our new house

It was just over 7 months for the making. Our house.  

 

We were all thrilled when the day finally came to close on it and move in.

It was a crazy day. We had to do the final walk through the same day we closed because we had to be out of our rental. Which meant that there was still a long list (a little too long in my opinion) of things that had to be done on the house while we were moving our stuff in and getting settled. It has been a steady stream of people in and out the last few weeks. And we are still waiting on a few more things to be completed. But maybe I'm digressing here and I should just get back to the point that we were ecstatic to close and get the keys to our new home.

               

So we did our walk through in the morning and then dropped Layla off at school on our way to sign our lives away. 

They told me I had to sign my full name on all of he documents, including my middle name. My middle name starts with an "F". For the life of me, I could not remember what I was taught in 3rd grade about making a cursive "F". The escrow officer stepped out to get something and I quickly googled how to make a cursive "F." I was saved! 

After signing my name a hundred times in that stack of papers, I got pretty good at my cursive f. And then just like that the house was ours to transform into our home.

When the kids got home from school, we brought them with us to go pick up the keys.

 

We spent the rest of the weekend moving in, unpacking, installing fans, putting ikea furniture together. It was exhausting. And so Eric has sworn off moving ever again.

I promise pictures of the inside pretty soon!

grandpa Allen

My grandpa Allen is in town. This man may be 96 years old, but he is as sharp as a whip. He is one of the smartest men I've ever known. And the best storyteller around. I could listen to his stories about growing up in Texas, life with four boys, and more recent adventures for hours and hours.  

I am so glad my kids will get to have a few memories with their great grandpa. I know he has a few memories of my kids! With a great big chuckle, he reminded us about the time young Kyler sat on his lap and said, "Grandpa? Why are your teeth so yellow?"

We are so blessed by his great sense of humor and his love and kindness.

a little more about Perry

We got Perry's school picture proofs back. Eric asked Perry which one he like best. He told him, "The mad face."

Perry was pretty thrilled when he got on the motorcycle with Papa.

I haven't had a chance to take Perry to the museum yet, but I did take him on a quick date to Bahama Bucks. Spending one on one time with this boy is too great.

Perry is also rocking it in swim lessons right now. He loves the water!

our Perry boy is 6

We celebrated this little man's birthday a few weeks ago.

 

6 years old!

I can't even express how much I love this little boy of mine. He brings smiles to my face each and every day. My life is better, I am better, because of him.

Was it really just four years ago that this little cutie joined our family?

Now here he is a tall, sweet, fun 6 year old.

And this 6 year old was adamant that he did not want to invite his school friends to his party. He didn't want "grills" (girls) either. He just wanted Rescue Bots. That's all.

I looked all over and never found rescue bot party decorations. I thought about making some, but we didn't even have a printer in our rental house and I am no artist. So I took Perry to Target to pick something else out. Which I described a little bit back here. In the end, he bought a set of batman party favors and he sorted them into bags. He also picked out the punching balloons. So, at his party, we ate pizza and then he passed out party favor bags to all the kids. The kids played with the little toys until it was time for cake and presents.

(get ready for a slew of bad phone pictures)

We sang happy birthday and let him blow out the candles. I can't believe I didn't get a close up picture of the cake my mom made him--she made a rescue bot transformer face on top. He thought it was pretty cool!

 

 

He opened presents and was quite pleased with his loot--rescue bots, Legos, rescue bots books, a game, and a batman robot transformer.

Before his family birthday party at home, I met him at school and ate lunch with them. Then we celebrated his birthday in the classroom with cookies. It was so sweet to watch him carefully pass out birthday treats to each of his friends.

 

I have a feeling 6 will be his best year yet.