A Day in the Life

Texas in January

Girls and friends swimming January 22.

May Recital

Summer Solstice

Merry Christmas!

Peyton's Fish

School Fair

Why I love my Daily Walks

 



Robotics Competition in Pearland

Two Movies, a Pizza and the Playground

Four girls for five hours

Texas

It’s hard to believe we have been here for 3 weeks already.  It was not easy getting here.  Although our closing date was December 4 we were told that the buyers wanted to move in before Thanksgiving and we did what we could to accommodate them.

After filling our first POD, we decided we would hire movers to fill the second POD and we could probably be ready to close on November 23.  The problem was that 2 PODS weren’t enough.  And after filling the third POD, 3 weren’t enough.  We loaded a trailer and still had our belongings surrounding us.  We decided the only way we wouldn’t have to haul everything to the curb was to haul it to Texas and rent a storage facility.  We left for Kingwood on Saturday morning.  Bud picked up Beau to help him unload and headed for the storage facility.  They arrived 5 minutes too late.  We decided to go to the apartment and unload everything there.  The next problem – we had not signed the lease yet and more documents were required.  

We finally got the lease signed and unloaded a pressure washer, a generator, assorted lawn furniture and numerous boxes into our tiny one bedroom apartment.  We headed back to Metairie Sunday morning.  We worked around the clock to clear out the house by Monday afternoon.  We spent Monday night with friends and headed back to Kingwood Tuesday morning.  As stressful as it was, it was nice to be here before Thanksgiving.

 

We have spent most of our time furnishing the apartment and transitioning to Texas.  It has been quite a feat to equip such a small apartment.  Once we put a coffee pot and a microwave on the kitchen counter there was no more space.  There is one drawer in the kitchen.  Bud did get his big screen TV though.

Since we have been here, we have been to a piano recital and a book fair, we have seen it snow and the Saints are 13-0.

The view from our front door.

A Streetcar on Severn

It's so nice to be able tell people that in 3 years time we have finally seen more of Houston than Spec's and Ikea (twice no less).  We made it to the museum on our last visit.

 

This was a surprising sight as we were returning from breakfast a couple of weeks ago.  We don't usually see this in the burbs.