Goodbye Maryland

Well, today is our last night in our house in Maryland. The movers come tomorrow to start packing up the house. They plan on packing up the place Monday and Tuesday and then loading everything up on the truck Wednesday. Thursday the cleaning lady comes and also the steam cleaners for the carpets. Matt does his final out-processing on Friday and then we head off to Deb and Joe's house, where the kids are currently at. The house has been way too quiet without them! But it has been nice to be able to get everything ready.

Last weekend we went over to the Ling's for one last dinner get-together. We're sad because we've lived near each other since Hawaii and the kids are good friends too. There is always Skype though :)

Noah, Liam, and Isaac playing outside before dinner

 Liam was very happy to see Rose and gave her a hug

 Just walking around

 Isaac and Noah

Rose and Liam playing in the kitchen drawers

 Kids playing in the boys room

 Rose was very happy to discover this huge ball!

 Liam wearing silly glasses

 The boys making silly faces

 Attempting to get a picture of all four kids looking at the camera

 Isaac was giving Noah a hug

The next day, we met up with them at Kinder Farms Park. It was beautiful outside :)

 Nice picture of Liam

Ikey walking around

Rose loved going down the slide, face first!

 The last time she went down the slide, she tried 

getting up before she was done moving and busted her top lip :( 

 Playing

Playing together

And here is a video of Rose going down the slide

This past week was also Isaac's last week going to Daycare at Miss Laurie's. Here's a cute picture of the two of them on Friday.

And here are two random pictures from later this week:

 Both kids reading books after dinner one night

We took out the carseats from the van so we could 

take it to the port to get shipped out, and they wanted 

to sit in each others carseats. Silly kids. 

On Friday, the van got dropped off at the Port of Baltimore where it will get shipped to Hawaii. That night, Deb and Joe came up and on Saturday morning they took the kids back to their home in PA. It was eerily quiet after they left. Saturday I went over to the Rojas for dinner (Matt was sick and couldn't go, poor guy). It was really nice :) The original plan was that the kids would still be here and we would get a picture of Josiah and Jackson with Isaac and Rose. We weren't able to get that picture so we'll just have to photoshop something together haha

This next week will be busy but starting Friday we will be in PA. We'll be there until the 27th when we fly out to CA! Let the adventure, begin!

First part of March, getting ready to move!

Well, March is finally upon us which means in just a few short weeks, we will be moved out of our house and on our way to Hawaii. We finally received orders and are now in the middle of planning everything else. Matt finalized plane tickets today as well as lodging while in Hawaii. We picked Disneyland dates and other CA outings, and got a hotel for Disneyland too. We'll be in CA starting March 27th and leaving for Hawaii April 8th. We plan on going to the San Diego Zoo on April 1st and then Disneyland April 3rd, 4th, and 5th. If anyone who reads this would like to come with us, or meet up while we are in CA, let us know!

Meanwhile, I've been collecting summer-type clothes for the kids from other moms through a facebook MomSwap page or the co-signment shop. Got some really good deals too! Like a pair of brand new sporty sandals for Isaac for $4.50. Can't go wrong there!

Here are some pics from the last week or so.

We watched our friends little boy, Jackson for a bit one day and Isaac and Rose liked interacting with him :)

 Jackson and Isaac

 Rose wan't too impressed haha

 Isaac, Jackson, and Rose

 Rose is playing with his ear haha

 Eating her snack in her chair

Her crazy hair

Trying on a dress I got her. So cute!!

 Jean skirt! Adorable!

 Been putting her hair up in a top-knot lately and it's 

working really well. She actually keeps it in too. 

I think she realizes she can see better with her hair up haha

 My silly boy

 Being silly too

 Pig tails! 

 Can never get both of them to look at the camera at the same time haha

 Ikey sleeping

 Rose sleeping

Cutie

 Taken with cell phone

 She has a new habit of blowing raspberries.... 

ALL. THE. TIME 

Another pic of her in pigtails

That's all there is for now. I am not sure if I will get a chance to upload again until after the movers come and we are in PA for a few days before going to CA. I will try though!