Thanks so much to my friend Heidi, she helped me pack this morning, otherwise it would have been a very late night. She packed the kitchen while I did clothes and other random light stuff.
I spent the afternoon waiting at our new house for the fridge to be delivered. Kamri's friend Natalie came up with us and those two and Lyla had fun playing in the backyard.
Bracken did a lot more packing tonight and hopefully I can get the odds and ends packed up while they load the truck.

Well this house is a disaster full of boxes and odds and ends everywhere but by this time Saturday it should be spotless and we'll be unpacking at our new house!
I did a lot of organizing/packing today. Kamri, Lyla and I did sneak an hour in at the park, it was such a beautiful sunny day, I didn't want to keep them indoors! Lyla has mastered going down the big slides by herself but Kamri still loves to "catch" her at the bottom. When Hayes came home he made himself a hut out of boxes to hide and play angry birds.
We took a load of stuff to the new house tonight. We got up there and realized the house key was on Brackens car keys and we drove my car. No problem we thought, there is a garage code, but the door to the house in the garage was locked too! Bracken unloaded the stuff into the garage and we left. Oh well, tomorrow we'll remember the key and get inside the house!

Lego Monsters

Today was a long day. I'll let Hayes take a turn at blogging by posting his monsters from The library Lego Club.

My favorite part of today was as soon as Hayes got home from school he went in the backyard with Kamri and they played together.

I love overhearing their conversations as they are playing about secret missions or how they are getting gold out of the pebble they are hitting with a rock.  

And I love that they are outside doing it, because they seem to believe that even though they are two feet away from each other, it's still normal to talk like you are a football field away....

Signed

We signed papers on our house today and we'll be moving Saturday!!

We did a walk through inspection of the house today and I intended on taking pictures to post but I forgot. I got too excited looking at everything and thinking of where we're going to put everything.  I'll post some later this week.

Better get packing!

Nerd Wars

Hayes loves math. Bracken made up 10 addition questions for him to see if he could get them all right. It took a couple times of him correcting himself but he got them right. Then he wanted payback so he made up a loonnngg multiplication and subtraction question for Bracken. He didn't want to leave me out so he made one for me too. 27 minutes later...
Bracken showed Hayes how to use the calculator to see if we got all the right answers. Bracken and Hayes did, sadly I messed up on the last addition part. 14 digit number multiplication is a doozey.
Hayes told he'd give me an easier problem next Sunday. I told him I'd think of another family activity to do.

My favorite line today was when Hayes was facetiming Grandma Niece and she asked him what he wanted for Christmas. "A revolver!" He meant a rover...a robot he read about in a catalog but we all had a good time laughing about it while he showed us what he really meant.

This afternoon we all went Christmas shopping for the cousin presents. When we got home Bracken and I told the kids we were going to clean up the house until it was all clean and work as a team. Hayes and Kamri told us when they were finished with a job and then they'd get a new one. They picked up toys, cleaned the bathrooms, swept, shook out rugs, etc. They were working so well I ran out of ideas so I had them take picture frames off the wall so I could pack them. They were such good workers and didn't complain. Sadly, chore time isn't always like that!
Bracken and I went on a date tonight to the movie Lincoln. A great movie, even though we already knew how it would end.
Lame joke. I know. It was a great movie though.