Saturday, April 13, 2024

Field Trip--Solar Eclipse Edition

On Monday, we drove about 2 hours east to watch the solar eclipse.  Bryan has literally been looking forward to seeing this for the past 7 years!  He took the day off of work over a year ago!


On our way to the spot Bryan had chosen to watch the eclipse, we stopped and picked up burgers from a local restaurant, and they were amazing!
 

Diamond was excited too!









This is how dark the sky was--at 1:45 in the afternoon!








It truly was the coolest thing to see!

Before we started the trek back home, the boys played catch for a bit!



We all decided this was one of the best field trips yet!

And a few hours away in Austin, Sarah, Billy, and Trin were doing the same thing!

Sunday, March 31, 2024

Happy Easter!

Beyond thankful for what Jesus did for us!

This Easter, the men grilled steaks

and then we ate in our dining room for the first time!  We actually used our dining table as staging, so we just moved it to our new home a week ago.  It was a lovely meal on the loveliest of days! 

Saturday, March 30, 2024

Goodbye to the Old House

In September of 2014, Bryan and I bought what we thought was to be our forever home...our forever home on this earth...our true forever home is with Jesus in Heaven.

We loved this home.  And we loved our time here.  

We also loved the land.





After a bad hail storm, while we were having the roof replaced, we decided to paint the house.  We loved the red brick, but there were several bad stains on the red brick that were not coming out.

This is what the house looked like afterwards.  We loved it even more than the original red house, and we never thought that was possible.


















After living here for almost 9 years, we started thinking about having a smaller house on a smaller piece of land even more out in the country.  So, we bought a couple of acres up north, then built a custom home.




We moved in December 2nd.

On March 6th, we put our old home on the market.  On March 9th, we received an offer.  We went under contract on March 10th.

On March 26th, we signed the paperwork over to the new family.  Bryan and I went back to the house afterwards to take one last picture.  We truly loved this home and have so many precious memories of our time there.  

All that being said, we are really enjoying our new home too, and we are so grateful to God for blessing us with both!