We bought a house!!!

Exactly one week ago, we went to look at a house, three days before it was to officially go on the market.  We loved it and spent a while looking around.  It had everything we wanted, including a huge trampoline in the backyard!  We put in an offer for it two days later and two days after that, we beat out 7 bidders to get the house!!  Inspection is this week and if all goes well, we will close at the end of June!

Eli at age 8

How old are you?  8

What makes you happy?  Going to fun places like Shadowlands, IHOP, Skyzone

What is your favorite animal?  Elephant

What is your favorite thing to eat? chocolate

What is your least favorite thing to eat? Chinese food

What is your favorite thing to do? Play Magic

What is your favorite TV show? Yu-gi-oh!

What are you really good at? Sports

What is your favorite movie? Harry Potter

What is your favorite color? Red

What is your favorite song? All songs that have a rock to it

Who is your best friend? Blake

What do you and your mom do together? Play sports

What do you and your dad do together? Play Magic

What is your favorite sport? Football

Where is your favorite place to go? Comics to Astonish

What is your favorite book?  Elephant and Piggie Books/The Land of Stories

What do you want to be when you grow up? A star football player

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? granola bars

What is your favorite place you visited this year?  Skyzone

If you had a lot of money, what would you do with it? Buy some things. Nintendo Switch, WiiU, Nintendo 3DS

and a lot of rare magic cards

If you had a whole day to do anything you wanted, what would you do? Play a lot of Magic and get

a lot of Magic cards and eat sweets

What is your favorite dessert?  Ice Cream

What are you scared of? Murderers

What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Play sports

What is your favorite holiday? Easter

What is your favorite snack? granola bars

What is your favorite cereal? Lucky Charms

What is your favorite drink? That drink at IHOP (tropical island twist)

What is the most important thing you've learned in life so far? Don't mess with Daddy.

Brielle at age 4

Brielle is 4!!!

How old are you?  4

What makes you happy?  My birthday

What is your favorite animal?  Turtle, penguin and the big bunny that didn't hop (animals from the zoo mobile that came to visit her school)

What is your favorite thing to eat? chicken nuggets

What is your least favorite thing to eat? what mommy and daddy are eating (soup and chili)

What is your favorite thing to do? make gingerbread houses

What is your favorite TV show? stand-up ponies (My little ponies - rainbow rock)

What are you really good at? playing hopscotch (we have never played)

What is your favorite movie? "Dorothy Gale Two" (Legend of Oz, Dorothy returns)

What is your favorite color? all the colors. and pink and purple. and red. and blue.

What is your favorite song? Let it Go

Who is your best friend? Viola, Anna, Aria and Savannah

What do you and your mom do together? play big legos together

What do you and your dad do together? play with my dog (robot dog)

What is your favorite sport? basketball, soccer

Where is your favorite place to go? McDonalds and Chick Fil A

What is your favorite book?  My Little Pony

What do you want to be when you grow up? A Doctor

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Chick Fil A

What is your favorite place you visited this year?  Great Wolf Lodge and Disney on Ice

If you had a lot of money, what would you do with it? Buy stuff. A lot of stuff. Like Frozen stuff and princess stuff and pony stuff.

If you had a whole day to do anything you wanted, what would you do? Go on Disney on Ice

What is your favorite dessert?  Ice Cream

What are you scared of? Zombies and Bats and Bugs

What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Dig in the dirt

What is your favorite holiday? Easter ("Remember I found the golden egg?")

What is your favorite snack? mac and cheese

What is your favorite cereal? the donut one

What is your favorite drink? juice

What is the most important thing you've learned in life so far? "Learning about mommy, learning about germs, learning about everything."

Liam at age 5

Liam is 5!  We celebrated 3 times!  First, we had my mom over for dinner (mission BBQ!) and ice cream cake to celebrate both of their birthdays.  Then, we took the kids on a surprise trip to Great Wolf Lodge.  We had SO much fun!  When we got home, we had a joint birthday party with two of Liam's friends at Blandair park... the kids all ran around with squirt bottles, played on the playground, played with stomp rockets and ate Stormtrooper cupcakes.  It was a fun week!

Here are Liam's thoughts at age 5:

How old are you?  600!!! No, 5.

What makes you happy?  watching television

What is your favorite animal?  Coyote

What is your favorite thing to eat? chocolate

What is your least favorite thing to eat? salad

What is your favorite thing to do? play video games

What is your favorite TV show? Wild Kratts

What are you really good at?  Legos

What is your favorite movie? Star Wars

What is your favorite color? Red

What is your favorite song? Star wars

Who is your best friend? Lucas and Jonah

What do you and your mom do together? Play with legos

What do you and your dad do together? Play the zombie game

What is your favorite sport? soccer

Where is your favorite place to go? Toys R Us

What is your favorite book?  Star wars books

What do you want to be when you grow up? A police!

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? fries

What is your favorite place you visited this year?  Great Wolf Lodge

If you had a lot of money, what would you do with it? Buy gold

If you had a whole day to do anything you wanted, what would you do? Play video games

What is your favorite dessert?  Ice Cream

What are you scared of? When Brielle tries to step on my feet

What is your favorite thing to do outside?  play hide and seek

What is your favorite holiday? Christmas

What is your favorite snack? chocolate and nuts

What is your favorite cereal? Cap'n Crunch

What is your favorite drink? juice

What is the most important thing you've learned in life so far? Pizza. Piiizzza. Pizza.

Eli at age 7

I can't believe Eli is 7!!!  Here are his answers this year...

How old are you?  7

What makes you happy?  Lego sets that I like (Ice Bite's Claw Driller)

What is your favorite animal?  Black Panther

What is your favorite thing to eat? Sweets

What is your least favorite thing to eat? Anything I don't like by looking at it. Spinach with lime and that brown chicken that you made.

What is your favorite thing to do? Build legos and play

What is your favorite TV show? Yogio

What are you really good at?  Soccer and building legos

What is your favorite movie?  The Jungle Book

What is your favorite color? Silver

What is your favorite song? What does a Fox say

Who is your best friend? Blake

What do you and your mom do together? We make sweets (but I was part of the eating)

What do you and your dad do together? Play Magic

What is your favorite sport? Soccer

Where is your favorite place to go? Toys R Us

What is your favorite book?  All Because of a cup of coffee by Geronimo Stilton

What do you want to be when you grow up? A great reader and an author and illustrator

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? chicken noodle soup without chicken and without soup

What is your favorite place you visited this year?  The movie, the Jungle Book with Kuya Jaymin and Linamarie

If you had a lot of money, what would you do with it? Buy lego sets

If you had a whole day to do anything you wanted, what would you do? Buy lego sets

What is your favorite dessert?  That's a hard one. Anything sweet

What are you scared of? Nighttime cause of monsters

What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Play soccer

What is your favorite holiday?  Easter

What is your favorite snack? Caramel popcorn

What is your favorite cereal? Cap'n Crunch, peanut butter flavor

What is your favorite drink? Juice

What is the most important thing you've learned in life so far?  That I'm not supposed to get the gimmies.

Brielle at age 3

Brielle at age 3

How old are you?  3

What makes you happy?  My toys. Elsa and Anna.

What is your favorite animal?  Panda

What is your favorite thing to eat? Chicken. New chicken.

What is your least favorite thing to eat? Hamburgers

What is your favorite thing to do? Play frozen and ponies

What is your favorite TV show? Frozen

What are you really good at?  Playing sports games

What is your favorite movie?  Frozen

What is your favorite color? Purple (she means pink)

What is your favorite song? Let it Go

Who is your best friend? Linamarie

What do you and your mom do together? Play together

What do you and your dad do together? Jump on Daddy

What is your favorite sport? Bounce the ball outside

Where is your favorite place to go? Toys R Us

What is your favorite book?  Yummy Yucky

What do you want to be when you grow up? A balloon

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? french fries and chicken

What is your favorite place you visited this year?  Linamarie's house

If you had a lot of money, what would you do with it? Count it

If you had a whole day to do anything you wanted, what would you do? Play

What is your favorite dessert?  cake

What are you scared of? Monsters

What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Play with balls

What is your favorite holiday?  Halloween

What is your favorite snack? Peanut Butter Crackers

What is your favorite cereal? Cheerios

What is your favorite drink? chocolate milk

What is the most important thing you've learned in life so far?  Grandma's house

Liam at Age 4

Liam- Age 4

How old are you?  4

What makes you happy?  Playing with Darth Vader

What is your favorite animal?  T-Rex

What is your favorite thing to eat? Pizza with no stuff on it

What is your least favorite thing to eat? Cheese hamburgers

What is your favorite thing to do?  Drink water

What is your favorite TV show?  Mario

What are you really good at?  Reading “The Peanut.”

What is your favorite movie?  Jack (Nightmare before Christmas)

What is your favorite color? Red

What is your favorite song? This is Halloween

Who is your best friend? Kuya

What do you and your mom do together? Play

What do you and your dad do together? Eat

What is your favorite sport? Soccer

Where is your favorite place to go? Toys R Us

What is your favorite book?  The Peanut

What do you want to be when you grow up? A train guy

What is your favorite thing to eat for lunch? Chicken Nuggets

What is your favorite place you visited this year?  Basketball camp

If you had a lot of money, what would you do with it?  Get a new star wars house with darth vader and the emporer and their light sabers.  

If you had a whole day to do anything you wanted, what would you do? watch zig and sharko

What is your favorite dessert?  Ice Cream (chocolate chip)

What are you scared of? Monsters

What is your favorite thing to do outside?  Go to the playground

What is your favorite holiday?  Halloween

What is your favorite snack? Applesauce

What is your favorite cereal? The colorful Captain Crunch

What is your favorite drink? water

What is the most important thing you've learned in life so far?  Hakuna Matata