New house!!

It has been almost a month since we moved into the new house!! Of course, we have not posted in quite a while and a LOT has happened. Let me just document a little of what happened with the move: Day 1 of move in - lots and lots of cleaning. We were warned about how they'd put down bait for the occasional rodent problem that they had....little did we know. By Day 3 we had seen a few mice and rats taking their final breath out back in our detached garage. And that was just the beginning. We closed on the 27th and moved in with the truck on the 4th of April. It took 13 hours to move our house, which was apparently bursting at the seams. The day we moved in, the upstairs AC stopped working. We had someone come out to look at it and, lo and behold, it was some rodent that had been chewing through the wire. SIGH. Then, the day of the move in, a bee stung one of the movers...this led us to a bonafide beehive that was in the eaves of our port cochere....welcome home. Later, we found out it was an 8-comb hive. Niiiiiiiiiiice. What else....this is all wildlife themed, of course...oh, then a squirrel died out in the street kind of in front of the house...and Shu got to come home to find two buzzards going at it. Of course, I am failing to mention the awesome cardinals and blue jays and monarch butterflies that we see on a daily basis at the new house. The pool needed new filters and lots of chemicals. The master shower only spewed out hot hot water and my spigot dribbled water out. Now, a month later, the wildlife has calmed down - no more snakes in the pool and only a baby frog every once in a while. The rodent/squirrel action (I later found out the AC wire was the work of the squirrels that live in the pecan trees out front...maybe the one who died, who knows) has died down and I like to think it is long gone. The bees are gone. The wasps that were living under slide in the playset seem to be gone. Our master shower works like it should and the AC is fixed. And, today we broke ground on our new patio surface - changing out the pavestone for some nice cooldeck ;) So, things are looking up. The biggest scare, by far, was Shu's Dad undergoing open heart surgery yesterday. Man, the man is strong!! He seems to be recovering well. Doctors these days really can be miracle workers!!! As for the boys, they love the pool and the backyard and their new playroom. I haven't heard much talk about the old house AT ALL. V is actually sleeping better and Julian seems to be lining out nicely as well. Vincent has been super sweet lately and Julian is talking a lot more. We just made a batch of homemade pretzels this morning and all three of us got our hands dirty ; ) I look forward to what is in store for us now that Julian is getting older. We just had a great visit from the Senkeviches and it was great hosting them at the house. We even went to the elementary school and hung out. Good stuff. Oh, and V had a great birthday weekend packed with a family pool party and a party at Great Play. And now ends my stream of consciousness. Now that the home buying and moving is over I will try to keep this more up to date...of course the kitchen remodel and LIFE Houston might deter it a bit, but I can only improve, right ;)