That’s about all we have packed.  Tonight is our last night on Rocky Canyon Court.  The movers come at 8am tomorrow and in less than 24 hours I could potentially be blogging in this same chair on this same computer, but surrounded by completely different walls.  I probably won’t…because I’ll still be trying to find the chair and the computer since we’ve decided to try to just move everything but the actual furniture ourselves.  Oh, we could live to regret that decision, but it always works itself out.

I was taking everything off and out of the dressers and furniture in Bree and Bauer’s rooms tonight and I got really  nostalgic.  My mind went through a million memories of putting this house together.  We’ve spent only three years here and it is very possible that Bree won’t even remember living here…Bauer definitely won’t…and that seems just so impossible.  Sean and I will never forget this house.  We have experienced so much and changed so much as a couple in these past three years.  We went from a couple to a family in this house.

We painted almost every wall ourselves, we planned nurseries for our babies, we built a deck, we bought a swingset, we’ve raked more leaves than I care to think about, we’ve cooked our first Thanksgiving turkey, fulfilled my dream of putting our Christmas tree in our bay window,  played endless hours in our cove, got to know the most adorable retired couples who surround us a neighbors, we threw a rockin’ 30th birthday party for me complete with a margarita machine, we’ve dealt with sickness, crankiness, all nighters, and just life inside these walls.  The memories are endless…below are a few pics of our life at the RC.

“Breeland took up part of our living room for the better part of our time on Rocky Canyon.

This bathroom got to see two kids learn to love bathtime…what a process!

This was a great party house.  Oh the 30th birthday party…soooo fun!

We will miss our cove so so much!  Teaching the kids to stay out of the street may prove to be a hard lesson on Brookside.

To us, three year has flown by.  It helps that we watched to kids go from babies to very unique toddlers.

Bauer spent many of his first weeks on our kitchen table chillin’.

Bree progressed to a big girl in this house…i.e. the big girl bed.

The fabulous deck that we will also miss A LOT!

Bree welcomed Bauer to the family at Rocky Canyon.

We have laughed, learned and loved through it all in this house!

But at the end of the day, all we need is each other and all our memories!

I was taking down Bree’s valances tonight and I was immediately brought back to being pregnant and putting those same valances up and Sean and me trying to figure out how to put together a crib and the shelves I bought from target.  I took down the valances in Bauer’s room and remember the huge fight Sean and I had about painting Bauer’s room…we didn’t talk for most of the hours we spent painting.  In this house, Sean and I learned what being parents was all about and how it wasn’t going to be glamourous and definitely was not going to be fun all the time, but that we could and did find a system that would work for us.  We learned a lot of things that we wished we had in this house including no stairs, a bigger backyard, an isolated 4th bedroom for Sean’s office and a great elementary school down the street.

Tomorrow a new set of adventures will start and I’m sooooo excited to decorate and see where everything ends up.  But I couldn’t help but get a little sad taking down the art in Bree’s room that I remember buying at Garden Ridge like it was yesterday.  It was a Saturday and I roamed the aisles at my leisure trying to find some cute stuff to put above her crib.  I had no agenda really, nowhere to be, and definitely no little ones needing to be fed or put down for a nap.  It was just such a different life.  I had no idea was I was getting myself into.

We’ve already painted at the new house and Bree’s new room is a light purple and Bauer’s is a light green.  They are going to be great rooms, but no longer their nurseries for my brand new babies.  I didn’t know these kids when I picked colors for their nurseries and hung up pictures in their rooms.  Now I have personalities that dictate what goes up.  I have to say that’s pretty cool.

I was putting Bree to bed tonight and we went through all the rituals…prayers, the duck song, big hugs and kisses, and covering her up with her comforter and her white blanket.  All was good.  Then she looked up and said, “I need those covers”….so I got the rest of her blankets (she has like 10 in different colors).  She kept pointing up and saying “covers”.  I finally clued in…she wanted the valances back up on the rods.  I told her again that we were moving tomorrow and she could see the valances at her new house tomorrow after school.  She got really upset…crocodile tears and all.  I felt bad, but not bad enough to put them back up.  I kissed her again, covered her back up and left the room tearing up a little myself realizing for the first time that the valances won’t got back up in her new room.  My baby is getting a true big girl room and Bree and I both have to learn to cope with the growing up part of this whole life thing….

Happy Monday to all and happy and quick moving to us…