Officially Official and Celebrating

One week ago today, we packed up our life on Plainfield Way and moved into a new home on Roseberry Circle in Sutherland Farms.  I would love to report that it was a totally smooth Friday with no hiccups or arguments, but that would be a lie -  hah!  Moving is the top 10 most stressful events in life, and I would totally agree with that.  I guess that's why we put off moving for the last 13 years.  Matt and I both knew we'd outgrown our sweet little house, but both of us intentionally didn't want to entertain moving.  It's a big! fat! hassle!  Our realtor and friend Christian Griffin had been off and on showing us houses over the course of the last year.  Nothing really stood out or made us feel like moving was "worth it" until this house came along.  The house literally had EVERYTHING we were looking for and was in our price range.  It was time.  I'm pretty sure we put in the offer the day the place went up for sale.  We listed our house the next day, and it sold in two days.  In the words of Bebe Rexha...if it's meant to be, it'll be...I started swiping boxes left and right at work anticipating the big move this month.  I packed up rooms and things that we weren't using all the time.  We decided to sell most of our living room furniture because we wanted all new stuff - we're not materialistic.  We've owned all of our furniture the last 19 years we've been married only updating our bedroom suit and getting the boys bunk beds.

It's been more fun than I thought trying to pick out new stuff and decorate the house.  Both Karson and Isaac got new bedroom furniture.  We picked out some fun, functional, kid-friendly furniture for our upstairs bonus room.  We got some custom furniture for our great room and are still working on our dining areas and figuring out what we want to do in those spaces.  My mom and sister worked hard painting the kids rooms. Steve, who we call Pappy and is my sister's father-in-law, feels like second dad to us - he came over and did all kinds of work to the house - putting up flashing around the garage, installed a ceiling fan for Karson, fixed some loose faucets, and took on a big project of doing some drywall in our living room so we could hang a TV over our fireplace.  Matt's brothers, my parents, sister and brother-in-law helped get all our moved in a giant UHaul.  It was a whirlwind of crazy, but we are quickly adjusting to our new neighborhood.

August is also a month full of events and a lot of birthdays!  We celebrated both of our nieces birthdays.  Zella celebrated her 1st birthday this month along with Mae Kathryn's 3rd birthday.  They are both just ADORABLE and special!

 Matt and Andrew were able to go out to lunch for his birthday this month.  We met Seth at China Buffet for his birthday this month.  I got to have lunch with my sister and a friend at Panera on her birthday as well as celebrating at Mellow Mushroom.

The Spartans Volleyball team is keeping us busy and running a lot (pics below courtesy of Michael McSween).  We have a tournament tomorrow in Owensboro. 

We got to spend some quality time with family and friends the weekend before last at my brother-in-law's uncles place out in Richardsville.  It was nice relaxing and letting the kids run around and have fun.