Weekend activities

So, I worked Thursday night for the first time in awhile. We weren't too busy, but it was great hanging out with my girls, Cheryl, Anna, and Kathie! I napped a bit on the couch Friday morning before Patrick woke up (sitter is out of town) and then we ate breakfast and headed toward the park! It was a beautiful day. We always park far from the park and walk along the docks of the lake to get there. The boys love to look at the water, and Patrick has discovered running, so he loves to have a "track" to run on. He doesn't seem that fast, but I'll tell you what, I have never seen little legs move so fast!! It is hilarious to watch!

Anyways, as soon as we got to the park, Patrick spotted a family eating McDonalds at a picnic table (I was saving lunch for after the playground). He subsequently pitched an ever-loving fit because I would not let him eat their food. He would not give it up, so about 45 minutes later, we left, Patrick still screaming!

Saturday was much better! We went to two playgrounds, had a picnic, and actually got some pink arms and noses (sorry, kids, mommy hasn't had to think about sunscreen in a while!) We had a great day, barring the redneck kids throwing sand and threatening each other by saying, "My mommy has a knife and she will cut your head off!" Seriously...some people around here are just astonishing. After I silently cursed these children's parents, I put into perspective how good my kids are and that makes me PROUD! Thankfully whenever the kids were ugly to Jack, he just said, "No say that to me. You hurt my peelins!" TOO CUTE!

Of course, I got called off work Saturday (and last night!) so Matt and I took the kids to the Greenville Monkey Joes to burn off some energy since it was raining. They had a blast and both fell asleep on the way home and took 3-hr naps when transferred from the van to their beds!

It's another cool, rainy day today. I do need to go to Walmart to get some sunscreen for the boys (and myself) to gear up for another lovely week of weather!

Gearing up for the next big change in our lives...

I've decided to chronicle the next big step in our lives by blogging again! I really miss it and while I've been a Facebook fanatic for awhile now, I feel like this is a better outlet to really share more than little blurps about what's going on. Anyways, next step, as most of you already know is: Moving to Oxford, NC!!

Looks like we'll be good to go after Matt's graduation on June 24th! I've already started purging/spring cleaning. Soon, I'll be posting pictures of this house and the area we've lived in for the past 3 years so that the kids (and ourselves) will remember this part of our lives!

Matt will be a doctor at Vance Family Medicine in Henderson, NC. We are all very excited for him to start his new job and for all of us to be closer to where we grew up and where our family remains.

We've lined ourselves up a 3-bedroom apartment so that we can get settled into our new town and have a nice, focused, relaxed house search when we're ready. It'll be nice to only have 1100 sf to clean for awhile!

I am going to try to keep working at OMC, making May 31st my last day. Of course, they keep calling me off due to low census and budget cuts, so who knows when my next day will be. I don't think I'll work immediately after moving. We need to focus on getting settled, getting Jack in school, and letting Patrick have some one-on-one time with mommy. And who knows, maybe get working on populating the world with more Higgins ;) Things may change if a good L&D position opens at Maria Parham, of course.

Jack is set to start K-4 at Kerr-Vance Academy in August and he could not be more excited. In fact, he was prancing around wearing his backpack the other night, but I totally didn't get a picture. He will be there 5 days/week from 8am to 230pm I kind of wish it wasn't a full-time thing, but it's such a great learning opportunity for him - I think it will turn out to be great!!

These boys are growing up way too fast!!!