What have we been up to this past month?

Things have been a little more hectic at the Wright house than normal. Here's a summary of our past month. It started with Carson being Star of the Week in preschool. This is a very big deal in a 4 year old's life. His treats were cupcakes, one day decorated by Carson and Owen and the other day's were ice cream cupcakes. The following week Owen was Star of the Week. Papa and Mimi came down for the weekend to watch the kids while Carson and I went to New Orleans with the Wrights. Mimi was Owen's special guest for reading the book of his choice on Friday during class time. Owen got to take monster cupcakes and Spider rice crispy treats for his snacks.

Monster cupcakes

Owen and Mimi




Owen with spider treat.




Batman (Papa), Carson, Stella, Owen, Isaac and Archie

After returning home from New Orleans the serious packing began all while trying to make the kids believe that everything was "normal" at home. (They were on to us.)

Stella found and reclaimed her love for her watermelon hat. She wore it for almost a week straight! Papa and Mimi returned a few days later to help us pack and move.

Papa with Carson and Owen in tow.

Stella loves her hat.

Good-bye old house.

We took the kids to see the new house the day before closing. They loved it. What a sense of relief for Carson and I. It made the moving process much better knowing they weren't angry at us for selling the only house they've known and loved.

Our new backyard.

Moving day was full of adventure to say the least. Carson and Owen were treated with "real chocolate coffee" as they call it and football doughnuts.

Chocolate coffee and doughnuts

We then took the kids over to the Hanna's one last time (officially as neighbors) to play while the movers emptied our old house. We already miss the Hanna's!

Wright kids and Hanna kids

Packing up.



Time to "get a move on."


Our stuff got moved from the old house to the new then it was time to figure out where to put it all. We are still trying to figure it out.

Where do we put this stuff?

Anyway, as you can see from the pictures the kids are very happy in our new house. We've seen lots and lots of smiles and heard lots of laughter.

First morning in the new house.

Mimi with the kids and Archie.

Now that we've turned the page on that stressful time in our lives (moving) we are almost back to normal ... with or without strep throat (as of today my three boys have strep throat). Carson and I took the kids to a place in downtown Wichita where they got to see lots of trucks, climb in them, honk horns and sirens, and pretend like they were driving. There were inflatables at this event. The boys loved jumping in the King Kong one. Check out Carson's picture (below).

What a jump!

Owen jumping.


Carson feeding a giraffe.

This week I took the kids to the zoo. The boys got to feed the giraffes while there. Carson loved it, Owen wasn't so sure about the big long giraffe tongue. The babies had nothing to do with any part of it. It was a beautiful day and we had a fun time.

Kids at the zoo.

Gee Gee came for a short visit this week. We all loved having her here! Thursday night we finally carved pumpkins. Stella tried eating the raw seeds, Isaac liked walking through the "guts" and Carson and Owen just couldn't get enough of the carving of the pumpkins. It was a good night!

Glowing pumpkins.