Coming up for Air

Backing up.......Pawpa taking a break from packing to snuggle this sweet little man.....oh how we miss him!!

 Just some sweet pictures of my little beauties.

 I had a hard time getting a pensive look with this one!  She's a giggle box.

 Some last, white door pictures.

 Wren was gone to summer school, and I hadn't heard Iley for a while, Whaaat mom??  She plays so well by herself.

The last day of summer school all of Wren's previous teachers had a little good bye party for both of the girls.  There were snacks, and gifts for both of them.  From the left is her Kindergarten teacher, then Mrs. Kay, then Ms. Jones, then her pre school teacher is on the end.  She is no longer the preschool teacher, but now coordinates and is in charge of all the special services for the kids, so they both had her for that too.

  Her 1st grade teacher, Ms. Jones, and her interpreter/dhh teacher, Mrs. Kay, bought her the purple KState tee shirt.  She LOVES it. She doesn't know a thing about the Wild cats, but she loves having a matching shirt with her teachers! She picked it up the other day and signed Ms. Jones, Mrs. Kay and then hugged it and said looove you and kissed it.  I think she misses them!  They spoiled her rotten this summer! :) LOL.

  From the left is the speech teacher, She should have been in Wren's picture too:( but came in just after we were all done , Iley's kindergarten teachers in the middle, then their preschool teacher/ now special needs coordinator.

 The truck outside our new house. Isaac Wolf drove his truck out and helped unload.  His sweet girlfriend helped haul many many boxes too!  What a blessing the movers were! 

 Looking a little country in the middle of the suburbs!

A few of their toys were unloaded, so they were playing with the son of one of the guys that helped us move and unload.  

 UGH!  the piles of boxes......off the truck......now the fun begins.

 Looking more home like :)  Making progress!

 I sold my couch at the garage sale because it was too big for this tiny living room....Our bedroom is bigger than the living room....so this was a little bare for 2 weeks.

This is standing at the end of our drive looking out to the east.  We are almost out of town:(  I'm struggling a little with the close proximity of our neighbors.  Really missing our space.  But enjoying the newer, easier to keep clean house!

 We do have a cute LITTLE fire chiminea....and a nice deck and patio.

We have also had a wasp or yellow jacket infestation :(  We had to spray and knock down 5 of these nests out of our deck umbrella.  Then I got to checking under the deck seat and found 5 more old ones, and one new one just being started!!  We need to buy stock in the Raid company!

I told the girls to go outside and use their sidewalk chalk............but wasn't really meaning like this.......OR right in front of the door where everyone walks through it to get in!  I hosed them off with much shrieking!

 They have SUCH awesome big brothers!!! Have I said it before?  Love love love these guys, and girlies.

My new couch and love seat.........and turquoise chair that I fell in love with.....and was on sale...finally got here!  Yay!  Now I'm trying to decide on pillows for it.  The ones on it are the ones that came with it.  They're ok......but...... 

 I'm just a little bit in love with my picture wall :)  

We are getting settled in, and it's feeling more homey.....but it still feels a little bit like we are on vacation......except I've been slaving like a dog, not relaxing!  I've unpacked and put away an entire house, done 5 enrollments at 4 different schools......missed the times for 2.....done one orientation.....2 more to go, have to get 3 kids to the doctor for shots......Wren to the audiologist.....change the address on a gazillion things, set up new banking, get a mail box, get back to school clothes for the boys, school supplies for all.........besides the normal cooking, cleaning and laundry........someone asked me what I was going to do when the kids go back to school.......I said NOTHING!!!  I can't wait :)

Harrison's school is huge.....1,300 kids in just the high school!  It looks like a small college.  It's new and VERY nice.  He gets a laptop of his own with enrollment which he thinks is very cool.  He's going to play golf!  Sherm's is big too, he's going from 13 kids in his whole grade to 300! He is going to try out for football and basket ball.  He definitely has a chance at football......he seems to be one of the bigger kids in his grade. Beef fed Country boy.  They've both started going to youth group at church and are enjoying it.  Thank you Lord!  Please keep praying for them as they all start new schools and make new friends.  

We are loving having Troy home in the evenings, and feeling more like a normal family again.  That's been good.  God is Good all the time.  The journey has just begun, but God goes with us so We shall NOT fear.  Repeat, repeat, repeat :)  

We interrupt our packing to bring you this......

I'm.  Tired.  Of. Packing.  Ugh.............wahhhhh!!!!!!!  Ok, so I'm taking a break to bring you up to the present in our doings.

Backing up to the 4th....we went to Hays to watch Fire works.  Eating at Qdoba before.  Harrison was in Ohio, and Teague was here from Ohio.

 This baby slept through the whole thing.

 From left to right, Eddie, Ike, Thatcher.....such a cute bunch.

 Grandpa covering Brentley's ears.  He wasn't too sure about them for a while.  By the end he was fine.

 Drew, Ella's cousin who is here for the summer.

 Wren, Iley and Teague.....sharing candy.

 This was at our house another night.  They had the big lights on outside playing Can Jam.  Brentley hauled this watering can all over.  Thatch was hollering down the spout making his voice sound all funny.

 Then this little mannie stopped by for a visit....he's starting to be awake a lot more now.

 

  

Several ladies took Lucy out for lunch and had a small baby shower for her.  We went to a little cafe up north of us.

Not all of us were ladies....

 

He looks a little nervous about his caregiver here.

Will they ever get done talking??  I could be outside playing, but I'm stuck in here.  He did SO good!

 We had to make several attempts to get a picture of Nanna and her 2 babies.  One kept trying to escape while the other one just snoozed away.

 Finally!  One that's decent :)

 Then we stopped to let the mamma's do some thrift shopping.  Both babes were asleep when we stopped so I voted to stay in the car with them........well.....one didn't stay asleep long, and was MOST pleased to get out of his seat!

 I could totally drive this thing......what does that lever do?  what happens if I push this button?

 Oh look....straws!

 Now, how do I get to them?

 I'll just put one leg down here.....then pull them all out...I'm sure mom and grma won't care.

  

 Nope....with a face like that....you get to do what ya want......well, mom's not quite as big a push over, but he's got his Nanna figured out!

A few more pictures of the house that I forgot to take last time we were there.  We had to meet with the realtor and do a DETAILED walk through and documentation of the condition of the house.  "We aren't in Kansas anymore, Toto"

This is the only carpeted room downstairs.  It is supposed to be the dining room.  We are planning to use it as a den/ extension of the living area.

From the 'dining room' looking into the living room and front door.

 kitchens to the left.

 Sorry, I forgot to rotate this one before hand.  This is through to the laundry area.  The door on the right is the red bathroom.

The laundry walk through. The door at the end goes out to the garage.

 The big room in the basement.  The owners left the screen and the projector.  The boys are super excited about that.

They were brave to leave the dart board too!

 The beginnings of a man cave!! 

 The girl's closet.

This is looking out the front of the house from upstairs. You can see the mountains in the background on the left side.

The stairway, and hallway to the dining, garage, laundry, and 1/2 bath. This is pretty much the house in one glance.  Except the basement. 

We found these fans while sorting through things, that we got them in China.  They LOVE them!  I found them dancing on the table, watching themselves in the mirror.

 Blithely dancing amidst the rubble.  They don't seem too bothered by all the upheaval.  I think they are secure in the fact that they are going with us, and their stuff is going.

 Wren would dance, then bend down like this to signal it was Iley's turn to do her thing.  So funny!

 We've started loading!  The trailer is backed up to our front door.

 This is the garage sale pile....not the mantel, couch or table....ugh.  I do NOT want to price all this stuff!

 We are hoping to be loaded and headed west by noon next Friday.  Still have LOTS to do.  Now if some magic cleaning fairies would show up....or maybe a cooking fairy.......sigh... Well, I've stalled long enough.....back to work.