The land of "bless your heart" and muffins...

It's been forever since I last blogged, but we have been crazy busy... Let me summarize the past few weeks... We drove the kids to Wisconsin and dropped them at my folks house, I went to Mexico for work while Andy flew back to Jersey to coordinate the movers, then we both flew back to WI and got in the car (again) and drove to Georgia (with a stop in Chicago with friends for a concert), the movers delivered our stuff on a Monday and Andy and I busted our butts to get as much of the house unpacked and put together, my folks drove the kids down and were here Friday morning and it's been crazy since (or the whole time - hard to tell now). We are so fortunate to have amazing family and the kids had a blast with all their grandparents these last few weeks!

We are so happy to be here and be somewhat settled... The kids love the house and Declan more then loves it, if that's possible... We've given up a lot of our strict parenting (if we every had any). We discovered that we should just let the girls roam around the house... The first few days we learned the hard way and left the whole house open, now we strategically shut some of the doors upstairs. And honestly after the first few days they got over going upstairs all the time. And it's good for them to be comfortable with stairs. So far no one has fallen down them so I consider this first week in the books a success :-) I think they just love to be free! They LOVE Declan's room and that's provided to be quite the little hang out spot for us all... They mostly love all the small legos and playing with his stuff that they have never gotten to play with.  They also LOVE the back screened in porch - one of the major reasons we bought the place and it's living up to it's expectation. Declan LOVES the pool that we have in the community and all the space as well. So all and all I think everyone loves it - and we do too, I just wish the rest of the boxes could unpack itself :-)

I haven't been as good with keeping up on pictures but have gotten a few recently... S, A & B the first morning in the new house! Don't worry I'll post more pictures of the house once everything is put together :-)

The kids out of control!

Dec, Bria and Stevie making sure the fireplace doesn't fall down...

Stevie!

In Declan's room we do a lot of cool things - one of which is burying the kids under all the stuffed animals! Here's Bria...

Daddy got in on the fun - do you see all 3 girls?

Say CHEEEEEEEEEESEEEEEE!

The girls ready for their swim!

Note Bria's goggles - ha!

Stevie... Love this little girl in her diaper and gold mods :)

Declan has a busy summer and has adapted well so far after one week... He has hockey every weekend, Karate on Tuesdays and is in pretty much a different camp each week. This week we started with Lego camp, which he LOVES!

Playing ring around the rosie - so cute!

Oh and about the title of this blog... Well, there's a whole lot of "bless your hearts" around here - and well, we all know what that means... And we've met most of our neighbors and they all bring muffins! Which means we have a lot. Very nice, but these people here are way different than Jersey :)