Today is the day that Jeff came home to see us! It was a very exciting day for all of us! I let the kids stay up until he got home! It was so cute to see how excited Ian and Hazel were to see Daddy! It is going to be the LONGEST 6+ weeks of our lives!

Today we went on another walk to the playground! My mom volunteered to push the wagon. I was secretly very happy when we got to this hill. Here is Gigi push a very happy Ian and Hazel!

Today was half price at the Fort Worth Zoo and so we took advantage of it! It was a little rainy, but a whole lot cooler than it has been. The only thing is that it was very, very humid! I would take the humidity over the 100+ degree temperature though! This is Ian at the elephant exhibit. Elephants are Ian's (and Gigi's) favorite.

The kids and I took a morning walk and Ian pulled Hazel all the way down to the end of our road! He was very proud of himself and I was totally impressed by his strength! He even made it almost all the way back to the house, but lost interest as most 2 year olds do!

Mondays are Grandma and Grandpa days! This is Ian sitting on the motorcycle  with Grandpa. Don't worry, they are just playing. They were not allowed to move it or even allowed to start it, but Ian was very excited to sit on it!

This is the day we have all been dreading! Jeff starts his new job bright and early tomorrow morning! So today was the day we had to say goodbye! He is staying with friends in Georgetown! Ian helped Daddy pack his bags, clean out the car, load the car up, and even helped him close the door when he got in. Here Ian is waving "bye-bye" to Daddy! We were all very sad, but Daddy promised to come back every weekend! My mom is coming during the middle of the week to help me out with the kids! Here's to the start of a (hopefully) wonderful, new adventure!

Today we pulled out Ian's old walker and Hazel fell in love with it! It didn't take her long to master the walker, except that she gets to going too fast and the walker runs away from her. Yeah, my 7 month old can use a walker...no big deal! (I'm such a proud mommy, sorry for bragging!)

We went on a family walk around the neighborhood today. We are trying to fit as much family time together as possible before Jeff starts his new job on the 13th/

While in the area, we stayed with Jillian and her parents. So, naturally, we went swimming in their pool! This is Ian attempting to jump in the pool into Daddy's arms. He loves to swim, but is still timid about jumping in.

So all four offers on four separate houses have fallen through! So when we got word that a house that we LOVED was back on the market, we literally dropped everything and hauled our booties to Hutto to look at it and put an offer on it. Fifth time's the charm...right? This is Hazel driving while we were waiting on Shirley, our realtor!

Here is Hazel in front of Grandma & Grandpa's house in her adorable dress with matching hat and shoes!

We had some college friends over for a cook out and here are the guys helping out with the grilling. How many does it take to grill the meat?! haha!

My parents went to Hawaii and brought us back t-shirts and necklaces. Here are Ian and Jeff in their Hawaii shirts and cool tree nut necklaces!

This is Ian and his very best friend Miranda. I am not quite sure how this friendship started, but they have such an amazing bond for being 7 years apart. Every time I see these two interact, I really do see God's love in their friendship

This week is VBS (as I talked about in my last post) Here are two of the MANY youth that helped out this week! Thanks Mady and Amber and all the other youth that helped make VBS awesome!