Thanksgiving?!

Thanksgiving was the day after Grant's birthday.  We had planned to go to Lara's parents but the forecast was for snow & freezing rain.  Since we were closing on our new house the next morning, we decided to stay home and not risk missing the closing.  Our closing was supposed to be the previous week but the huge snowstorm forced it to be delayed.  So Thanksgiving morning Lara cooked a chicken in the crockpot and made a nice Thanksgiving dinner for us here.  My Dad was coming up to help us move and so he came up earlier to avoid the weather and also had Thanksgiving dinner with us.  It was a great decision by all because the roads were bad and the Grand Island bridge had a 50 car pileup that day.  The next morning Dad watched the kids while we closed on the house.  Then we started moving and on Saturday my brother and his family and Jenny and Jed came to help us get moved in.  So our first night in the new house was that Saturday, 11/29.  I didn't take any pictures those days, but here is a pic of our new house from the real estate listing.  Thank you everyone for helping us move!  It was a lot of work loading and unloading everything we own in a day. 

We all love the house!  Grant was most excited that it had a laundry shoot and that it had a 2nd story with bedrooms.  Gracie loved that her room was already purple.  I was worried that the kids would have a difficult time going to sleep due to the change but they haven't had any trouble at all.  Our cat Lily who is always scared for at least a few days after a move was also acting comfortable the first night.  We realized Gracie is 2 yrs old (almost 3) and this is the 4th house she has lived in!  Hopefully we will be here awhile!