Halloween 2010

It just happened that the weekend we moved to College Station also happened to be the weekend of Halloween. Normally we would go to the Fall festival that Cowboy Fellowship puts on but this year it didn't work out with Halloween falling on a Sunday. I wanted to do something special for the kids since this was Kyleigh's 1st Halloween and this was the first year I thought I could get Cooper in the spirit of saying "trick-or-treat".

We decided to call our friends, Jason and Courtney Ruple, to see if their church was doing anything or if they knew what they were going to do. They kindly invited us to a barbecue with some of their friends and afterwards we took the kids around their neighborhood to trick-or-treat. It was so much fun watching Cooper walk up to the house and saying "trick-or-treat". He really doesn't quite understand what he was getting in return as I am kind of a "mean mommy" and I haven't let him have any kind of candy. He didn't really seem to care he just had a great time making new friends with all the other kids and being outside. We had such a great time catching up with them and also meeting some new people. We are all ready looking forward to getting together with them again!

And I have another Thumb-sucker......

And they suck their thumbs the exact same way!!!

Cooper's Big Boy Bed!

After going back and forth with each other, Daniel and I decided that we would go ahead and convert Cooper's crib into a big boy bed when we moved in the new house. We haven't taken him out of the crib before now because he's never tried to climb out and it just didn't seem like an issue. The only thing I was concerned with was the amount of change we were about to expose him to. Cooper has never done well with change and I was afraid that moving to a new house and then transferring him to a larger bed might be too much at one time.

I was pleasantly surprised! The first night we decided to start a new bedtime routine and read with him in his room in his big boy bed. We really talked up the fact that he was a big boy now and so he would get to sleep in a big boy bed....woohoo! After reading a couple of books that he had chosen we told him it was time to go to sleep and so he laid down and got comfortable and before long he was out! It also helped that he had not had a nap that afternoon so he was extra sleepy at bedtime.

Moving Week

MiMi and Kyleigh

Pop and Kyleigh

Mommy and Kyleigh taking a snooze after a LONG day....

Uncle Matt and Cooper

Daddy, Cooper, Papa, & Pop fixing the fence for Maggie Mae

Uncle Matt and Kyleigh

Cooper and Kyleigh getting ready to go to bed

Nana and Cooper

Pop and Cooper breaking in the new playroom

Pop and Kyleigh

Ok...I'm a bit behind on blogging but hey it's not like I've had anything going on lately! We're going to play catch-up before my family (who now ALL live away from us) start to complain! Last week was a busy week for us to say the least. The moving company showed up on Monday to pack everything in our house, loaded everything onto the truck on Tuesday, we closed on the house in College Station on Wednesday, moving truck showed up and unloaded everything on Thursday, and Nana and Papa brought the kids to College Station on Friday....whew!

First, I have to thank our families. Without the help of my in-laws keeping the kids, we couldn't have gotten anything done at the new house and ready for the kids to live in once they got here. Without the help of my parents, we couldn't have gotten anything done at the new house period! I have to confess I was a little overwhelmed when I was standing on a step stool in my new pantry on Thursday before my parents got here and I couldn't walk in the kitchen because of the boxes. I kept thinking how am I ever going to get the place to look livable before the kids get here? I can say that when the kids got here on Friday there was not a box in sight anywhere in the house! I couldn't believe we got it all done in 2 days. NOW...there are still a few boxes in the garage right now but it's mostly just stuff that needs to be organized in the garage and put in the attic. There are still a few pictures that need to be hung on the wall but not many.

It was such a long and emotionally draining week that I didn't think I would make it all the way through. I know that it's exciting to be in a new place but it was really hard to leave some of our family and to leave the house that we have lived in for the past 3 1/2 years....the one that we brought Cooper and Kyleigh home to after leaving the hospital with them. When I walked through the house one last time before we left I was overcome with emotion. I was looking at the vinyl lettering that we put on Cooper's wall and still remember bringing him in there for the first time to see his new room. I looked at the dream room I created for my baby girl. The room that took so long to finish and yet turned out like a fairytale dream come true. OK before I start crying all over again I really hope to make lots of new memories in our new house here in College Station!