New House- New Start

The famous saying is "Home Is Where The Heart Is".

We recently moved from our special house that served us well for eight years. So many memories were made in that home.

8 years

2,920 days

43,800 potty breaks
7,300 meals
1 baby born
4 kids started school
3 kids learned to ride their bike
3 kids accepted Christ
Over 50 visits from grandparents
A bajillion goals scored
1 world cup party
3 super bowl parties
3 Halloween parties
About 800 too many late nights
1 bathtub flood
1 ceiling collapse
4 daddy daughter dances
1 epic nerf weapons fight
14,750 night night kisses
Over 400 soccer games
81,760 shoes tied
2 times where I shoveled the whole culdesac
Over 9,000 showers taken
Over 300 Movie Nights
3 rounds of P90X, 1 turbofire

14,750 Goodnight prayers

This made it hard to say goodbye.

We are praising God tho for our new home. What a blessing it has been for our entire family. I can not tell you how much this move has impacted us for the good. We love our new house and our family feels more like a unit in this home.

We moved from a two story house to a one story ranch style home. This made a huge difference. We are all on the same level. The school is within walking distance from Dalton and Avery's school. For those of you who know how many countless hours I spent trying to figure out driving schedules and hours in the car to make it to everyones school know what a huge impact this has on me in particular. It's fabulous to say the

least! The kitchen and dining room are set up in such a way that that has become the new hub bub for our family. The kids can be where I am without being in my kitchen space. There is storage galore. I actually have empty cupboards! I love it! When deciding to move we knew that the next house had to be in a cul-de-sac or a very low traffic street, since we had been in a cul-de-sac previously. God came thru with this too. We are at the very end of a dead end street. The street right off of our street is also a dead end. So we literally get no traffic. The kids can continue to ride bikes, rollerblade, and hola-hoop with no worries. Our back yard is huge. HUGE! So is our front yard. The back yard has trees and brush lining the back fence. The kids have already built a secret hide out back there and play together for hours.

Needless to say, my heart is definitely here and it is definitely home.