So much to cover, Part II

I am going to pick up where I last left off--we secured our new place of living and now we had to wrap things up in our previous state. Unfortunately, I decided to use pictures from the real camera vs. my phone so there are loads of pictures in this post. This post covers March. More to come...

I forgot to add some pictures from outside of the space needle. As you can tell--it was cold, very wet, but we enjoyed the trip.

Back in California, Arie's artwork was featured in an art museum in town. He thought he was pretty awesome that his artwork was displayed. We were really proud of him and his artistic abilities. I must say that my "artwork" was never displayed on a museum wall.

Arie's penguin in the mountains

Proud mom and proud Arie

Here is Arie's Penguin

We had some family in town--Chelsea & Pearce and Lacey, Kate, & Gus. It was a lot of fun to have family in town for a whole week. My mom's friend Darla graciously housed our family for entire week.  Kate liked her daily chats with Darla in the morning. We are so grateful she housed everyone since our apartment was too small for just the five of us.

Just me and Gus. Just so his dad knows, the 'Y' is where Gus will go to school.

Arie had another piece of artwork displayed, this time it was in a diversity program. We are glad his extended family endured the two hour fanfare of dancing, music, and etc. to support Arie.

Proud Arie with his classmates and Principal

In order to get ready for work, I had to have my hairstyle approved by Kate. I think I passed the test

Part of our adventure with the extended family involved finding a large castle park with two purple dragons. The castle had a very large slide that usually would get the kids going so fast that they flew a couple of feet past the end of the slide. Everyone had a ton of fun at this park--minus the really cold ocean breeze.

Tate loved being "eaten" by the dragon

Pretty much the largest castle park we could find

Much of the trip was centered around Gus--he certainly captured everyone's attention all of the time. The boys loved playing with him, holding him, and watching him.

Happy Gus and happy Lacey

Gus eating

Gus still eating...and playing

Everyone wanted a turn pushing Gus in the swing

The boys at the park

As part of our agreement with our landlord (to get out of our lease early), we showed our apartment to about a dozen people through a couple of open houses. Cass worked really hard to get the place in order after our family was in town. I must say that I don't miss cramming all of our stuff into that apartment.

The wonderful walk in closet that acted like another room/storage/everything else

Our entire apartment. Known as Dining/Family/Play/Craft/Fight room.

We would typically buy strawberries to eat, but usually there was only one person would get the bulk of the good berries. The rest of us were left with the scraps.

The damage done by Finn

Tate really enjoyed his preschool in California. One of the events at school was for the "Spring Celebration" (also known as Easter) where his class made lots of spring-type things.

Overjoyed Tate with his spring crafts

We were successful and lured a couple to sign a lease for the apartment. We were free (from the rest of the month of April). Soon after the open houses, the packing resumed. These pictures make it seem like the apartment that had so carefully swallowed all of stuff for two years threw up all over itself.

Our bedroom/office/garage/storage

This is the same family/dining/play room as shown above, but five days later

Next up, April and our move to the great state of Washington.