We were finally on our way to Texas to our new house! Mikey and Annette braved the drive with us. The kids were great and it was a pretty uneventful trip, thankfully!
We only had to do this a couple of times :)
We got in to Frisco on Wednesday and the original plan was to move in Thursday, but we had had a few bumps along the way getting everything set up with the
house purchase. The appraisal came back less than we offered on the
house, which threw a few bumps into our mortgage road. So we were all living in a hotel together until we could get into the house. Every day we were hoping that the paperwork would be complete so we could move in sooner, and every day we were left waiting. So we tried to go out and do some fun stuff to keep us occupied. One day we visited the Fort Worth Stockyards.
And we did a little shopping and hand-holding. These sweet kids melt my heart! We also swam at the hotel every day. The kids loved that part!
Finally, late Monday evening we got the call that the paperwork was done and was being sent over to the Title Company for doc prep. We were kind of bummed at this point because the movers were set to arrive Wednesday morning and if we weren't in the house by then, we would have to wait until the next week to get our stuff. But, after many prayers of pleading that it would work out for us to move in before school started the next Monday, Heavenly Father answered our prayers. The doc prep was done and we were signing the paperwork at 3 pm on Tuesday! What a wonderful day!
We were pretty thrilled to finally have this little key be ours! We were supposed to wait until after all the funding had gone through to be able to get in the house, so we went out to eat at Chuy's to celebrate. All the while keeping our fingers crossed that the funding would happen fast and we'd be able to start taking our stuff over that night.
Mikey and Grace love Chuys!
While we were at dinner this wonderful text came through from our realtor!
So we headed straight over to the house to check it out. It was my first time seeing the house in person and it was so fun!
Rob carried me over the threshold of our first purchased home. He's so sweet like that. Can you tell we were just a little bit excited!?
Wednesday morning the movers came with all our stuff packed tightly in their truck. It was nice to not have to do all the grunt work and just let the guys bring it all in.
I got the moving bingo job where I checked off each box that came in the house.
The girls were pretty happy to have all their stuffed animals to sleep with and their quilts back
Our dining room looked like this for a few days
Mikey helped me to go buy a BBQ grill from Craigslist while Rob was at work one day. It was his nasty job to hold the grease pan so it wouldn't spill on the way home.
We were so grateful for all of Annette and Mike's help the whole week that they were with us. Thursday night Dave got in. We got to spend Friday with him, then they drove back home Saturday. It was so nice to have all of their love and support and help through that crazy time. Benji was sad when they left. He would walk into the play room (where they had slept) and say "Ahby gone? Ahby night-night?" in his sweet little voice. (For some reason Benji took to calling Dave and Annette Ahby.)
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