Settling in

We are all moved into our new house and are getting settled in more and more each day. We are loving the extra space, the new community and the small town feel. The neighbors are very friendly - several of them stopped by last week to introduce themselves and we got a chance to visit with them for a few minutes before getting back to our unpacking.

We closed on Monday and started moving in a small portion of our stuff ourselves. Craig was planning to do a treatment to the garage floor before we moved our stuff into the garage but many things unplanned things happened and we ran out of time. Tuesday, movers came and we moved all our stuff from inside the house. Tuesday night we went to get the babies from their grandparent's house. Wednesday, we spent the day the day unpacking and organizing. Craig also got sick and was very sick all day and the next. Thursday, he and my brother loaded up our garage at the old house to move it. Our garage floor was still not finished so all our stuff had to stay on the truck. Luckily nothing was stolen, which we weren't really worried about anyway, but it did rain that night so all our belongings were wet. Friday morning we painted the garage floor but it had to dry for 24 hours so our stuff had to stay outside a second night. It rained again...go figure! Luckily most everything was ok to get wet and nothing was ruined. It just made it more difficult to unload the stuff that was in boxes as the boxes were falling apart. Saturday, we got the truck unloaded and everything finally into our garage. Since then, we've been working so hard trying to finish unpacking and organizing our things.

Like I said, we are really enjoying the new house and we are adjusting well. The babies are doing really well and seem to be having no problems. Craig and I, however, are still adjusting to lugging the kiddos up and down the stairs. They can climb up but not down. We have a pretty severe fire ant problem which is not good especially considering Craig is allergic to fire ants. We have treated them and I can already see an improvement.

This entire summer has been such a whorl-wind with all the house selling/hunting/buying. I'm ready to finish getting settled in so we can do some fun summer things

Updates and 4th of July celebrations

Just wanted to write real quick and give you all an update on our moving situation. We closed on our current home last week (July 2nd) and are now renting back our home until the 13th when we close on the new one. We've been so busy running and getting loose ends wrapped up. And let me also say we have been having so much fun preparing to move! We are just so excited to be moving, we can hardly stand it! I started packing a few things last week, but we started majorly packing today and we have gotten so much done!!

An update on the kiddos... They got over their HFMD and all three followed that up with a round of 2 or 3 day high fevers. The girls got it first but their symptoms weren't as serious as Tyler's were, so when it was his turn for the fever, we took him to the doctor and turns out he had tonsillitis. I'm guessing that is what the girls had too. They all seem to be well now and are feeling much better.

For the fourth of July, we had plans to go to our friend, Kim's house, but their shindig was early in the day and since Craig had to work that day, we had to cancel. Then, we got invited over to some other friend's house. We had a good time visiting with them, eating yummy sausage and blueberry pie. Then, after it cooled off a bit, we headed out to the back yard, played on the swing set, Tyler and Craig played basketball and watched as they shot off fireworks.