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Moving In

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We were so happy to say goodbye to room 334.

And hello to Eagles Claw Avenue.  Our moving guys were rock stars and had us unloaded by 2 pm on moving day.  Of course we immediately jumped in the pool!

This is how we were looking by the end of the day on Monday.  Not too bad.

My clever, clever husband gave Quinn a challenge of finding as many green moving stickers as he could and he would get a quarter for each one.  Extra points for non-green stickers as they are from previous moves.   It sure kept Q busy while we unpacked boxes.

Here are the contents of the kitchen.  Oh about 25 boxes that need to be unpacked.

Once I got the master bedroom and bathroom all set up I focused my attention on the kitchen.   By end of the day Thursday it was completed.  

The essentials.  

The dining room is starting to look like a dining room.

The tv is up and we are getting settled.

Getting Ready to Get Settled

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It\’s official.  The moving truck arrives on Monday!  We are so ready to check out of our hotel and spend our first night in our new home.  Although we closed on the home on August 30 the previous owners arranged for a 2 week rent back so this was our first weekend with access.

Our first family jump in to the pool!

The pool has a beach style entry and then goes to about 3 feet.  There is a \”baja reef\” which is a drop off and the pool then drops to 8 feet deep.  There are a couple of nice seats in the deep end and also a ledge all around that you can hold on to.  But Quinn had no problems diving to the bottom of the pool and getting dive sticks of the bottom.  

There were many jumps and dives off the highest point.  Don even did a pretty good back flip!

And then warming up in the hot tub.  It\’s pretty deep in the middle so that Quinn could stand on his tippy-toes and barely have his head out of water.  Don and I have already picked out our spots.  And I think we figured out the controls.

After all the fun in the pool Don and I spent a good amount of time figuring out where all the furniture would go and where we would stack boxes.   Don was able to take the day off on Monday and Quinn will stay home from school so that he is part of the move-in process.  Yesterday when we were leaving the house, Quinn asked why we couldn\’t stay.  I think Quinn is getting adjusted 🙂

Monday we will also be closing on our NJ home.  So many happy memories made here.

Happy Birthday D-Rex!

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Happy Birthday Don!  Quinn and I did some after school shopping to get Don some surprise birthday gifts.  As soon as Don walked in the door Quinn began sharing all our surprises with Don.

Since Don now has to wear a tie to work we picked out a couple of new ones for him.  The nice guy at Nordstroms who boxed them up for us told Quinn to tell his dad to shake the boxes and guess what was in them.

Quinn picked out these awesome triceratops super soakers for Don!  We plan to spend our weekend at the pool at our new house so these were perfect!
Don and Quinn love to play this name game thing.  Quinn will ask Don to stop calling him Mighty.  Don replies I\’ll start calling you Quinn if you start calling me Donosaurus Rex or D-Rex for short.  And then sometimes Quinn just wants to be called by a different name, like John.   So this is all Quinn\’s idea 🙂
Our lovely outdoor meal a walk away from our luxurious accommodations.  

Are bundt cakes the new cupcake?  I was looking for a cupcake place and found Nothing Bundt Cakes instead.

Happy Birthday to the best guy in the world!  You keep our lives so fun and interesting!