TLEB in Texas

We have had some of Tom's family in town for their Spring Break. We have spent time playing outside, swimming in the hot tub, and just relaxing! These are the kid's cousins, Katie and Lexi.
Ben and Elizabeth in Grandma's hot tub.

I've been such a bad blogger lately - I apologize! I promise to be a better picture taker and blogger! :) We had a ton going on this week and I never got out the camera! A lot of it didn't really involve the kids so that's why the camera wasn't out - but I need to take more pictures of everything, not just the kids.

But on to the post. I had book club this week and when I got home I was talking to Tom and then went upstairs to say goodnight to the kids. I went to Ben's room and this is what I saw. I walked out to the hall to ask Tom where he was and he just smiled and shrugged his shoulders.
This was in Elizabeth's room.

My room. Found them! Turns out we had a thunderstorm earlier in the evening and they thought they would be scared so they wanted to come to our room. Needless to say we carried them back to their rooms for the night!
On another note I wanted to add this since I get this book printed as a momento for us. If you can tell Elizabeth has a little cut above her eye. She is so funny anytime she or anyone else gets any type of "owie". She refuses to look at it and if anyone with a cut (or scratch) gets close to her she'll run away and hide her eyes until it is covered up. When she got this cut on her eye Tom said something about it bleeding. She started hysterically crying and said she wasn't going into the bathroom (because of the mirrors) for a month! Now Ben has started to care if he falls down and gets a scratch, I'm sure because Elizabeth makes such a big deal about it. It's too bad that Ben cares because it happens at least once a day with him! :)
Other things Elizabeth hates to look at - anything she considers gross. Ben's food when he spits it out (which is pretty gross), or crumbs on the table. She gets up from the dinner table and tells me to clean it all up, she can't sit and eat looking at the mess. It's pretty funny!
We also went to a birthday party today at a bounce house place. They had us watch a video at the beginning of the party telling us all the rules (how many kids in each bounce house, etc...) As soon as we get into the play area Elizabeth is unsure of which bounce house to go in because she can't tell how many kids are in each one and she doesn't want to break the rules. Ben is throwing himself down the slide, twisting all over, breaking all the rules. I love how different my two kiddos are! They make life so fun :)
We have company all week from MN so I should have lots to post about! I promise to be good about taking pictures this week!!

The kids woke up this St. Patrick's day to a surprise visitor! We had a leprechaun visit while the kids were sleeping. He left notes around the house leading them on a little hunt of all the places he had been.
He led them to the plastic eggs on the dining room table. He was wondering where all the candy was!
He also enjoyed playing in the play room with all the kid's toys.

(the ghost face kids are coming back...along with sunscreen season!)

The past 2 weekends we have gotten some projects done around the house. The first one was a sandbox. We had a little plastic one in our old house that works well for our 2 kids. Once you get more than 2 kids it gets a little crowded (if anyone wants our other plastic one you can have it!). So Tom and Elizabeth built this new, big sandbox. We are thinking it will easily fit all the cousins at one time!

(Ignore the mess!) I painted Elizabeth's bedroom yesterday afternoon. I just finished in these pictures. Sometime this week I am going to paint the nook a darker pink color and paint a border of flowers around her room. I'll post a picture when it's done.

Ben and Elizabeth had their last days of gymnastics and dance class this week. We start again in about 2 weeks but this was the last day when the parents were invited into the classrooms to take pictures. My kids have class at the same time so my mom came with to take turns with me so the kids would always have someone with them. (of course Jessica was in Ben's class the entire time because of Cooper so it would have worked out if my mom couldn't come).

I have seen Ben doing his gymnastics many times since they pretty much do the same stuff in class that they did in our mommy and me gymnastics class, but I had never seen Elizabeth's dance class since the glass is frosted, so I was very excited to see what her class did. She always tells me she likes it but it is hard! :)
I don't have a very good zoom lens so my pictures are kind of far away. There are only 4 girls in the class and one wasn't there so it was a little class. Here they are stretching.

So I spent 7 hours yesterday painting Ben's room. I caused my family to sleep like this (Tom is on the floor) while I was up painting away.

and I hate it! :(
I feel like it looks like a day care center or something! Maybe it reminds me too much of Ben's "baby" room in the other house. The road and some of that wall are magnetic (I put layers of magnetic paint under the wall color) and I made people and vehicles from Joanne's cricut (thanks Joanne!) that I laminated and I'll put magnets on.