Moving Day

Mama & I spent all day friday packing up all the stuff in my house. The whole time she kept saying "I have never seen anybody who has as much stuff as you do." We got a lot done and used a million boxes. On Saturday morning, Me, Ritchie, Randy, Mama, & Daddy met at the house and got to work. My friend Sam offered to keep Jackson so we could actually get something done. She has a little girl that's a few months younger than him, and her and her husband took them to the Jumpin Monkey! Jackson loves that place. All he has said since he got back is "Kiss Belle" and "Jumpin Monkey." Thanks so much guys for watching him. That helped out so much! We got about 2/3 of the way done I guess. Now we just have to clean out the attic and the storage building. The guy who is buying the house now wants to rent it from us until it closes because as of the end of the week, he won't have anywhere to stay, so we have to be out by tomorrow. That means alot to do tonight after work!

Under Contract

So, as most of you know, we have been trying to sell our house now for about 6 months. We were doing it ourselves first but listed it with a realtor about a month ago. Finally while we were at the beach, we got the call saying we had an offer. It wasn't as much as we wanted, especially since we have to pay a realtor now, but at least we won't have to worry about it anymore. We are just tired of living in greenville in a packed neighborhood. We're ready to get out in the country where we don't have any neighbors and Jackson has plenty of room to do whatever he wants to. The guy wants to close on the house in 2 weeks so I have ALOT to pack. I have Monday off so that's the plan. You know, you never realize how much junk you have until you try to move it! Wish us luck!

Vacation!

Well, we found somewhere to stay on vacation, and it ended up being alot better than the place we had to start with. We absolutely loved the place. It was in morehead and the house was beautiful. Ritchie's parents came for 2 days in the beginning of the week and then my parents and Tee & Julia came on Thursday night. It rained all day monday and the boat almost sank because the bilge pump stopped working but we got that fixed and then while Jackson was taking a nap, me and R decided to play some board games they had there at the house. Ritchie had never played Clue before but he was a natural and beat me. We cooked almost every night we were there and spend the days on the boat and in the water. We went to Shackleford most days and Jackson loved seeing the horses and getting in the water. Of all the toys and floats we bought him to play with, we went in the Dollar Tree and he wanted some spongebob water wings. He wore those things all week! All that expensive stuff and that's what he wanted to play with! We also bought him some water shoes at walmart so he could get in the water at the house and he wouldn't take them off! He wore them with his bathing suit, pajamas, and on monday when it was raining, he threw a fit to wear them with his jeans to town. Oh, well whatever keeps him happy and quiet, right?? Anyway, now it's back to the real world!

Desperately seeking...

a place to stay on vacation. R and I are on vacation the week of July 11-18 and we have had a place booked for months. We actually found the place this weekend while we were at the beach and loved it and had gotten so excited about it. So today on the way home, the dude we rented it from emailed Ritchie to say that "due to circumstances beyond his control," we couldn't stay there anymore and he would refund our money. We are so upset. Now we have nowhere to stay and a week off. We have looked online to see if there was any chance that we could find somewhere else but all the people haven't contacted us back yet. So please keep your fingers crossed that we find somewhere. I need to get away soooo bad!!

July 4th weekend

On Thursday night, me, R and Jackson left to meet my parents at the beach. They have been down there all week since Nina's wedding, so we went to spend the last few days with them. On friday morning we got up and got on the boat. I don't know what was wrong but we were all really ill. I thought we were going to kill each other before we got off the boat. The biting flies were killing us on the water but we did manage to have fun watching Jackson in the water. He sat in his float and kicked and splashed and spun around. He had an absolute ball! He fed oreos and a whole can of pringles to the sea gulls which he thought was hilarious. We ended up catching a bunch of fish in the cast net. Me and Tee were throwing it out because we could see this big school of fish that were just jumping out of the water. We probably caught 30 and would have caught alot more if they were much bigger. Over all it was a good weekend. We got home earlier today and we are waiting around until dark to go watch some fireworks!

I'm back!

Wow, I just realized that I haven't put anything up here in over a month! Time really flies by! We have been so busy lately but I will try to do better. Last weekend we went to Beaufort for my cousin Nina's wedding. She was the most beautiful bride! Me, Ritchie, Mama, Daddy, and Tee sent the weekend in Atlantic Beach. On friday night, Tee cooked Steaks for us on the grill and we went to the Watermark to hear Jupiter Jones. We had the best time. It was one of those things that you couldn't have planned any better. Here are a couple pics from friday night and the wedding saturday.