evening walk

We're feeling very sentimental nowadays, getting ready to move away. We recently went on a walk in the 'hood, and I found myself noticing things I haven't noticed before. Fortunately I had my camera and took some pictures of sites I don't want to forget, but while taking pictures of these sites, Ellie decided to get over her camera shyness, and I got the chance to take a lot of pictures of her. Here are some of the results.
So, our house was on the market for 7 days, we showed it 7 times during those 7 days, and we had an offer that we accepted on the 8th day. We are scheduled to close on April 16th, and will rent back from them until May 28th. Just like when we came, some amazing Austin friends are heading to Columbia to help us load up and move back to Texas. We don't know where we'll be living yet, but we'll update as soon as we do.

I can help you mom!

A few weeks ago I wasn't feeling great, and I told the kids I wanted to lay down for a little while. My very sweet children said, "Oh, no problem Mom. We can take care of things." Well, I set them up with an activity, and went to lay down. Eliana noticed the mess in the kitchen, and thought she would help me out by doing the dishes. I wish I had thought to take the picture before I started cleaning up her "clean up." This picture is what it looked like after I had already cleaned up half of it. I love her heart! I'm trying to learn to love their process of learning how to "do life";)