Wow a lot has happened in the last few weeks. We made an offer on a house about 5 weeks ago and she accepted immediately! The only thing she wanted was to close in two weeks rather then the normal 4. We agreed thinking that would give us a good amount of time to get the apartment clean before we had to turn in the keys there and also give us time to have the house ready for us as well. So we cleaned, painted, and had the carpets cleaned before we moved in. On Saturday we made the big move and everything went really smoothly. Our only complaint is the previous home owner was a very dirty woman and we are dealing with the consequences now. She let her dogs do what they pleased, where they pleased and we are going to have to replace all the carpets as soon as we have the money. That really is the worst of it though. The yard are not finished but Chris and I see that as an opportunity to start all over again. We would really like to make the yards water wise and are going to start that project early next spring. We want to put in all drought resistant plants an grasses so that we can have a pretty green yard all summer long even if there are water restrictions on the community. It is going to be a lot of work but well worth it in the end. So now comes the moving in part, unloading boxes, finding where stuff will go and hanging pictures. The upstairs is almost all done, we just have to hang pictures and decorate rooms to give them personalities. The downstairs is another story, I haven't even looked down there yet. I am hoping by Labor Day that we will be almost done.

Emery started school yesterday as well. She seems to really like her teacher and she is really excited about making new friends. That poor kid got a lot of new this week, new room, new house, new friends, new church, new school, new teacher. She was very apprehensive yesterday but we made it through and she is very excited this morning to go to school again. I can't wait to see what she has to say about her second day of first grade.

Well that is all I have for this morning, I will post again soon.