10 DAYS=A "big truck", a wedding, and a funeral

It has been forever since I have posted, we have been very busy and have lots of fun stories and pictures to share:) We are moved, I would say the move was pretty seamless, just a ton of work. We had some good friends come and help us and with then all there were more children so we had 5 children under 3 "helping" us move, they were very well behaved and really loved the "big truck". They all wanted to ride in it and drive it, we took them to sit in it and they all took turns pretending to drive. We made the move on a Thursday night, odd day to move but was the best for us, on Friday we went to the old place and cleaned and did all the finishing touches while the kids went to spend the day with their friend Aliyah, Then on Sat we started the unpacking. (We are still unpacking somehow) Then the next Saturday we went to a wedding, a family wedding that was beautiful, the reception took place on a river boat that cruised down the Potomac, the cherry blossoms were at their peek at the time and it was awesome. We went without the kids and it was a nice treat for Stephan and I. Then on Sunday I had to fly to Florida, My uncle suddenly passed away from heart failure. Just Lucy and I went and spent three days bringing baby joy to all the relatives. Having my uncle die so suddenly was very awakening to think that you can not prepare for everything and to think how close in age he is to my parents. Lucy soaked up all the attention she could get and relished being an only child temporarily. We are back now and close to unpacked and getting everything someone organized, expect more posts soon:)

The box

I just found this video in the edit section, it is much older as you can tell from Lucy, but still cute.

Lucy Walking

Lucy is walking more everyday, this is a short video of her walking at the zoo:)

President's Day

So I am a little behind on my postings, on presidents day this year it was a beautiful day, and one great benefit to Steph's new job is that he is home on holidays so we loaded up and went to the zoo. Stephan had a I'm so proud I can't hold it in moment-Miles and Stephan were looking at the Prairie Dog's and Miles was very excited and kept pointing emphatically to the stroller, so we let him get down and show us what he wanted from the stroller. He grabbed Lucy's stuffed mouse and ran back to try to put it in one of the prairie dog's holes. Stephan was so excited about his association that he patted the man next to him (yes- a complete stranger) and said look at this. It was a sweet moment, very proud daddy:)

Lucy just relaxed in her stroller, and smiled at all the people and animals:)

AWE

So on valentine's day and every day the week of Stephan was working late on a project so he was leaving at 5:50am and getting home around 9pm and we knew we would not be together on valentine's day, when I got the kids up in the morning this was waiting for me on the table. It's a bowl of cereal (no milk yet) and three tea lights on the table and the word love spelled out on the plate in honey:) So romantic, it was a great surprise that made me smile!

Smile

Ok so here is a video of some of the ways we get the kids to take a group picture:) I don't know how to flip it but its worth just turning you head for.

Valentine's Day

The day before Valentine's Day we went to our playgroup for a fun party, it was also Violet's Birthday so we had tons of goodies:) This is a picture of most everyone on the couch. Miles is on the right side in the red sweater and Lucy is two on the left with red sleeves.

One of the sweet girls Grace was helping to feed Lucy the bottle, it was so very cute!