Dallas

OK for those we have not heard, Brian accepted a job in Dallas, TX so we are moving. Alexia is very excited to meet a real cowboy. I am excited to move to a large city with something to do that does not involve farms. Brian is just excited to leave Iowa and all its cornfields (in other words- he can cook for events that don't have corn as part of the menu).

So what have we been up to lately- Cleaning, packing, more cleaning, even more packing, and a little fun in the summer sun. Or I should say the 12 days of sun we had in the month of June. So far summer has been spent in rainy weather, so we are all a bit stir crazy. We are excited for the holiday weekend and Alexia can't wait to see fireworks. We always go watch a cute brass band that is made up of all retired military personal and they have so much fun playing patriotic sings. Then we stay for the fireworks in Coralville.

Anyway, Brian heads to Dallas in a few weeks, so we are going to try to pack as much fun onto that time as we can. We will keep everyone posted on the trouble we get into!

Decorations

So Alexia started asking last Tuesday if we could put up the Christmas decorations. I told her that we don't put them up until after Thanksgiving. She woke up at 4 something this morning and asked if it was time to put them up. Seeing that it was still 4:13AM I quickly (and not so nicely) told her after daddy left for work we would put them up. I thought that would buy me some time in the morning while she was watching cartoons. Oh No! As soon as Brian was out the door Alexia ran downstairs and started bringing the decorations up.

I assembled the tree while she started putting out other decorations. Then she decorated the tree by herself. Apparently she is almost 8 and that means you are old enough to decorate the tree without mommy. So I was assigned the job of taking pictures.

By the end this was more her attitude. Break time!