Sunday, September 25, 2011

Settling In

We are starting to get settled and getting into some sort of routine. The mountains of boxes are nearly gone! The older kids are loving school and hopefully soon Hadley will get onto some kind of nap schedule.  We're really enjoying the non-pool backyard and even made it to the park a couple of times last week. Having our friends the Trawick's here to show us the ropes has been a major blessing. My kids have even adopted their son Anderson in as a Brennan. I tried to take some pictures of the house but my camera was acting up but here are a few from the past few weeks.

London enjoying his new yard.

This one was on my camera from before the move.
Check out little Hads' pigtails!!!!

Kinsley's first day of 1st grade in Alabama.

Colby's first day of preschool.

So three days later, we decided to move Colby to a preschool closer to home.
I was spending 2 hours in the car trekking this little stinker to and from school.
So here is Colby's first day of his 2nd preschool. 
We lead a very complicated life.

The mountain air has made turned this child WILD!!!

That would be Hadley climbing into the toy ottoman.
If it looks like she's about to lose her diaper, it's because she is.

"What you talking bout Willis?"

We even checked out a new church today.
The kids have handled the move so well. But today after church Kinsley had her first breakdown. She said she was missing her old church and friends.  She got over it pretty quickly but it still broke my heart.





This afternoon we all hit the backyard to burn some energy.

So many rides, so little time.


Possible new hobby?
Bird watching.
Or maybe he's checking out his new neighbors.

Who says tractors are just for boys?


Monday, September 19, 2011

Good News and Bad News

Well the good news is that we finally made it to Birmingham! The bad news is there are no pictures of my beautiful children in this post, so if that's what you're wanting you may want to stop reading now. So far the transition has been pretty smooth with a few hiccups along the way. What's a move without a little drama, right? Luckily, there was no you're-not-closing-today-even-though-the-moving-truck-is-on-its-way drama. We have had to switch Colby's preschool from the original one that we had picked due to logistics. Also, it took me 10 days and 14,000 phone calls to AT&T to switch my cell to a local number. Probably the one of the most dramatic moments was last night when Justin informed me there was water all in the bathroom because our plumbing was backed up. Welcome to the neighborhood, right? But in true Brennan fashion we handled that with minimal whining and perseverance. Ha, who am I kidding?
And there has been some comic relief thrown in to help. Like this morning when Colby informed me his new teacher's name was Ms. D@$! It. Two thoughts went through my mind. First was that I was definitely getting a phone call from the preschool today. Second was that clearly Colby had been hanging with the men folk this weekend. Which leads to my next shout out to my parents for coming and working their tails off helping us unpack this weekend. Also my fabulous friend Lauren for being my GPS/Chamber of Commerce liaison and bringing all the delicious meals and goodies/extra lbs. In all reality, it's so nice to be finally getting settled. We are really excited to finally be here and be all together as a family.
I'm not even going to mention yesterday when we thought little Hadley had escaped......

Friday, September 2, 2011

Is that a light I see?

Oh yes it is! We are getting so close to actually moving. And while I am really sad to leave my wonderful friends and Kingwood, I am so ready for us to be settled and all under one roof. Next week the movers will be here and we FINALLY close on the 12th. I'm so thankful that Justin will be home this next week because being single-mommying it is tough. I haven't taken too many pictures these past few weeks but here are the ones I got.

Miss Diva ready for school
Who needs My Baby Can Read when you're as smart as Hadley?
Or Colby?
And this is what it's like at our house after school when it's 109 degrees outside.
We pretend there's a flood.
Or practice our golf swing.
Justin will be so proud!