Twenty Four Months

I have some serious catching up to do here. I will start with the latest news: we are moving!

Rob and I have been ready for a change for a while. And by a while I mean A w-h-i-l-e. From the day we got married, we have been talking about moving. Eleven years passed and zip, nada, nothing. Last year we decided we were done with school and the planning began soon after. Should we move up north? Near mountains? Do we want hot or cool weather? Big city or small town? The options were endless for us. Our final decision was to live near the beach. We absolutely love it and visit every chance we get. 

We started researching different cities and immediately knew that we didn’t want to move far away from our family. On my birthday weekend, we met a local in Port Aransas, TX that could not stop talking about how much her children loved growing up there and how great the schools were. That sealed the deal and we decided to move near that cute town.

Rob patiently waited for an opportunity and applied for a position within his agency late last month. His employer confirmed two weeks ago that he reports to his new office on September 3. I am staying behind to take care of some last minute packing. 

We found a cute apartment 10 miles from the beach and we are hoping to purchase our forever home in the next couple of years. Yes my friends, we get the best of both worlds by moving. We get to live near the beach and we are 2 hours south from Rob’s family and 2 north from my family. We are smack dab in the middle of both :-). And of course, we get to stay in Texas y’all. We are so, so, so excited. Yehaa!

Now, back to business. We have been on the wait list for:

Current longest waiting family has been waiting for (months):

35

We are about #44 on the list and #37 on the single child list.

On our 24 month waiting anniversary, we went apartment hunting. We stopped by the beach afterwards and sat near the water to decide on which place we would call home in a few weeks. That day was beautiful. The sky was bright blue and the weather was perfect. I can already see us in the near future building a sandcastle with our son…every. single. weekend.

Happy 24 months waiting!!!

Twenty Three Months (plus a few days)

Months on the wait list:

We have been incredibly busy this past month. We didn't even get to do an activity from our list but we did do plenty of activities to keep us smiling. Even though we did not post any updates in July, we did, as usual, celebrate our 23 month waiting anniversary :).

This is a brief summary of what we were up to in July.

Ran a 5k dressed as Frida Kahlo.

Celebrated 23 months on the list at BJ's.

Went to a John Mayer concert.

Visited a museum in Houston.

Ate at an Ethiopian restaurant for our 11 year wedding anniversary.

Celebrated my little sister's recent engagement.

Happy 23 months waiting!!! 

(We miss you everyday little guy).