Great Movie!

Last night, Jeremy and I watched a great new movie! It's called August Rush and it's a new release out on DVD that is worth watching! It's PG and clean, except there's a one night stand that is known, but not shown... and a few G-- D---- thrown in... Other than that, I think you'll like it! (I feel like the movie reviewer at Plugged In Online) :)

It's a super sweet movie, that will leave you in tears at the end. Well, I don't know if it will bring tears to your eyes, but you know me! I don't think I've blogged about a good movie before, so it must be good, right??? Our good friends, the Stokes recommended it to us, thanks guys!

The latest craze in our house?

MONOPOLY! We've played it everyday now for 4 days! Jeremy taught them how to play one night and ever since, they've been hooked! (thanks Shannon, for the idea!) Drew is the Mr. Scrooge of the game hoarding and counting his money over and over, and Gavin is the excitable, happy-go-lucky player who usually wins! It is so hilarious to play with them.

On Thursday they played from 10am-5pm only to break for lunch! No kidding. 7 hours straight, and they never go into an argument! I scratched "school" for the day, I figured that nothing they could learn that day could possibly top the skills they were learning playing Monopoly! Who knew??

Next time we play, which will probably be tomorrow we're gonna video part of a game because it's SO hilarious! They are way into it. Having a boring day? Try Monopoly!

my morning...

I had such a "wow, I have great kids" morning, that I thought I'd share! So Annika woke up at 6am to eat, which is also the time that Morgan felt was the time to wakeup this morning.. Ugh. So I had Morgan lay down in bed with me, thinking she'd go right back to sleep while I fed little Annika. That didn't happen, she was WIDE awake and still is.

After I fed the baby, it somehow ended up being 7:30 before I laid back down, praying for more sleep. The boys are allowed out of their room at 8am, so I figured a tiny bit of shuteye was in the realm of possibility.

Morgan quietly snuck out of my room, and I knew she was heading down to play with the boys who are ALWAYS up around 7-7:30.... then in the blink of an eye, Gavin was standing by my sleepy head showing me a Lego ship he made and then the phone rang! Gavin answered it for me, "Uh, hello this is Gavin...uh, Bacon! Oh, Hi Dad!" I looked at the clock and it was 9:45am!!! Yikes!

The kids were SO good this morning, they even made breakfast (cereal), spilled half a box of Grape Nuts (and vacuumed it up), then went back downstairs to play without me waking up! I couldn't believe it. They were so kind to let me sleep.

So after Jeremy's phone call, I was still laying in bed with 4 little awake critters in my room. Morgan was putting my slippers on me, Drew was putting my glasses on me, and Gavin was entertaining Annika who was now awake in the swing. So I got up, and awarded them all a Golden Ticket for being so good (which is a new fun thing in our home: Job Tickets for being not-so-good, and Golden Tickets for being extraordinarily good!), sat on the couch eating cereal when Gavin opens the fridge door looking for a drink, spies a small carton of Half & Half, and says in his excited Gavin voice, "Wow! Mom, can I have a drink of this? I've never had 3%, I've only had 1% and 2%! Wow! Can I have some???"

So now I'm sitting in our family room smiling to myself with Annika kicking and cooing happily on a blanket, Drew and Gavin playing Playmobil pirate ships, and Morgan playing Calico Critters. Sounds ideal, but I've already broken up 3 arguments about Playmobil guns and such!

updated: I have two more Gavin funnies from this afternoon!

After Drew had figured something out Gavin said, "I told you that, big guy!" He said it in a fatherly-dad sorta way. Even though he says he wants to be a mother when he grows up! HA!

Then after lunch, he wanted to be excused from the table but hadn't finished his yogurt... "Mom, can I be excused? I still have my yogurt, but it's too disgusting for me."

Hi Ho, Silver!

Here's Drew, doing his best Lone Ranger impression. We received a DVD of Lone Ranger episodes that the kids love! The boys immediately wanted to make masks to go with their cowboy hats.

comes with the territory...

Well the not so lovely part about being a postpartum mommy are comments like this coming out of my 3 year old's mouth... (she was so adorable and sweet about it though!) As she was pushing in on my tummy, "It's bouncy isn't it, mommy?"

And she keeps asking why my tummy is still big and I tell her, "It isn't!" And she says with a knowing smile, "Yes, it is!"

My hormones made me cry when she said things like that just after Annika's birth, but now as I try to explain to my cutie pie about just having a baby... I just smile and think she's just perfectly adorable.

not super blog-worthy, but fun!

So I had my first salon hair coloring experience this weekend! I had my hair highlighted for the first time, it turned out great! I was a tad nervous... to spend that much $$ and then not like it. But I love it, didn't go too drastic though, I got a few inches cut off too and some bangs added. Why not? I like things to change so I don't get bored, it had been way too long since I had a real hairstyle.

Uncle Sean here for a visit!

My big brother Sean is here from California for a week! He spent some bonding time with his new neice... she even gave him loads of cute smiles. My Dad, Sean and my cousin Tommy from Indiana are heading up to Arctic Man tomorrow morning. I love and treasure every moment I get to spend with my awesome big brother.

Uncle Sean being bombarded by the kiddos

Tommy and Sean

Easter!

Our smiley girl enjoying her first Easter.

We had a full and fabulous Easter Sunday. While my Mom was up for the month of February for Annika's birth, she made Morgan and Annika matching Easter dresses! What a treat! Here are my girls, looking super cute in their dresses.

Our day started at 5am! Yep, we're pretty crazy for getting the whole family up that early and heading to the Sunrise Service up at a freezing cold Hatcher's Pass, but it was so wonderful. After the service, which was a whopping 5-10 min., we headed to IHOP for breakfast with our good friends Kep and Rachel and their two little boys Parker and Noah. Baby Savannah was there too, but she was still hanging out in her mama's belly. She's due in about a week!

Then it was off to our Easter Service at church, then to Grandma and Grandpa Bacon's for lunch, then off to a super fun Easter Egg Hunt hosted by our friends Kathleen and Emily Dougherty! Our kiddos (and we) had such a great evening hunting eggs (200 to be exact) on their large open property! What a fun way to celebrate Resurrection Sunday!

Here are the kids beginning the sugar high that lasted a few days. :) They just finished off the last of their candy this week.