We Sold It!

After almost exactly seven years in this house (our first house together), we have sold it! Being that Brian will be finishing his PhD early next summer, and we don't yet know if there will be a job for him in Tallahassee, we decided that we would put our house on the market. We thought it might take a while to sell it for the price we wanted, and figured if and when it did sell we would rent until we knew if we would be staying in or leaving Tallahassee. Well surprisingly, but thankfully, after only about 3 weeks on the market the first person to view the house made us an offer. Since it was only the first offer, we decided to counter offer for pretty close to the listing price. To our shock again, they accepted! So we will be packing up all of our stuff, our memories and moving into our temporary home in just 3 weeks!! Thankfully it worked out to be renting a friend's house only a few minutes away from where we currently live.

Before we started dismantling even more of our stuff, I decided to take some pictures so we can remember where we started our family and made so many wonderful memories. When we told Madison we were moving, she got very emotional about it and didn't want to leave. So, we had a good lesson about houses and "things", and explained that what makes a home special is all of us living in it. So as we continue to box our lives up I will be trying hard to remember that lesson myself!

One door opens to another door closed!

Kitchen Dining Room

Living Room

Bathroom

Hudson's Room

Madison's Room

Our Bedroom

Our Bathroom

First Day of School

The Mosier kids were both ready and excited for their first days of school yesterday. Although Madison was a little nervous she ended up really enjoying her first day. Sunday night we put Hudson to bed pretty early, and then both took turns reading a few books to Madison, one of them being The Night Before Kindergarten. As the night time routine progressed Madison expressed that she was a little nervous. She told Brian, "Daddy, I'm feeling a little nervous. I feel like i have two butterflies in my stomach...but their fiction."(We got a kick out of her choice of vocabulary!) We went on to explain that it was normal to feel nervous and excited, and then talked a little about when we started school and how we felt, along with telling her all the fun things she'll get to do in Kindergarten. So after a little while she says, "I'm staring to feel even more nervous....I think my two butterflies turned into three!" Thankfully all the fiction butterflies went away. When i picked her up today I asked her what she did and what her favorite part was. She told me, "All of it. Kindergarten is more fun then I could have ever imagined it, and Ms. Jarrett is the best teacher ever!" So it's safe to say, she is transitioning just fine!

Madison enters her room and shows off her new backpack.


She works on a pattern. This is her new friend, Brooke.

Hudson's first day at Timberlane Preschool was a huge success as well! After we dropped Madison off to her classroom, he went with me to the "Boo Hoo Breakfast" they had set up for the Kindergarten parents. He had his second breakfast of the morning, and then we were off to his school. He recognized the building as soon as we drove up and was eager to run inside. As soon as we walked in, he ran up to the school's director, Miss Elaine, and gave her a huge hug! The he walked right in, said hello to his teacher, Miss Jill, and immediately asked to hold the big Barney doll that was on the shelf. Anyone who knows Hudson knows that he was right at home knowing that Barney was close by! He carried him around for a few minutes, explored different areas of the room, and then happily said good bye to me. When I picked him up, I asked him about his day, but the information I could gather from him was very limited. He sounded happy and excited though as he explained his day in "Hudsonese" (Hudson's little babble talk). One thing I know for sure is that he was definitely stimulated. So much so, that he did not take a nap on Monday. Nothing got this kid to sleep, which is totally uncharacteristic of his typical 2 1/2 hour daily nap! He slept good last night though! We'll see how he does tomorrow.

Hudson loves the class Barney Doll.

He enjoyed naming the colors and cooking in the kitchen.

So, we all survived the first day experience with no tears from children or parents! I know it will be a great year!

Goodbye Summer

With only a few days left in our summer break, I thought I would give a little review of what's been going on in our lives during the past few weeks. With school starting in just a few days, I know that if I didn't post these pictures now, I probably never would. Early on in the month we took a short trip down to South Florida. While we were down there we spent a little time playing in "The Bubble", the Miami Dolphin's indoor practice field, and the kids loved running around with all that empty space! Here are some pictures:

We then took our annual visit to Mexico Beach to visit some family and crash in their beach house. As always, we all enjoyed the beach and had fun spending time with family. Madison and Hudson were both able to ride some waves on the boogie board. I was able to catch some bait fish with a net, and then Brian caught a trout and Madison reeled in a lady fish.

Hudson turned 23 months old this month, and is only weeks away from turning 2...the terrible two's!!! He has had fun playing at home. He has been into building blocks (with help), he has taken a liking to pirates and even sings his own version of "yo, ho, yo, ho, a pirates life for me". We are slowly working on potty training, but think we have a long rode ahead of us with that one! Below are some pretty cute pictures of him in his big boy underwear. Madison helped him put them on!

This past week has been a whirlwind of parent orientations, student orientations, getting school supplies, and getting ready physically as well as emotionally for both kids starting school on Monday. Hudson will be starting Timberlane Church Preschool three mornings a week, and Madison will be starting Kindergarten at Robert's Elementary. The entire family visited both schools today so that they could meet their teachers, see their rooms and meet some of their classmates. They both seem eager and ready to begin on Monday, so hopefully all goes smoothly! I'll post more details of their classes once I have taken their first day of school pictures and actually drop them both off for the day!! Here are a few shots of them today.

Wish us luck or say a little prayer that we survive this first week as we are all transitioning into our new schedules!