September

We finally moved into our new house the end of August which was wonderful. Such a relief to finally have a place to call home again...hotel life was really hard and exhausting. I felt like it brought out the worst in me as a mom! So since we moved in, the house was literally chaos trying to get settled...which means I hardly took any photos. But here they are, 6 pictures from our September!

 I walked in on Ryan playing the iPad in one of my headbands. What a goof!

 Ty had his first bloody nose. I only documented it because we literally stood like this in the bathroom forever waiting for it to stop. It was very traumatic for him!

 I went to tuck my boys in one night and found them "sleeping" like this. They tried to convince me they could sleep like this all night but I said no way!

 We went to the High School's homecoming parade. The kids got so much candy I don't even think they need to go trick or treating this year!

And Ryan ate pudding all by himself. I'm trying to decide if he got any in his mouth?

The rest of January & beginning of February

 Probably the biggest thing that happened the beginning of February was that we ended up having to move...again! It was so annoying at the time but now (in May) I am over it and glad that we did. We were renting a townhome and the owner informed us that he was going to short sale it to try to get rid of it. We had just barely signed our year long lease with him a few months before so it was not good news. He gave us the option of staying while he went through the process but we would have had to deal with all the showings and the possibility of someone else buying it. So we took his second option, which was that we could get out of our contract and move. And that's what we did and found a cute little house to rent practically right across the street from Guy's work. It was a pain to pack up all our junk yet again, but I have to say that having Guy come home from work to eat his lunch with us and him not having a commute at all has been awesome! We see him so much more and it's just nice. Plus we live so close to the ocean now so we've had some fun times at the beach lately. Here are a few random pics from the end of January and the beginning of February...

Ty loves being wrapped up in a blanket to watch his movies

This was a fun night when both the boys were using their blankets as capes and running down the hallway being crazy. It kept both Guy and I pretty entertained :)

Moving boxes make the best forts!

Guy let Brayden use some of his drawings from the hospital he worked on back in Dallas.  Brayden loved it and got right to work on them.

And Tyler got to work on his own artwork. That boy loves to draw as much as his brother.

Gathering up all the shoes

And here are all the boxes the boys decorated while I was packing them up.  I saved a few of them after we moved because they were so cute!

Frustrated!!!

So we've lived in Florida about 3 months now. And since we are only going to be here a year or so we decided to obviously rent. We had heard many horror stories before we moved here about people renting out places only to find out that the owner's were actually in foreclosure on their property and just pocketing the renters money. There are TONS of foreclosed homes in Florida...at least compared to Dallas. So we were very careful finding a place to rent because we didn't want that to happen to us. We found a 3 bedroom townhome that we are renting now and the owner has a property management company dealing with it so we felt more comfortable with that. But we were wrong! The other day Guy got a call from them and they told us that the owner has decided to short sell this place and they just wanted to let us know that it would be going on the market soon. WHAT! I seriously thought Guy was joking when he told me. We just moved in 3 months ago and we signed a year lease. We are just barely feeling settled...I still have about 4 boxes left to unpack! She told us that she didn't think it would sell because he is pricing it too high, but still you just never know. Basically, from what I understand, if someone else buys the property they still would have to honor our contract or else pay us off to get us out of here. So they won't be kicking us out and we can't end our contract without losing our security deposit which stinks. So I'm not sure what's going to happen but I am just frustrated. I don't want to have to deal with this. Especially having to deal with potential buyers walking through our house and all of our stuff all the time. We aren't paying all this rent money for that! Truthfully I think I would rather just end our contract and find a new place to live then deal with all of this. Why did he get renters in here if he was planning on selling it so soon! Annoying!!!! Right now I am just wishing we were settled somewhere with a house of our own and not having to deal with other people! We seriously have the worst luck renting!!! :)

Bubble Man, Sandcastle Practice, & MOVING!

Found these two having some fun in the sink the other day making bubbles out of hand soap. They were cracking Guy and I up with all the silly things they were doing with those bubbles. Funny boys! "Just call me BUBBLE MAN, ok Mom!" Or Santa. And yes, Ty is eating the bubbles in the back :)

Ty was loving this crazy straw drink on a hot day. I don't think he came up for air until it was gone! It is seriously way too hot here right now so we made our way to Lake Ray Roberts to cool off...or at least try to!

On our way we spotted this and thought it was funny since we call Brayden BB

He, of course, had to show off his muscles!

I wish we had discovered this place sooner because it was not too far away and we really had so much fun there. It had a nice beach with sand to play in by the lake and the boys had a blast!
Some good sandcastle practice for the "real" beaches we'll be playing in soon. I can't wait!

Ty chilling after a hard days work

On our way home we spotted something going on, so we got off the freeway to investigate. It was a big car show thing and they had some fun things to see. BB was excited to sit in here.

And ring the liberty bell to support our troops

This was my favorite...A PINK firetruck! With a pink firefighter suit even!

But sadly the fun is over...the rest of August is just crazy. My head is spinning just thinking about it!

Guy's company flies us out next week to scope out Florida and try to find an area/place we want to live. Please let us find a place because it is stressing me out big time!

And the end of the month we are heading to Oregon real quick for a family reunion with Guy's family and we're running the Hood to Coast Relay with them. We have to completely move out of our apartment before we go and then after Oregon, we immediately drive to Florida and (fingers crossed) will have a place to move into.

Phew, so in between all of this craziness, on my few "empty days," we will be organizing, packing, gathering doc records, saying our goodbyes, cleaning, and basically just going crazy. I tell you, this is tough to do with 2 kids. If I survive the move and drive to Florida without losing my mind it will be a real miracle! So wish us luck and goodbye blog for awhile. I just don't have time to keep it up right now, but I will update once we are settled in Florida and starting our new adventure. I am excited to become a Floridian soon...it's just so fun to say! :)

Texas I will miss you though....it's gonna be really hard to leave :(

Moving to Sunshine!

Well, the Sunshine state to be exact...can't get any more sunny then that!!! We've known for awhile that we would be moving "somewhere" the end of this summer but we didn't know where it would be. I was getting kind of nervous because there are truly a few states that I wouldn't be too excited to call home, if you know what I mean. But I am happy to say that we found out that we will be spending the next year and a half in FLORIDA! We are SO excited about this...I mean how could we not be when we'll right by the beach and not too far from Mickey's house! I guess the only downside is we will still be far away from family, but maybe since we're in Florida we can get a few visitors...free place to stay for anyone who wants to come! Of course we need to find a place for you to come to first!  :)

I must admit that I am getting a little sad though because we really will miss it here. Texas has been our home for 3 years. It's where Tyler was born and where Brayden went from 1 to 4! There are memories everywhere and it turns out I really ended up liking it. We made some great friends. And some great memories. So we're sad to say goodbye, but we really are excited for a new adventure.

So that's our big news! We are moving in August so its coming up really quick. It's pretty crazy and I am slightly stressing out since pretty much our whole month of June is Australia stuff. So much to do and so little time! But we will manage it all and hopefully we can find a place to live quickly once we get there!

What we've been up to!

Well we are all moved into our townhome... Finally! We moved in on friday night and we are just trying to get settled and back to normal. I promise to take pictures and post them on here when we get back from our trip to Oregon next week. Guy's little brother Mike is coming home from his mission in Italy so we are VERY excited to be there for that!

We've been swimming lots because its been so hot here! It's about the only thing you can do if you want to be outside in the summer!

We bought Brayden a floaty suit and it is so great. He just floats around the whole pool all by himself and thinks he's so cool! Perfect thing for a 2 year old that wants to do everything all by himself! :)

The pool is so fun with daddy!

So cute!We've been spending lots of time at Six Flags this summer! The looney tunes characters are so fun!

Riding the merry go round over and over with his superman cape!
So this is why he was being so quiet! :)

Don't Worry!

We are still alive! Just livin a crazy homeless life right now jumping from hotel to hotel! We are moving in August 1st to a new townhome so hopefully life will settle down a bit then! I have a million pictures to post on here but of course the cord to our camera is either packed up or lost in our over stuffed cars. So it'll have to wait! :)

Update time!

So its been awhile since I have posted on here. Life has just been crazy!! We've been doing lots of really fun things this summer so I'll have to post those pictures in a bit. But our latest news is that we are moving... kind of last minute! We've talked for awhile how it would be so nice to have more space but our lease isn't up until December. So we just randomly one day posted our apartment on craigslist, not expecting anyone to really call on it or want it. Turns out someone called a few days later, saw it, liked it, and wanted to move in asap. We were both shocked! But we said OK since we weren't sure this opportunity would come up again. Bad news was they needed to move in July 11 and we are leaving for a week and half long Utah trip on the 2. So, we have had to completely pack up, move out, and clean before we even leave to go out of town. Talk about stressful! So for the last few days we've packed and then on Saturday, Guy completely moved us by himself into a storage unit. First of all, I don't even know how he did it. I'm talking all 3 of our couches, bookshelves, 2 queen size beds, a million boxes.... oh ya, and we live on the 2nd floor. I am like the worst moving partner ever because I am so weak! Never could do a pull up in elementary school and I still can't! No upper arm strength whatsoever so literally Guy did it all. I just carried down the light stuff!

So it was a long day but we were blessed in many small ways such as the storage place had a free moving truck that we thought was already taken for the day but when we showed up they said we could have it. So we only have to pay $4.72 in gas to get our stuff moved. And there were a few really heavy things (Brayden's dresser, bookshelf, etc) that Guy was pretty sure he could get down but not quite sure how he was going to do it, so we saved those for last and literally right when it was time to take those down the missionaries that live in our complex showed up and asked if they could help. Talk about goood timing! :) So we are all moved out and "camping" in our living room right now! Brayden thinks its the best thing ever! Now its just a matter of finding a new place to live. We've already found a few options. but for now we are homeless! But I'm excited to be out of our apartment for good soon. Yay!! :)

Thought I'd throw a few pictures on here of Brayden. He is still in major "choo choo" phase where he literally makes anything and everything into a train. For example...

Macaroni and Cheese at lunch

All his little people toys

And about a million other things that I never took pictures of like all the alphabet magnets on the fridge, all of mommy and daddy's shoes, legos... basically anything that you can set up in a line becomes a choo choo train around here!

Here's a few bath pics. I couldn't post most of them on here due to the full frontal nudity but here were a few cute ones.

Just relaxin

Blowing bubbles!

We tried to go to the fireworks last night but right when we got there it stormed like crazy so we left. I guess they still did the show at 10 but we never saw it! Have to wait until the 4th I guess!