We Closed!

We closed on the house today. Yeah! We love it. Moved some furniture in tonight and will continue moving through the weekend. HAPPY 4th of July! We are having both sets of grandparents over tomorrow night to have pizza and do a few fireworks. Wow, our new neighbors are going to love us. Across the road from us is a country club, the old homeowners said we should be able to see their fireworks show from our front yard. we'll see. Anyway - once we get our internet hooked up and I find my camera cord I will have lots to post. Have a safe and happy 4th.

We ae officially homeless...

We moved out of our home over the weekend and have moved in with the in-laws until we close on our new house July 3rd. Poor Noah is so confused and keeps asking to go home, he actually says "can we pllleeease go home" Just like that, it breaks my heart. He has been sick this week which I think has made it even harder on him. I have a bunch of pictures to post but can't find my connector to hook up the digital camera. So just imagine how adorable my children are (lol). As soon as we get moved and somewhat settled i will post more pics. In the meantime you just get words to read....Oh, and the latest Noahism:

Noah: Excuse me

Me: Excuse me what, I didn't hear anything (he always says excuse me for burps and toots)

Noah: I burped by my pee pee

Me: What?

Noah: I burped by my pee pee

Me: LOL

If you haven't figured it out he farted.....oh the innocence of children

Talking to the bunny in Goodnight Moon

Translation to follow video - you will have to turn up volume.

"Hi, where your mommy go?" (repeat)

"At home?"

"Why?"

"Because....."

"You go night night and tell mommy what happened...."

"Go, go play and see what monster does"

"No, you see a monster..."

yawn - I'm tired

Summer Fun

The cousins were in town this past week and we finally had time to play together over the weekend. When it isn't raining in Tulsa we get to play in the sprinkler.

Testing out the waters



Ooh it got me.



Max playing golf/baseball instead



Sweet Maxi

Happy Father's Day

I didn't get to say it....HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to my wonderful hubby!

In Memory

Carl "Gramps" Martin passed away Tuesday. He was the kindest man and a wonderful grandfather. You will me missed! Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.

(Carl with Max - 4 weeks)

Riverwalk

We took Nonni and Grampa out to dinner for Grampa birthday. We went to the Riverwalk and ate pizza and walked around for a while. What a great night. We needed some down time from all the stress lately. Now the fun starts....packing.

LEMONS ARE SOUR

Gigantic straw

mmmm pizza

Monkey see Monkey do

They love the water

Scary Clown....but c'mon a balloon turtle is cool, right?

Sing with me....We're movin on up, to the south side

Finally....we found a house. And it's a perfect house! If all goes as planned we will close July 3rd. We will be out of our house, closing on the 24th and live with Tom and Carmina for about a week. More later but just had to say YEAH!!!!

Memorial Day

No, we haven't found a house. But we had a great weekend with Nonni and Grampa.
Tryin to drive the car.

Looking for bugs

swimming

time to water

lunchtime with daddy.


Grampa and Max


Bucket on the head - always funny

Here Noah you play too

Oh, well!

Finally - Pictures

Noah's new backpack from Nonni. He loves it. Put all of his trains, cars and 1 lion in his backpack.

Thank you Nonni!

Noah spelunking....

Peek-A-Boo


Max loves to play on the couch now

And this morning Noah is still wearing the headband.

(Well hello Jason Jr - wow how much he looks like his dad)

The Saga Continues

It's funny when you tell your son..."C'mon Noah we are going to take a ride" and his response "are we going to go see Karen?". Karen is our real estate agent.

SO CLOSE YET SO FAR....We found the perfect house on Monday evening. We put in a solid offer and the listing agent "supposedly" couldn't get ahold of her buyers (they live in Florida). By noon on Tuesday another offer came to the table. The listing agent had to submit both offers at the same time - however she neglected to tell our agent she was the one writing the other offer. The sellers went, obviously, with the other offer. Basically we got screwed. So we are going out today to look at more houses. I have kinda fizzled out looking at houses. Not as much fun as it was in the beginning. Let me have my pity party until I find something else. I KNOW, I KNOW there is a reason why, we will find another perfect house, blah,blah,blah. Okay - so maybe luck will be on our side today? Or at least this weekend? Or next week?


P.S. Sorry I haven't posted pics of the boys I have house stuff on my mind. It's a long weekend surely I will capture a few.

Nada

Okay so we didn't find anything Sunday either. I believe St Joseph only helps you sell your house not buy one. We are looking at another one tonight.

House Hunting continues

So we are starting over....the house we thought we really wanted didn't come to agreement so we walked away. I have to believe there is a reason for everything. Like the next day the paper and the news said big increases in electric and gas. Good, b/c that was a big house. So Sunday we will spend the day and look again. We won't settle but hopefully we will find something and close in time. This is stressful. Really stressful. Wish us luck finding the perfect house for our family.

I believe, I believe

WE GOT A CONTRACT ON OUR HOUSE!!! 3 weeks on the market. So, Jason and I don't go to church as often as we should and we both grew up Catholic. I had always heard about burying a St Joseph in the yard. He is sometimes referred to as the Patron Saint of Real Estate. Jason kept calling it hokey and didn't want to do it. I however wanted to believe that it could work. I went last Thursday and bought my St Joseph, buried him in my flowerpot in the front garden (upside down facing east), and said my prayer. Saturday morning we had a showing, they came back Monday night and we had the offer Tuesday. What makes me believe is because we had several other people look who said they loved it but never came back. So for anyone getting ready to sell their house just try it....but the key is to believe it can actually work.
So now, once we move, I will take my little St Joseph out and tell him thank you for helping us sell our house and hope that he will watch over us in our new home. We are putting in an offer on one this evening.
If everything goes as planned we are scheduled to close on our house June 24th. Not much time to pack and get everything done but I am ready!
Wish us luck everything runs smoothly. I will get some pics up of our possible new home when we go over for inspections

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

For Mother's Day I flew to Dallas with my mom to see my sisters. Joey was so surprised to see mom - her reaction was priceless. It was an enjoyable and relaxing weekend. Thanks you guys I had a great time!

Happy Mother's Day!!