Saying Hello

As we waited for the movers to start unloading, I thought it would be a neat record to take some pictures of the empty house. (Hopefully, in a few years we can compare what we started with to the home that we created as a family.) Of course, I had two little photo bombers helping me with that task! Here are the master bedroom and living room.

We did have to get up early to make it out to the house by 8 am before the movers. Owen looks like he can't wait for his bed to arrive!

And this large room upstairs we're calling the game room...

Those rooms soon became inundated with boxes of stuff! Lest we thought that we were done... maybe more like halfway...?

When we stopped at the house the night before the movers came, all three of our adjacent neighbors actually came over to introduce themselves and welcome us to the neighborhood! We took that as a good sign. One even brought this thoughtful housewarming basket!

Within a couple of days, we had their kids (similar ages!) in our backyard. And then our kids in their backyard! Bonus, they have a heated pool and hot tub! Swimming outside in December - we have definitely gone through a major life change.

The weather was incredibly nice, so we went exploring one day and found three playgrounds within an easy biking/walking distance from our new house.

Unfortunately, our holiday season didn't really feel like one. I had sold our tree to make room on the truck, and all of our decorations were all packed up in boxes, which didn't arrive to our new house until December 20. Imagine our delight when the cable guy went up in the attic and hollered down that we had a tree up there! What?!? And it had working lights. It was truly a Christmas miracle!

Someone was excited to break out the Christmas dress on Christmas Eve! It was a little strange to try out a new church on such a big holiday, but they had a great program.

We had a low-key Christmas morning at home. Thankfully, Santa got word of our new address and found us among the boxes! Phew!

  

One benefit to moving back to Texas was to be closer to family. And that has definitely been nice to balance out the chaos of moving, to know that we'll see them again pretty soon rather than once a year. We got to spend Christmas day with cousins Addie and Will this year! And then go home to sleep in our own beds. :)