Major Spring Cleaning

It has been crazy busy around here lately and I'm still trying to catch up! Since it has been so warm, we have been playing outside a bunch. Jensen has a blast with the 3 boys that live across the street and 2 that live next door. We have also finally tackled the disasterous garage. When we moved 5 months ago, we literally unloaded the stuff to go in the garage and left it where it was. The problem has been storage since Jeff has so many tools and stuff. We have shopped around for shelving etc and finally decided we could build something better and cheaper. I was very skeptical at first because I know how Jones projects go....usually they take forever to get done and make a huge mess! Last Sat though Jeff went to get wood and the two of us built a storage shelf from scratch. It's 8ft long and 7 feet tall with tons of shelf space and it only took us about 4hrs. Jeff has been organizing and putting things away since then and it's looking very nice out there.

Jamie and I decided to have a garage sale and I had a bunch of stuff ready to go. We have had our storage unit in Edmond for 2yrs now so I wanted to get as much stuff out of there as possible since we have been paying $86 a month. If it's been there that long we don't need it so we brought home two truckloads full of stuff and most of it went to the garage sale. Only about 1/4 of the stuff is left in storage so that's good. Jamie and I set things up on Tues and Wed then had the sale Thurs, Fri, Sat WHEW!! It was hard work and exhausting. It took up all of my days last week so now I'm trying to get back to normal. We made almost $300 and got rid of a bunch of stuff. It's made me want to purge even more though so I've started a new pile. I don't plan on having another garage sale anytime soon though so that stuff will have to go to charity.

Easter 2010

We got to take Jensen and Jorden to a couple egg hunts this year. One was in the park in Moore and the other at Bass Pro. The one at Bass Pro was neat because they had free pictures with the Easter Bunny and a hunt inside the store where the kids actually had to find the eggs instead of just pick them up in a field. I have a really cute picture of the boys with the bunny but I can't figure out how get our scanner to work grrr. The Easter Bunny came to our house and brought lots of goodies and giant eggs!! Jensen was surpised to see giant Easter eggs and a basket of toys and candy. Jorden was less impressed but like holding the regular sized eggs.

Jorden's first Easter basket with stacking cups in it

Jeff and I finished the garage storage shelf then we went to Mimi's house (my mom) for lunch and she made a delicious ham and lots of yummy sides. It was a beautiful day so we sat out on her patio and Jensen and Mimi ate on his picnic table under the fort. Then Mimi and Carrie hid eggs for Jensen to hunt. He was surpised to see a giant blue one in the birdfeeder.

Jorden enjoying the weather on Mimi's patio

Lunch with Mimi- she has an awesome fort in her backyard for the boys
She doesn't spoil them or anything!!

After lunch, Jeff and I drove to Edmond to our storage unit and brought home 2 truckloads full of stuff. Then we went to his parent's house for a yummy dinner with them. Jensen got a basket there and at my mom's so he had plenty of candy to share with Mommy and Daddy! For me it was the perfect kind of day.....food and family plus getting a lot done!!

A few days before Easter we colored eggs and Jensen really enjoyed it. He liked eating them too since he loves boiled eggs for breakfast

We've been Smurfed!

Jensen stuck his hand in the dye and it took a couple of days to fully come off!

My sister Carrie came over to help and she took this good picture of me and the boys

Jorden had fun watching brother from his highchair

Jorden 5 months

Our little man Jorden is starting to do so many things at once! We are all really enjoying him espcecially since he's so happy and always smiling. A few weeks ago he started rolling over every time you lay him down, he found his feet and he started sitting up all in the same few days. He's still wobbly but on a soft surface he can sit really well. Jorden is also really becoming interested in reaching and touching different things. It's fun to see him hold something and investigate it. He had his first trip to the zoo which was fun especially since they just opened a new children's zoo. It was interesting going with a baby and we didn't see many animals since most of the time was spent either changing or feeding him. We have a zoo pass though so we can go anytime.

Riding the train at the zoo with Mommy and big brother

Trying to pet a goat

I just love seeing him grab his feet, it's just precious

Mr Personality

We started putting him in his highchair to play while we eat. We are going to start solid food this week so that will be exciting.