Living with the "rents"

My amazing parents let us move in with them for 7 weeks while we were between houses. We took over half of their house and eventually their garage. I know it wasn't easy for them but we are so thankful that they allowed us in their home! Here are some of the fun things we did during our stay with Grandad and Bebe!

Dressed up in pretty dresses

Watched the life cycle of a monarch butterfly named Hermie

played in the sprinklers (Cason was obsessed with my parents sprinkler system)

played with a souvenir from my parents trip to Italy.

played in the sandbox and worked on looking like a stud!

snuggled with Bebe and Grandad A LOT

construction stud again

went on walks to the duck pond

practiced our monkey skills

played with cousins

dinner with cousins

Goodbye 3418 Tulip, Rowlett Tx

We're moving! We decided a couple years ago that we wanted to put our house on the market. After preparing the house we decided at the last minute not to do it. We wanted to save a little more money. Well, this year we did it!

The last week of March we put it on the market. We thought that it would be awhile before it sold. We were thinking we would be lucky if we had a couple of showings a week. The first day on the market we had 7 showings and 3 full price or above offers! We were under contract the day we put it on the market. It was a whirlwind!

After looking at several houses we found one that we love! It is in Murphy and we LOVE the neighborhood! We should be moving in June 1st but have had a couple of hiccups. Not on our part, on the crazy sellers part. HOPEFULLY we will get it all worked out this week.

In the meantime we have been living with my amazing parents! We will be here a total of 5 weeks and 2 of those weeks my parents will be on vacation in Italy.

It was a little emotional leaving our house on move out day. It was our first house and the house we brought Cason and Molly home too after they were born. We lived there for 7 years and worked hard to make it perfect for us. It really was perfect but we were outgrowing it.  I miss it but I know our new home will be exciting and eventually feel like home and I can't wait!

Happy Easter!

I know this is late......we have had some MAJOR changes the last couple of months. I will have to fill you in later! For now, I am going to share some pictures of our Easter weekend. We enjoyed spending it with my family, having Easter Egg hunts and of course celebrating our RISEN Lord!

Happy 2nd Birthday Molly!

This past Thursday Molly turned 2! She woke up saying, "It's my birday!". To make her day as special we stopped at McDonald's to get a special birthday breakfast, Myrna had an Easter egg hunt, I fixed her some of her favorite foods for dinner (macaroni and cheese and strawberries) and then we ate a cookies and cream ice cream cake.

At her 2 year well visit Molly weighed 25 lbs. and was 34 in. tall. She is talking up a storm. Saying things like, "I'm 2, Bubba's 4", "I'm hungee", "I want a drink", "Dada's at home", Where's Bebe?", "Doggie night night".  She will repeat pretty much anything that she hears. One day while we were driving we drove past something that stunk. From the back seat I heard this cute little girly voice say, "Mama it's a skunk". It made me laugh so hard! She is learning her colors and can sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star.

Molly LOVES and idolizes her big brother. She tries to do the same things he does, often getting her into trouble. She likes to play with his cars and trucks and to run around with him. She's pretty fast and is getting better at keeping up with him! Even though she likes to hang out with her "bubba" she is still very girly. She LOVES babies. Real babies and baby dolls (or baby de-olls as she calls them). She likes to rock her babies, pat their backs, kiss them, and even spank them and say "bad baby". Her favorite TV show is Olivia and when she watches it she will go get a pillow and blanket and then pat the couch beside her so I will come and cuddle.

Molly is also very loving. At any point of the day she will come up and kiss me just because. It melts my heart every time!  As I mentioned Molly is such a sweet and loving little girl but she has a temper! Her fits are epic. A lot of spitting, crying, and blood curdling screaming. But as soon as she has everything all worked out she is back to her cute, silly, loving self. Her dada and I  love her so so much and as annoying as they are we even love her fits. I was talking to someone about Molly being strong willed and they reminded me that God gives people the personality traits that they will need through out their life. God wants Molly to be strong willed and opinionated! We are excited to see what she does with her life!

Birthday Dinner

Molly eating the cookie off the top of the cake. This girl LOVES cookies. I wish you could hear her say," I want cookie".

We gave Molly her very own pair of rain boots since her and Cason are always fighting over his. She loves any style, size, color of shoe. She will try to wear them all!

Since she loves her babies so much we splurged and gave her and American Girl Bitty Baby.

She loves it!

 These next few pictures are from the past couple of months.

Always a helper!

Look at those eyes!

Moees Birday

Yes, I spelled that incorrectly! That is what we heard all day today because it was Molly's birthday party day and she was SOOOO excited. All week long she kept saying it was her birthday. I can't believe in a few short days she will be 2! We originally planned to have her party at the same place we had Cason's party this year but it was rainy and cold. BOO! So very last minute my AMAZING parents suggested we have it at their house. It turned out really well! The most important thing was that Molly had a good time and she had a blast!

Molly's birthday was rainbow themed. I have confession. I love planning a themed party. I wish I could be a party planner but I don't think that would pay the bills!

Birthday Girl!

rainbow themed food (goldfish, trix crispy treats, fruit kabobs)

the cake ( I made it, it's not perfect but it is the best I have ever done!)

Molly hunting for eggs during the Easter egg hunt.

Cake time! She loved it when we sang happy birthday to her!

Surprise! There's polka dots in the cake!

Cason and Molly checking out their eggs.

Chatting cousins.

After we got home Molly had a blast playing with her new toys.

Molly playing with the baby doll crib Grandad and BeBe got her. Granny and Papaw got her a baby doll high chair too. She is all set to take care of her babies!

A perfect end to a perfect day. Snuggling with Granny.....

and Papaw!