A Taste of Summer

It has been a whirl-wind of the past few weeks and I'm finally getting a chance to update some pictures. As of Friday, June 17th we are now the proud owner's of a new house! New address is 4523 N. 622 W. Huntington, IN

But before we get to the details of the house, here is what has been happening since my last post.

Out shopping

Moving truck arrives!

Such a fun place to run and play in!

Heritage Days Parade

Hot Air Balloons! We even got to go inside the balloon!

New furniture

Aaah, yes, and pool time! Here's cousin Ainsley loving the water!

Keira too! Our (quickly becoming) little fish!

Fun at Chuck E. Cheese! First time for Keira and she loved the rides :)

As for the house...we are definitely in the beginning stages of feeling settled. The rooms are slowly getting to where they no longer have boxes....we do however still have a storage unit and a friends basement to still unload! HA! This house is huge, with four bedrooms, a finished basement and an in-ground POOL! All outside doors are either extremely hard to open or very noisy so we won't have any children escaping unnoticed for all you protective family members :) I even have a dishwasher and central air! Two things our other house did not have. We feel extremely blessed and excited for our new found space and can't wait to have everyone come see it! As a matter of fact, just stop on by we would love to have any and all! With this much space we would probably be able to fit all of you :) Jason has most of the house pictures on Facebook but I will try and get some put on here as well. Thank you to all who prayed for our house to sell. God is Good!

30 Years

May 31st marked a significant milestone in Jason's life.....the big 3-0!! We had a crazy busy weekend; one filled with family, racing, a fair and a surprise! Mom & Dad Boothman came for a visit along with U. Nate, A. Colette, Annika and Ainsley. We had a house full! Friday night we met M & D at Olive Garden for dinner, went to our neighborhood garage sales Saturday morning, the boys went up to begin their racing that afternoon and the women folk followed by dinner time. The car ride up was interesting with the little ones wailing their heads off while A. Colette, Keira & Annika sang their hearts out to some Disney tunes :) Then Sunday morning was church followed by the Renaissance Fair (which was a really Neat concept! Just not a whole lot of people showed up for it. My favorite part was meeting the queen. We had to be announced and sang a song for her :) The whole court was in full costume and full character!) Some pix can be found Here. Then we had to stall for time until the surprise birthday started...at 5. Jason was clueless. The whole family was in on it. He and his brother went out to grab some frozen pizzas for 'dinner' and to 'help' A. Chell find a router for her internet. By the time they got back...."SURPRISE!!!" Party was complete with a Green Lantern Cake! Such a great end to a fun weekend. :)

Jason also had the past two weeks off of work, which has been GREAT! Today is his first day back...:) We were able to spend lots of quality family time together, which the kids loved and we were also able to take some pix of the kids.

Kanaan's latest bruises. One from a meeting with the sidewalk and the other from the TV stand drawer knob.
Keira loves, loves, loves to run :)

Mommy's Day & Fun in the Sun

Quick catch up.... I had a WONDERFUL Mother's Day! The kids and hubby know JUST how to make me feel special and loved. Sunday morning I received some beautiful flowers and a card, had a great time of worship at church and then headed to the Olive Garden for lunch! Love their food and just the kid friendly atmosphere. And that evening I went to see Thor with my sister, compliments of Jason. We really enjoyed the movie and recommend it! I'm ready to go see it again. :)

All dolled up and ready to go to our first Mother/Daughter Banquet!

Our 'official' M/D Picture :D

Happy Mother's Day to Me!

The weather has also been really warm lately! Like warm enough to feel like summer all of a sudden! So really, why wait to bust out the pool? So we did! The kids have loved it and allows us to get outdoors and enjoy the sunshine and heat.

Little Miss Keira posing with her pink hat

Kanaan too!

Yay for water!

I love sunshine!

Easter 2011

So I wanted to get some pictures of the kids in front of the door before I got this post up, but it's been a week and I still haven't taken those...I'll get there at some point! But here are some other Easter fun moments!

A local church had an Easter egg hunt and puppet show! We went last year and thought it would be great to go again this year.

Kanaan's first official egg hunt! He would find the eggs, pick it up, open it up, dump it and move on to the next one. :) Didn't care much for the goodies in side...at least not this year.

Keira found some good ones!

Checking out the loot

oooh, check out all those eggs!

Let's color some eggs!

I'm making a PINK egg! Of course :)

Loved coloring eggs

Not just any old fashioned colored eggs, but SPARKLE eggs! Guess who picked out that package

I like this picture of the two kids :) Spring is here I would say! Windows are open!

Keira plays soccer!

With springtime comes sports! This year we decided to try out Keira's skills with soccer. She loves to run plus several of our friends are 'in' to soccer. The pictures below are of her second practice. She did great the first round but needed some coaxing and *cough, cough* maybe a little bribing too. :)

Here we're stretching it out with Coach Andre.

Stretch up high! Touch the sky!

Time to stand on the line and get ready to 'dribble' down the field

Go Keira go! Our friends from church, the Hosler's, were gracious enough to give Keira her very first soccer ball! Thanks Alex!

Coach pulls them in for a quick huddle. Keira's friend, and the coach's daughter, McKenzie is on the same team!

Let's finish practice off with what we love to do best - running!! And some more running!
Keira's first game is April 30th. I don't totally know what to expect from a game of 3 & 4 year olds, so it should be interesting! There is one or two kids on the team that can actually kick the ball so we'll see what happens! You can be sure there'll be more pictures to come though!