Firetrucks!

Allison's school had a visit from the fire department today. Her teacher sent us the pictures and by the looks of it, she really enjoyed...

Much Love,
Moises & Jennifer

Boxes, boxes

We have spent the last two weeks furiously unpacking. It is shocking how many boxes of 'things' came out of our old house. We have finished unpacking the essentials and now we are tasked with the finishing touches, which is a lot....especially since we simply don't have enough furniture for the new house. This weekend we went furniture/rug shopping, which is always an exciting experience when you go with a 6 and 2 year old, who have better things to do.... We ended up looking at stuff in the store then going home and ordering everything online, which we expect to arrive in 2 weeks...whew!

Much Love,
Moises & Jennifer

Daddy's Birthday!

Daddy celebrated his birthday this week...we can't believe it's already rolled around again. As soon as it's daddy's birthday it seems like we're celebrating new year's in no time. This year daddy's birthday fell in the middle of the week, but the girls still made it special for him. We started with a strawberry cheesecake the day before (daddy's favorite) and then went to a special dinner on his birthday. Abigail made a special picture for daddy and Allison, well, she was Allison and said it was her birthday before finally conceding and singing him "Happy Birthday".

Daddy's three girls are so lucky to have him in our lives. We hope to always make it a special birthday for him!

Big Girl Bed

We spent the first night in our house last night and Allison spent her first night in a BIG GIRL bed! She did amazing. We are so proud of her. She didn't even have to get up to go potty and didn't have an accident in bed. She's getting to be such a big girl, we are now saying goodbye to pull ups and cribs at night! In conjunction with our first night, we also had our first "home" cooked meal at home too. Our dear friend, Ramona, brought by a delicious dinner from Creative Kitchen complete with frosted cookies for the girls. Needless, to say, even among the boxes and clutter the girls were pleased with their dinner.

 

Much Love,

Moises & Jennifer

Moving day

Moving day was extremely bittersweet. While we long ago outgrew our wonderful duplex, it was still difficult to pack up and move away, even if it it's a 4 minute drive to our new house. We have many special memories of our first home in Fort Smith. It is the place Abigail learned how to walk, it was gutted and remodeled to our vision, Allison came home from the hospital to this home, learned to crawl, walk and talk, and the girls spent countless BB days walking back and forth between each side. It's a home and luxury we will miss quite a bit. Even though we are excited to be looking forward to a new home and all the new memories, looking back brings a tear to our eyes and we count our blessings that we got to spend 5 years in such a wonderful space, next door to their BB.

Much Love,
Moises & Jennifer

Getting Closer...

We've been renovating for a little over a month now and we are seeing the finish line...at least to the point where we can move in. Daddy has been working hard on tiling the floor in the laundry room and the backsplash in the kitchen meanwhile mommy and the girls are busy deep cleaning the house for moving day. As soon as the tiling is complete the house is ready enough for us to move in. Moving day is September 15th!!

Much Love,
Moises & Jennifer

A trip to LA

Mommy and daddy took a quick trip to LA this weekend. The whole trip idea started because the Aggies were playing against UCLA in the infamous Rose Bowl and daddy has always dreamed of seeing a game in the Rose Bowl. The trip ended up morphing into a non-stop 72 hour sightseeing adventure. Mommy is a huge Harry Potter fan so daddy decided to take her to Universal Studios to see the Wizarding World of Harry Potter...on September 1st, which is a big day in Harry Potter's world. The cool thing about Universal is they offer a "front of line" pass, which gets you to the front of every ride's line . We ended up spending the afternoon at the park and riding every ride. We spent most of our time in the Wizarding World, which was amazing....

Saturday we asked our hotel for fun ideas for a morning in LA and we were pointed in the direction of the fashion district, which was a short walk from where we were staying. It was like being in another country as we walked through the outdoor market and the merchants opened their stores. We didn't buy anything but it was so much fun to see all the different sorts of sidewalk stores. Shortly after our walk to the fashion district we hopped an Uber to the Natural History Museum. We have been to a lot of museums all over the world, but this one was probably the best we'd been to. What was even cooler is that we the museum is next door to the famous LA coliseum and USC was playing a game...that day. Daddy bought us two cheap tickets so we could catch a game at the coliseum after we spent a few hours a the museum. The only problem was that it was HOT....so, so hot. Still, what a lifetime experience.

On Saturday night, we met up with Armando and Kayla for dinner and drinks, we walked all over downtown, danced and karaoked. Sunday was game day and thankfully it cooled off for the game. The Aggies played so well during the first half, but didn't hang on for the win. After the loss we hung out in the Rose Bowl to let the crowd clear and got to see the after game fireworks show, which was a very unique experience. By the time we got home on Monday, we were ready for a break and sleep!

 

Much Love,

Moises & Jennifer