Moving is coming along

All of our closets are completely packed and the kitchen is completely packed. All we have left to pack are some toys of Will's in the living room and little odds and ends that will fill one box per room probably. Today I was able to get the oven, freezer, and light covers clean. Michael helped me clean our patio. Our address had been changed, we got our bills switched over. All we need to do is get some plastic wrap stuff for furniture, get the truck, load it, and leave. We are ready for the move to happen that is for sure.

Tomorrow we will drive down to Ft. Collins to take our T.V and some other odds and ends that don't fit well in boxes. I want to clean the bathrooms, kitchen, vacuum and if needed shampoo the carpets in our new place. Then on Thursday we will load everything in the truck and leave.

I am really glad we aren't moving too faraway from Laramie. I do like the people but I do not like the weather (it snowed here yesterday) and am looking forward to being closer to my sisters in Denver.

Boxes...

I have been very busy boxing up our items this last week and have no where else to put boxes really. Today I plan on getting more boxes and will probably be finished packing, aside from some clothes, toys and a few movies that is. Here are some pictures of our house piled almost to the ceiling with boxes.




All that we need to pack in our closets are our clothes!


Joshua has had fun drawing on the boxes.

Dot Art

While in Texas in January 2009 my cousin had Joshua and her daughter make some art using bingo doters. Joshua thought this was the best idea ever and had a blast. Since then the idea pops in my head that I should get some too but I never did. Well a couple of days ago, while at the dollar store, I found some bingo doters. I was so happy I bought all the colors they had (only 4), that night Joshua had a blast making pictures with these easy to use/mess free paints. Here are pictures of his creations!


My favorite one!








His first one.

Ft. Collins here we come.

We found out yesterday that we for sure got the town home in Ft. Collins! We are so excited to start this new chapter in our lives. About 4 days ago we put an add in the UW classifieds for our current town home. Since we are moving out 2 months before our lease was up we needed to find someone to finish our lease so we wouldn't have to pay double rent. We showed the house to 5 people two days ago and yesterday someone signed the lease!! We are so thrilled that we don't have to pay double rent now. I have been busy packing and actually don't have much packing left to do. Tomorrow we will be in Gillette and will come home Saturday afternoon, Sunday will be our last church service at our church here in town but we plan on going to the church picnics this summer so we can still see our friends. Then Wednesday we will go to Ft. Collins to clean up our house down there and will make the move the next day. It will be crazy but I'm sure we will be glad to be down there once we get there. I am really looking forward to slightly shorter winters!

Possible house in Ft. Collins

A lot has been happening for us this last week or two. We have been looking for houses to rent in Ft. Collins for at least a month since Michael got the job for North Western Mutual. We have had 3 scams from Craigslist asking for us to mail them money and they would mail us a check... DON'T DO IT! I was getting discouraged... then I came across this house. It is a beautiful 3 bedroom 2.5 bath town home outside of Ft. Collins on the north side of town right by I-25. It has a wonderful GREEN side yard, garage, storage under the stairs, laundry room, wood floors in the kitchen and dining area, two patios, and a pool shared with the housing area. Joshua loved the place and as we were talking with the Realtor about the house he kept asking us if this was going to be our new home. He also said 'it has a laundry room mom! You want a laundry room'. We filled out the application and waited to hear back from her, and are still waiting. According the the Realtor the place is as good as ours, we qualify! She just needs to get a hold of the Landlord to see if he likes us and wants the place to be ours. I find out tonight at 8!

In the mean time we put our current townhome in the UW classifieds to try to have it subleased for our last two months of rent, June and July. So far we have 5 people looking at the house today, one came at 8:30am the other at 12:30 and I have three more this afternoon. I am praying one of those people wants the place and will move in June first!!

Lego's

Last night we decided to dig out Michael's big box of Lego's. For months Joshua has played with a small bag of Lego's we bought at a flea market. He tries to make cars, planes, space ships, you name it from the tiny bag. This bag of Lego's frustrate us a lot since there aren't many Lego's and Joshua plays hard with them so they fall apart a lot. So last night we thought we would give him more Lego's to play with. Will was napping at the time so we spread out the Lego's everywhere so we could find all the tiny pieces. Joshua thought this was a lot of fun, having mommy and daddy on the floor with him creating things. I had fun too, since I grew up with three sisters I never got to experience playing with Lego's much.

Then Will woke up, I brought him down stairs, he saw the mess and wanted down instantly. I'm sure he thought it looked like a lot of fun. I sat him down next to me away from the Lego's. He watched at first then grabbed a wheel that was close to him, proudly laughing. Then we heard the click of the pacifier as it hit the ground, we knew what was happening and said 'no' right away. He thought that wheel looked pretty tasty. He got very sad and offended that we would say such a word to him, and started to cry. Once I got him calmed down we let him have another shot at Lego building. The pacifier plopped out of his mouth yet another 2 times. It was time for a different activity for the baby. So him and I went away from the chaos for awhile.

When we came back he watched us for awhile digging through the pile, picking up pieces and putting them back. It wasn't long before he stated mimicking us by grabbing the Lego's, lifting them in the air and dropping them. He would also grab the Lego's and push them to his side. He was very cute with them and only tried to eat one more Lego after that.

Michael kept most of his little recipes, if you will, of how to make different toys out of Lego's so I thought the plane one looked like fun. We were able to make the entire plane, car, and fork lift that was all in that little booklet and was only missing one piece by the end of it! Not too bad.

Enjoy the pictures!

William Crawling!!!

Will just started crawling about 30 minutes ago!!! We are so HAPPY!!