Moving Out

We sold our house recently and have begun the move out process. Since the new house isn't ready yet, my grandparents were nice enough to let Bryce, Josie and me live at their lake house. Russell will stay in Austin with a friend. I'll be out of the house on May 19 and Russell will leave on May 30.

My grandparents came out this weekend to go over a few things about the house and we started taking stuff out there. How did we end up with so much stuff?

Take Me Out To The Ballgame

We took Bryce to see the Round Rock Express, Austin's minor league baseball team. We got berm tickets so that Bryce would have plenty of room to wriggle around. He had a great time!

They were giving out bats today to all kids under 12...is that a good idea?

Do you think Mom knows I'm drinking beer?

French fries at the ballpark are the best!

I'm getting tired. Maybe I'll just close my eyes for a minute behind my cool sunglasses.

Progress...finally

Well...after a few weeks of "inspections" (read: not doing anything), the crew was back to work on our house this week. They've started on the stone and stucco on the outside. Not much progress on the inside as we still have to our pre-drywall walk through (where I get to tell them what's wrong before the walls go up). So...hopefully that'll be soon b/c as of 5/30 we'll be homeless and the sooner they finish, the sooner we'll be able to move in. Here are some pictures...

First set is of the left side and the garage


They finsihed this whole side this week. This is also the left side just behind the garages. That section that isn't finished is called a gable...it gets done last. It's stucco, so they do the stone first.



This is the other side of the house (right side). The picture on the bottomyou can see the dining room windows on the far left.


Back of the house is getting stucco. Apparantly they have to do 3 coats before they can paint it. I think this is still the first coat.



Some random pictures of the backyard take from the right side of the house.



I tried to do a pano from the back patio so you can get a feel for how the yard lays out. It's got a long way to go before anyone is rolling in the grass.

Musical Prodigy

Bryce taught Russell a few things on the guitar recently. Obviously got his musical ability from Russell. Russell is actually worried that my singing nursery rhymes to Bryce may damage his hearing :)

Since we haven't done anything exciting lately, here's a picture from today playing outside. He's still not crawling. If he runs out of toys within his reach, he usually finds dirt or a leaf to occupy him.

Passover...a little late

We typically have seder on the closest Saturday to the beginning of Passover so by our family calendar, it was time for seder this weekend. We went to the Barbans to celebrate.

Here is a typical scene. Everyone is wandering around doing their own thing.

While we were thrilled to have "Rabbi" Arnold pose in this picture, it's really highlighting the new bib that Mimi just bought for Bryce.

While we still love the bib, this picture was better posed to show off the people in it.