Happy New Year!

2013 has ended, and I am embarrassed that I only posted twice last year! L

One of my goals is to post weekly in 2014, as life is busy and fun around here, and worth capturing in words.

2013 was a huge year for us, and I think Chris and I both agree it was a great year. There are several times lately when Chris and I just look at one another and smile, just happy that we get to raise these two boys together with all of the mess and noise it involves.

We sold our first home this year. It was a long, ugly process, as it turned out that our purchase 7 years ago wasn’t completely legal. !!! How does that happen? We still don’t’ understand. So we had an offer on our house in June, but we didn’t actually get the final purchase done until September 30. In the meantime, the buyers wanted to rent our house, then didn’t want to rent it, then did….so we rushed to move our stuff into storage and spend 6 weeks in my parents’ house (Dylan’s room to be exact!) and the people didn’t even move in to rent it. 

The whole point of selling the house and moving was to get Tucker (and eventually Easton) into a better school. And yes, Better is subjective, but we know that Tucker needed a change. I was so upset when I thought that Tucker wouldn’t be able to start the new school year at the new school, as transitioning him into a new classroom, then transitioning him to the new school in September would have been horrible. Luckily the new school agreed and Tucker started at Oak Grove in August. We kept Easton at the in home sitter that we love near our old house and my parent’s house, so that made for long morning drop offs for us.

Living with my parents and 3-4 siblings (Jessica is there from her mom’s house every other weekend) was truly insane. It was great in many ways, too, except that the boys really lost it when they realized they weren’t on a 6 week vacation J My parents opened their homes to the 4 of us, our stuff, our noise, our demands, and Tucker’s therapists. Poor Dylan slept on the couch for 6 weeks and had to knock before going into his own room to get his clothes.  But now that it’s all over, we miss each other.

We took part in two great weddings this fall-one of my best friends, Rachel got married in Illinois. Chris and I had a blast traveling with Lacy and her hubby, and spending four nights kid-free, hanging out with new and old friends. Their wedding was very beautiful, we were blessed to be part of it. Once we got back, the kids acted like we had been gone for years. This was the beginning of Easton’s severe mama-it is, he hasn’t left my hip since Sept 2, except for when he’s at daycare.

My sister Sarah married Bradley right before Christmas, so we had many wedding activities in 2013-the engagement party, shower, bachelor and bachelorette parties, and the wedding weekend in New Orleans. They asked Tucker to be the ring bearer, and I’m so glad they did. He was so excited to wear fancy shoes and to wear a suit that matched his daddy and Bradley.  He pretty much skipped up the aisle, he was so excited. Their wedding really was a fairy tale, complete with Sarah and Bradley riding off in the horse and carriage to a fireworks display. The food was SOOO good, Easton was grabbing food off the trays as fast as they’d serve it to him. ;)

Christmas was nice, it was our first one in the new house. Tucker really seemed to understand that Santa was the one brining the presents, although really the boys got more from their grandparents than from Santa J  Our Elf on the Shelf Barnaby arrived on December 1^st, and he was as unpopular with both boys as ever.  I posted the photos of Barnaby on  facebook, he is quite the good citizen…doesn’t get into all of the shenanigans that other Elves do. I actually miss him, lol!

We have a lot of goals and changes that we plan to make for 2014. I’ll post about them soon, as we are excited to work towards better health this year. I’ll also post more medical and behavioral updates about Tucker and the latest Easton antics.

Happy New Year!