selling and buying a new house

here's a picture the house we are buying in Ballwin, MO. We accepted the counter offer on wednesday, and yesterday the buyers on our house in spanaway accepted our counter offer. so the timing is working out pretty great with the spanaway house scheduled to close on may 1 and our new house here scheduled to close may 2. so as long as everything goes according to plan with inspections, etc we should be moving into our new home the first week of may.

Disney on Ice- Princesses!

We are used to going to Disney on ice in november every year, but here in St. Louis, it comes in march. So since that was part of Kiersten's birthday gift, she got a pretty cinderella dress to wear to the show. Ben got all the girls sno-cones in special cups. Evie's was a mickey cup. she made a huge mess with it.

Kiersten felt so pretty in her dress. She was a little sad that she couldn't get her hair curled, since our stuff has not arrived here yet, and I didn't have a curling iron. She got a rapunzel cup.

Silly Kara. We didn't bring very many dresses with us on the airplane, so she ended up wearing a skirt. she didn't mind not being too dressed up. she got a cinderella cup.

Evie got so happy and excited every time Mickey and minnie were on the ice. But when they would leave, she would really freak out.

the first story was princess and the frog. Evie was a little tense during the part with shadow man.



The middle story was Cinderella. Kiersten really loved this one. During the intermission, she did get a little sad, because she realized she doesn't have a prince to marry.

They really made the evil step sisters even worse than in the movie.

Kiersten waiting for her prince charming.


waiting to see if the slipper is gonna fit...

the last story was Rapunzel. They did lots of cool swinging around on these scarves (hair). unfortuately, Kiersten had to go out to the restroom during this part, and she and Ben missed most of it.

For Rapunzel and Eugene's wedding, (and the grand finale), all the other famous disney princesses and their princes came out. The crowd was really going crazy for each one, but Belle and Jasmine seemed to be the most popular.

This was a really fun show. The girls loved seeing all the princesses on the ice and in the crowd too. Kiersten was practicing her twirling before we left, in case they mistook her for the real Cinderella and made her skate in the show. Fortunately that didn't happen, and she just got to watch and enjoy the performance.

we moved!

We got to St. Louis on saturday afternoon. Ben had me call in an order to a bbq place on the way to our new apartment. It was a really tasty lunch, but crazy trying to get in that place to pick up the order. I had to shove through a line of people, and everyone was pushing right back. My mom was here for a few days helping with the kids and getting us settled in. She flew home monday afternoon, and I'll bet she's glad to be home after 3 weeks with my crazy kids.

We went house hunting on sunday, and narrowed our list down a bit. We are going again to see a few places on saturday. But for now we are in an apartment building across the highway from the zoo. Ben and I took Kara and Kiersten on sunday to see about half of it, and my mom and I took the girls again on monday. It is a really big zoo. We still haven't seen all the animals, as it was ridiculously crowded both times we went. I didn't realize this week is spring break, and this was the first really warm weekend here. So hopefully next week we can try going again, and it wont be so crazy. I took a few pictures the first day at the zoo. This first picture is Kara and Kiersten hanging out in our new apt.