the month of april

April was busy.  I didn't take very many good pictures, just a few random shots off my phone.  Mostly we were packing, moving, driving back and forth to Denison, and playing outside.  But Harper loved it and the month seemed to fly by.  

Being outside is her favorite.  She is always asking to go "side".  She loves to slide, climb rocks and steps, and play with dogs.  Chalk is a huge hit and she is just now big enough to be able to ride her tricycle by herself.  

Coloring outside with crayons

Loves driving...cars, trucks, mowers, tractors.

Sweet girl all dressed for church, playing on a trailer.

This is the girl who always plays with things in ways they aren't meant to be used and loves it.

On yet another run to Lowe's, we found a house to play with.

She kept knocking on the window and door and was mad that no one answered.  

We've been visiting friends, going to play at church, and going to parks.  She seems to play with boys better - like they seem more fun because they are always doing crazy things.  But she is still such a girl, always playing dress-up or house or reading books quietly.  She still eats good, nothing new there.  Other than I'm starting to rely a little too much on the squeezy pouches.  But since we've been in Argyle, she has learned to like a few new foods - dried fruit and greek food.  

Our boy toys, Breken and Bane, all wearing Harper's old, pink shoes!

Playing with our neighbors, Kipton and Taylor.

Playdate with Alyssa and Victoria

Her independence is turning into a bit of rebellion every now and then.  She doesn't like to be told no, or not get her way.  However, most of the time, we can stop the temper tantrum from getting too big.  She did put her hand up in Cody's face the other day and say "No" rather angrily.  Say what, little girl? We have not had a repeat of that since, thankfully.  

Just found a paci.

Just got paci taken away.

Naps lately have been anywhere from an hour to 3 hours.  Crazy kiddo.

This day, she fell back asleep for an hour on our bed and it was good cuddle time.

Poor child had horrible allergies all month!  Her eyes were always puffy and red, she sneezed every 5 minutes with tons of snot, and she was always itching her eyes and nose.  

Now that we are always on the go, I pack lunches so she can eat on the way home and won't fall asleep.  This day, I packed peanut butter, which was such a bad idea.  I kept having to scoop it up, wipe it off, and refill her spoon.  While driving.  Not my best moment.

Being at my parents has been fun.  Harper is a little obsessed with them now, though.  Everything is "Mimi, Pop, TayTay, CarCar!" in one long string of words.  

Taylor showing Harper a big toad.  She really wanted to touch it but was terrified!

Swinging with her auntie.  Such good help!

Time to Move!

We put our house on the market for sale by owner over spring break.  We wanted to sell it ourselves since I have the time and stay home and we want to use the extra money we save on realtors to fix up our new house.  Plus, my mom is a realtor and agreed to help out if needed.  So we spent 2 solid weeks cleaning and making the house sell ready.  Then, it went online Friday, put the sign out Saturday, and had our first showing 2 hours after the sign went out.  We had an open house Sunday with a bunch of people, including a few that scheduled follow ups.  Then, Monday we had a showing with a couple that we just knew immediately would be our buyers.  They are young, engaged to be married this summer, go to The Village with us, and had been looking for quite awhile to get into our neighborhood specifically.  He is a firefighter and 2 of his Fire Chiefs live in our neighborhood and love it.  So when they saw our house, not too big, recently updated, for a decent price, they were in love.  They put an offer down Tuesday, we countered Wednesday, and signed the contract Thursday.  Such a blessing!  We only had to have our house "show ready" for 1 week and we also got a great price on our house.  It only took a few days before we became friends with our buyers.  They are fabulous people and we are so glad that they are going to love our house as much as we did.  

Cody power washing our exterior over spring break about 3 minutes before it started to rain.

Harper was a good sport while I spent hours and hours packing our house.

We closed 4 weeks later on April 19th.  Since our house isn't ready for us to move into yet, we are moving all of our stuff into storage into an empty store Buddy owns in Denison down on Main Street.  It took 5 car loads, 5 trailer loads, 1 loaded boat and 1 cow trailer that was 35 feet long, 10 feet wide and 12 feet tall.  And it was FULL to the tip top with things pushed in every nook and cranny.  It took 7 trips of stuff, 4 of those trips happened 4 days in a row the weekend before.  It sucked!  We somehow have doubled in possessions in 5 years and have way too much.  Plus, I am a horrible packer!  I hate packing.  Most of my life my sister, Kristen, has packed our house.  She even came home from college her freshman year and sophomore year to pack up our house twice when we moved to and from Austin.  So it was a lot of work, extremely exhausting, and seriously not fun.  But it's over for now and that is the best part.  

Harper LOVED the trailer.  She could play on that thing for an hour while we loaded it up.

After we moved, this is what our carpet looked like under our bed.  All Maggie's hair - SICK!

The last few days we had no furniture.  Cody saved himself one chair and Harper got her carseat.  She actually thought it was serious fun.

I swear this man has more clothes than me.  And of course while he was packing, he found tons of thing that should have gotten thrown away but ended up new toys.  

I feel like this is our life now.  We are constantly in the car, driving to and from Argyle, to and from Denison.  We feel a little homeless right now, but we are grateful for all our families' help and our future home!  

Easter Sunday Celebration

Easter Sunday was a great day.  Harper is a little too young to understand much, but I really wanted to try and make Easter special.  She had a new dress from KK, which turned out to be too small that morning.  So in the end she wore a dress that we had bought for later on.  She also got a new Easter book, a pop-up - her favorite kind.  We read it Easter morning and she loved it.  She loved it so much she ripped the Risen Jesus off the back page.

We went to church with my parents, took pictures, had breakfast, and an easter egg hunt.  It was a good morning.  Everyone showed up on time and Harper got to play with Reese and Grayson in the nursery.  At the end, Harper got to sit with Eric and Dane and read the bible.  She was pretty funny and thankfully no one cared that she was a distraction.   

Harper climbed up in Brian's lap and tried to convince him that she needed his food.

Poor Reesey missed her nap.

Since it was a little rainy, they had the easter egg hunt inside.  I still remember learning that there was no Easter Bunny because it rained and the aunts and uncles had to hide the eggs inside.  This egg hunt wasn't really a hunt, but they still had fun.  Harper would grab a few eggs and then stop to play with one for awhile.  Grayson just grabbed as many eggs as his basket would hold.   

She has learned to say "cheese" for the camera.

After church, we went to the Polley's and had lunch with the family.  We just keep growing and it's getting big and loud.  But as always, it's fun.  We laughed, argued, watched bad home videos, and ate lots of food.  The kids had another egg hunt and got little baskets from my Aunt Lissa.  

Harper trying to feed Reese, as always.

All of the next generation.

Why is there always a picture of a Eric, a baby, and a beer?

Showing Krissy her belly

Trying to give Grayson hints to some of the last hidden eggs

Saying Goodbye

When we got home, we turned our cross around and remembered that He is risen!  What a fabulous celebration of such a fabulous day.  We are so thankful that we have eternity because Jesus died for us. And we are excited to know that our Savior isn't dead in the ground but alive and in Heaven.  What a glorious day!