Moving, Moving, Moving!

Today we spent the day helping my mom clean out her refrigerator and oven so they could be transported to storage.  It is such a huge undertaking to move from a very large house to a very small house.  And the circumstances make things even more difficult.  Tomorrow is the auction for her house, and we have mixed feelings about it.  On the one hand we want the house to sell quickly so it's not hanging over Mom's head.  On the other hand, she still has quite a bit of stuff she still wants/needs to sort through and if the house doesn't sell she will have more time.  We are relying on God's timing and remembering that only His timing is perfect!

Vacation

The rest of the week at Carowinds flew by!  We enjoyed relaxing at the water park and riding fun rides.  Some days we had to schedule around impending storms, and other days we were dripping with sweat from the extreme humidity!  Mikayla's favorite ride was the balloons, but she also liked the swings, rockets, planes and cars.  Her second favorite was the "top toppers", or helicopters as we all call them.  It was a great time as a family, although short.  We can't wait to return at the end of the summer!

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Fun in the Sun

We drove through the night last night all the way to South Carolina.  We left at midnight and arrived around 10 in the morning.  It was hard for Matt and I, but the girls were great!  Calli slept almost the whole way, and Mikayla slept some, but was very good at entertaining herself when she was awake at 2am! 

Once we got there, we needed some sleep!  Matt, Mikayla and I took a couple of hours to nap while my mom and grandmother watched Calli.  When we got up, we quickly got dressed to head to Carowinds.  We decided to go to the water park first since it was quite hot. 

After the water park, we went to the children's area to put Mikayla on some rides.  On the way, we saw Lucy from the Peanuts gang.  She was the only one we saw all week!  We were able to run from ride to ride, as there were not very many people there.  They have this great little building in the children's area for nursing moms!  I spent quite a bit of time in there since Calli is only 3 months old!  Because of this, I realized we don't have nearly the amount of pictures as we have in the past. 

Daddy took Mikayla on his favorite ride.  I can't remember what the new name is this year, but they are some kind of gliders.  Mikayla loved them.

After all of the rides, we went to our favorite place to eat while in South Carolina...CiCi's pizza!  Joel challenged Matt to a pizza eating contest.  I think they both ate at least 14 slices of pizza!  Joel could have kept going, but Matt isn't a teenager anymore and had to stop.  Mikayla was in pizza heaven.  She absolutely loves pizza and couldn't believe there were so many choices.

We went home with full bellies and all had a great night's sleep.