Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Lucky number 7

Today is our 7th wedding anniversary!  What to get for the person who has everything?  A house, that's what!  Yes, we signed a contract on a house yesterday morning.  We still have to get through the home inspection and appraisal, but if all goes well we will be moving into our new house on July 1!  As I'm sure you can imagine, we are incredibly excited.  The house has lots of room for Brady (and future sibling(s)), a great yard, and the neighborhood is very family-friendly.  We can't wait to move in and have you all over for a visit!


Pete and Tom, our Super Realtor!

Family room

Kitchen

Living room

Dining room

Master bedroom

Basement

Basement bedroom

Exercise room (Finally! A place where our elliptical can properly collect dust!)

Gayle's favorite room- the screened porch

Deck

Back corner of yard

You didn't think we'd have a posting without Brady pictures, did you?  He is celebrating our 7th year by having 7 teeth now.  The better to bite me with...


"Who, me?"

"I love cabinets!"
 
"Almost as much as I love fans!"

It's blurry, but it's one of our favorite silly faces.

"Oh magic ball, how you mesmerize me!"

Doing the Brady-hop

Getting used to this grass stuff.

Friday, May 13, 2011

Sold!

We have big news- we accepted an offer on our townhouse!  It was a whirlwind... our house was listed on Friday evening and we had several showings on Saturday and Sunday.  It was a pretty big disruption to Brady's schedule, so Brady and I decided to go to WV and stay with my Dad, Lyla, Dustin, and Daniel (in their new house!) since Pete had to travel to AL this week anyway.  On Tuesday we got word from our realtor that an offer was coming in on our house, and possibly one more.  The first offer was low, but the second was good.  Honestly we would have accepted that one as is, but out of left field a third offer came in that night!  Our realtor reached out to everyone to see if they wanted to sharpen their offers since there were three.  The final two increased their offers, and the last one included an escalation clause to beat the highest offer by $1000.  Sold!  If all goes well, we'll settle on June 30th.  So we've got approximately 45 days to figure out what our next move is.  Stay tuned!

Though briefer than planned, our WV visit was a fun one!  Brady enjoyed seeing everyone, and he thought Grandma and Grandpa's house was awesome!  I think his favorite parts were Dustin's guitar playing and Daniel's giant bean bag chair.  He was enthralled by the first and completely overtaken with excitement by the second.  We're looking forward to visiting again when the circumstances aren't so crazy!




Catching up on his reading


Telling Aunt Casey the exciting news

Loving the room to roam!

Goodbye kisses for Nana

Splish splash!

Hanging with Uncles Mark and Daniel

Showing Uncle Dustin his chops

Weeeeeeeeeee!

"Mommy, can we get one of these for our house?"

Stopping for lunch at McDonald's didn't work out so well on the way there, so going home we had a rest stop picnic!

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Mother's Day

It's been a crazy couple of weeks, but our house is now officially on the market!  We've spent every waking moment cleaning, decluttering, painting, and hauling lots of things to the storage unit.  And oh yeah, Brady got his fifth tooth.  So Mother's Day was a welcome relief- a day to just enjoy my family!

He can climb on all by himself now!

In fact, you never know where you'll find Brady these days.

Enjoying my second Mother's Day!

Out to dinner with my boys

Monday, May 2, 2011

Let's party!

We celebrated Brady's first birthday on Saturday with a party at the park.  We had blue skies, sunshine, and we were surrounded by our family and friends.  We could not have asked for a better day!

Brady arrived in style on his brand new trike!

Checking out the balloons with Great Uncle Frankie.

Chris, Suzy, & Allie

Made with love by Meredith


Sophie, Meredith, and Steve

Brady was not sure how it happened, but he was happy to find some of his favorite toys in the park

Party's here!

Mommy and Aunt Casey

Mike, Elena, Mark, Jessica, and Lilliana


Playing with Lilliana and Shannon

Cake time!

What the heck is this?

Let's have a taste...

Can I get a napkin over here?

The big kids- Jamie, Noel, & Chris

We love to see this group picture grow!

PopPop, Nana, and Mammaw

Uncle Rene the Great

Denise keeping a safe distance from those sticky fingers


Suzy and Allie seize a photo op

"Hold on, sugar"

First kiss... already?!?

"Thank you for making my first birthday very special!"