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?

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......

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!

A Long Post

So much has been going on here that I have really neglected the blog so this is going to be a long post. I'm going to start from today and work backwards because that's how the pictures loaded this time.

First off, this precious one started 1st grade today!

She was super excited (especially about her outfit). Last night she told me that she was sure people would stop her on the playground and compliment her fashion sense. I would LOVE to have this child's self confidence.

So the last 2 weeks Justin was working in Alabama and my mom came here to help me. I honestly would not have survived had she not been here. It was hands down 2 of the craziest weeks of my life. We had 8 house showings, 5 different trips to the doctor, 3 trips to Kinsley's school, and multiple calls/emails from inspectors and mortgage people that needed to be addressed immediately. Of course by these pictures that my mom took it looks like all we did was play. I'm so glad she was here to let the kiddos have fun especially since I was kind of busy.

Pops and Justin came back in town on Friday and we had to fit in one last swim for them.

This will be my blackmail picture for him.

One of their favorites: Justin throwing them high.

Hadley has finally grown enough for the floaties to fit.

She is a total water baby.

Colby really doesn't need the pink floaties.

He can totally swim, proven right here.

Meet my gangstas.

The only reason he's smiling and looking at the camera is because he thought I was taking a picture of his trains.

My girls

Yesterday Justin had the brilliant idea to put the water table on the pool ledge.

The kids had a blast playing with it.

We get into spaghetti night here.

Ready for the pool.

All three reading books from the library.

Love this

So to add to the chaos, I decided that Hadley needed to lose the pacifier last week.

She handled it quite well and only fussed at nap time and bedtime a little.

My boys

Since the last post, big Colby turned 4.

Here he is with his birthday pancakes.

With everything going on, I decided just to do a family party with us and my parents.

We still had to have a pinata though.

With his new car jammies and Thomas movie.

Colby wanted to go to "Mexico" for his birthday dinner.

We settled on Mexican since it was such a far drive :)

Hadley cheesing at dinner.

So I was feeling really guilty about having such a small party for Colby.

I had a feeling it wouldn't matter though when he got his gift from Mimi and Pops and Nanny and Papaw.

I was right.

This is his face when he saw his new Lightening McQueen.

I have the best video of it that I will have to upload.

He was shocked.

More gifts

I love this boy!

Colby was so excited about his Cars cake that he pulled a stool up to the counter and had to watch it.

We start them young around here.

AND...we have a house in Birmingham! I will try to get a picture to put on here. We hope to close in a few weeks and start getting settled.