Time to Move On

There's something about packing box after box after box - with the knowledge that I will be unpacking them later - that really takes some of the excitement out of moving. But it was worth it. Totally and completely worth the $40 for the perfect moving boxes, the 51.5 hours of paid time off it took me to get us completely out of our old place and the basics set up in our new home, several late nights, sore backs, dry skin from handling boxes all day, taking the long way home from work to move more stuff, and spending a lot more than usual in the Auto:Fuel category of our budget.

We have been wanting to move for several months and seriously trying to figure out the details for the last couple of months. We talked about and looked into several different options in several locations, all of which felt right at the beginning but then didn't work out. Then everything fell into place and we love knowing we are where we need to be.

Here are our cute kids in the midst of the move. Pictures of our new place to come after we get out from under these stacks of boxes that are slowly disappearing.

Easter Sunday

Easter was a low-key day for us, and that was just fine because we had spent the week before celebrating with egg hunts and candy and all sorts of fun. Plus between our two callings church is an all-day affair.

Here is Nora in her cute purple dress I found on clearance, coincidentally new on Easter Sunday. She wore her headband and bow for a whole 45 minutes; I was so impressed.

On Easter evening we colored eggs because we hadn't had time earlier that week. Zeke loved it and did most of the work. I only did a dozen hard-boiled eggs, so we were done far too quickly for Zeke. So he re-dyed the ones we had already done. I thought they would turn out brown but it turns out blue is the dominant color.

It was fun to see how much he has grown in a year, because he had no problems scooping up the eggs with the wire holders and moving them around. Although he generally preferred his fingers anyway.

Playgroup Easter Egg Hunt

For playgroup this week we had an Easter Egg Hunt. We had a great turnout and lots of fun, even though it was cool and drizzling.

I helped Nora find one purple egg, but really she was more interested in the grass than the egg.

I didn't get any pictures of Zeke actively hunting because I was busy making sure he got something. By the time he saw an egg and decided he wanted it, someone had come by and scooped it up. Bonus for us that this time the kids who came through first got all the brightly colored eggs and didn't notice the green camouflage ones hidden in the grass. So we walked along the back fence collecting camouflaged eggs.

As expected Nora tried to eat the eggs.

And afterwards we had chocolate cupcakes with butterfly sprinkles and ducks made out of vanilla ice cream.

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