Florida: A Respite

After 2+ weeks away from the kids for me, and dreading 3 weeks away from the kids for Kristen, a trip to Florida for our entire family (together!) sounded pretty good. This was a trip that had been in the works before we knew we'd be moving and going through all the accompanying craziness of our lives right now. 

 It was just what we needed.

 Tate was old enough to really enjoy everything.

And Quinn was an absolute trooper. Love these kids!

Our Little Rental Home

So, this is the house we are renting in Alexandria. It's not the first house we rented. That one was so close to a railroad crossing that every time a train passed by - day and night - with its horn blaring, you felt as though the train was actually going to come into your bedroom. You might think I'm exaggerating, but that's because you never tried to sleep there. So...that didn't work out; in our defense, it was really the only rental option at the time.

Then we found our little rental house. It's just a plain little rambler built in the early 60's, in a quiet little neighborhood with a few families but mostly older folks. It only has one garage stall, which means I'll be scraping windows come probably November or so. But it's got a big yard with great trees, it's a few blocks from a really nice little park, next to the park is a boat launch and grassy area for our budding little fisherman, and - we've learned to appreciate after living somewhere without them - it has a basement.

Now, if only our house in OK would sell...