This past week was a week.
The move-
We moved out of our house into a house we are renting and hoping to buy. We started unpacking the basics. In case the house deal falls through and we have to move again, we don't want to have to pack everything again.
Layla-
Three days after moving in, Layla was admitted to a children's hospital for a pre-scheduled 24 hours of medical testing.
Moving friends-
We then said good-bye to good friends who are moving far away. In our move five days prior, these good friends had become our neighbors. This made it even tougher to say good-bye.
Our old house-
Next, Ryan prepped our old house for renting and we then said another good-bye to our first house and our sweet neighbors. It was a week.
But on the bright side...
The move-
We moved into a house we love. We had an incredible amount of help from friends and family with collecting boxes, packing, moving and caring for our kids. Thank you to my mom and dad, Cathy and Verlyn, Kelsey, my sister and Jamie, Joan, Dean and Jeanine, Millie, Kris, Brody, Matt, Pete, Scottie, Gus, Alex and Drewe. We hope we get to buy our new house, but if we don't the worst thing we have to do is move again. It will be a pain, but we are very aware that there are much worse things that could happen.
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| Our moving director :) |
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| Boxes, boxes, everywhere! |
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| Grady loves having access to the washing machine. |
Layla-
Layla was a rock star with her testing. She had three doctors on her case and very attentive nurses, EEG techs, a child-life specialist...and many more. The hospital treated Layla very well. Our friends and family treated Layla to many gifts, treats and well wishes prior to the appointment. The preliminary results came back very much in Layla's favor. The neurologist felt so confident in the results that he even reduced Layla's dosage of medicine and there are serious talks of weaning again. We feel very blessed by this unexpected news.
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Moving friends-
Our friends, Meg and Pete and family, are moving to the fabulous state of Florida. If you were playing a trivia game and the question was...."Which state are Kristin and Ryan most likely to visit?" Well, the answer would be Florida. We know we will have pool play dates in our future :)
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| This picture was from a girls' weekend in the spring. |
Our first house-
We know we are very lucky to have the opportunity to move. Not everyone is able to get out of their housing situations right now. We will miss the house and the memories, but it treated us very well for seven years. We already miss our neighbors. We could not have picked better neighbors for ourselves. They took such good care of us for seven years and taught us how to be good neighbors. Thank goodness we are always just a short drive away!
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| A final porch picture! |
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| Layla and our neighbor, Millie. I need to get a picture of Dean and Jeanine too! |
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| And...one last run through the empty house! |
And so you see...it wasn't such a terrible week after all!
I will say that we hope next week is a little less exciting :)
