Smiles, Laughter, Tears: Closer to closing!

It's October and officially Fall, but hasn't really felt like it this week.

We've had the AC off, then on, off and now back on. I will be so glad when we are out of this hot, stuffy, energy inefficient house. Especially since we had to pull our make-shift, looks like a white-trash- meth-cooking house portable AC unit from our bedroom while the house is showing.

Trashy? Yes.

Kept me cool? Oh, hell yes.

And I will take comfort over fashionable any day.

Except while trying to sell the house-someone else's house no less.

Because, speaking of moving....

We will be closing on the new house in 2-3 weeks.

We went from this:

To this:

Pretty darn quick.

It's on the downhill slide now.

And being in there today dropping off mirrors we already own to be hung in the bathrooms, it was relatively comfortable upstairs with just the windows and back door open. And the downstairs was even cool.

Ps- the air conditioner is NOT intstalled yet!

This is a panoramic shot taken from me standing by the back of the house.

This is a panoramic shot taken from me standing by where the stairs are in the above picture.

This is the master bathroom-starting from left; tub, shower, closet(which walks tnru to laundry room!), toilet room, sink.

Walk in master shower

Master bedroom ceiling. We scored an accent wall to the left; Sherwin Williams Liberty Pewter, and the painted vaulted ceiling at no extra charge!!

Panoramic view taken from standing in front of the fireplace. You can't tell very well here, but we also scored an accent wall-Liberty Pewter-on the back of the house-left side of pic by back door slider.

This is my pantry. I'm in love.

And did I mention the fabulous fireplace?

These are my hardwoods.

Downstairs bar:

This is a close-up of the accent tile on the bar backsplash:

This is Ethan's bedroom-the windows are the ones you see from the front elevation of the house.

I love his raised barn-like ceiling room!

And outside Ethan's door is a small closet and bathroom on the right, my wall alcove-with a plug in-also at no charge-straight ahead, and the entry hall to the left.

This is Ethan's / the guest bathroom. Love, love, love the awesome tile work this crew did!

Finish plumbing, tile and carpet left yet to go in this week and appliances arriving Friday!!!

Once those are in I will post some pics of them and the downstairs kids rooms, and bar area and rec room.

As I bump, bump, bump down our current stairs with Ethan on my lap, I get more and more excited for this house. This build job has been seamless, and efficient and we are getting everything we need in a brand new house for less than what we are paying in rent right now!

Fall party soon!!!

Parker gets to take his sling off a little bit this week, and to be off for good in one week. He does have to go back for another picture in 5 weeks to check healing. He may be able to start running after that, but still no lifting for another 5-6 weeks. He's doing well, had his sling off all day today and only needed a Ibuprofen 600 for bed! But no surgery so far!

Oh, and his grades are all still a's and b's. Woo-hoo P!!

We are sosooooo proud of you!! Keep it up amazing kid! We love Ya lots!!!

Time to get out the creepy stuff.......

Helping my sister sister do a killer job on decorating for her Halloween party! I can't wait!!!

It's fall y'all, so enjoy the cooler weather, and warmer drinks.

We will have a housewarming at some point end of October/first of November and

you all are welcome!

Thank you for your continued love and support.

A flashback to Boston;

Ethan's sleeping arrangement-and he must have been

Tired of hearing us chat, and maybe a little cold..?!?!

But we did find a daddy look-a-like in the hospital:

Oh, wait, this was actually Daddy;

Sleeping in the cath lab waiting room.

Ironic it was Stitch on Ethan's door-he loves Stitch!

And I loved the Handling Precautions sign describing what to expect of our little pretzel guy and how to handle and pick him up.

A small thing I know, but really made Brian and I comfortable that those coming through the door knew what to expect-well, somewhat!

And another thank you-to Nicky's pizza in Liberty. He opened his doors and gave back his servers tips and 10% of his profit that night before we left. It was a nice chunk of change that definitely kept us eating very well in Boston. But most of all, meeting some of the most kind folks that came in to share with us. One specific man; Kerry, a bomber pilot brought Ethan a bunch of his bomber patches that he made up to share with guys he flies with and told us there is a whole bomber community out there shooting for the stars with wishes of a successful trip to Boston for our boy. Such a nice young military man.

These patches are going in Ethan's scrapbook, and since we have one or two left over, I'm going to send them to Ross Brown in Boston. A sweet, handicapped boy we met while staying at the Yawkey house just having had one surgery on his legs in July, waiting for it to heal so he could have the other leg done. Ross and his beautiful Momma Karen are from Texas and not prepared for a Boston winter. So I am gathering up some of our good, local, winter fare and a sweatshirt or two to send to him, along with the bomber patches. He needs to know those men are out there rooting for him too.

So are we Ross, so are we!