Mission Accomplished: New house & new town!

The kids' bedroom upstairs

We are settling into our new house and new town this week!  Brycen has done fabulous so far with adjusting to spending a couple days with Grandma before being introduced to his new home.  When he walked into the house on Wednesday, he walked from room to room...checked over his movies in the living room, noticed his toys in the front porch, and then went upstairs to find his bedroom.  He made himself at home right away with wrestling his pillows around:) 

The reading/puzzle area at the top of the stairs

Though the new house is smaller than our old house, it still has some unique areas that allow the kids to be spread out.  They will be sharing a huge bedroom, though each has their own space and side of the room, as well as they have a toy room/porch and a reading/puzzle room at the top of the stairs.  They both have adjusted amazingly well...proving that by falling asleep on their own the first night with no problems in their new room!  The trick to these moves is to move fast and get organized even faster so that when they (especially Brycen) is brought into the new house, they see their belongings already set up and we can immediately go back to our regular routine. 

One side of the large porch area that is now the play room!

We're excited for the opportunities in this new town!  Excited to increase Brycen's therapy schedule next week to three times per week (Mon, Wed, & Thurs) for up to 1 hr 20 min each time (split between speech and OT).  His extended school year schedule is quite different here and he will start meeting with a special education teacher next week.  The schedule will be on Tues and Thurs until beginning of August to introduce him to the new school, surroundings, and include some socialization time with other children there for part of his time. 

Mike's hours have increased at the store along with more responsibilities which is a good challenge for all of us.  The kids and I look forward to walking the 1.5 miles to the store to see him each week, as well as walking to Brycen's therapy which is now only 1.25 miles away (yay for saving tons of gas money!).  We are looking forward to spending time with some old friends that live here, as well as some of Mike's extended family that lives in the surrounding towns.  Aubree is possibly going to attend preschool in the mornings starting in August as well (if I get moving on signing her up!).

This was a great change for us and we look forward to the new challenges it will bring, as well as enjoying our time together again after several weeks apart.  We are going to be very happy here!