Moving

You may or may not have noticed my absence from the blog recently. My husband and I moved into a house about 20-something miles from our old townhome. We started moving on July 25th, and we finished on July 29th. That's right, folks. It took us four full days of loading up trucks, trailers, cars, and anything else we could get our hands on to move here. By the end of it, I didn't even recognize the little place we called home for the last two years.

It looks so different without all of our furniture.

Before we could even start moving, we had to paint our new living room and kitchen. The old tenant had a thing for palm trees, and she had the walls an awkward moss green (palm tree?) color that would majorly clash with my couch. Luckily, four of our amazing friends came over for a paint party. 

That green was even worse in person. You can see our new color in the upper left corner of the picture.

Now, we're just working on finding homes for all of our belongings in our new place and getting rid of all the junk I had no idea we accumulated until we started boxing all of our stuff up. Shh...don't tell my husband. 

Then, last weekend, my brother and sister-in-law came to visit. Naturally, since my house wasn't exactly ready yet. I planned for us to do stuff elsewhere. Their guest bedroom and guest bathroom were done, as well as the kitchen, but not anything else. 

Living in the DFW metroplex, I knew about the Dallas Aquarium, but I saw the news talking about an exhibit at the Sea Life Grapevine Aquarium and decided to check or out. It was a little small, but a lot of fun, and I loved their emphasis on conservation and wildlife rescue. 

I was trying to stretch out our weekend more so much that I almost forgot about that dreaded moment in every teacher's vacation: my summer is over. That's right, being a band director, I'm required to go back earlier than the rest of the teachers for planning and helping with marching band. Monday was the day I went back. Two weeks of planning and marching band, followed by a week of teacher inservice, and then school is back in full swing. 

I do feel a little bad for the marching band kiddos though. It was so nice all of July, then August hit, and bam! it's the Sahara Desert outside. In case I have some people reading this that aren't acquainted with Texas weather, let me give you a visual: 

Yep, we're now in "summerer." It's this time of year that we can't wait for Fall to hit ~ the cooler weather usually hits around Halloween. Until then, I'll be working on the inside of my house and dreaming about the day they turn on the AC in my part of the school.