Our new house!

Take a look at what we bought today. Just a small little purchase...

It is 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths with a huge game room upstairs. We are so happy and will move in right before the Christmas. It has been a long journey for us, first selling our house in Leander and then trying to figure out where we wanted to live. We looked at so many houses and finally, our plans finally caught up with God's and we found this neighborhood with some inventory homes just waiting to be sold before the year's end. It has a great backyard with a covered patio and there were at least 10 kids playing out side in the cul de sac today.

Now to get packing!

Me oh my, I love pie!

Pie. American as it gets huh? Well my grandmother, now affectionately known as Great Granny, makes the best chocolate pie in the world and she made us one yesterday. I had invited her to come down to our house for dinner. I was making pot roast and I had not seen most of the week so I thought it would be nice for her to get out and see something different than her four walls. Anyway, she made a pie to mark the occasion. She called me around three in the afternoon and told me to come fetch it because she can't walk with the pie. Her golf cart is broken so she had to walk but I told her I would drive her back home after dinner. So we feasted on pot roast and chocolate pie. Cooper ate all his dinner to get his pie and sat and savored every creamy, chocolaty bite.

We then got on the computer and I showed her some recent pictures of the Japan Jeffrey's. We have not seen them in two years and they all look so much older. Well not Josh and Jenn, they look the same but the kids sure have grown.

We drove her home and told her good night. I then had to throw the kids in the bath and hurry to get M to sleep. He was do tired and probably a little miffed that he did not get any pie!

House Hunting Chapter 26

We spent the entire weekend looking at houses. This was supposed to be the weekend that we wentto a friend's daughter's birhtday party and sat tight and just waited until our house closed this week so that we could look next weekend with no strings attached. But no, Husband and I got bit by the house hunting bug and called up Ol' Roy the Realtor (side note - our realtor is like 800 years old but he seems to know his stuff). We looked all over the Katy area and Richmond and then back again at Katy. C and M were little troopers and did not put up too much of a fuss. C thought we were going to a playdate at Katy's house for the ride up there and was very disappointed to find out the reality of what Katy was. So, in classic poor mothering style, I feed him candy and other white starchy things to keep him happy all day long.

Hopefully we will hear when our closing day is sometime this week and can close the Austin chapter of our lives and get on with the blockbuster sequel that is the Houston area.

Mmmmm Turnips

We have harvested the turnips. Well, only two turnips because well, you can only eat so many turnips. I thought I would leave the other ones to grow a bit more. C was really excited to pull them out of the ground but he kept leaving them lying around after that. I will cook them tonight and see if I can't get him to eat them. I will use the time honored southern tradition made famous by Paula Deen herself and slather them in butter. I am not ambitious enough to wash and eat the greens. Maybe tomorrow. I hear you can wash them in the washing machine. I might just try that.

M stood watch from the stroller for rabbits and other varmits . None were sighted.

The cabbage has started to form and the some radishes have seemed to have survived the nightlty rabbit attacks.

Breakthrough!

M slept from 6:30 p.m. to 5:00 a.m.! This is the first time he has ever slept that long. I have been working on getting him on more of a routine and I guess it finally worked. Oh, did I forget to mention the crying it out for two hours the night before? I suppose that could have helped too but I would like to take credit for the routine. hehe.

C and I made Turkeys today out of his hand prints. He was more into cutting with the scissors than anything else but at least I got him to do something art/craft related. M ate frozen blueberries while we made the turkeys. Whenever it stops raining, I plan on going on a leaf hunt with C and then making crayon rubbings or more turkeys.

We are still waiting on getting the closing date on our house. Hopefully it will early next week. Soon after that, we will be able to make an offer on a house. The market seems to be great for buying so we hope to get a great deal on a great home.

Good luck Granny!

Well, Robert and I finally decide to move closer to Houston and my parents up and decide that they are both going to live in El Paso. I mean could they get any further away from Houston and still be in Texas? Here is a nice guilt inducing picture!

All kidding aside, Granny is leaving in the morning to go out to El Paso to live with PawPaw. It has been a long time coming but we are all glad it is here. I know she will miss seeing C and M everyday but it will make the times they visit all the more special. So good luck to Granny and PawPaw as they try and remember what it is like having your spouse around 24/7.

In other news, husband spent the last two days removing all of our belongings from our house in Leander and transferring them to our POD and a trailer. Poor thing must be sore and very tired, but we are officially moved out of Leander. We should close on our house next week and truly be free to start our new life in the Houston area.

Halloween and House Hunting

We had fun filled weekend of trick o' treating and house hunting. C and M both got dress up as a cow and cowboy respectively and we headed out into Bedias to see how much candy could be gotten. We stopped by Memaw and Papa's church first and then headed over to the fire station where C got to see the fire trucks up close. They even turned on the lights on one of the trucks for him. All in all C had a good time, we hit a couple of houses after that and even a little carnival someone had in their front yard.

The next day Husband, M and I set out to house hunt. We looked at four houses and the we think we may have found a winner! Hopefully, we will be putting in an offer on it tomorrow. I tell ya, I had no idea what other people were talking about when they sold their homes and talked about the stress involved but boy do I know now. I can say that it is much better being on the buying end than the selling.