First, let me say that when I get the video and pictures uploaded I'll give tons more details of Emersyn's major milestone... (So proud of my crawler!)
So everyone knows that we (finally) found a house and (surprise) everything went well... We found out last night that we will get the keys when we go to settlement on the 25th. We weren't sure when we'd get to move, since the sellers didn't have a date that they could move into their new house, but now we know for sure that we get the keys to our new house at settlement.
Here's the thing. We seriously need some massive help to pull this off. Not only is moving tough in the first place, but we're moving with a now mobile infant so it's going to be even more challenging... and if that's not enough, Cuya will be only be one week out from her surgery so both puppies will be on super strict no activity rules, making a challenging thing even more interesting.
Chris and I are taking off the rest of the week (26-28) and of course we have the long weekend to everything livable for the baby, the cat, the puppies and us. We have to clean, paint, move, unpack, put together, set up, and clean up... of course we don't expect it to be perfect, but we need to have the major things/areas ready and safe for Emersyn and the fur babies. Go ahead and laugh, we already are! :)
Anyways, we're asking for a major favor here, but if anyone can help do anything for any amount of time at any point in any of those days (or really any day before or shortly after, in the afternoon of weekdays), please please please let us know. I know it's a lot to ask. We know that it's a huge favor and that, considering how little time we get to spend even talking to a lot of our friends lately, we don't have much of a right to ask that you squeeze this into your already busy schedules. We know.
We've been trying to pack up the house little by little, but between the fur babies and Emersyn and our own schedules, it's been slow going. We are going to be taking Emersyn to daycare as normal during the first week "in" the house, while we clean and move truck loads over to the new house... Luckily, the new house is just a couple minutes from the farm so it should be simple moving things besides the major move of furniture. But still, a half hour of time to vaccum frees up a half hour to do another boxes run or two; the time to paint one room frees up the time to paint another one; an extra set of hands to box up our must-have-items that have to wait until the last minute gives another set to unpacking at the new house. Every little bit really does make a huge difference here.
Oh - and it's sooooo not like the farm house, for those of you who remember what that disaster was like! This house is in really great condition, had a smoke-free family in it, and has been really taken care of. We definitely don't plan on doing the full scrub down that was so desparately needed in the farm house! LOL! I mean, I guess there's always the chance that the sellers really are gross nasty and dirty people who only made their house look clean to get it sold, but considering how incredibly spotless that house was every time we saw it I'd have to say that's a long shot... So the cleaning part should be simple. And it doesn't need very much paint. We're really only planning on painting 2 or 3 rooms right now, so that's not even that big of a deal... It's just that there's a lot of time consuming things and so much to do that we are in serious need of some help!
Just let us know if there's anyway that you could swing some time our way... And yeah, we're willing to bribe you with meeting the baby and even some pizza on us! LOL! We're so not above begging, either... :)
There's more pictures on snapfish... 
The Ball Spinny Table
Blue Berries & Apples
28 April --- Emersyn finally gets to wear the outfit Daddy picked out for her, shortly after finding out she was a girl! For those of you who don't remember, this is the outfit that Chris HAD to have and although I personally would have put it back on the shelf after one quick glance at the metallic silver, the silver sequence, and the too-bubble-gum-pink for me pink, I couldn't say now to a super excited Daddy! It's been about a year, if not more, since then but Emersyn finally got to sport that special outfit from Daddy!
30 April --- Emersyn finished April out with a double surprise - her two, top front teeth! Both of them came in on the 30th. You'll have to forgive the one picture, but getting a nose shot while she was sleeping in my arms was the only way to get a picture of Emersyn's new teeth!
The New House!
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