Our New Pool

The kids love the new pool. Especially that hot tub, even when it isn't hot. Super fun sitting, diving, hanging, etc... 

June Fishing

Jackson tried to show his new friend, Ty, the ropes this summer. They had me drop them off in Harmony. Jackson did catch 6 fish and enjoyed it but Ty caught none. So not sure if that is considered successful or note. 

Fishing the Nova Bay pond would soon be a thing of the past so they got in as much fishing as they could... and it wasn't too bad!

Gulf coast red snapper run was successful. They drive 2 hours by car to the gulf coast, motor 3 hours out by boat, try and catch their limit, and then turn around and come home. 10 hours commute for 2 hours of fishing.... worth it? You be the judge. (they do it every year so you know their answer!)

The House!

We have some nice photos of the house once it was all done that our builder took with their drone, but these are just my progress pictures through the month of June. We saw some really big, fun changes happen. We had sod laid everywhere. That made a huge difference!!! All the cabinets going in was super fun to see. The stairs got finished! We had our garage floors done which was a little bit of a splurge but we are so happy with how they turned out! And finally the pool got filled!! So fun to see everything come together!

The Move!!!

We got back from the Bahamas on Sunday June 12th and after that it was go time!! I had been working the best I could cleaning things out of every room, deciding what to keep, what to save for a garage sale or donate, and what to throw away. It is a long tedious process. But it is also so satisfying to purge. And I purged a lot. 15 years in our house... you tend to collect a lot of junk. 

Anyhow, we decided to have a garage sale on Saturday the 18th. We advertised beforehand and were actually able to sell a lot of our furniture that we weren't taking that week before from interested people who messaged me directly. Daniel wasn't particularly happy when I sold our dresser and had to dump all of our clothes out on our bed. I eventually organized them in laundry baskets but I'm sure you can get a feel for the chaos we were living in leading up to the move. Here's a good picture of what our master bedroom looked like for awhile. It was stressful. But the garage sale was a complete success and what didn't sell was picked up the following Tuesday by the Breast Cancer Foundation of Florida.

After our garage sale, I was feeling very overwhelmed. I still had so much to do ahead of me. So I decided to take the younger kiddos to see a movie... ha! I needed the break. It was worth it. I still got everything done eventually. 

After the garage sale weekend, it was legit moving time. I had already been boxing things up but now that all of our give-away stuff was cleared out we moved forward full steam ahead. We had a small trailer we were loading stuff into and locking up at night. We had our final walk-thru on Wednesday the 22nd with just a few minor things left to take care and received our keys!! Moving day was scheduled for Saturday, the 25th!! We spent the next couple days rolling out carpets and assembling beds while paint got touched up and other items fine-tuned. Then Saturday the 25th was moving day!! 

We spent our very first night in our new house Saturday night. The kids, up to this point, had been doing a lot of complaining about not wanting to go, missing our old house, not wanting to leave the neighborhood (all very valid feelings) but once we moved in, we haven't heard a single complaint. They love it here and we are all so happy!!

Sunday morning, our first wake up in the new house!

The mayflies decided to give us a huge welcome!! That's a fun lake-perk!!

Bahamas Trip #1

After we got back from Ireland we were home a week and a half before we took a long weekend trip to the Bahamas with Jordan & Shanda and Sam & Kara. We boated over in the Cobia... had a great trip over and back. We stayed at the Blue Marlin in West End Grand Bahama and the accommodations were great. We did tons of fishing, some snorkeling and plenty of sunbathing on the boat! Daniel burst his eardrum on his first dive down spearfishing so that kept him out of the water, which was a bummer, but other than that it was a fun, successful trip!