i put poco in his little room and the kids felt a lot better about seeing him.
after seeing poco, we went to burger king and the kids were happy to go there, but were disappointed when we found out that they play land was closed.
bubba enjoying his meal.
back at tim and jill's, bubba and i watched 'prince of egypt' together! one of my favorites. a couple times jackson asked me 'uncle mark, please don't sing along...'
aves watching the sing-a-long video they had gotten from the church library the weekend before. she was entranced, and even sang along with some of them!
one new development since i had last visited was tweet's bed! since our wedding she got a real bed! wow, she is growing up so quickly. well, we decided that we would all try it out and see how comfy it is! this is such a cute picture, especially tweets as she pretends to sleep like the rest of us, but cant help looking up at the camera!
when we came home friday we knew we would be in town for a couple nights. there was no way we could leave poco in indiana by himself for that long, so we convinced mom and papa to allow us to bring him just this once to see how it goes, to see if he behaves himself.
diana and mom doing some of the laundry. don't get the wrong idea, i did some laundry too, but just didn't get a picture of it. promise.
everyone just haning out in katie and brian's basement.
even blurry, diana looks so cute!
papa, mom, and papa's older brother rich.
everyone chatting at the table finishing the last of the great food we had there.
the padding family out in the backyard posing for a family picture!
we made cookies!!! i had to bring treats to school that week, so we spend the night before baking some cookies. they sure made the house smell amazing!
ugh. we had problems with the kitchen sink draining ever since we got home. finally i caved and called a plumber. i think half of our life saving went to pay this guy (at least thats how it felt...)
each year at school we have a special 'service day' where all the kids go to different places in the community and help out. i went with some of the 8th graders to meals on wheels. here are the guys with really lovely hair nets freezing to death in the walk in freezer!
each year our school has an annual auction. its meant to raise money for tuition assistance. there is always a ton of stuff up for auction given by families, or local businesses. this year we raised almost one hundred thousand dollars!
bubba playing with one of his action figures at mom and papas.
tweets waiting for us to show her some of our honeymoon pictures!
aves playing around while still in her easter dress- so cute!
one of the things the girls did was color barbara's hair. she wanted a really depressing and sad 'before' picture...
diana coloring her sister's hair.
figured she should do her make-up while she was at it!
chilling out in the living room with jonathen, chating it up.
jordan was usually the one telling the great stories while we just laughed!
diana drying him off
he doesnt always do so well with the close-ups!
still blurry...
there! finally got a good one!
he did pretty well with getting wet, a real champ.
diana dumped water on him in the tub to get him wet.
he periodically tried to dry himself off, but it didnt quite work.
look at that goofy little rat!
in the backyard with the fencing, steaks, zip ties, and a hammer. all ready to work!
the finished product. it ended up being about ten feet by thirty feet- more than enough room for a little chahuahua to play!
poco comes out to inspect the final product. he seems quite pleased. i'm glad he has a place to play in the backyard, but it sure is a pain to mow around!
with the office repainted, we needed to figure out how to put everything back in, and what we actually wanted back in... 
i now get the office closet for my clothes. what stays in the office? well, the dvd's of course!
our first attempt to find a place for our books. we ended up moving them across the room on the other side of the desk.
along with a new bed, we got a new dresser! diana brought this from her old place- now we have space for clothes! very helpful.
before we found a place for everything, its place was on the floor...
my clothes out, diana's clothes in!
diana even took it upon herself to clean out the fridge! it wasnt too bad, it was just half filled with random half-used ketchup bottles and uneaten leftovers... looks much nicer now!
diana and i made our first trip to the grocery store, we were in desperate need of something good to eat- having been gone a week and a half, the place was really really empty! for our first grocery store trip we went to meijers.
! we had chicken stuffed with cheese and broccoli, also a salad. a good start to married life- it was delicious!
diana tears open the bedding packaging.
ooh, throw pillows- how fancy!
looks pretty good all decked out!
i figured i would step in and model the new bedding for all to see.
looks nice, huh? we got eight sets of new stuff- new dishes (both big and little), bowls, mugs, glasses, goblets, and a few different big serving dishes and plates! we have been using them everyday since we unpacked them and they are awesome!
