Our last month in DFW...

We have really enjoyed living at Mums' house for the past month.  I mean...she has been doing our laundry, cooking meals, helps out with my mommy duties, and her backyard looks like this:

Scout LOVES living here!

I will miss her company and her hospitality when we move, that's for sure!

Lane had a rough time adjusting at the beginning.  He kept saying he wanted to go to "his house" at bedtime and wanted his own bed.  (He's been sleeping upstairs with us on a twin mattress on the floor.) We took him by the old house the day we closed, after it was completely empty and clean.  He ran to all the rooms asking "did the moving truck take all the stuff from THIS room?"

After about a week he was settled in and has had a blast swimming with mommy each night.  He has gotten to be a pretty good little swimmer for a 2 year old!  He can jump off the steps and swim about 2 feet underwater to me.  He has also enjoyed playing with some old puzzles that I dug out of our toy closet.  Did anyone else have "Lauri puzzles" growing up?  My mom bought me lots of different ones when I was Lane's age because I enjoyed playing with them at my preschool.  She saved them for all these years, and now Lane is enjoying them!

ENJOYING AN EVENING SWIM WITH MOMMY

We packed the last few weeks before our move full of activities and fun outings.  We went to San Angelo and Brady to visit the Snowden's and Paw, did a couple of crafts, rode the mini train in Fort Worth, visited the Fort Worth food trucks, had Lane's first popcorn/movie night, went to the Fort Worth Children's Museum and the Dallas World Aquarium, had fun at the splash pad, made a couple of trips to the library, and had lots of lunches and dinners out!

PAINTING THE OLYMPIC RINGS

FW CHILDREN'S MUSEUM

SPLASH PAD

COOLING OFF WITH THE SNOWDENS

DALLAS WORLD AQUARIUM

*scared of this alligator!

DINNER WITH KORI AND MITCH

RIDING THE MINI TRAIN IN FW

 FW FOOD PARK-LANE LOVED IT!

HELPING MUMS WATER THE FLOWERS

 FIRST MOVIE NIGHT- CHOSE THE BERENSTAIN BEARS?!!?

READING WITH PAW IN BRADY

DATE NIGHT -WITH AN UNHAPPY LANE!

HE DIDN'T WANT US TO LEAVE!

A VISIT FROM NONNA

FIRST TRIP TO THE LIBRARY

We have had such a great summer.  I hope we enjoy Austin as much as we do DFW!

Big Changes...

Just a few months ago, back in May 2012, Kyle was offered a great opportunity to go work for a reputable Private Equity firm in Austin called Austin Ventures.

After spending my entire married life and life as a mommy in Mansfield, I had my reservations about moving miles away from my family.  Kyle's current job requires weekly travel Monday-Thursday and only seeing him on weekends is hard on all of us!  I had been teaching for 7 years in Mansfield and had always dreamed of being able to stay home with Lane and future children.  With the new job, his travel would be minimal, and I would be able to stay home!  Kyle interviewed and did well, and after much thought and consideration, decided to take the job.  

In mid-June we put our house on the market in Mansfield.  That first week there were no showings AT ALL!  We started to worry a little, but by the next week we were having multiple showings a day!  11 days after our home being on the market, we got an offer from a lady moving from another Mansfield neighborhood.  She came in for a showing and recognized Lane's pictures all over the house.  It turned out to be his Stretch-N-Grow teacher from First Faith!  Small world!  After some negotiations on offers and repairs, we were finally set to close on August 1, 2012.  

We packed everything ourselves and had a moving company come to move us and store our belongings until we could move to Austin at the end of August.  In the meantime...we moved in with my mom!  More on that in upcoming posts!  :)

We will miss this house so much!!!!