Moving is tiring. Especially when there are two "helpers" to keep up with while trying to do other things. Then, throw in one of the "helpers" getting sick and being up a lot at night, and it's exhausting.

Thankfully, Addison seems to be on the mend. She was up several times last night, so we are hoping for a more restful night tonight. She was also up the night before, and Fischer was up the previous 2 nights (we think he was confused when he woke up in the middle of the night in his new room). Needless to say, we are ready for a good, solid night of sleep. Tonight, maybe?!

Because of all this, I don't really have the energy to post about anything tonight. I did want to post our very first family picture from the new house though! It was taken on Saturday (June 25) , which was also Bo's 8th birthday!!! We are in the guest bedroom in the picture. Our friends, Melissa, Ryan and their baby Logan, came to help us out with moving on Saturday and Melissa took this picture towards the end of the day. I'm not kidding when I say we all hopped on the bed, she snapped the picture, and everyone hopped up within 20 seconds. That's pretty much how it is with two on-the-go toddlers. :) And yes, Bo is chewing on a BBQ sauce mop he found in the kitchen.

I'm back!! We had to go 5 whole days without cable and internet, which for me, is a long time. I like cable, but I really love my internet!

Anyway, we are in our new house!! And slowly getting settled. It's been an eventful few days and I will write about them soon.

Unfortunately, I'm not getting much done today because Addison woke up with a high fever (103.8) and vomiting. And, Fischer woke up ready to start his day at 5 am. At least he feels ok though!

I will post pictures and updates soon!

We celebrated Scott's third Father's Day on Sunday. We had a fun day that included eating lunch out and a trip to World Market to buy our new dishes! And let me tell you, I think going to get stuff for the new house has been the hardest part of this whole building process. With Addison and Fischer in tow, it's almost impossible to make any decisions. It's a miracle we left World Market without breaking any of their dishes on display. Narrow aisles, bored toddlers (even in a cart), and slow decision makers just don't mix.

Anyway, here are a couple of pictures from Father's Day. I took them later in the day, so the kids just weren't feeling it. I told Scott they sort of look like family mug shots (at least Scott is smiling).

Some big things are happening today!

My parents celebrated their 37th anniversary today. 37 years! That's awesome! Happy Anniversary, Mom and Dad! :)

Addison and Fischer celebrated their 28 month "birthday" today.  Even though I'm not counting the months like I used to, I still notice the 22nd of each month. In just so happened that their new booster seats got delivered today, so we made the switch from high chairs to booster seats. They look like such big kids sitting at the table like one of us!! They seemed to like their seats though.

Here they are in their high chairs, in June 2009. I think this was the day Scott put them together. The picture of Addison is one of my favorites because of the look on her face.  She's staring at the rice cereal like "You want me to eat what?!"

And lastly, our house was inspected today. And everything went well! So, we got the "ok" to start moving stuff in and we will close next week!! Scott took some stuff over tonight but the cleaners are still cleaning so we don't want to take too much over until they are done. We plan to move most of our stuff Friday and Saturday, and if all goes according to plan, we will spend our first night there on Saturday. We have NO idea how Addison and Fischer will react, but we will know soon enough!

The next few days will probably be pretty hectic, and then we'll be without cable and internet for a few days (I hope I can survive!!), so it will probably be awhile before I post again! I'm sure I'll have a lot of house updates....

Addison is getting better about letting me do her hair. She usually wants to go look in the mirror to see herself, but what girl doesn't want to do that?! :)

Here she is with her pigtails - the most adorable pigtails ever, in my opinion.

And Fischer kept saying "I want pigtails too!!"

Addison has been in a not-go-good mood. Turns out, her 2nd molar is breaking through - just the tiny little corner has come through. That makes 2 in and/or coming in for each of them - 2 more to go for each. I'm ready for all of their teeth to be in and be done with this teething thing, for awhile at least.

And yes, incase you were wondering, Fischer did bust his lip. You can see it in the picture above. He tripped and landed right on his lip, right at bedtime of course. Luckily it wasn't anything a little Tylenol couldn't fix!

Scott took the first load of our stuff over to the house last night. We aren't really starting the moving process yet, but we wanted to take advantage of having a friend's trailer, so he took our porch furniture over, along with a couple of other things.

While he was there, he took this picture. I really love how the house looks at night!

As you can see, we still don't have garage doors. They were supposed to be on this past week. Hopefully they'll be there Monday because we are 99% sure the bank is coming to do the final inspection on Wednesday!

Our days are pretty structured around here. We do things on a schedule, for the most part. We've done this since Addison and Fischer were tiny.

Sometimes though, it's nice to change things up. It's nice to not worry about nap time, play time, etc... Today was one of those days!

We have been looking for some new furniture for our new house. We decided we would go check out the Pottery Barn Outlet in Gaffney. Since we were heading that way, we thought we'd also check out the Greenville Children's Museum, so that Addison and Fischer wouldn't be completely bored the entire time.

So after breakfast, we drove the 2 hours to Greenville. Addison and Fischer slept most of the way! We enjoyed lunch at Moe's, then went to the museum. It was a lot of fun! It's hard to take pictures at those types of places since we are always so busy trying to keep up with the kids.

Their favorite part, by far, was the water table area. It even had a table with booster seats where they could sit and play with the water and the toys. I really wish we could install one of these in our house. It would provide hours of entertainment!  And you can see in the 2nd picture that Fischer was completely mesmerized by all of the water.

Other than that, we did some shopping at the toddler-sized Bi-Lo.

We played in a space shuttle, wind tunnel and art area. We played in the farm area, which was really nice because it was enclosed! While we were there, Addison was "washing dishes" in the kitchen. As she was washing, she kept looking over to the side of the room saying "I'll be right there!" I suppose I do say that a lot....

After spending a couple of hours at the museum, it was time to leave so we could go to the outlets and have time to shop. The kids slept most of the way there. Unfortunately, we didn't find much, but we did come home with 1 thing for our new kitchen. We got a piece that is half cork board and half chalkboard. That will be nice to have to make little grocery lists, post date reminders, and things like that.

Addison and Fischer chattered the entire 2 hour trip home. It was pretty funny! They ate a big dinner, and were quite tired by the time they went to bed. It was definitely a fun family day!