Gracious Gobstoppers

Obviously, it has been ages (or feels that way) since I posted last.  And, since I found the connector cable for the camera, I have decided to do an update :)

Mr. E was crying one morning, I found him "stuck" up here... boy am I glad J insisted upon anchoring the bookshelves to the wall :)

Mr. E also found a non-washable red crayon and colored the wall in many places... and I used up all my Magic Eraser to no avail... so we painted...

Smaug helped :)

The others played in the "girls" room!

We released Annie in anticipation of moving :(  TW was sad.

The Saturday before we moved, we had our Sunday School class over for a final BBQ/get together... everyone had a blast!

This is Easter morning... egg hunting :)

Cute, Huh?

Our group photos turned out so-so... but this shot turned out A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E!!!

Some kids have a blanket or animal... this one has a shovel :)

Here are the kids watching The Packers (inside joke, Uncle MP will get it) :)

And enjoying a chocolaty treat (outside)!

Smaug had one last Dr's appointment... while we waited TW (and another boy, not pictured) did math facts... too funny!

OK, I hope this video works... we don't let our kids sleep in the jump up... but we put him in there, and instead of jumping, he went straight to this... so now you can hear (I hope) why his name is Smaug :)

On J's birthday we went to our friends house.  They had a big birthday cookie and hung the Happy Birthday banner in his honor!

We were parked somewhere along our journey to Jacksonville :)

In our first few days in our new home, we ate out a bit... here we are at Cracker Barrel!  Unfortunately, J had a cold, and the meal just wasn't the same :(

We distracted the kids with PBS before church our first Sunday!

Instead of hanging out in a hotel room, the kids and I drove J around as he checked in.  Sometimes we had to wait quite a bit... the small guys napped while TW climbed a palm tree ;)

Here are the kids cheering on Smaug as he practiced crawling!

Oh, here we are waiting again!

TW took this picture... it's a wood peckers hole!

:)

Our new house has cats roaming about (outside of course)!

There is a playground a short field from our front door!

TW has been practicing standing up with Smaug!

In Other News:  We have finished our Bible studies for the school year.  In science, we are in our last section on growth and development.  As part of this, we did a height prediction quiz for TW... according to it, he should be a whopping 5' 11" as an adult... somehow, I think he might end up a bit taller :)