The Sign has Arrived!

I was so relieved to finally see the SOLD sign out front, I almost kissed it. We sold the house in 2 days, but haven't had a sign saying it has sold or even "Sale Pending" for the last 2 weeks. We have had many people drive very slowly by, turn around, and even a brave woman got out of her car and walked through our backyard (with 2 cars in the driveway and the garage door open!). Hopefully this will help, but man we feel like we're in a fishbowl!

Thank You Aunt Carrie!

Monday we came home from our house inspection to find an awesome package on our front step. The box was filled with cute clothes for Sophia, T-shirts for Caleb and us, a Care bear, Thomas books and a fun farm animal memory game. Caleb immediately had to read the books and then play his farm game. He is excited about sharing it with his cousin next week on vacation. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Aunt Carrie for your generosity and love. It was such a sweet, unexpected treat for us!

Mommy, I'm going to be handsome

This was the phrase I heard yesterday morning when I came into the bathroom to find Caleb standing on the toilet with his hands full of Chris' hair gel. He was slathering it on his head. At that moment as a mother, I wanted to laugh and scream at the same time. I choose to laugh and we spiked Caleb's hair. Gobs and gobs of gel came off the comb as I tried to style Caleb's hair. I tried to take a picture of Caleb's hair, but the excessive amount of gel in his hair did not photograph well. Just imagine Caleb's hair looking more white than brown. We had a talk about not using Daddy's gel unless Daddy puts it in his hair... Oh 3 year olds are so fun and such a challenge.
This hair episode made me remember another funny incident from the other day. Caleb and I went to Target and as we were leaving we saw a boy with a mohawk. Caleb says (quite loudly) "That boy looks like a rooster!" I guess he was right. I love my funny boy!

It is official

The Masons will be moving in late September. We put in an offer, received a counter-offer, put in a final offer and they accepted it. It was $24K below their original asking price. Praise the Lord, He provides. The last thing to do is our house inspection and then begin dreaming about different paint colors. God has been so good to us.

Moving?!?!

Well, it has been a whirlwind for the Masons this past week. We had our realtor come over a week and a half ago to tell us what to work on so we'd be ready to sell our house next spring. She said "Nothing" and encouraged us to put our house on the market now. We decided to go for it and our house went on the market Tuesday. We had 10+ showings in 3 days, camped out at my (Kim) parents for a few afternoons, received and accepted an offer and have put in an offer on a house.
Now we are in the waiting game. We're praying for peace and that God will provide. It's been a roller-coaster and we're all tired, but excited to see how God provides.

Sophia - Fisherwoman!

Sophia wanted these fish so bad!

Fourth of July

We packed up and went to my (Chris') parents' house, in Sackett's Harbor. We had a blast with the fireworks, visiting the aquazoo (which on the outside looked hokey, but was really, really cool - Caleb petted a shark and 'pinkie-touched' a starfish!) - what a great time we had visiting with Nana and Papa.

Museum Fun!

The whole family went on a fun outing to Strong Museum of Play yesterday morning. We arrived early and were the first ones in the Clifford exhibit. We had a lot of fun in there and also the Berenstein Bears exhibit. When we got home I asked Caleb what was his favorite thing at the museum. He said "Sorting eggs and making the apples go up with the wheel." My favorites were dancing with Clifford costumes and brush a giant set of teeth which made funny noise at us in the Berenstein Bears exhibit.