Oh brother...

The Easter Bunny-- he's very smart!-- he brought Aidan and Bryce Buzz and Woody dolls!

Happy Easter!

The Back Yard

More House pics

More pictures from our tour of the new house:

The Family Room (with Charlotte, our realtor)














More Family Room














Breakfast 'nook' (but it's a nook in name only)














The Kitchen (with me, impatiently waiting for the picture-taking to end and the contract-writing to begin!)














From the kitchen

Here comes Peter Cottontail!

Bryce and Aidan had a good time dying Easter Eggs this afternoon!

More House Stuff

Still house-obsessed this morning.. so here's a good picture of the exterior:



And here are the floor plans (thanks to the Beazer website)...

The View from the Chopper

In case you're wondering, from looking at this picture, if we just bought an empty lot.. you can rest easy, friends.. obviously this satellite image was taken before the new house was even built. The sellers built the place in April 2004, so it's truly just a couple of years old...
And despite my best intentions, as you can see I am, in fact, buying another house with a drainage ditch running across the back of the property.. but this one is much more scenic than our current one.

House news!

We've got some big news this morning..

We put an offer on a new house yesterday evening and this morning, it was accepted! So, if all goes well, we'll be moving into the new house in mid-July (the seller's are building a new house, hence the lenthy wait before closing-- but that's fine with us.. gives us plenty of time to work on selling our current house.

Pros-- about 700 more square feet, a great floor-plan, and an awesome yard just a short walk away from the neighborhood pool-- and best of all-- neighbors with TONS of kids Aidan's and Bryce's ages!

Cons-- Aidan had his heart set on a house with "two garages" (i.e. two garage doors).. this house has a garage built for two, but alas only one door. This afternoon, when we were showing him pictures of the house, he saw the door and said "But I told you that I wanted two garages!"

8 1/2 minutes of downpour

This just to let everyone out there know that, after about 8 1/2 minutes of torrential downpour today-- with reported tornadoes spotted in various spots around Middle Tennessee-- we've checked in with members of the family here in the area and all are safe and sound.

It was an unfortunate way to end an otherwise sunny and warm (in the mid-70's) afternoon in downtown Nashville.

The Great House Project

Today, it was books, books, books!
As some of you may know, we're preparing to move.
Haven't found a new house yet, but we put our current house on the market yesterday and have been, over the course of the last few weeks, going room to room, clearing and cleaning out closets, bookshelves, the garage, the back-yard.. the works.

Today, with many thanks to Aunt Patty for coming and keeping the boys busy, we made progress on the last major milestone of the project-- the downstairs bookshelves. We're sending out 5 boxes of books to a local used bookstore. Any that they don't take are going straight to Goodwill. And what remains on the shelves will be packed away to move with us to the new house...

Outer Space

The other night, at bedtime:

Aidan: Mama, have you ever been in outer space?
Mama: No.
Aidan: Me neither.
(silence)
Aidan: I don't want to wear a helmet when I go.