Life with the Rusch's: cha cha cha cha changes

so far this year has been full of changes. the most recent being the rearranging of our house. we have discussed the need to have the kids in their own rooms for a while now and have gone back and forth on the best placement for everyone. (2 bedrooms downstairs and 1 up) the upstairs room was full of storage things so we had to figure out a place for all of that and the living room was being overrun by toys. last week, I started the process by putting some of the storage stuff into the attic space. the job seemed like it was going to take forever! then, Sunday morning, Seth and I both kept working at it and before we knew it all the storage stuff was put away, so we decided to keep going and called Seth's parents to see if they could come help with the kids and move the dressers and beds. by dinner time we had successfully moved our bedroom upstairs, Eleanor in our old room and most of the toys out of the living room. the next step will be to take down the border and paint Ben's room but that might take us a little while yet... (sorry Buddy!)

Saturday, we took the kids to the mall of america to go on rides but it was pretty busy and after 4 hours, Eleanor was only able to get 3 rides in and Ben was going stir crazy. at the end of the day, I asked Eleanor what her favorite part was and she said it was getting the bouncy ball out of the machine in old navy! it was a quarter. lol.

last night Seth and I had a date night and went to a movie. I don't think we've been to one since Eleanor was born! we saw the Hobbit. we were the only ones in the theater! it was good, but almost 3 hours long, so we just grabbed a quick dinner at arby's.