of fun stuff to play with outside. He has had so much fun over the past year at preschool and has learned so much. I am so thankful for the program and am excited to see where he will be next year!

Here are some pictures from the day

All the kids playing in the big jumpy thing

Benjaboo

Jacob enjoying the ride

The sand table

Ben giving hugs to all his teachers after getting his certificate.

Spanish?!

I guess Ben has been learning some Spanish at school this year. All of a sudden this afternoon he counted to 5 in Spanish. Who knew. Uncle Todd you should be so proud :)

Sale Pending

It is official!!!!

Our house is finally SALE PENDING. Now we just have to wait until May 30th to say it is SOLD.

Off to figure out where to start packing and where we are going to move :)
If anyone has any extra boxes we are taking whatever we can find.

Cubbies Closing

Tonight was the closing ceremony for Ben's Cubbies program at Church. The program has been so great. Ben has learned 28 verses over the past year which I think is pretty amazing considering he is only 3. Ben has had tons of fun going to cubbies every Wednesday. So here are some pictures from his "graduation"

(a rare picture of the two of us)

Here is where is award is presented to him

I am still not sure what he did but his tag was taped to his back

After cubbies we drove around and looked at houses. While we were looking in Royal Oak we stopped at our favorite ice cream store. Here is what I saw from the car.

Ben truly is a genius. He already knows how to play chess and it looks like he is beating daddy

Just in case anyone was wondering here are the cubbies verses
Cubbies motto: Jesus Loves ME
A is for: All have sinned (Romans 3:23)
C is for: While we were sinners, CHRIST died for us (Romans 5:8)
1. God is Love - (1 John 4:8)
2. God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1)
3. He made everything beautiful (Ecclesiastes 3:11)
4. Give thanks to the Lord who made the great lights Sun, moon and stars (Psalm 136:3,7-9)
5. Through Him all things were made (John 1:3)
6. I am wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14)
7. All Scripture is God-breathed (2 timothy 3:16)
8. All Your words are true (Psalm 119:160)
9. Trust in the Lord (Proverbs 3:5)
10. For the word of the Lord is right (psalm 33:4)
11. Evening, Morning and noon I cry out (Psalm 55:17)
12. God loved us and sent His son (1 John 4:10)
13. When they saw the star they were overjoyed (Matthew 2:10)
14. Let the little children come to Me (Mark 10:14)
15. We ought to love one another (1John 4:11)
16. Jesus came into the world to save sinners (1 Timonty 1:15)
17. Even the winds and the waves obey Him (Matthew 8:27)
18. Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures (1 Corinthians 15:3)
19. I am with you always (Matthew 28:20)
20. Love each other as I have loved you. (John 15:12)
21. Love your neighbor (Galatians 5:14)
22. Children, obey your parents in the Lord (Ephesians 6:1)
23. The Lord is my shepherd (Psalm 23:1)
24. Worship the Lord with gladness (Psalm 100:2)
Extra's
Always giving thanks for everything (Ephesians 5:20)
He is not here; He has risen (Luke 24:6)