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Last Tuesday, we loaded up the whole family in the car and headed to Nashville to visit family and look for a house and job for our upcoming move. While we were able to relax with family some, we spent A LOT of time going in and out of houses, up and down stairs and driving around behind our realtor trying to find said houses. It was exhausting! But Brady has one possible job lead and we have two houses on our list that we really really like! So, Yeah! The trip was good. Here is a photo journey of our trip and all we packed into 4 very busy days!
Brady had to work a half day on Tuesday, so we left at about 1:30pm for our 11 1/2 hour trip. We spent many long hours in our seats. The boys were well-behaved little travellers, including Ethan! The two older boys finally conked out about 10:00. Here is Braden drawing on a travel dry erase board, one of the many activitied packed to keep him entertained. This picture of Benny was actually taken yesterday on the trip home, but it was just too cute. He's pretending to talk on his toy phone and he's pointing out all the pictures in his book to the "person" he's talking too, And Ethan slept a good bit of the trip. He would wake up and nurse and stare at his brothers in the back seat. Wednesday was July 4th and we spent the day with my mom, sister and sister's family. We went ot a cook out and pool party at the house of my sister's friends. It was so much fun! Benny enjoyed the pool, thanks to Annaleigh (my niece) and his new friend Mr. Buck (the owner of the pool).
Braden wouldn't get off the steps of the pool, even with swim floats on, because he's afraid of the pool, but he seemed to enjoy himself anyway. Here he is with my sister's son, Harrison. They're only 8 months apart and best friends.
While Brady and I brought our suits, we opted to stay in the shade with the other adults, including my sister, brother-in-law and mom. The food was excellent and the cabana was great! Here is my mom holding Ethan out of the sun.
Later that evening, we went to see fireworks. We parked the vans along a road and watched the display over the treetops. Braden has, for the last two years, made up stories about the fireworks being Star Wars characters (green ones are Yoda, red are one of the sith, blue either Anakin or Obi-Wan...) and calls them the Jedi Battle. The tradition continued this year and Harrison and Benjamin joined in the fun. The pictures didn't turn out all that great so I'm not posting them here. Thursday we met our realtor and began our house hunt. I don't think I've ever walked up or doen so many sets of stairs in one day. We saw 10 houses and every one had at least one set of stairs, but most had a second set leading into the basement! It was a great work-out! All three boys were with us today and they were very well-behaved and really liked Jeannie, our realtor! SHe was excellent (she bought the boys presents that she gave them on Saturday for "helping" her unlock the houses!) That night we went to a cool Japanese place in downtown Nashville, Ru San's. It's a sushi and seafood place, but it definitely has something for everyone. I tried seaweed salad, thanks to my sister's friend Jay. I also had bacon-wrapped asparagus on a stick (Oh, yum!), a cucmber and crab salad (a first for me since I don't like seafood. It was very good!), and two kinds of sushi: gingered beef and sweet tofu. Everything was excellent. The biggest event of this evening though was that Ethan laughed for the first time. And amazingly, he laughed at Jay, a person he never met until this evening.
Friday found us back on te road looking at houses. Braden opted to stay at home with his cousins, but the two littles were with us. Benjamin enjoyed having most of the attention for the day and really blossomed in personality! After coming home, we got out the $4 Slip-in-Slide my sister had bought and the kids had a ball! The pictures say it all! Braden: Harrison: Benjamin, who only walked down: And finally, the boys going down, very slowly, together: After it got dark, we all munched on some fresh watermelon. This was a first for Benjamin, who truly loved it. Braden just decided to be silly!
Saturday we asked to go back to our two favorite houses for one more look and to show my mom. After seeing us take many, many pictures of prospective houses, Braden asked if he could take some. Here are a few of his efforts (he took over 30 pictures of the one house!) As you can see, some of his subjects were a bit unique!
The self-portrait: I'm thinking it may be time to get Braden his own camera. While his subjects were a bit strange at times, his skill is actually quite good for six. So four exhausting days later, we are home. I have so much laundry, it's sad. Here are the mountains in my hall this morning: So with all of this waiting for my attention, why, you may ask, am I on here writing? Because, I'm trying to escape reality, but I must get back to washing, drying, folding and putting away!
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