Well, we are still house hunting. It's been a tiring process of traveling to the new city, finding multiple agents (because they can only show you their listings), seeing things WAAAAAY to small, WAAAAYY to expensive, apartments that were falling apart, some decorated for a king, some in the middle of the city and some on the edge of the city. Although it's been tiring, we have seen some great views of the city in the process that make parts of it worthwhile. We hope to have a place to call home again soon.
This was also one of the views.
Just some different snapshots from the city.
I smelled something fishy....I looked around and saw that this "moving truck" had just unloaded a bunch of live seafood and they were draining all the water tom inside the truck onto the street. I've never seen that one before. I guess that's part of city life near and ocean.
Some street venders ready to sell some clothes.
Just some ladies carrying their babies and buying food from the vendor on the street.
So, Jonathan and I had just gotten back from a house hunting trip and the kids were ready for bed when Regan and Benjamin wanted us to close our eyes. They had gone to taekwondo that day and found out that they had placed in the competition a few weeks back! Last week they presented all the kids with a certificate with where they placed in the competition. Lauren and gotten 4th place in the individuals and 5th place in the doubles, Benjamin had gotten 4th place in the individuals. Regan asked the coach about her certificates and Benjamin's other certificate. When he checked into it he found out that they were supposed to have gotten medals!
Regan got 3rd place in the individuals and they got 3rd place together in the doubles competition. I am so happy for them and proud of them!
They had a small little ceremony at their studio and made a big deal over them.
While Regan and Jonathan were in another city for an orthodontist appointment, I took the kids one last time to the play place. They had renovated, so many of the things were new and the old stuff was rearranged. They all had fun. (That's Benjamin and Katherine in the back of the picture riding some kind of swing thing)
Hudson loved riding the Little Tikes Roller Coaster.
They had a new sand area where the kids could play.
Of coarse, out of all the toys, Hudson finds the dump truck. He loves cars!
These two enjoyed building alls in the house and knocking them down. I think it's very therapeutic ;)
They decided to play hide and seek. It made me laugh so hard because Lauren was counting as loud as she could with her eyes closed and this little boy thought it was so funny. He kept running up to her and putting his face about 2 inches from hers and then would run away laughing. I'm not sure he ever figured out what she was doing.
Trying to get all of these walls at the same time without other kids knocking them over was quite the feat.
Once Hudson figured out what the gears were supposed to do, he was intrigued. So glass he has big sisters and a big brother to help him learn. They all played together at this wall for a while.
Katherine knocking it down while Hudson is trying to rebuild.
Lauren is ready!
There was no stopping Benjamin. We actually had to go find some of the blocks on the sand pit. He's a little stronger than he realizes :)
