Moving and Goodbyes

 Well there is much to catch up on.  I haven't blogged in 3 weeks and it's been a very eventful 3 weeks for our little family.  To start at the beginning......we put the house up for sale at the end of January last year.  We had many plans at that time and that plan changed significantly many times.  However, we just kept praying and praying about what was the right next step for our family.  Over time the Lord slowly answered that prayer.  The door was opened for us to move to Weatherford.  Then at the beginning of November our house sold.  It was a long year of having the house for sale with many many hard days of showing the house over and over and nothing happening.  It was not easy on me or the boys to keep a spotless house or to leave at the drop of a hat for a showing but now I can see the Lord's hand on all of it.  He had the perfect timing in mind and His will was ultimately done through it all.  So we closed on the house mid-December and then leased it back from them for a month so we could have time to move and leave well.  January 13th we drove the u-haul up to Weatherford and moved in a rent house here.  We are excited about being here and being closer to family.  And also we will be SO much closer to Kansas.  Here are some pictures of what life looked like the days leading up to the move......

There was lots of fun times playing in boxes, wheeling around dollies, getting taped up :), putting the green car up on a dolly??, and playing in the u-haul trucks.

This little boy is growing fast!  He is about to turn 11 months and it just makes his mama sad that he'll be a year old soon!  He is so smiley and just melts me with his toothy (5 teeth) grin.  He is quite attached to me these days and its just fine with me since normally I run solo in this family b/c the boys are so attached to their daddy!

But sadly the week before we moved got a little challenging because he came down with something like RSV.  It was no fun.  One of the most stressful times I've had was in the following picture.....doing a breathing treatment with Tyson in the dr's office while the other 2 were bouncing off the walls.  Wow...I was more than sweaty when we finally got to leave that office! 

Another really fun thing was that Drew was born!  He was born on 1-3-13.  This is Scott and Catherine's 3rd little boy and he is precious!!!  He actually was big and had some chub on him!  I was more than excited to see that.  We love him so much.  The boys have been talking and praying for baby Drew a lot!

Here are a few of our goodbyes.  I don't like this part of my post.  The party will be on the next post.  Here are some of our boys besties....

This is one of the best nursery workers EVER!  We called her the "baby whisperer" and she truly is!!  All of my boys got the honor of being cared for by her.  She also babysat for us several times.  She loves on kids in the most amazing way.  My boys love Ms. Katelyn to pieces and will be missed big time by them.

This is Mrs. Rebekah and was Weston's preK teacher this year.  She is also so gifted at what she does.  Weston immediately latched on to her and has loved being in her class.

Weston got a fun playday with one of his best buddies Reid.  They had a blast playing in costumes and enjoying the day together.  Weston will miss his buddy!

This picture makes me smile and cry.  This is Weston and Braden and these two have been inseparable.  They have basically been buddies since birth (even before birth).  They have spent a LOT of time together playing pirates, building forts, going to preK together, playing games, running from their brothers, and just laughing together a lot.  This picture shows the difference in the two of them that has been since birth too....Weston the big buddy and Braden the smaller buddy.  Weston loves to pick up Braden :)

This is our last few moments at our house in Boerne :(  We took one last family picture in front of our house.  We moved into that house with ONE 2 year old and we left with 3 boys!!!  God has truly blessed us beyond anything we can describe.