Science Experiment

It's official, we have moved, and amongst all the chaos of unpacking, I still need to engage with Kayden and acknowledge his pleads to play.  So, when he was in the kitchen getting frustrated with me because I couldn't understand his desire to do a "science experiment", because he butchered the pronunciation of "science experiment", I held back my laughter and got the ingredients to make "Foam Dough".  Saw it on Pinterest, of course, and Kayden loved it. 

It was rather messy, so I'm glad I had enough sense to do it on the back porch. 

We had a great time, and although the original recipe called for food coloring, I'm glad I skipped it, it would have been way worse, and Kayden's clothes would have been destined for the trash!

His smile says it all!  We had a great day today, look forward to so many more great summer days ahead!

And on another note, we have a small bunny in our yard.  Was able to get a couple pictures of him today. 

Fishing

Kayden is a fisherman, he loves it, and I hope he always does.  There is no greater feeling than to see your child's eyes light up when talking about something he is passionate about. 

Last year we found out about the Old Fishing Hole's Fishing Experience put on by the Kent Community Center, I tried signing Kayden up, but successfully failed when I gave the lady Kayden's birthday, apparently their rule is the child needs to be four by the time of the event, to which, Kayden was only three.  So, I called and inquired about it a few months ago and after much confusion and uncertainty by the community center, I signed Kayden up for the first time slot, 7:30.

Friday night we prepared Kayden for getting up early, telling him he was going to be going fishing in the morning.  With our failed efforts of getting him to bed early, he wasn't too difficult to wake up the next morning.  We were fortunate enough to have decent weather, and because it didn't rain, I was able to take my camera for a few pictures!

 The director was asking the kids to raise their hand if they have been fishing before.

 Looking back to make sure we were still with him.

 His first and only catch.  Our volunteer was wearing a fish hat, that he let Kayden wear.

And his final catch.  He had so much fun fishing.  I just love watching him have fun.

A Very Hungry Caterpillar on the Loose

One of my closest friends has a little boy who is getting ready to celebrate a very special birthday, his first!  And for this extremely exciting upcoming birthday party, she is throwing a Very Hungry Caterpillar party and I couldn't be happier.  I love the idea of this party theme, and may or may not be a bit disappointed I didn't think of it for one of Kayden's.

So, for centerpieces for the party she wanted to post pictures of Parker "being the very hungry caterpillar" and asked for my help with this.  I would never dream of saying no to this awesome idea, so we set a date and got to work!

Parker wanted nothing to do with all the yummy fruit. Sad.  But, we still got some good shots of him, which, honestly isn't hard, since he is too stinkin' cute!


WARNING: Picture overload!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 It was a lot of fun to photograph this little guy.  Can't wait to see all the centerpieces, decoration and cake (which Christy is making).  And I especially can't wait to celebrate this little guy!

We Have News

Most of you already know Kyle and I bought a new house in Kirkland, but for those of you who don't, SURPRISE!  We are thrilled, and sad, all at the time.  We are sad to be leaving what we have, awesome family, who doubles as amazing neighbors, a great cul de sac, close friends and family as well as, many other things, however, it is time to move on to the next chapter in The Bryant Family book and move to Kirkland.  We are excited for the new adventures our new home will bring and mostly, look forward to having Kyle around more at night so we can spend more time together as a family.

To be able to eat dinner before seven o'clock, have Kyle around for bath time, which really does take two people most of the time, and cut Kyle's commute down by an hour will all have its amazing advantages.

Of course, we are sad to leave our current living situation.  Having family as neighbors can never be beat, watching Charlie continue to grow up and be able to make it to all her school performances has been an excellent privilege, as well as, being able to make it to Katie and Ashlie's school performances and not having it be too far away, it has all been great and awesome.

We have made fantastic friends around here and are sad that our weekly interactions with them will become more spread out, but we know Kyle can't continue to commute over an hour each way to work, we know we want Kayden to grow up in one school and not have to move districts mid-school career, and all of these reasons has made us realize the move is necessary. 

We have been searching for a home for a couple months now and are happy our search has ended.  We have spent one day every weekend for the last eight weeks or so dedicated to house hunting, looking at all the different neighborhoods, learning what is too far from work and what is close enough.  We also learned quickly that we will spend a lot of money on a smaller house, and that is ok, we have come to accept that.  We are a small family of three and don't need a ton of space.  We have been spoiled in our current house with all our extra space and will have to learn to live a little more organized and minimal.  The luxury of having space is coming to an abrupt halt, people!

Like I said though, we are excited for this new house and look forward to what it has to offer... more time as a family, a six mile commute, a great neighborhood, and a wood fire pizza oven in the backyard, the list goes on and on.

So, we told Kayden that we got the house with the wood fire oven in the back yard and he was excited...thankfully!

 

 

It took Kayden a while to come around to the idea of moving, but he is excited now.  We will let him pick which bedroom he wants as his and he will love the back yard and is already in love with the wood fire oven.

We got keys the other day and Kayden was the first to do the honors!

 

We will slowly move stuff up there, a truck load here, a trailer load there.  We have sold our house, thankfully, after only having it on the market for only three days.  We couldn't be happier that we can stay in our current home until Kayden finishes school and then we will make the final move up there at the end of the month.  This will also allow us to be able to slowly move stuff instead of focusing a whole weekend on moving everything.  We are grateful for the opportunity to move slowly and to transition over the period of a month.

 

Here are pictures of the new house, with the old owners furniture.  We liked their furniture, and asked if they were taking it all with them, they, of course, were! :(

 This is the "formal" living room aka the front living room.  I doubt it will be really "formal" in our house with a four year old running around, but hey, maybe one day.

 Another picture of the front living room.  You can see to the right is the kitchen, and behind that is the family room.

 

 Kitchen dining area.

 Through the kitchen is the laundry room, door to the garage and another bathroom.

 Family room

 

 Bathroom

 Backyard and the pizza oven.  There is more to the backyard, just don't have a picture of it.  We are pretty excited about the pizza oven.  Intimidated, but excited nonetheless.

And there is the front of the house!  We love the whole house, red door and all, and are pretty excited about the new adventures and memories we will be making here.