We have had a busy year! For a few weeks in January we were in Birmingham. Daniel and I decided to put our house in Helena on the market. We literally painted every wall in that house...by ourselves. It was a task! But it paid off...we had an offer a few hours after it went on the market. God is good!!
The kids were looking for Pennywise at the Helena house.
No longer homeowners! This makes me so happy.
We spent the month before closing in Winchester, IN. Don't blink or you'll miss it. I thought Fayetteville was small. This town is a dot. There's a Wal-mart...and not much more. Oh, and did I mention the temperature was in the teens most days? It was a miserable few weeks.
This was the silver lining. Indoor pool at the hotel.
We left Indiana and went back to close on our house. We always said we just wanted to come out even selling the house. We got lucky and walked away with a little bit...which meant after all the work we'd done, we deserved a vacation! We left the kids with Meme and headed south. We went to Tampa for several days. I had never been. It was pretty and we got to go the beach in February, but I'll stick with my panhandle beaches. Then we went to Orlando, and my dream of going to Harry Potter World came true.
So cool.
We ended our trip with a night in Panama City Beach. It was definitely a fun and much needed vacation.
Oh, I forgot that before we left for our trip we celebrated Colt Man's 5th birthday! We invited some Birmingham friends to Let's Play and back to Meme's house for games.
Ford and Avery
March took us back to Paducah.
Fishing
Soccer
The weather was so bad in Paducah we practiced once and had maybe 2 games. It was a rough spring.
Bowling
Easter
Avery was a trooper...it was beyond cold on Easter. The cold just wouldn't go away this year.
Avery turned 7 and got a guitar for her birthday. The kids did choir at church, and the day before Avery's birthday was their end of the year program. Even though we had only been going a few weeks, Avery was given a solo. She got up there and killed it. I was so proud of her.
We celebrated her birthday at Pizza Inn and Chuckie Cheese's with Meme.
In May we went to Panama City for our annual beach trip.
We had a great week. Colt taught himself how to swim.
Two days after we got home it was time to head to Indiana for several months of work. By the seventh week there, we had stayed at 5 campgrounds. It was exhausting!
I forgot the name of this campground in Greenville, OH. This one was rough living.
That was the only campground without a pool, so one day we drove to Muncie to swim.
Then we went to Grandpa's Farm in Richmond, IN. The pool was (thankfully) heated, and Avery fell in love with tetherball.
We visited the Cincinnati Zoo one Sunday. It was a pretty good zoo.
We spent a week at the KOA in Richmond. They had fun crafts, putt putt, and Spongebob popsicles.
We moved on to Indianapolis. We stayed at S&H Campground for 2 weeks. Fireworks for the 4th, bounce houses, marshmallow eating contest. The kids had fun.
Meme, Beth, Jack, and Tate came to visit. I only took a couple pictures. We ate at Binkley's, went to the tall tower and Rocket Fizz, and ate pizza. Beth and Jack went to Chicago. It was a good time.
And now we are at the Indy KOA. The kids got new bikes, and we are having a blast.
I'll do another post on what we've been up to since we got to Indy.
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