We Bought A House Today!

Many important dates are never forgotten such as....

7/3/04 Our wedding Day!

7/1/07 Grace was born!

11/11/09 Evie and Presley were born!

Well today was another date to add to Weiss life events because.....

 

WE BOUGHT A HOUSE TODAY!!!!!

This literally has been five years in the making.  You see it was almost 5 years ago to the day (4/14/09) that I found out we were expecting twins!  Feeling very much overwhelmed, I knew we needed to make changes to accomodate our growing family.  We traded the Ford Escape in for a minivan and we put our 2-bedroom townhome on the market.  Well, things didn't exactly go as planned in the housing department and without much luck at all, nothing happened.  That is until last summer.  We finally decided that after having the kids sharing 1 bedroom for the past 3 years that we were going to get out.  We met with a realtor (awesome guy that Jeff Gregory) and after looking at many houses, we decided to build.  We signed the papers on August 1, 2013.  (I am SO good with dates).  We waited and waited and waited for this dream to begin.  It did not begin until November 5th, 2013.  And after that, winter hit.  And it stayed and it was the most awful winter we have seen in years.  It set us back even longer.  Well all that waiting has finally ended because today we went and signed those papers to make it official.  We are the proud owners of our dreamhome!

 

I couldn't wait for the kids to see it.  We have driven them by it several times but they have never been in it.  We taped them as they came in.

 

They went off exploring.

 

And admired all the mud that sits in the yard for now until it gets landscaped.

 

It was a mad dash up the stairs to find their new bedrooms!

 

Evie loves her new closet!

 

The kids were so excited and they just ran and played hide-and-seek and all kinds of games. Games that you can do with all this space that is.

 

They can't wait to try out the new tub!

 

And they think the basement is pretty cool too. They ran around in circles for awhile.

 

I had them they "Happy New House Day!"

 

It was so fun to see them so excited.

 

Here is Evie in her new room!

 

Bub is pretty stoked about his new boy room too!

 

We ordered pizza and had our first dinner in our new home.  On the floor.

 

Cheers to many years of happiness, memories, and laughs in this wonderful new home!

 

Of course, we had to invite some of our friends to see it too.

 

Seriously, my new saying is "The Weiss House-Where Friendships Grow Stronger and Memories are Made."  

Perhaps I will make a sign that says that in my new craft room!

Spring Break!

We had a busy but fun spring break this past week! First off, Daddy left to work in Washington, IL for the week so we headed out to breakfast at our favorite place, Crispy Waffle, to see him off.  Gracie was more into reading her new Frozen chapter book instead.  She loves reading and I am so proud of her.

 

After that, we headed to the library so these two could get their very own library cards!  They were pretty excited.

 

I told them that now that they can write their names, it was time to get their own cards.

 

They look pretty proud of themselves!

 

Then it was off to get some books.  The rule is they can get as many books as they are old.  So Evie and Presley can get 4 books and Gracie can get 6.

 

Evie had hers in no time at all.

 

We had to search for some Ninja Turtle books for this guy.

 

Evie just looked at some covers and thought they would do.

 

Everyone even got to rent one movie too. Then it was computer time.

 

But of course we did stay and read too.

 

My big boy and girl!  So excited and proud of them!

 

One night over break, we had the Ogle boys come over.  I offered to babysit on my own because what's 2 more kids right?  It was fun and we all survived. Jackson loved camping on the floor in the kids bedroom and Benny was the best baby.

 

We took a spin by our new house since we close this week!  I can't wait for the kids to see it!

 

One rainy day we also met up with Jackson,Benny, and Baby Colton and went to the Children's Museum.  We had fun trying to make a big bubble.

 

We had fun playing with the water.

 

We had fun in the wind tunnel.

 

Benny had fun in his stroller.

 

We had fun climbling.

 

Colton had fun in the baby area.

 

We had fun building.

 

These two thought they were pretty cool hanging in the littles area.

 

We had fun playing with the ball tracks.

 

We had fun stting in the big chair.

 

The mommies did too.

 

We had fun in the boat.

 

We had more fun building things.

 

We had fun playing with the trains.

 

And buying tickets.

 

E had fun playing with the babies.

 

We had fun being train passengers.

 

We had fun riding the see-saw.

 

Then we went out to lunch and had fun riding the cow.

 

We had a fun spring break!  We are not sure about going back to school tomorrow but there's only 41 days until summer!