April

Whew! What a month! It started off with a trip to Puerto Rico for me for a educational research conference (SUCH a chore to go to a tropical island for work!) and ended with us moving into a new house!

After I got back from Puerto Rico, I had exactly 3 days to pack up our whole house and get ready for the move. We couldn't really pack anything before our trip because we were still showing our old house to potential buyers and didn't want boxes everywhere. So we waited as long as possible to pack and wound up cramming everything into a short window. It was hectic, but we pulled it off. We moved on a Sunday, so some friends of ours took the kids to church and kept them for the rest of the day. Here are a couple of pictures of the kids in their rooms before the moving trucks came. Goodbye house!

 

Kaitlyn's ballet class was also coming to an end around the same time as the move. We had a dress rehearsal/picture night before the recital in early May. Isn't she an adorable ballerina?

In other big news, Kaitlyn LOST A TOOTH!! She's been eagerly anticipating this milestone and it finally happened for her. She pulled her tooth herself, which saved us all lots of drama! 

At our new house, it was raining one Saturday and the kids wanted to go outside. So they dressed up in their rain gear and had a blast outside playing in the rain. The wonders of childhood are so fun to watch!

April was a nutty month, but May was just as hectic! Birthday parties, recitals, school parties, graduation, family visits...sounds like another blog post is coming soon. (Well, "soon" is a relative term. Maybe I should say a post will come when I find some time to download May pictures to the computer, resize/edit them and upload them to the site.)