Move-in Day

Well we spent the night for the very first night on Sunday, April 15th.  It went really well.  It immediately felt like "home" even though there were boxes sitting everywhere and the walls were bare.  We are still waiting on some furniture to be delivered that we just ordered but that will probably be another three weeks so we will make do until then! Addi seems to love her room. I have tried to get her room the most "normal" so that she understands that all of her toys will be at this house now. Her closet is full of all of her clothes. All of her toys are in her room now and we have converted her crib into a full-size bed. We are going to stick with the purple butterflies that we had at the old house so that it's familar to her--plus it's so stinkin' adorable. I haven't had time to work on a lot of the rest of the house yet but I wanted her room to be fixed up so that she can start to realize that it's HER own room. It's so cute because she is so confused right now. We will be out somewhere and tell her that we are going home and she asks, "to Nina's house?" We will just laugh and tell her that we are going home "to the new house." She will figure it out soon!

When it was bedtime Sunday night, I expected her to assume the normal routine of getting into our bed but she let me know that she wanted to sleep in HER new room.... Wow--I didn't expect that. So I read her a few books and tucked her into her big girl bed and started to head out the door. "Momma," she said in her sweet little angel voice, "I want you to sleep with me." That's all I needed to hear. "Of course I will, baby." I think I was asleep before she was--moving brings on a whole new level of exhaustion. It's something I hope we never ever do again.

Austin is getting settled. We are still waiting on his new bed and chest to be delivered. He picked out new black furniture. His walls are gray and he wants a red comforter and is going with a gray, black, and red color scheme in his room. He has several actor's signs and movie theatre decor that will look good with those colors... Maybe someday we will eventually get around to hanging stuff on all of these bare walls.

The kitchen is coming along too. I still have lots of boxes to unpack of stuff for the kitchen but the essentials are in--we have dishes and food! I'm excited though because I have lots of cabinet space and will hopefully have room for all of my stuff at this house.

Our master bedroom is probably the furthest from being organized! We have boxes everywhere. I know it will take time and that is the room I'm probably LEAST worried about!

I will post pictures once we get things more situated. I have a lot of pressure to get things done as quickly as possible as I am planning to have Addi's 2nd birthday party at our house in like 3 weeks--YIKES!

Gotta go get busy!!

Cleaning Day...

I took the day off on Thursday to clean the new house so that we could move in the following weekend.  I hated to be off work and not be able to enjoy the day off but this simply had to be done.  I worked hard all day and it definitely paid off because things were looking good by the end of the day!

Dining Room

Living room

Another view of Living Room

Half Bath

Front entry with dining room to the right



Breakfast Area



Addi's Room

Addi & Austin's Bathroom

Austin's Room

Hallway to Master and office

Laundry Room

My small office

Master Bedroom

Another View of Master

Master Bath

Another view of Master Bath

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Kitchen

Deck

Deck

Gate on the deck to keep Addi from escaping!

Deck

Too bad it won't stay clean for long!

We definitely dread moving but are anxious to be settled in!

Easter 2012

We celebrated Easter by going to our church service on Saturday night.  We were living with Craig’s parents so they went with us.  Addi loved wearing her new Easter dress and Easter shoes.  We got a few pictures before church:

                                                   

We celebrated the resurrection of Jesus and the empty tomb and Addi had a special lesson in her class about Easter and colored a beautiful Easter cross.  After the service, we tried to get some good pictures of the kids in their Easter duds but getting 3 little ones (Austin was easy) to cooperate is amusing so here’s the best we got!!

Austin was going to be singing at Brookside Baptist (Craig’s parents church) on Easter Sunday so we went there on Sunday morning.  Church didn’t start until 11 so we had plenty of time for Addi to check out what the Easter Bunny had left her!  Speaking of the Easter Bunny, there are NO pictures of Addi sitting in the Easter Bunny’s lap this year because she wouldn’t have ANYTHING to do with him!!  She definitely loved the stuff he brought her though!

Austin had to be at church early so he opened his basket later!  He did a great job singing at church and Addi even lasted through most of the service before I had to take her out!

After church, we headed to Lyndi’s house for Easter lunch with our family and then had Easter dinner later that evening with all of the Vahle’s.