He looks like a hockey player

Lunch with the 9 yr old

Happy birthday Walker

She's 9!

Empty

This room used to be empty. Now it is full with all of our stuff from
stj. It is bittersweet unpacking.

The container

The rest of our stuff is here! Well it is actually at Gary's office.
The movers are unloading the container, putting it in their truck and
taking it to our house. Another round of unpacking for me.

PVC pipe

In October it rained a ton here in Atlanta. Our crawl space under our house flooded and ruined our furnace. We got a new furnace and had a sub pump installed to pump the water out if it happened again. Well the pump kicked in yesterday. My god is that thing loud. It scared the dog and everyone else when it came on. You could hear it up stairs. We are glad the pump is working. The problem is that it pumps the water about a foot from the entrance to the crawl space. Meaning, the water goes right back in again. Today I got to go to Home depot, with a list from Jay, to get pipe to get the water to the driveway. I measured the pipe, 1 1/2 inch from outside the pipe. I go to home depot and long story short, end up with pipe that is too big. Turns out the pipe is 1 1/4 on the inside. But it worked anyway. So now the side of our house has 20 feet of pvc piping sticking out of it. Jay says he will run it under ground. My question is when?

Friday by the fire

Our neighbor, Whit, he is 3 1/2, wanted everyone to come over for
dinner. Invitations were passed out on Wednesday for a pizza party on
Friday night. He told me around 4 that "we need to get this fire
started". He is my new best friend.

How we spent Monday

At the mall... American girl store, chic fil a, claires, williams
sonoma, and lastly a carousel ride.

2 teeth in 2 days

Quinn lost 2 of his teeth. One last night and one this morning.

How Quinn takes out the garbage

Walking to School

Walker gets a little nervous waiting in the carpool line. It takes forever, about 15-20 minutes. We only live a mile from school. She worries that she will be late. So she decided yesterday that we would walk to school today. It was 22 degrees out when we left. It took us less than 10 to walk to school and I was home in less than 7. It wasn't so bad, my legs were pretty cold and my nose was running but hey, it was invigorating!

For those of you curious about me continuing the blog now that we do not live in paradise, no worries, I plan on keeping it going. We have too many family members that we do not see often enough and this is thier way of keeping up with us.

What we now do for fun

Blow insulation into our attic in 20 degree weather.

What you do when there is no school due to snow.

Play baseball in the backyard

Trying to catch snowflakes

House

Our heat was turned on today so it is no longer 30 degrees in the house. Cable was hooked up tonight. Hopefully it will be working tomorrow. The funny part of it all is that the water on the street was turned off today. We are planning on being in the house tomorrow night.

Fire

The movers are unloading so we decided to make use of our fire pit.

Welcome back!

Are you kidding?!

How cold it really is.

Jay has to play tennis today. It is predicted to be a high of 32. He
needed some more layers

New car

Check it out!! I even brought the GHS magnet from St John.

Hotel breakfast

Furniture shopping