Lavender Blue Days

Get ready for moving fun! We got double doors for effortlessly receiving the largest of couches! Too bad we only have small couches.

We're moving to Dixon. Pretty crazy, right? And it's also true that we are buying a huge weird house. I am excited, and worried, and overwhelmed, but mostly wondering what this new phase of life will be like. I think it'll be fun, I've decided. =)

We kind of alternate between feeling like we are doing something crazy and impulsive, to feeling like we are doing what we've really wanted to do all along.

And there is definitely room for chickens in our new big yard. =)

So--if any of you are going to be in the Rockford/Dixon area over Christmas break and need a break from family and festivities =) we are having a huge party...um...I mean an huge buddy moving day, and a huge buddy fix-the-old-house day! and you're invited!

Oh yes, and that's the other thing--we are closing on the new house December 19th! Crazy.

And the fireplace room is the only NOT weird part of the house. There's teacup wallpaper! And pillars! And a sink in the master bedroom! And a weird budweiser bar in the basement! And a mural! And I think I love it!

So we just finished a rowdy rumpus pretend game. I must say it did not end well. You see, we had the beds pushed together, and one of them is 8 oe 10 inches higher than the other so it's fun to jump up and around, and I was kind of in the middle and I was the octopus with the tentacles and the tackling and Lucy was Hungry Shark and Ruby was Tasty fish and they ran around and around trying to eat each other.

So anyway I was on my back, and somehow Hungry Shark had managed to sit on my arm and was holding it down, and I look up to see Tasty Fish in midair-cannonball from the higher bed right onto my unprepared self. With no hands available to break the fall, I received Tasty Fish like a sack of flour in the gut and that was the end of that game. I'm not feeling 100% but it was a pretty good game. Go Tasty Fish!

shawn

Isn't Milo getting huge?? And I totally didn't realize at the time that Lucy was playing with a cabbage.

I LOVE Lucy's posing-for-the-camera smile.

I really like this picture, but Ruby is sooo annoyed here. For some reason she really didn't want her picture taken today. Everytime I would point the camera at her she would scream, "DON"T TAKE MY PICTURE!!!" It was very unlike her.


Lucy seemed really grown up today. I don't know what it was really... She was sweet and chatty and easy going (for the most part). She just seemed way older all of a sudden.

The neighbors were burning and the smoke and sunlight coming through the trees looked so amazing. I wish I could've captured it better.

Today was a really nice day. We spent the day with my parents and the evening at a costume party and it was just so sweet and fall-ish.

Thanks for the prayers. They worked. I have my leadership-stepping-down letter to turn in tomorrow. An agreement has been reached. I'm taking my life back. I really missed the family these last few weeks. See you all soon.

Shawn