Moving Day

Our moving day was also our closing day on both houses.  Our day started early with last minute packing.  We headed to our closing at 9am.  On our drive back to Smoke Rise we were in shock that we had sold that house and really bought the new one.  It was very surreal, until we got to the house.

The movers had already loaded up our living room - stuff we had planned to move in cars- and most of the basement was packed up.  So the moving truck was loaded up quicker and missing big things that we didn't want to move ourselves.

I had taken one carload and the boys over to the new house to find out that the power was out.  Of course we had a cleaning crew working and doing what they couldn't without power.  After finding out we needed a new power company, contacting them and finally getting it turned on, we were back in business.

Scott ended up renting a U-Haul truck and he and I loaded our entire garage filled with boxes and garage stuff in an hour and 15 minutes. We are awesome at working together.  It amazed us both how in sync we were during the whole moving process.

We finally got settled at the new house, unloaded all trucks and had bedrooms mostly set up for sleeping.  It was a very crazy day and night, trying to get the boys to sleep.  We were alol very excited for our new adventure.

We bought a house

We have been needing a larger house for some time.  We even attempted to sell our house a couple years ago with no success.  In April 2 houses on our street sold incredibly fast.  We started to interview agents.  We found a fixer upper near Gabriel's school and inquired about it.  It was under contract already, but that helped us find our awesome agent, Sarah.

She helped us get our house ready and marketed correctly.  Needless to say, it was under contract in a day.  Now we needed to find our new house in a week!  At this time houses are selling for above list price, before going "live" and very little inventory in St. Louis County.  After looking at a couple, we realized we needed do commit to crossing the dreaded bridge to find what we want in our range that is move in ready.

Crossing the bridge opened up a whole new world to us.  Houses were bigger, there were more to look at and most importantly, move in ready.  We spent a Wednesday looking with Sarah and found "the one."  We put an offer in after viewing and waited on pins and needles till 9pm to find out if they accepted our offer.

So, as much as we really didn't want to come over here, we did.  We got a deal on our house.  The inspections showed no real issues.  All boys will have their own rooms!  We still have a lot of painting to do, but there is space, and even more space when we finish the basement.

Overall, we could not be happier with our choice and even the boys love their new house.

School Picnic

As usual the second Saturday in June was St. Gabriel's school picnic.  Scott stayed at the house while the electric came to do some last minute work and the boys and I met my friend Valerie for the parade.

We usually grab donuts before had, but we were running a little late.  We parked by th Bello's house and found our seats on the curb and waited.  We were joined by the Bello family soon.  The parade was full of candy for the boys and fun to watch.  Thomas wasn't sure what to think of everything.

Afterwards the boys wanted to play in the park.  Who was I to stop them from playing in the shade rather than stand in line in the heat for rides.  They played do long that we never made it to the picnic.  And that was fine for me as well.

7 Months

Thomas turned 7 months and we are busy packing the house and enjoying the beginning of summer.  He has yet to crawl, but loves to sit and watch everything.  He loves to stand in his exersaucer and play. He is slowly starting to understand eating stage 1 foods.

He is still a happy fella that loves to watch his brothers be crazy.

May Pictures

Life in our house in May, the picture version.