Alvin Livin'

Last Sunday we came home from church, ate lunch, loaded the car and headed to Alvin for a few days. Gary, Grant, Bibby and Jan were on Spring Break and John took off. It was a great few days of being spoiled by the Spencers! We were having so much fun I didn't take too many pictures, but here are a few...


Discussing what they're going to play...



Playing a beautiful masterpiece...

Tuesday afternoon we got a few of our old game night girlfriends together (Jennifer and Melissa). All of the couples in our old game night group now have kids, none did when we first started game night (some of them weren't even married). Anyway, we had a great time. Loud, but great. 4 moms, 7 kids. Let's start the countdown...

Grant (2 in a few weeks) and Elijah (3 1/2). {and Elijah only likes to make silly faces in pics now}...

Madeleine (Maddie age 2, 3 in June). She is such a little lady...

Sadie, 1 year in a few weeks...

Presley, 9 months...

Gianna, 6 months...


Grayson, 3 months...

These two got along great...

But playgroup proved too much for Gianna...

Wow!!!

The boys playing piano for us while we ate breakfast Wednesday morning...

Teamwork...

We had a GREAT time! We left for home after breakfast on Wednesday night. When we got home Beau went straight to the office. Sadie went down for a nap, Elijah went outside to play, I did 5 loads of laundry, folded and put them away, made 2 loaves of quickbread, straightened the house and packed bags and lunches for Thursday. It was very productive.

We got the house last week and have been working on it every single day we've been home. It is a totally different house than when we got it. I want to show you before pics, but I am going to wait until I have some "afters" to show it to you. We have painted the kids rooms, painted the living room, entry, and hallway, put down wood floors, taken down wallpaper in a bathroom and kitchen, re-textured two bathrooms and the kitchen and taken down countless mini blinds and vertical blinds. There is still SO much to do. This week I'm going to have to focus on cleaning and packing since we'll be moving in this weekend. I also have to do Sadie's birthday invitations. So much to do, so little time!!