mccloud party of five.: Sunshine,snowballs,karate,and frozen

We McClouds love to stay busy and this week was no different. Seriously. Sometimes it feels like we don't stop. Which is so weird because typically I am such a home body. If it wasn't for Chase I don't think I would have ever left my parents house, really, it is kinda creepy. So we start out our weeks with our church's ( Harbor community #ilovemychurch) community group. This is the first group that chase and I have joined since being at our relatively new church home. We are part of the married with kids group and it is awesome. Most of us are in the same season of littles and a couple of us have older babes too, which is great because we have some insight on what the future holds! It's so strange to be apart of a group where everyone has kids being that typically out of our core group of friends we where always the ones toting babes along. So far we have been getting to know each other and sharing our stories (I'm up next eek!) which has truly touched my heart. I am so excited to see God move in this group and build such great bonds with this awesome group of people.

Tuesday's have been for karate but this Tuesday was Bashs last session. We did a seven week course just to see if this would be something he would like to pursue more in the future. Oh my word this boy loved it. He was so attentive and so interested in all his teacher would teach. Which is great because this dude is such a ball of energy. It was a great way to teach him some control and focus. We will definitely be continuing in the future.

Wednesday was so super gorgeous we just had to break free of the house and get some fresh air! It is so amazing what a little sunshine can do for your soul!

Bash needed in on some park time so we made a stop for cherry snowballs on the way home from school.

All around town for the last couple of days they have had a sky writer writing awesome uplifting words in the air. Bash got a kick out of trying to figure out the words and teaching Eliana what the letters were. If you look really good it says coexist sideways!

Nothing like a little animal race to get our Thursday morning starting out! The hippo won a few times but sheep came in first after hippo took a milk break! No lie our house is typically like a Zoo!

Axel is almost 9 months and has been getting in a good two to four crawls in. He just enjoys watching his big bro and sis run wild all around him. He has been so handsy lately which cleary I am not use to yet. I literally looked at Eliana for a minute maybe two! I couldnt help but laugh. He had so much joy in this moment I just had to capture it!

Tonight we got the opportunity to go see disney's Frozen on ice. Such a great show! Both Sebastian and Ellie have frozen fever! It was so great just to sit and watch them have such a great time. The show was great, costumes where gorgeous and even had a surprise visit from other princess's ( including ariel! Score for momma!) and Mickey and Minnie stopped by too!