Summer Series : Week 3

Had to hurry to put in this week before I totally forgot what it was all about - since it was almost two weeks ago, yikes! See, fast summer.

The boys had their last week of their first session of swim. That Monday brought us an important time - signing our closing papers on the new house, woohoo! That day we also found out the boys' teachers and got supply lists for next year - we're very pleased! We've heard good things about Nathan's teachers (first time he will have teachers who job share, meaning one teaches on MWF while the other does TTH). He also has a few buddies in his class that we're happy with. Aaron got the same kindergarten teacher Nate had, so we're really excited for him too. First day of school is less than a month away now!

That Tuesday we met up with some friends who, sort of conveniently , were visiting from Oklahoma but we met as neighbors - Sami, JR and their two sons Eli and Jack. Eli is close to a year younger than Nate and Aaron is also about a year older than Jack. We met up with them at Butterfly Wonderland and then had lunch afterwards.

During our free time we were busy packing for our move, as well as cleaning our home since we were obligated to show it for our buyers, who are planning to rent it out. We agreed to show it while we lived there until we moved, however we were a bit disappointed they asked to show the night before they knew we were due to move. I tried to swallow my disappointment knowing we only had one more day to deal with the situation!

So, that Wednesday the boys had a playdate at their friend Ben's house (thank goodness) which allowed me to do some errands/packing/cleaning, as well as pick up the keys to our new home!

Early AM Thursday was the big moving day!

Helping Granddad take apart beds

Hanging out in the new digs

My mom took the boys to their swim lesson as well as recreational swimming afterwards for a bit while we concentrated on moving. We were done moving everything by lunchtime, then just got things settled and began the unpacking process. We still have the POD to get (that we packed up initially when we began to show our house) but otherwise, everything is unpacked and put away.

Conveniently, that weekend of moving we had planned months ago that the boys would go with my parents to my sister's cabin in Flagstaff for the weekend. That left hubby and I a whole 3.5 days to unpack and get a bit organized without distractions, it was good.

Taking a house break to cool off

Josh and I also went out to dinner with our realtor, and we went out to breakfast on Father's Day. Otherwise we just romantically worked on the house! Oh well.

The boys had a good time that weekend - saw Finding Dory, played at the cabin and then they had a big day taking a train from Williams to the Grand Canyon, where they then also boarded a bus that took them for a tour around the canyon.

At the Grand Canyon - 2nd time

The boys had left on that Friday and returned the following Monday. It was such a relief to be done with everything house - be done with our buyers (and give them keys), be done with realtors, be done with seller, just be done with the whole process. Everyone was pretty nice and everything went pretty smooth, but it's nice now to just do whatever on our own time table and not be writing all these emails and signing all these papers. Definitely sentimentally I am missing our old home still, but in the ten days now we've been at our new home we are very happy.