Home Sweet Home ....in about 4 months!

Here is a picture of the home we are building. It is a picture of their model home so ours will not have the 3rd garage and where the double set of french doors are that is where our garage will be. Also the front will be all brick. I have also put in the floor plans. The only change we made is we added a media room on the second floor that will be directly over the master bedroom. This truly is my ideal/dream home and I am very excited to begin to see it take shape.

In the meantime we are frantically packing to close on our house here in Sugar Land. We close this Friday but the movers are coming on Thursday to load us because all the movers were booked on Friday! I am trying not to stress myself out planning and packing what needs to go to storage and what we may possibly need in the apartment. (because who wants to be trying to search through a storage building for something you need!!!)- we will just say some days are better than others - ha. ha! The kids are going to go to Randy & Sherri's (YIPEE!) so I can have everything finished by Thursday morning.

Of course one thing around here has not changed and that is swimming!! Caleb & Joel have taught themselves how to dive off the diving board and I wanted to share those pictures. (The first 2 pictures are Joel and the last one is Caleb). I have also attached some pictures of Nicole's first few days at home. She went to the Dr. today and had a great report. She is doing remarkably well!

Going Home & Looking for a Home

It is official at 3:50 pm today Nicole Grace Duran FINALLY went home! Kyle, Leanna and Austin are very excited to have her home 1 week and 3 days before her due date. Please continue to remember everyone in prayer as they all adjust.

On another note - we are closing ONE WEEK EARLY here in Sugar Land (next Friday, August 1st). While we are extremely excited to have our house here in Sugar Land sold we still do not have a house to go to in Frisco! We are on our 3rd house which happens to be a foreclosure and are still waiting to hear. So, we wait - seems to be a theme of this transition period! I will update the blog when we know something.

For now we rejoice in the homecoming of Nicole!
**Update - we found out about 5:30 pm today that we did not get the foreclosure. The journey continues... We are going to go back and pursue possibly building a house we both like again. Just need some favor!!!

Houston we have a Contract!

6 months, 3 days, 91 showings and 3 offers later we have a CONTRACT!

We received a call this evening from our Realtor with a FULL PRICE offer the only thing the couple wants is a home warranty and to close August 8th!! Thank you Jesus! We are so very excited to finally continue this transition and covet your prayers through the 10 day option period and as we travel to Frisco this coming week to look for us a house (we are going to go up on Sunday because Craig is working Friday & Saturday). I will say it again THANK YOU JESUS!

**Side note - the boys have been requesting to each have a "special day". Which means a day where they can go anywhere and do whatever they want to ALONE! Caleb went with Craig today and all he wanted was to eat at Joe's Crab Shack and go swimming. They ate lunch but unfortunately when Craig dropped him off at the pool with me and the other kids it was raining so he didn't get to swim but here is a picture of his favorite part - the DESSERT!!

***One other side note - since I sent out the prayer request for Nicole and her problems with Apnea (where she stops breathing) she has not had ANOTHER EPISODE! Thank you Jesus. In the last 2 days they have moved her out of the "warming bed" into a normal bed, upped her to 4 bottle/breast feedings and are saying she possibly could go home in the next 2 weeks. Here is a picture Kyle sent me of her this past week.

Summer Days!

We are now fully into summer at the Wilson household. When school let out in June we went that very day to Austin to the Lake and then a week later got on the boat for the cruise so we have just now really gotten into summer days off! Which translates into boredom and fighting! Now not hitting although that does happen sometimes but mostly where the kids determine lets pick on and aggravate some one. Joel against Christian; Caleb against Joel; Christian against the other two - seems like it is always someone!! Also this is the very first summer in all of their lives that I am not working at least part-time so that has some adjustments as well (more probably for me than for them). All of this translates into a lot of time at the pool!! It is FREE, we have 4 to choose from and we have had very little rain to hinder our plans. So, if you are looking for any of the Wilsons sometime between 1 and 5 during the day we are probably at the POOL!

Since the early arrival of Nicole Grace I did not get an opportunity to share some of the pictures from our Lake trip in June so I wanted to share them with you in this post. Also my digital camera was damaged on our cruise and looks like I will have to replace it because that would be cheaper than repairing it - so until that happens the pictures may be fewer but for now enjoy the ones from Lake Travis in Austin and I have some other new ones that I will use later.

In June we went to Kyle and Leanna on a Thursday and spent the day and night hanging out with them and then on Friday went to the Lake. So some of the pictures are of the kids with Austin and some are at the Lake. It is also amazing to me that Nicole was born the very next week!!! (Pics - I took several of the boys with Austin; Christian actually took the picture of Austin in the jungle gym that I thought was awesome; Leanna and I had the idea to try to get all 4 of them holding hands - it was a trial with a 1 year old but we finally got this shot; Caleb and I were with Austin in his room early on Friday morning and I don't remember how Caleb got him to laugh so hard but it was so cute!; Craig riding the jet ski, he also wake-boarded that day, got up on his first try - I don't know why I don't have any pictures of him wake-boarding but he LOVES, LOVES, LOVES to jet ski; me wake-boarding - did better this trip and finally felt more comfortable; Austin with Kyle swimming in the Lake and then yes he is asleep - he had stayed up the whole day all 6 hours on the lake and finally as we were swimming before going to dinner he passed out. *We realized at the end of the day that we never got the tube for the kids to ride on so that is why there aren't any pictures of them but they had a great time swimming in the lake and riding in the boat!)