The Dinosaur Trail is finally open at our favorite museum. I think Jilli has the look down.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Favorite seat in the house
It is so hard to get the girls in the same picture, much less both looking at the camera. They both love sitting on the camel saddle though so it worked this time. Pretty, aren't they?Working it
So the house was only kind of partially listed this week since on Monday some strange glitch occurred that dropped us (and thousands of other homes) out of the system. We are on top of it though, we've got a tenacious advocate on our side.
She manages to climb into this chair, and every other chair and couch in the house, completely unaided. I fear for the Christmas tree in a few months.
Monday, July 20, 2009
Moving on...
I keep thinking I am posting regularly and then I visit my own blog and realize that its been nearly two weeks (again) since I have updated the internets on our adventures. The thing is, I feel like for once I have a decent explanation for why I'm not chronicling our lives as methodically as I would like. First, there was the week where I had three hearings when I was supposed to have four but one settled and then there was last week where I had a big (for me) mediation and then there was the living in between, but really the thing that has kept me away is that we have been frantically cleaning our house in an effort to pretend that really, we are very shiny, clean, organized people in an effort to convince potential buyers of that fact. Because we listed our house for sale on Friday.
Its a good thing. We have known for a while that sometime between now and two years from now we would want to move (to a neighboring city, possibly less than ten miles from here) but it still seemed to come about so suddenly. Turns out this is a good time to buy a house if you can sell yours. So we are trying. We'll see.
This house is going to be hell for me to leave behind. I am crazy attached to it. Did you know the first few months we lived here I did nothing but sit in the office and study for the bar exam? I stood by the mailbox stalking the mailman on the day I knew he had my bar results and he thought it was just so interesting that I had that long hyphenated last name. Did you know we painted the entire downstairs one weekend with Shawn and Kevin? Did you know that Jeff and Dianne spent countless hours in the hottest summer we have had painting furniture white in our garage and putting up molding in what would be Jilli's, and then Rory's, nursery? Did you know that I defied Jeff's orders to stay away from the paint in the nursery to help fill in the misty white clouds? And that one of them looks like Mickey Mouse? Did you know that we have watched Christian and Makenna grow up here and that Dad built our deck and Mom and I have stayed up late at night talking downstairs? Do you have any idea how many dinners we have had with family and friends around our table? Did you know that I have spent years in the rocking chair by the window nursing my babies and reading them books and sitting up with them when they were sick and sad? Did you know we have played in the driveway and in the backyard and in the house with the best neighbors, and friends, we could have ever imagined living next to? Can you imagine that we saw both girl's first steps here? That they ate their first food and danced their first dances here? We have carved pumpkins and decorated Christmas trees and hunted for eggs here. And yes, I know we will do all of this in a new house and that these memories have less to do with our house and more to do with the people in our lives, but still....there is a small part of me that is rooting for this whole hare-brained scheme to fall though so we can stay just a little bit longer...
Its a good thing. We have known for a while that sometime between now and two years from now we would want to move (to a neighboring city, possibly less than ten miles from here) but it still seemed to come about so suddenly. Turns out this is a good time to buy a house if you can sell yours. So we are trying. We'll see.
This house is going to be hell for me to leave behind. I am crazy attached to it. Did you know the first few months we lived here I did nothing but sit in the office and study for the bar exam? I stood by the mailbox stalking the mailman on the day I knew he had my bar results and he thought it was just so interesting that I had that long hyphenated last name. Did you know we painted the entire downstairs one weekend with Shawn and Kevin? Did you know that Jeff and Dianne spent countless hours in the hottest summer we have had painting furniture white in our garage and putting up molding in what would be Jilli's, and then Rory's, nursery? Did you know that I defied Jeff's orders to stay away from the paint in the nursery to help fill in the misty white clouds? And that one of them looks like Mickey Mouse? Did you know that we have watched Christian and Makenna grow up here and that Dad built our deck and Mom and I have stayed up late at night talking downstairs? Do you have any idea how many dinners we have had with family and friends around our table? Did you know that I have spent years in the rocking chair by the window nursing my babies and reading them books and sitting up with them when they were sick and sad? Did you know we have played in the driveway and in the backyard and in the house with the best neighbors, and friends, we could have ever imagined living next to? Can you imagine that we saw both girl's first steps here? That they ate their first food and danced their first dances here? We have carved pumpkins and decorated Christmas trees and hunted for eggs here. And yes, I know we will do all of this in a new house and that these memories have less to do with our house and more to do with the people in our lives, but still....there is a small part of me that is rooting for this whole hare-brained scheme to fall though so we can stay just a little bit longer...
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
4th
Last weekend's festivities were tame around here. We started the morning with a trip to a local neighborhood festival that promised free entertainment. There was a bouncy house, all types of games, music, face painting, food, a firetruck and more I am forgetting at this point and it was all free. Did I mention it was free? We need more activities like this. Jilli jumped in a sack race and ran in a spoon race (and won prizes, guess what...free!), Rory cautiously checked out the robot dog in the mini firetruck, we all sampled snow cones and cotton candy and watermelon and then joined in the parade. Jilli rode her bike with all the other kids (after decorating it with balloons) and Rory pushed a walking toy. Jilli made it though the entire parade route but Rory walked about a quarter of the way, got tired of all the people saying how cute she was and parked her toy. We kicked ourselves all morning for not bringing the camera, it was all freaking adorable.
In the evening my side of the family and Josh, Erin and Hazel came over for a very simple bbq (Jilli made pink the new red, white and blue)
and we finished out the night listening to our insane neighbors set off hundreds of firecrackers. Rory decided we were taking too long getting her upstairs to bed and took matters into her own hands. 
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Lucky Day
Nine years ago I woke up groggy after a late night out with friends, went and got my hair done, folded some programs and ate a sandwich Brandi made for me. Then I rode down the street from my parent's house to a little photography studio and stood with my family and friends and Jeff, who would be my partner for life in just a few short hours. The storm before our wedding (really, a storm, thunder and lightning and about a foot of rain) made it challenging to get to the church. Jen fashioned a hermetically sealed plastic bag around my pretty white dress and we jumped over puddles and mud and said our vows and then danced and ate and collapsed.
It doesn't really seem like that was 9 years ago. Most mornings I wake up and still feel a bit like I am newlywed. But two houses, four new nieces and nephews (we had one already), two graduate degrees, one new dog (we had one already), two states, and most of all two little angels sleeping nearby remind me of the life we have built together this past nine years.
It doesn't really seem like that was 9 years ago. Most mornings I wake up and still feel a bit like I am newlywed. But two houses, four new nieces and nephews (we had one already), two graduate degrees, one new dog (we had one already), two states, and most of all two little angels sleeping nearby remind me of the life we have built together this past nine years.
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