Lilly is 3!

Lilly had a Hello Kitty Birthday party again!

She's been insisting for months that she wanted Hello Kitty, we kept giving her other options, but her mind was made up.  She's also still insisting that she's 2, she really doesn't want to be 3 yet.  She gets really mad it you insist!

I think Ben took some pictures, or video of the party, but I can't find it.  This is what happens if you move 7 days before a party, crazy!

Happy 4th

We went to the parade with Grandma and Grandpa!

Our Bishop lives around the corner and hosted a breakfast for the whole neighborhood.  What a fun place to live!

Iron Men

We watched the Hawaii Iron man on TV the other day and Eli was inspired.  While it was still on, he was gathering his helmet, getting dressed and filling water bottles.  He and Ben rode over to our old apartment complex, swam in the pool there, and rode home.  We couldn't get him to do any running, this comes from my side of the family.  We love swimming, but running is torture!

It's a mess

 The playroom floor is supposed to look like this.

 I found the whole thing in the dryer yesterday.  I still can't find a few pieces, one was under the bathroom scale!  I guess they'll turn up eventually.

How come my living room always looks like we live in a frat house?

Yard

It's so nice to have a yard again!  Okay so it's mostly just weeds, but someday it'll be something pretty cool.  Oh yeah, we have big plans!

Sleepy Babe

Lilly is in that in between stage with napping.  If she takes a nap she's up until 11pm, but sometimes she's in a terrible mood, and ends up falling asleep in all kinds of places.  We even found her on the landing, half way down the stairs the other day.  I didn't get a picture, because she woke up when Eli trod on her going down the stairs.  Poor sleepy babe!

Lilly cut her own hair.

I was hoping that after Eli cut it, and we had big talks about how it's not okay to cut hair ourselves, she wouldn't do this, but alas what can you do?  We even hid all scissors, but she found a pair at the very back of my bathroom drawer, hidden underneath a bunch of stuff.  She gave herself some pretty good bangs, and we went in and had her hair fixed as much as possible.  I'm not a fan, but they'll grow.

Artists

Eli and Lilly had a fun day painting on cardboard boxes (we have plenty of those) outside the other day.  Bonus, no mess to clean up! 

Lilly got some new playdoh for her birthday, here's one of her creations!

Eli is loving drawing.  Sometimes he draws pictures, like the two above, without tracing first.  He just scribbles stuff out, and the scribbles form the picture.  This is a new way of making a picture to me, but I think they turn out pretty cool.  Big surprise, most of his pictures are of farm equipment.  The red one is a combine harvester, and the green one in a John Deere mower.

Moving, Moving....

Here we are in the driveway in Oregon, getting ready to drive to Boise!

 This is packing round 2, in our apartment in Boise.

I was so excited when the Uboxes were delivered, we finally have all our stuff in one place again.

We had to buy all new appliances, and a standard size fridge didn't fit, we even tried removing the base board.

Here's fridge number 2, it fits, but is considerably smaller.

 The range didn't fit either!  

They don't come in any other size, so we had the gas company move the line, the electrician move the outlet, and another guy come cut the granite counter top.  It's squished, but it's in!  It seems to be a trend in this house, the washer and dryer almost didn't fit through the laundry room door either, let's just say I hope they don't break for a long time because they're never coming out!

 The first meal on the new stove was steak tacos.  I love corn tortillas cooked right over the flame, yum, yum!

SOLD!

We wanted to buy a house that didn't need any work, I'm not sure what happened.  I'm just glad to be semi settled and if it's up to me, we're never doing this again.  We've been prepping, staging and packing, unpacking, house hunting and moving since January, this seriously took up 7 months of our life.  I'm looking forward to having a somewhat normal routine again.  Hopefully that'll happen soon!

Swimming

Indoor girl

I'm not sure Lilly loves the outdoors as much as the rest of our family.

She often asks to go back in the house, when everyone else is playing outside.  The other day at the pool, since we couldn't go home because Eli was still swimming, she covered up completely and sat on a lounge chair while Eli and I kept swimming.

Haircut

I found a pile of Lilly's hair in the bathroom trash today. Eli claims she cut it herself, but she has trouble cutting paper, so I find this a little hard to believe. He said "maybe Lilly found some orange scissors, cut her hair, and then hid the scissors carefully under the couch in the living room". He says he found the hair on the couch, carefully cleaned it all up and put it in the trash. I asked him why he didn't tell me, and he said he didn't know where I was.  Ummm I couldn't be far.....probably the kitchen?? 

Something just isn't adding up in this story.

Since I found the hair during Lilly's nap, I couldn't asses the damage or confirm the story until she woke up.  The haircut wasn't as bad as it could have been, it turns out he cut small pieces from all around the back of her head.  Since she has wavy hair, you really can't tell.  In fact if I hadn't have found the hair, I'm not sure I ever would have noticed.
Lilly also said Eli was the one who cut her hair, ah ha!

Eli is still insisting that Lilly did it, which is strange because he doesn't usually lie.  He told me later in the day that Lilly hit him, so he hit her back with a hula hoop.  It's a mystery, but Eli is still the main suspect.

I guess it's time to go get some layers put into Lilly's hair, and clean up the mess.

Another Day At The Lake

Random Update

Lilly got all of these little erasers from the Underwater Easter Egg Hunt we did at the Hillsboro Aquatic Center.  She still keeps them in a little change purse and plays with them all the time.  She brought them to Eli's swim lessons the other day, and they kept her occupied for an hour.  The little bunnies are friends, they do a lot of kissing and some times share a carrot.

Her obsession with tiny things continues!

The new roof went on our house this week!

I can't wait to have a room without a baby in my closet, and for the kids to have a yard.

Can't wait until closing on the 25th!!

We got a new craigslist couch, since we left our other couch in Oregon.

It had a small tear on one arm, which I sewed up and you can't really even tell it's there.

I had a moment of regret right when we brought it home, I feeling sorry for myself because we always buy used things. I was wishing we could have bought a new couch, and I didn't have to clean/repair everything we own.  Then, before I had even finished assembling the couch Lilly walked over and spit an entire mouthful of chocolate milk on one of the cushions!  I was suddenly overjoyed that the couch was used, had a little dog hair on it, and a hole, because the chocolate milk incident would have sent me off the deep end if we had just paid a an arm and a leg on a brand new couch.  Thank you Lilly for reminding me what's important in life.

Is this a girl thing?  Lilly has to bring half the house with her everywhere we go.  As if I'm not already toting enough stuff: diapers, extra clothing, towels, water, snacks......  Now we have to bring a monkey, a toy phone and camera, sunglasses, a few necklaces, and of course her "sucked on" blanket. When we're trying to get out the door, Lilly keeps saying "wait" and runs back to her room to get something else she forgot.  I guess life would end if we forgot the rock collection next time we go to the park!

Crazy Hair

This lady had some crazy hair the other day.  She's still not too excited about having her picture taken, so this is the best shot I could get while chasing her around the house!

Home Depot

Eli loves going to the Home Depot Kids Workshop with Ben.  Last time they made a display box, but he's also made a bean bag toss, an airplane and a box.  Usually they go to Lowe's, but we had to go to Home Depot anyways so now he has a blue apron and an orange apron!