Our dream house!!

We made an offer on this house this week, and it was accepted yesterday!

We decided recently to look for a bigger house... not like our house isn't awesome and big and we love it- but Dave got this idea in his head to start looking for the bigger "dream" house that we had planned on for a couple years in the future. This is the one we are thinking we'll most likely stay in for a long time- the kids will grow up there, etc.... well, we looked for a couple weeks, and we actually found it! We are so excited. It's not ginormous, but it's bigger than what we have, it's an even better floorplan, and it has a HUGE lot- the backyard is soooo big and it has a fenced in pool!

The funny story is that we had been looking all over town, and had started to look at the small towns outside of the city, and we just weren't finding what we wanted. We wanted more space and a pool, and Dave's dream is the BIG backyard. Finding a bigger house wasn't hard, finding a pool was not too bad, but getting any decent size of yard along with a pool was impossible. If there was a pool, that was pretty much the yard. Finding a fenced pool was even worse. I think we found one before this one. So we were on our way home from one of these adventures checking out another place, and Dave was getting so discouraged. I told him, it might not be common, but we just had to keep looking and we'd find it. He told me that it didn't exist- and if I found one, he'd give me a hundred bucks. Well, after we got the kids to bed that night, Dave was off on a walk talking on the phone, and I found this house. I was getting all excited and impatient for him to get back, because I knew he'd love it. It had 1.15 acres! Well, he got back and finally looked at the computer, and we got excited and called our realtor the next morning and went to see it that afternoon (this was last Monday). The rest is history =) I don't get my $100 right now though... .we have a lot to pay for! =) hehe...

So, now that we have our offer accepted, we have to start the process of inspections and all that- but as long as everything goes well, we are set to close at the end of April!!!! Now we gotta get this house on the market... pray for us that it won't take too long to sell and that this prego lady can get it all done!!!

Rock Band!

I keep meaning to blog about Rock Band (aka Wah-Baaaa), but I haven't had any pictures. Dave said he has a video clip on his phone, but I don't have it. We played last night, though, and I got a few pictures. The boys LOVE it. If you haven't played it, you need to come visit us and play, it is so fun. We've had it a month or so? Can't remember.... but enough to have played it a bunch, and we're getting pretty good. Well, Dave is really good at the guitar. I liked Guitar Hero, so I thought I would stick to the guitar- the drums scared me... I was sure I was not coordinated enough, but I tried them, and they are so much fun. I'm not bad. I'm pretty awesome on "Easy" mode, but when you play in "Tour" mode with your band, you can't stay on your level forever if you're getting high scores. You have to move up or you stop earning fans... so now I'm on medium, and I have to coordinate a lot more bass pedal (my foot is not as coordinated, let's just say that!) But it's totally fun. We were suprised the first time we tried to play at night when the boys were asleep, it's totally loud but it didn't bother them at all! So we play whenever at night, and then sometimes we play during the day with them. They like to switch off between things, especially Chris, his attention span is about 10 seconds on each instrument sometimes.... We give them the guitar hero guitar and the drums (unplugged) and I do the microphone (I'm pretty good at that one too- it's pretty easy, you don't really have to sing well or even know the songs) while Dave plays the other guitar. They love it. It's funny, because Ben started singing that "Dead or Alive" song by Bon Jovi, after we played it a few times.... but it sounds like "bed-oh-uh-wibe" =)

Ready to play...

They play the drums with chopsticks instead of the drumsticks... hoping to save the drums a little, they like to hit pretty hard, plus they miss and hit each other....

And Daddy the awesome guitar player...

The seasons come, the seasons go...

all in just a couple of weeks....

On the 8th, we got another little "snowstorm". This time it was first thing in the morning and we were lucky enough to have some stick for a little while so we could go out and play. Ben was up earlier than Chris, so we saw it first, and got Daddy up to go play in it. Ben was having fun, even though this picture doesn't show it. He was COLD. I was still trying to find him some mittens... for some reason I only had two left red mittens that day on the shelf...

But he loved it, and they even made a little snowman... I mean little... those are toothpicks. He found the flower for the mouth himself =)

Then we came in and had some hot chocolate. This is the first time Ben had tried it, and he was loving it! He wanted more and more...

It wasn't long before Chris woke up, and we got to head out again for some more playing. They loved running around and throwing the snow...

Found some more gloves and mittens, so everyone was cozy...

Daddy and Ben were throwing "snowballs"....

Chris was tasting it...

Fast forward 5 days to Thursday, the 13th... and it is beautiful spring weather. We went out in the afternoon to play in barefeet- the sun was warm and the day was awesome. Not a bit of chill. We broke out the sidewalk chalk and they loved it.

Then Friday night and Saturday morning came the HUGE storms. There was a tornado in Atlanta and that storm came up our way and we had crazy thunderstorms and pouring rain...

Then today, Sunday- once again, beautiful spring weather. I put the boys in shorts after church and we played in the backyard after lunch. After dinner, we enjoyed a popsicle out on the patio and played some more. They have been having to much fun outside exploring and playing. Ben and Chris were even playing catch with the little football- it was too cute. Dave has a video of it, I'll have to try to post that.

This is a new favorite shot of mine... don't you just love this little baby face??? My baby is getting so old- he's saying so much and dancing around singing songs now... He's not going to be my baby much longer, but this face is just too sweet...

I think we have a little Irish in us....

So here's a new header to celebrate March and St. Patty's =) I had to change the Valentine's one...

We are having....

another bouncing baby
Three boys, can you believe it? Dr. F. said he was 1000% sure it was a little boy in there.... as you can see from the first picture, he labeled the part for us... It's so crazy to think about all these boys and what they'll be like. We see the features and personality traits of Ben and Chris, and who we think they came from, and we are totally curious to see what other combinations we come up with =) Will this one look a lot like one of the other boys? Or a totally different combination of genes? We'll see in July!

This one is a butt shot- butt is at the top, and boy part is pointing down between the legs....

This one is kind of a weird shot- little man was hiding his face- you can see the spine and then on the right is the head, facing down. It's always so cool to see them on the ultrasound. We took Chris and Ben so they could see. Not sure they got much out of it, but Ben thought it was pretty cool, and we'll be able to tell them they were there when we found out they were going to have another brother!