Sweet Home Alabama

We are settled in, unpacked, and just tying up loose ends like ordering blinds, curtains, and doing some re-organizing.  The house is just beautiful and we love it!  Smidge ran away for 3 days but came back! Both kids are sleeping well and a 4 year old boy (Jay) next door has been over to play already. Sweet home, indeed :-)

We made it to Alabama!!

After signing the documents for our SC house sale, we made it to AL and spent our first night at a friend's condo.  The next day we spent the morning at the children's museum to have some fun before we signed the documents to buy our house in AL.  I think we'll be there a lot...we bought a family membership! We finished off the morning with a trip to Mellow Mushroom pizza, where the kids were excited to ride their elephant :-)

one last bit of excitement before we move

The night before we moved we were awakened by a crash in our driveway. Our neighbor's son left his truck in neutral, with no emergency break on, and his wheels pointed toward our house. Surprise...it rolled down the road, into our driveway, and smashed into Adam's jeep. Whoops!  It's a good thing the jeep was there or else it would have taken out the corner of our basement and THAT would have messed up our house closings, surely!

One last trip to Happy Berry Farm before we leave..

We were afraid we would miss blueberry season at Happy Berry Farm -- they were predicting their blueberry crop to come in after our moving date. But...as luck would have it, the blueberries were ready for picking before we left!  We will certainly miss the Happy Berry!

one last playdate with best friend Kelsie

The girls squealed like crazy, made bracelets, swam, at ice cream, tuckered out Gage, and definitely did NOT want to say goodbye :-(

pool days, pool days....

Savannah is swimming like a fish these days. She can jump in at the deep end and swim all the way to the steps now and is very proud (as are mommy & daddy!). Gage is suddenly fearless and jumps into the pool over and over and over.  Both kids certainly love the water!

Hot fun in the summertime....

We do a lot of playing in the sprinkler these days because we haven't had a day under 92 in weeks!  The driveway is constantly littered with scooters, trikes, big wheels, balls, and various kid "stuff".  I especially like this picture of Savannah playing (naked, of course) and Gage laying on the driveway throwing a temper tantrum because I told him he could not put the scooter inside the turtle sandbox (which is now empty for our move and functioning as a mini pool). Crazy kids!