Yes I am playing catch up!

You may have noticed my absence, but I have good reason for it! The week before Memorial weekend I got the keys to our new house! We had been waiting for that day for soooo looonnngg. Then to add icing to the cake Zach fianlly made it home late Saturday night of memorial weekend. Another day we had been waiting for! Days later movers arrived and after a long day we were in our new house! We are pretty settled in, but still have some stray things here and there to find homes for. For the first time all three boys are in seperate rooms so we need more shelves to seperate out toys and such. Cody is doing pretty well with his new bed. He calls for me in the morning, but if I ignore him long enough or say Cody just slide down, he will eventually go down the slide, downstairs and bug Tyler who is always the first one awake! We are loving our new house and having a yard, garage and room to be away from each other! Our grass is coming in pretty good in the backyard. Every time it rains one corner floods so they are working on that issue. My yard is better than most. The ones behind me their entire yard floods! Now that we are resettled I will be able to keep up better on my blog.

School's out for the summer!

Cody and some of his classmates having lunch on their little playground. We are so excited to be getting a new one for next year!
Cody posing on one of the bikes he learned to peddle on! He is a ham!

Today was the last day for Tyler and Ryan, Cody finished on Tuesday. Ryan has decided that he is okay with going to 2nd grade, but still doens't want to do the homework. Tyler is excited for 4th grade. There is a good possibility he will have one of the teachers he had this year and he is happy about that. We were hoping both would be able to move up to 4th grade, but looks like only one will. The boys had to say goodbye to some good friends since most are moving to other bases now that school is out as part of the move process for clearing all the apartment buildings. Cody had to say goodbye to the assistant teacher. Mrs. Eiman will be missed! Fortunate for us she is moving to Ellsworth AFB so when we are in Cheyenne we can pop up to see her and the family again! We are also a bit jealous they get to move to South Dakota, but we love to visit there!

Cody's car wash dream come true!

Some of you know that Cody has had an obsession with the car wash. Everyday he would ask to take the car to the car wash or if we were driving or walking by we had to stop and watch the car wash. So a few days after Zach got home we were at the shoppette renting movies and Zach found a car wash just for Cody! We brought it home set it up and Cody was so excited he could hardly contain himself. He got out his bike...............then we turned the water on!

This is Cody very unsure now of the car wash. Water is not his favorite thing especially when it sprays at his head!

So I tried to help convince him and assured him I would go through with him. We made it through, but that was enough for him.

However Ryan had no issues! The same went for Tyler as he is pretending to take a shower in the car wash!

Cody decided the gas station was more his speed. This is him pretending to fill up his bike. Once we turned the water off he would ride through the car wash and Zach even tricked him once and turned the water on as he went through. He didn't like that too much!

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy belated mother's day to all my friends out there! Ryan and Cody brought home plants for me then I got another one at church. Now if I can keep them alive! Every mother's day I love for the kids to get up and sing in church. It is so cute and fun for them get all arranged just long enough to get out a short song about mothers then rush back to their seats excited that they did it! This year was even more special becuase the one thing I thought would never happen did. After all the kids had gone up, Cody grabbed my hand and said come. I followed him up and sat beside him trying to duck down behind all the kids and he sang as best as he could. It wasn't really words except when they said mom, but he did it and that was very special to me. When he was done he gave me a big hug and said I did it! After church we went to a friend's house and had a nice dinner in the beautiful sunshine! All of the kids played and had a good time. It was nice to sit and relax and just talk to the adults there. I couldn't really ask for more on Mother's day.

Our new house

I don't have the keys yet, but they say next week they will be calling to sign paperwork. After that I set up movers and hopefully by the end of the month we willl have the move done! The fences are up because they have an area dug to put a sidewalk all the way around and they are moving pretty quick on that. It will be so nice to have a garage, back yard and more room!

Cody's second soccer season!

Cody is just so darn cute I could not pass up putting several pictures on! The weather was beautiful and Cody just had his haircut which made the pictutes even better. He loves soccer and has gotten used to the cleats and socks with shin guards. He is doing much better this year and I know it's because he has beeing in preschool and learned to be okay with other kids around that are his size. Now if we could just get him to share that ball!

Finally Zach gets his chance!!

Every deployment Zach never has anyone interesting to meet or the one time he missed out seeing Robin Williams by a few weeks. So being the big NASCAR fan he is, he was very happy to meet Jeremy Mayfield this week. He has autographs from other drivers so now can add this one to the collection!