Sept 2014

 Here is our great find from Craigslist!!! We got this play house for $200!!! The boys love it and it is so nice to have a big back yard where they can go out and play.

the first month in the house was busy but lonely. I was ready to have our family together again but Josh hadn't had any time off since we got here. The boys and I would get out of the house some days and just got hang out places. One day at Ikea Jack found this chair and was so excited cause it was orange, his favorite color. 

The boys had never seen these big buggies at Walmart before and were so excited about them. Jack said "Look mom I can kick my feet up and relax" LOL

Kaleb liked it too. He started climbing everything this summer. If you tell him something is to high he looks at you and says "no it isn't, I can climb anything" :)

And The Unpacking Begins

So Josh left four days after moving in to go to HALO school in Arizona which left ALL the unpacking up to me.  It took me forever! I guess knowing all the work that had to be done slowed me down because I didn't know what to do with everything cause I knew we would have to move it again to do work so i just stacked boxes everywhere LOL Then in the middle of unpacking I decided before I got all my dining room stuff out I would just paint it. I HATE PAINTING LOL but it needed to be done.  It took me a whole week to do one room. Some days I would paint for an hour then quit because I was being messy and just didn't want to do it.  After it was finished it was totally worth it. Before I thought it felt very depressing in there but after it was so bright and happy :)

Before

After

After I got finished with this room the unpacking started again. I had told Josh I wasn't going to touch the upstairs until he got back but I can't work in one place for to long so I had the entire house a wreck but things came together one by one. When we were working on the toy room Jack wanted me to go outside with them and I said we could after we got this room straightened up and he looked and said "Yep everything looks nice and tidy" LOL I don't have an after pic of this room either but it looked great at the end of this day.  We don't like the color of blue on the walls but someday this will be the boys' room so I'm just going to wait till they are older and paint it when they move in so I only have to do it once.

I bet our neighbors hated us at first because it took me so long to get everything unpacked so the boxes just stayed on the porch until I was done and had the movers come back and get them. 

I have to admit this made me smile when he sent it to me lol It's good to know that he's not having fun all the time :)

Moving In

We came home from WV on Sunday and the movers were here bright and early Monday morning.  loading and unloading is always a hassle because you have to track every box that comes in the door so you know if everything is there and watch to find broken stuff.  Of course Josh had to work most of the day so that left me to deal with the movers and keeping the kids out of the way but we survived.  Luckily our movers were all really nice and didn't mind the kids talking to them all the time. Then the fun started. Our living room was PINK! Now I love pink but not in my living room. Josh was leaving in four days so we started as soon as we could.  I didn't take an after photo but we painted it a blue/grey, and it turned out great! We also had great little helpers :)

Of course things couldn't keep going smoothly. One night we were on our way to pick up a playground that we had bought off of craigslist and decided to stop at best buy to get phones, because we hadn't had a house phone in years, and when we were pulling out the truck died!!! Luckily we still have it under warranty so they sent someone to tow it but we had the trailer on the back so Josh had to call a friend to come and get us and bring the trailer home.  Now every time we drive by that best buy Kaleb or Jack says "Look daddy that's where your truck broke down"   Fun Times :)

West Virginia

We closed on our house on a Thursday but our stuff wasn't being delivered until Monday so we decided to go to WV for the weekend. It was a good get away.  Josh was really in some need of some down time.  Mello was still at the lake so we went and hung out down there. I just loved having my family at the lake with me.  I have sooooo many great memories there and I was so happy to see that they enjoyed it also.

 Of course no trip to the lake would be complete without working on something :)

A New Home

After spending a little time in WV the boys and I headed to VA.  We spent two weeks living in Josh's apartment while we finished everything up on the new house.  Josh was working a lot so we just hung out and cleaned getting ready to move out.

Josh had a few days training in Fredericksburg so one of the days the boys and I drove down when he got off work and we went to their fair. It was so much fun!! I rode all the rides with the kids. Jack wasn't afraid of anything. After riding the rides we went and watched the truck and tractor pulls. The boys Loved it!!! It was a great day :)

July 30 2014 we closed on our new home. Excited to finally have a place to call home but knowing that we had a lot of work ahead of us.  The house was built in 1968 and had an addition put on in 2005 and needed some updating.  We also didn't like all the trees. I wanted to be able to see my house when I pulled up to it.

The next step

After leaving CO we went to WV for a few weeks because Josh was still gone and we didn't close on our new house until July 30. Luckily Uncle Mello was camping at the Lake so we went camping! It was so fun taking the boys to East Lynn cause I have so many fun memories from when I was a kid and we would spend so much time there.  We picked up Ethan and camped for a few days with Mamaw Kathy.

 Another great thing about Mamaw's is her neighbors Kirby and Becky. Kirby takes the kids four wheeling and they have a ball.

 This is how I grew up. Playing right beside the road :)