Our Temparoray Pad

While are house is being built we are living at an apartment. We were able to find a 3 bedroom partially furnished apartment, which was wonderful as we didn't want to have to move furniture. We only had to bring some of the basics, towels, bedding, kitchen stuff and toys.  So I thought I share are lovely living space for the next 5 months. :)

The apartment is almost 1500 square feet which is pretty big for an apartment, at least I think so. Most of the temporary ones we have been given during our moves are much smaller so we are thankful that they we were able to find one with a little more room.

Here is Katie's room 

 Bree's room

 Our eat in kitchen...I actually love the island, more space when cooking.

 Our room

 Living room and sun room(aka my office and Samson's room)

The girls have done really well in the apartment, they think it is great living her. More of an adventure for them, but hopefully they will appreciate our house even more when we move in there. :) We are on the 2nd floor so we have people above us. I call them Stomper 1 and Stomper 2, the lady LOVES to where heals and you can hear them and the guy sounds like a heard of elephants when he walks, but in the grand scheme of thinks it is not that bad. It doesn't really disturb us and in all honestly...I hate to think of what our neighbors below think of my two stompers. I am all the telling Katie and Bree stop running or hopping.


And our last family member has also adjusted well. The first week was a little rough will all the new sounds going on and he couldn't look at the door or windows very easily. He kept walking around whining, so I finally pulled up the blinds in a couple of the rooms and he could hop up and look out, that seemed to make him much happier. He also lays on our bed most of the day and can look at the window. I know one thing for sure....I will be glad to have a fenced yard to let him out to potty. Walking him every time he has to do his business is not fun, especially when it is cold or raining and when he takes FOREVER to find a place to poop. But we love him just the same :)

Daddy/Daughter Dance

 The Saturday before Valentines, our local library has a Daddy/Daughter dance. The week after we moved here the girls and I were at the library and they saw the advertisement for it. Katie looked at me and said "do you think Daddy would take us", she has the biggest grin on her face. So I took a picture of the sign and texted it to Chris and said "hint, hint". That night when he got home for work...he asked his girls to go on a date with him. I wish I had a picture of their little faces when he asked them.

As with any date you want to look your best, so we did hair....I curled both girls hair and within 20 minutes of curling it almost all of it had fallen out. The don't have my hair, that's for sure.

 We painted nails as well.

 I love her big smile.

 All dolled up and waiting for their Daddy

 Chris brought them both flowers. Bree looked at them and said "why did ya give me these". LOL I told here any guy worth going on a date with will bring you flowers. :)

 Getting ready to leave. They were going to dinner at Ruby Tuesdays and then off to dance the night away.

Chris accidentally left his phone at the apartment so he didn't get any photos of them at the dance :( But they had a blast. Chris said there were almost 700 people there and that he only got ditched once or twice by the girls to go hang with their friends. :) I think this will be a traditional thing each year for them!

See Ya Later and New Beginnings

As most of you know already we are on the move again.....hopefully for the last time (Lord willing). We are moving back to Lexington SC, so it is nice to go back to an area that we have lived before and know. I can say I am a little excited about being back in a big town and not have to drive so far for a Walmart or Target trip. :) Plus it is nice to have more than 3 options for eating out!

We made our move to our temporary apartment while our house is being built. We moved last weekend, but before we left we had a farewell cookout with our neighbors. I have to say out of all the places we have lived, here we have had the BEST neighbors ever! They have become great friends and their kiddos have been wonderful friends to our girls.

Me and my girl Amy....we spent many of evenings and weekends hanging outside chatting away while the kids play. She could always entertain me with her stories from work. :) 

 The rest of the gang hanging out by the bonfire.

 Our chefs for the evening Brock and Jason...well Jason said he was just supervising and he did it so well.

 Little Jordan....chowing down on something. :)

 Some of the girls friends...Ellie and Mariah.

 Roasting marshmallows and making s'mores. We actually had wonderful weather all week but on Saturday it decided to turn cold, well cold for the beach is was like 40. :)

 Before we left out for Lexington we stopped by Christina and Jason's house to say good by. Christina has been my running buddy for the past 6 months or so and I am gonna miss having her to keep me going. :) They have two of the cutest little girls Alexy and Amelia. The girls had to have a photo opt with Alexy before we left. I love that they are like stair steps in height.

 Katie also had one last sleep over with her BFF Kelsey. The last week we were in town she was gone to Disneyworld. They both made me and Kelsey's mom tear up when they were saying good bye. I gave them both a picture frame with a picture of them in it so they could keep in their rooms. These two girls were meant to be friends that's for sure...they are like two peas in a pod.

After all of the emotional good-byes we drove over to Lexington to get settled. The girls have been at their new school now for a little over a week. Here is the school. They have great teachers and they seem to really love it and have made friends fast...never doubted that they would though.

This is a picture of our land we are building on....can't you just imagine the house. hehe :) So, not much to look at now, but the just finished pouring the foundation and will start framing either this week or next. So excited to see it start coming together and can't wait to move in.

We have also visited a church here that we like, going to go back next week. The girls loved all the stuff they had for kids. That is a big plus for them. As always in each move we know the Lord has lead to where we are at for a reason so we are just waiting for Him to guide to where we need to be. Stayed tuned for more post on the house as it progresses. :)