Settling In

 One of the first things we did after getting settled was go check out our new home site.  With all the rain we had last summer, the building of this home was VERY delayed.  Our original closing date was supposed to be less than two months from the time this picture was taken.  Yeah, that didn't happen.

 While out driving around and exploring our new surroundings with my mom and the kids one day, the boys saw a Steak and Shake, and all of a sudden, they just couldn't make it through life unless they got to eat there!  Needless to say, they loved it.  Especially the shakes, which admittedly are very yummy.  Jilly just loved making a mess.  I don't think she ate more than two bites.  Except for the shake.  She loved the shake!

 Every day it wasn't raining, we were at the pool.  Which wasn't very often because it rained a lot last summer!!!  I think we only made it to the pool a handful of times.

 My poor Viv.  She takes after her mother.  She is an accident waiting to happen!  She was running up the front steps of our rental house (which were brick), tripped, and destroyed her leg.  It was so swollen I was worried she broke it!  It was just really scraped and bruised though.  She didn't like those front steps vey much after that and avoided them whenever possible.

Before grandma left, she did some sewing lessons with the kids.  Buds made this super cute bumble bee pillow with her.  It amazes me the amount of patience my mom has when teaching these kiddos how to sew.

 Two weeks after we left for GA, my mom left to go back home to CO.  We were a bit devastated to say the least.  It is amazing how much comfort having her company brought us through all of the moving.  My mom is a very tiny woman, but she is a pillar of strength, and we love her dearly.

 This was the most heartbreaking of all!  When this sweet girl realized what was happening, that her grandma was leaving, she was a wreck!  The kids and I cried all the way back to the car, where I passed tissues around.  On the way home, I knew I had to do something to distract us from our sadness, so we went through the drive through at Dunkin' Donuts.  Nothing a little food won't cure!  Which is probably why I'm a good ten pounds heavier since we moved.

 We also stopped by a trail that is next to the Chattahoochie river, where the kids threw rocks into the water and we explored a little bit.  We felt a tiny bit better by the time we got home.  I think the only thing that really brought us comfort was knowing that we were going back to CO at the end of July, and would get to see all our family and friends again then.

The Past Week

Here's a little recap of this last week:

 The grandparents came over one night and we had pizza and watched "Brother Bear".  Jilly enjoyed a few tastes of Vivi's lollipop.

 She didn't want to give it back.  Once she had one taste, she thought it needed to be hers.

 I made some valences to go above my kitchen windows.  I didn't notice how bare all my windows look with just the blinds, but now that I have these valences up, I'm thinking I need to get going on making some window treatments for the other windows.

 This is one of Jilly's favorite new toys to play in.  Preston and Vivi pretend it's a wheelchair all the time and pretend they have broken legs and wheel each other around the house.  They decided to put Jilly in it the other day and she LOVED it!

 Trenton is done with school now.  YAY!  Can't wait til Viv and Colson are done, then we can really get our summer started.  Trenton's been such a wonderful helper.  He has also spent plenty of time pushing Jilly around in the dump truck.  He's so good to her.

 Preston and I got to go on a little date the other day.  It was so much fun.  He chose lunch at Good Times.  He loves the spoon benders there.  What am I saying, I love their spoon benders!  Although I'm trying to quit.  We also went to a toy/learning store so I could get the kids some summer workbooks.  He loved it.  They had these little car/scooters, and he was cruising all over the store in it.  He found this giant bear while we were there and had to have a picture with it.  While we were out, we also ran to Target to get a few groceries.  As we were 

strolling through the aisles, he saw a woman who was pretty heavy and he said, "Whoa, mom!  Look!  Her butt is really--" and as he looked and saw the expression on my face, he exclaimed, "Cool!  She has a cool bum!"  Oh my goodness... It was all I could do to not burst out laughing!  That boy cracks me up.

 The kids had their recitals on Saturday.  They did so good!  This is their amazing hip hop teacher Mr. B.  I wasn't able to get a picture of Vivi with her teacher, Miss Holly.  She took tap and ballet this year with Miss Holly.

 After the recitals, we headed over to the pool for some fun in the sun.  We all had lots of fun jumping off the diving board.  Here's Viv in the middle of a twist.

 

 Trent has still got it.  He did a front flip with a full twist, a 1 1/2 front flip into a dive, and lots of cannon balls.

 Here's Trenton finishing up a front flip.

 And this crazy little boy here decided he was going to do a front flip, and just went up and did it!  I couldn't believe it!  Colson was done swimming by the time I pulled the camera out.  However, he was the one that got me up on the diving board.  During adult swim, he told me, "Mom, go and jump off the diving board."  I looked around and noticed that the pool was all but empty, and there was nobody over on the diving board.  I asked him, "Now?"  He responded, "Come on mom.  This is your only time to shine!"  Once adult swim was over, I went and jumped off the diving board several times with the kids, then asked Colson if I was "shining" yet.  He told me that since I hadn't taken the opportunity to jump during adult swim, I missed my chance.  Oh well... Maybe next time.

 

My little Lou looks so cute in her tutu suit!  She's funny about the pool.  She loves it as long as she doesn't get splashed too much.  Which is funny to me, since when she is in the bathtub, all she does is splash the whole time and practically drown herself.  She's a funny girl.

For our cupcake this week, Vivi chose May Day Basket cupcakes.  She decorated them all herself.  They turned out so cute!