(Boxes in the dinning room)
(Wrapping with the green stuff)
On Monday Ethan was helping us pack. He really liked using the green wrap stuff. He was ready to wrap everything with it. After Ryan went to work Ethan was really quite. When I found him he was asleep on the step stool. Of coarse I ran to get the camera. I took the picture and as soon as I did he woke up enough to move to the couch. Isn't he the cuttest?
(Ethan asleep on the step stool)
(Ethan asleep on the couch)
Last night I decided we needed to run our dishwasher. It had some old detergrnt stuck in it when we moved in and we have never used it. I was a little afraid to use it because it looked so old I was worried something bad would happen. Ryan refers to the old dishwasher as a Buick (It looks really old but he says it will probably never die). Since we are moving in 2 weeks I thought I would try to run the dishwasher to make sure it was clean for the walk thru. So we ran it late last night. Around 10pm we had a knock on the door but we were already in bed. So we ignored the knock and went to sleep. Today when we looked in the dishwasher the detergent was still caked to the door. Ryan scraped it off and ran it again. Once again we had a knock at the door. Ryan opened the door and the lady that lives under us said something was leaking from our apartment into hers. Ryan told her we would turn off the dishwasher and told her she needed to call maintenance. A few minutes later the maintenance man came over to inspect our dishwasher. Apparently the bottom is all rusted out and was leaking lots of water into the apartment under us. He came back later with the head guy and they decided it needs to be replaced. It probably will not happen until next week. They also said that Manager told them that they had this problem about a year ago. Nice! Both of the maintenance men were confused why it was not replaced when it happened the first time. I wish I had not been so worried about using it back in Jan. when we moved in. I could have had a new dishwasher for the last 41/2 months. That stinks!! Oh Well! You LIVE and you LEARN. Right?
He will be working for Aramark on Baylor campus. We are very excited for this new job and all it will bring. This job is very family friendly and gets us out of the restraunt side of food service. Actually there are quite a few reasons this will be better, but I won't go into all that.
The timing has worked out very well for us. Our lease on our current apt. ends June 30th and Ryan starts his new job the first week in July.
We are planning to buy a house. This is so exciting to finally get to find a house that we can make our own. I am also very excited to be close to my parents. I am so excited for all this change to happen. I have started packing what little we have in our small apt. It should be really easy since more than half of our stuff is in storage.
I can't wait to be able to put the kids to bed in their own bedrooms. I can't wait to be able to do laundry at home again. I can't wait to have a backyard for the kids to play in and to use our grill again.
Well if you can't tell I am very excited. If anyone knows of a good realtor in the Waco area we would love some suggestions.
However, Friday we had to come back to RR so we could pack and be ready for Ryan to get home. As soon as he got home we started loading the car and hit the road to Bryan. His little sister, Kelli was getting married on Saturday at the Houston Temple. So Friday we made it to Bryan and visited with all the Bennett Family.
Saturday was a very long day. We got up early so we could drive to Houston for the Sealing. We took lots of wonderful pictures. Then we all rushed back to Bryan so we could get our kids to the babysitters. We were supposed to be at Johnny Carino's by 1:30 for a lunch but we were all late. Pictures took longer than planned and our side of the family had to drop off all the kids. We finally made it to JC and had a nice lunch. We had a couple of hours between that and the reception. Ryan kept our kids and I went with his mom to help with the finishing touches at the Bishops house. They had an outdoor reception at the Student ward Bishops house in Castle Gate. It all turned out very nice but it was a very long day.
Sunday we went to Sacrament then we drove to Waco for my family Reunion out at my grandparents ranch. We had lunch, saw lots of family and the kids played on the water slide. We all got lots of sun. Once we arrived at my parents house we got cleaned up and the kids ready for bed. Then my mom, Travis, Ryan and I went to the Gropps so we could visit with Becky now that she was home. My dad stayed at home with the kids.
I decided to stay at my parents until Wed. which would be Ryan's day off. So Monday Ryan went home so he could work. That afternoon Mindi and Julie brought over the kids to do the water slide in my parents backyard. They all had lots of fun and got a little sun too.
Ethan on the water slide
Madalyn on the water slide
Ethan, Madalyn & Cole in the little pool
Cailyn playing with Durango
Tuesday I started reading "Twilight". I am almost finished with it and am excited to go get the next book in the series. Ryan came back to Waco after work late that night.
Wednesday the kids had more fun on the water slide. While the kids were playing on the slide I sat in a lawn chair reading "Twilight". I did lots of laundry and that evening we loaded up and came home.
(The backyard around the Magnolia Tree.)
(The frontyard in front of the Rose Bushes.)
(Plants in the back corner of the backyard.)
After the grass was all cut I looked up the hill in the back yard and saw all these snails stuck on the wheel of the boat trailer.
B. Morrow scoring the winning goal!
So, now that the Stars won they will move on to the Western Conference Finals against the Detroit Red Wings. This will be a tough series but I BELIEVE the Stars are up to the challenge.
Thursday was lots of fun playing with cousins. They jumped on the trampoline, went swimming an a kiddie pool and had a picnic lunch all in Aunt Sarah's backyard. They had a BLAST!! I the afternoon we went to my sisters house for a little while (we had to pick up our wedding gift that my sister had made) and then ran a few errands. We made it back to Grandma & Grandpa's house and had fajita's for dinner. All the women got ready for the shower. While the women (plus Sarah's twin baby boys) went to the Shower Ryan, Uncle Clifton (Ryan's youngest brother) took the four older kids to Chuck E. Cheese. They had already eaten so they had lot of fun playing games.
Kelli's Bridal Shower was very nice. We had a very nice time and she didn't even get any duplicate gifts. WOW!! We had lots of repeats when we got married. Ryan & I decided to have my sister make the nice family plaque. (Amy, my sister, has a vinyl lettering cutter and is starting up a business). The plaque turned out very nice. I hope Kelli & Zach like it.
We let the kids play a little this morning with cousins. We had to hit the road by noon so Ryan could get back for work. So we are home and all unpacked. YEAH!! I think that is the worst thing about traveling. Unpacking and putting everything away when you get home.
