Summer Break Part 1

Alexa's last day of school couldn't come soon enough. We were so ready to slow down and do less driving. After moving to the new house we now had a much further morning drive. Alexa's first day of break we went to the Children's Museum just the two of us. Addison still had two more weeks of school. Alexa and I enjoyed having a special day with just us. Over the next two weeks we went to the beach, did movies in the park, DisneyLand, explored our new neighborhood and canyons and did a lot of swimming. It has been a magically few weeks. The girls are learning to connect all over again as friends. I decided to only do a few half day camps this year. Alexa is home every other week and doing VBS on the off weeks. Then we have 2 weeks of traveling and about a week and a half home before school starts back. We are enjoying our slow pace weeks very much. Some days we don't even get into the car. It's so crazy to be home so much. During the school year we can be in the car up to 4 or even 5 hours driving between appointments, activities and schools. The camp weeks are fun but exhausting.
The first VBS was at a local church that we have been wanting to visit. The camp was quite large, over 300 kids. It was very well ran and had all the bells a whistles. I don't think Alexa made quite the connections she was hoping to but we did attend the Sunday service and plan to go back when we have a weekend available. The second camp was at Alexa's former preschool. She attended this camp last year. This year it is much smaller. The girls seem to be enjoying it and are taking a lot of the biblical points to heart. To top it off we have our friend's with us all week. I am exhausted to say the least. Having 4 kids all afternoon is more then I would enjoy doing every day. We have swam twice, been to two different parks and played outside for hours on end. I am glad the girls are with their friends but I will be ready for our quite week home starting on Monday.
We are looking forward to Addison's first hair cut, one more camp week, our big trip out East and celebrating Addison's 3rd birthday. Slow down summer we aren't ready for you to be over yet.

We moved... again!

I am excited/ embarrassed to report another move under the Cox family belt. This is home number 4 for Addison and 5 for Alexa. We made the decision to buy a home and call San Diego our permanent (whatever that means in our world) home for now. We decided to get less house in the best school district and community we could find. We closed on April 1st and moved in the end of May. After some serious de-cluttering and well planned out organizing we are settled into our new casa. Alexa picked out a my little pony bedroom and Addison wanted Elsa's blue with as many Frozen characters as we could fit. It was fun doing two new rooms. Hopefully they like their choices for at least a few years. We have a butterfly themed playroom, Mickey Mouse bathroom and neutral/ traditional look everywhere else. We still have a few rooms left that need personal touches but we are making good progress. Both girls have made a ton of friends. Our new neighborhood is full of young children. We have been in the pool 3/4 days a week on average. It's been a wonderful change. Justin and I both feel like this was the place we were being called to live. I cant wait for the memories we are going to make in the future.