Ever since our vacation in Calgary I feel like I haven't had a moment to rest. Our time away was wonderful and I have a thousand pictures to prove it, but just no time at the moment to recall the time away. It felt like a blur- even though it was three weeks, but I really felt the difference this year with a one and a half year old. The trip was fun, and every day was packed with something, but it was exhausting. Steve flew in for our last busy week and the evening he flew in, we were out for dinner and got a call from our realtor that our house had sold! By one of the first people who looked at it, but needed to sell their home first. We were very excited and agreed to their terms of wanting possession on August 28th, because we were just so excited to have sold our home in the market.
Reality of the situation didn't hit, until we got home. Our last week in Alberta was filled Dailey with events. Steve and I had the night away he flew in and then spent the day together while grandma and grandpa had the girls, then the next morning we had family portraits in okotoks and then that evening we had my cousins, Stephanie's wedding reception.
Steve's family took Amara that evening because we were on the nw side of the city and the reception was very late. They offered to keep her as it was midnight by the time we were done and we agreed. Unfortunately the next day Amara was very missed and I still feel terrible as we did a joint party for Amara and grandma Mattie and she never got to see Amara.
But that afternoon we had to rush off to cochrane to go see Steve's aunt and uncle who were visiting from Newfoundland and it was the girls first time meeting them, and my first time meeting Steve's uncle. We stayed in cochrane for a quick couple of days and then drove up to Edmonton to meet our new nephew Caleb! He is such a little sweetie and we were so blessed to meet him as such a new baby! Amy is doing so well and we had such a lovely visit. It was also much too short but at this point I was itching to get home and figure out where we were moving and to start packing our lives into boxes.
These past couple of weeks I have been packing in between trying to find a place for us to live and taking care of three children. We just found out a couple of days ago that we got a place to rent... Praise God! So we will be renting this home for a year while Steve builds us a house. We have an offer on a lot in maple bay, and have a couple of weeks for those conditions to come off. So we are just praying for wisdom as we walk forward in regards to building and where.
The past week all the girls had fevers on and off and have been quite sleepy. I am praying that whatever they have that it stays away from Steve and I as we don't have a day to just lie around! He has been extremely busy at work, which is wonderful, but means he is gone all day and into the late evening and then our weekends have been spent packing. Today we pulled everything out of our yucky garage and vacuumed thousands of spiders out and then re-packed it so I can start getting boxes out of the house to see what I have left. We get the u-haul on Wednesday and then move over on the Thursday morning. I am feeling quite excited about some more space! The house is 2400 sq ft compared to our 1500 sq ft. So the girls will all have their own rooms, with Danika's room being the guest room and then on the main floor an office for Steve. We are on almost an acre of land and the back is fully fenced so lots of room for Steve's trucks, trailers and boat.
I am very much looking forward to being in the new home and unpacking... And then school starts on the second of September! I will be ready to send the girls and have some time to put my feet up!
