Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

We were discharged from the hospital on Tuesday September 22nd. We raced home and dropped Cole off with Auntie Tat who graciously offered to "babysit" while we went and signed the closing papers on the house. An hour later and we were home owners!!!

On Friday and Saturday the 25th and 26th, our amazing friends and family came over to help pack, load the u-haul and provide moral support to us! We cannot thank you all enough for providing meals, holding the baby, packing, unloading, wall paper scraping, painting, etc. Thank you also to our talented friends for their carpentry skills (Adam), spraying and painting(Al), and electrical work (Chris). It really was emotional for Tom and I to see all the wonderful family and friends we have who have come to assist us during this time. It certainly isn't the traditional way to go about things and we were hoping to be in the house before little Cole arrived but he certainly had other plans. This transition to parenthood and home ownership has been an emotional one for us but we are looking forward to settling into our new house in a few weeks.

Big kudos go out to Daddy who has been slaving away at the new house in every spare moment of his time getting it ready for Mommy, Cole, and Zoey to move in. We appreciate all his hard work and are looking forward to spending family time in our new house!

While we are in this transition period, we have been staying at Mima and Papa's house (Katie's mom and stepfather's). Fortunately Cole has been behaving himself while we are here but Zoey is having a tough time adjusting!!! Thank you to Mima and Papa for letting us crash here temporarily!

Tom and I have felt this house was meant to be for many reasons and we are so glad that despite all the obstacles and stress that it finally came to be! We weren't even house hunting when we saw this house - sent to us by my sister-in-law Tatiana. We decided to take a look at it and that day we made an offer. Little did we know that one month later we would be closing on the house and have our baby boy! One of the best perks of our new house is that our new neighbors are my brother and sister-in-law and their three month old son Mason. We are very excited about being neighbors with them and we look forward to watching the boys grow up together!