Catch up!

We are without a home, without a address and couldn't be happier about it! We closed a week ago Friday, without a hitch, and are enjoying hotel living. My favorite part of a move is when we are living on top of each other with none of our usual distractions. And we harass each other to no end. It's bliss!

The weekend before our packout we hosted K's early 13th birthday party and going away party. I was in awe with how talented her friends are. I had them each paint a 6X6 canvas for her new room. I'm pretty sure two of them could become world famous artists, glad we snagged some of their work before it's too pricey. They had fits of giggles until about 2am, at one point I walked downstairs to find a girl with ice cubes in her arm pits. I didn't even blink before I turned around to head upstairs and tell Anthony and laugh about it. By all accounts, the party was a success. And I give Anthony and I each gold stars for surviving her first sleepover party!

Other big news is that K's braces are off. More big news, they're going right back on! I'm not happy with how one of her top teeth is placed. Krista says she doesn't mind it, but in Krista speak that means she's isn't lovin' it and Anthony, the man who never has an opinion, said to get it fixed. So we're going to have some adventures in braces once we hit Kansas, but it will all be worth it when we're all happy with her smile, especially her.

Packed!

For the past three days it's been move central. Up at the crack of dawn and in bed after 10. That makes for cranky girls. Anthony's relief arrived the same day as the start of the packout, that man will do anything to avoid helping with a move! Turns out we really didn't need him because the packers were wonderful!! A 24 hour stomach bug arrived about five minutes before the moving company descended upon our house so the first day was ROUGH, but even with that the movers were just wonderful.

Loading was a different story. Within minutes of meeting the driver and loading crew (different from the packers) I knew we were in for a rough day. He was making sexist comments within five minutes of being in the house and when he ruined the front of my precious fridge he was just about dead to me. When he started screaming at me about how the fridge was already ruined before it was on the truck I was ready to help him meet his maker. Instead, for the first time in his career I called the quarterdeck and told Anthony to get his @ss home. And once he walked in the driver had a new attitude and while that irritated me to no end, at least the day is over and our stuff is on the way to Kansas! 

Sauceted

As a very tired five year old K fell asleep in our car one evening on the way home from dance, she softly said, "Daddy, I'm so sauceted." I'm pretty sure Anthony and I haven't used the word "exhausted" since.

And today, sauceted is exactly how we're feeling. On the way home from her third night in a row of two hours at gymnastics I glanced over and saw K fall into the window. I barely got her upstairs before she was out cold.

We are both very much looking forward to our day off tomorrow! Just school and a fun Lego event! What will we do with all the free time?

Whale Watching

This morning The K and I headed out for some whale watching. We worked our tails off Sunday so we could do this on a school day and boy were we rewarded! We were all set to see grey whales and we had already planned to do the much longer tour later in April when Anthony shows back up, you see orcas on that tour. So we set out this morning and not fifteen minutes after we got underway we saw orcas. Not like one or two, about a dozen. Two different pods were out there! The guide said that had never happened. They got so close I had to put on my shorten lens in order to shoot. We even saw them circle and take down a seal! It was crrrazzzy!

Totally Tubular!

Tulips!

It's April and that means TULIPS!! Even though The K hasn't been feeling well, she rallied to go down to the Skagit Valley Festival this morning. The weather next week is supposed to be terrible and we really wanted a chance to see most of the tulips blooming and not be covered in mud. We didn't go as hardcore as last year because she got pretty tired, but we had a absolute blast!

Spring Break

I'm late posting this, but really, I'm late posting anything. So now is really as good a time as any. For Spring Break we road tripped it down to Oregon, my first time doing a road trip without Anthony. It was great! The K and I had a blast!!