Catch Up

Catch up is definitely needed on this blog. Although I do have some pretty valid excuses. Since my last post on 6.16, we've celebrated Gabe's birthday and our anniversary, had a week's vacation at the cabin with Troy, Lora & Alex all the way from Singapore, as well as Gabe's cousin, Jen's family of 5, and SOLD (FINALLY!) our house (which means we need to buy another car since Gabe won't be able to walk to work anymore and the minor detail of figuring out where we're going to live now). I forgot to mention that the day before we left for our vacation my email got hacked into and subsequently I got blocked out of it. My email address I've had for nearly 10 years - all my contacts/calendar....great timing!

I've been knee deep in packing since we got back from our vacation. Gabe and I also got a lot moved to storage last weekend (the first weekend we've been home all summer!). Amazing how much stuff we've accumulated over the 9 years we've lived here. Pretty certain that as newlyweds we moved into this house with the same amount of boxes as we are moving out of here filled just with toys. My sanity saver has been the babysitters who have been helping with the kids while I pack.

We only have 2 nights left in our house before we move out and close on the 15th. As much as I've wanted to get out of this place for the past year (and it's probably been even longer since the sketchy stuff starting happening in our neighborhood over 2 years ago) that we've been trying to sell it, now that the time is here, I'm feeling a bit sad and sentimental. This is where I brought my babies home from the hospital!


Don't have much time to dwell on that though because there's more packing to do - both for the move and then we're heading up to the lake after we close for a paneling work weekend. I was kinda hoping it would be a hammock relaxing weekend....aaaahhhh......some day!

Cute Campbellism: "Momma, you know how Daddy gets holes in his shirts? I'm going to use my money that I won from the shoe kicking contest to buy him a new shirt."