After getting back from a weekend at the cabin with my sister and her family we headed up for another weekend with Nate's family. We had such beautiful weather and really enjoyed our time together. Unfortunately, that's the only weekend in July that I was at the cabin. Nate and Ava spent the following weekend up there for fireworks while I was back home working.
The Wednesday after that the three of us packed up the car (I mean fully packed) for a "long road trip" to Door County for a Becker family vacation. We stayed in a condo with Grandma & Grandpa, while Uncle Marc & Aunt Sara stayed in a hotel next door, and Aunt Lisa and her large bunch stayed at a nearby campground. We spent a lot of time swimming in our pool, going to the beach, and Ava and I watched everybody do go carts after we all played mini golf. Daddy got to spend a day out on the lake salmon fishing with Grandpa and Uncle Brent. They had a great time, didn't get sick, and brought home A LOT of fish!!! It was great to spend that time with everybody. Unfortunately we knew that when we got home we had a lot of work to do to get out of our house.
This past weekend, with the help of Mema, Boppa, and our dear friends Brian and Jason, we moved out of our town home. We honestly couldn't have done it without Brian and Jason, and are so very grateful for their time and help. We lucked out and had good weather. Most of our things are in a 16 foot "pod" that is being stored. We have a few things scattered at Uncle Wes's house, and a lot of things here at Mema & Boppa's. Unfortunately we had to bring all the new baby things, plus winter things since we'll be here until the end of Nov. That's a lot of stuff!!! Ava is adjusting fairly well, except for that her wake-up time is now 6:15 am...not cool! She is still going to the same daycare in Mounds View which means a lot of commuting for Nate and me on the days that I work. I picked her up the other day and she said that she wanted to go home. I told her that we had to go to Mema & Boppa's and she said, "we stay there until our new house is built". So, hopefully she gets it. However, the next day she asked me if the house was done so she doesn't quite understand the timeline that we're working with.
Saturday night was our first night at Mema & Boppa's, and Ava's first night in her big girl bed. I had been talking this bed up for the past month. It paid off...she loves it. I was up all night Saturday worried that she was going to roll off the bottom or wake up scared or not sleep...she slept all night. We have a large rail on one side and the other side is along with wall since she is such a crazy sleeper.
Sunday Nate and I finished cleaning the town home after church and then rushed home to shower so that we could take Ava back over to our neighbor girl's birthday party. It was a bit stressful getting everything done, but a great way to spend our last day. It was very odd to say good-bye to our neighbors of the past 5 years. We took one last trip through the house. Ava played peek-a-boo in her closet and then made the request for a family sing-a-long of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in her room one last time. I will admit, I shed a few tears during that time. I'm so very excited for our new house, but Ava's bedroom holds so many wonderful memories. There were so many giggles shared, stories read, and songs sang in that room. It really was a great house for us to start our family. Tuesday evening Nate and I made things final and we closed on the house.
We've been busy this month making final decisions for our new house, as well as packing and wrapping things up with our "old house". The cabinets, flooring, etc are all picked out...now they just have to start digging. I think that they are breaking ground on August 14th. It's been almost two months since we signed for the house so I'm very anxious to actually see some sort of progress being made on the actual structure of our new home. They tell us a closing date of Nov. 21st...we'll see.
Well this has gotten quite wordy so I'll wrap it up with some pictures. If you don't hear from me for a while it means that we're still digging out and trying to find all of our stuff here. Thanks for not giving up on me and checking in. :)
Mema & Ava hanging out on the beach at the cabin
Love this picture!
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