Denzil went to Denver for the safety audits when Fin was less than a week old and also found us a house and made an offer on it. He looked at about 32 houses and we ended up buying a brand new house and it's really awesome. He did a great job on picking out our house!! I didn't really like the fact that we bought a house without me ever seeing it but we had looked at enough houses in Tulsa together that I knew we liked the same things in a house. And he took lots of pictures and sent them to me each night and we talked about them over the phone. So I did have a say so and I really am the one who picked the house out but only by looking at pictures of it compared to other ones and the floor plans of them too. When we get stuff hung on the walls, I'll start posting pictures of it! They will come soon.
While I was on bed rest, after Fin was born and while Denzil was in Denver I had so much help from people. Thank you SOOOO much everyone and especially Connie and Keri...all the meals helped soo much and we appreciate them so much!! And thank you Christina for watching Phoebe & Eliott so much!! I'm really glad they had somewhere to go and fit right in and act like part of the family..fighting and everything!
So we didn't get to list our house until the 2nd week in June so I had to go through meeting the 3 appraisers then the termite inspection then the roof inspection and then meeting the realtors that we had to choose from. Anheuser Busch payed for all the moving expenses and had an awesome relocation package so they are the ones who ordered all that stuff because if we don't sell our house in 90 days they guarantee to buy it and they don't want to buy it if it's a dump. So after all those meetings, we picked a realtor and finally put a sign in our yard! It didn't take long but within 2 weeks of it being on the market we had 4 bids on it and now have a closing date of July 17, yeah!!
Denzil flew to Denver on June 8th to start his new job on the 9th and then my crazy week started!! We actually had no where to go on Monday but I did need to clean up the house and start getting our suitcases out to pack. On Tuesday a guy came out to our house to fix the arm of our sofa, I had to pack all our stuff that we didn't want on the moving truck, take pictures off the walls and have everything ready for the movers. On Wednesday morning I woke Phoebe up at 7:15 and had her pack a little box of toys to take in the car with us. It was pretty funny because she's never went through a move or seen boxes of peoples stuff but when she was done putting stuff in the box she told me she'd be right back. She went out to the desk, got a marker...not a pen, a marker...and came back in her room and said "I've got to write my name on this box." I thought...holy cow, how does she know to do that??? Of course she doesn't know how to write her name so it was just a bunch of scribbles but I thought that was pretty cool! Then I had to wake Eliott up, get them both dressed, got their drinks and breakfast and loaded them all in the car. As I was leaving the moving van was pulling onto our street, so right in time! I took them over to Christina's house (Phoebe & Eliott's mom's day out teacher that we've grown to LOVE!) and they stayed with her all day. They had a blast and I am so blessed to have somewhere they can go and they are both comfortable to be there and have other kids to play with, she's got 4 of her own. So back to the house with Fin to have a fun filled day of packers packing all our stuff and then loading it all into their huge moving truck. They packed the whole house by noon and then loaded everything by 5:30. Our house was totally empty and Christina came and dropped the kids off so they got see the house totally empty and even got to get on the huge truck to see where all our stuff was. That was pretty cool! I vacuumed the whole house before they put the vacuum in the moving truck and then they left. We went to my mom's house and ate dinner and stayed the night there. For some reason we had to deal with Eliott being deathly afraid of my mom's dog, Noah. He's a pretty big dog, 100 lb weimeriner but he's seen him before and didn't have a problem with him and likes other dogs so I have no idea what his issue was but he'd glue himself to my leg and scream and cry in fear everytime Noah would move. We also found out that Phoebe is allergic to cats. She started saying that her eyes hurt and was rubbing them.
On Thursday I had my 6 week checkup (at 4 weeks) with my doctor. There was no way I really wanted to bring all the kids in the exam room with me so my stepmom came and got Phoebe & Eliott and went to McDonald's and got them lunch. After that we went to a friends house and hung out with her and her kids for awhile and had fun over there. While over at my friends house Denzil called me and the big ordeal started!! We bank with Bank of America and all our money is there. We figured since it's Bank of "America" we would have no problem finding one in Denver. On Friday, the next day, Denzil was closing on our new house in Denver and he had just gotten the amount of the check that we needed to bring to closing. He realized Thursday at 3:00 there was no Bank of America in the state of Colorado. We couldn't withdraw that much money from an ATM, he didn't have a check, a wire would take 2-3 days...what in the world do we do??? Finally the only option seemed to be me going to a Western Union and sending him the money that way. All the places I went though was cash only and the banks here were already closed. We both tried calling Western Union and getting it by putting it on a credit card and sending it to Denzil that way but after being on the phone with them for over 45 minutes and answering a ton of questions, they wouldn't let us do it and wouldn't tell us why. By this time it's 6:30 Central time and I'm like just give up until tomorrow morning when the bank opens and I'll go withdraw all the money from the bank and then go to a Western Union. So we go to my mom's house and meet my brother and his girlfriend there and eat pizza. We visit with him for awhile and then put the kiddos to bed...still hearing Eliott scream everytime Noah moves and Phoebe saying "my eyes itch mommy."
On Friday we got up, got everyone dressed and went to a Bank of America branch over by my mom's house. We had to withdraw a whole lot of money and so I was pretty scared leaving there and having to put all the kids in the car before safely getting in the car and locking the doors. I even looked in my rear view mirror several times on the way to Western Union making sure there was no one following me. So I get to this check cashing place that does Western Union and the first thing the women tells me is that it would be better to wire it to the business rather than an individual and would be much cheapier. I start filling out the paperwork and notice it says there is a $5000 minimum and point that out to her and she says "oh, nevermind." Then we realize I got enough cash out to send to him but the fee to send it was like $400 and I didn't have that cash. So I had to load the kids back in the car...oops Eliott has a poopy diaper...had to stop and change it, then go to an ATM and withdraw $400 more, go back to the place, get everyone back out and in the stroller and go back in. Oh great, there's another customer, I have to wait for him to get done and then she started on mine again. All this time Denzil calling me from Denver saying...okay where's the money, I'm at the Western Union waiting for it? Because closing was supposed to be at 11:00 Mountain time. So finally after waiting with 2 antsy kids running around the place and the other kid hungry, so I'm standing up nursing him she says they went through but she had to do it in 2 different transactions...I don't care, as long as Denzil gets the money. He did get the money and did make it to closing. The devil really worked on that one but he didn't win!
After that I brought the kids back over to Christina's house to play one last time and Fin and I went to Lowe's to get some stuff to fix the house. Then we met my mom at our old house about 4:30 and I painted a window sill, hung a mirror, put some light covers on and then got all the stuff out of the refrigerator and freezer and loaded it in my mom's car to put in her fridge. Then we had to drive to my mom's and the kids were passed out in the car so I ran in and got all our stuff...suitcases, toys, diapers, etc and then we headed over to my dad & stepmom's house ate dinner, celebrated Father's Day and said goodbye. At 9:00 we went to the airport and picked Denzil up and started to driving to Colorado. We stopped once at a rest stop and Phoebe & Eliott sat in Denzil's lap and Fin layed on my chest and we slept for about 2 hours. Denzil had slept between closing on the house and flying here so he was good on sleep. At about 7 am we got to Colby, KS and got breakfast and found a big outside playground that the kids loved playing on. It was just what they needed! We finally made it to our new house about noon.
We stayed in our empty house and slept on air matresses until our stuff got here on Tuesday. Then the unpackers came on Wednesday and unpacked everything. It's been a crazy couple of weeks but we're finally getting to some kind of normal. We still haven't hung stuff on the walls and we have 5 ceiling fans we need to put up but it will get done eventually. With some of the extra money we got we bought some toys for the kids and still have to put those together too. Will have to take pics of all those too.
Here's some other pictures to enjoy until then:
This is the funniest picture I've ever taken of Eliott...he looks just like his father!!
I'm ready to take a drive mom!
Last Saturday we got to go to a family amusement park called Heritage Square and is at the foothills of the mountains. Eliott and I unfortuntely got altitude sickness from it and caused Eliott to throw up 4 times (in my van-YUCK!) and get a really high fever. At 11:45 that night he was laying in our bed with 104 fever and we had just got off the phone with the nurse line asking if we should take him to an urgent care and Denzil went downstairs to get him some juice when all of a sudden he appeared to be asleep and he screamed like he was having a bad dream and his arms flew out to his sides, his back arched and his eyes started rolling back in the back of his head. I started screaming "He's having a seizure Denzil, what do I do?" I've read about them in Parents magazine several times but when it actually happens to your own kid you forget everything. It's so scary to watch them, so helpless! Denzil dialed 911 and flew up the stairs in I think 2 steps. The 911 operator said they are common when little kids get high fevers like this. The ambulance came and Denzil and Eliott got to take a ride in it to Children's Hospital. He's fine and there's no effects or anything from it, just a little scary. Here's some pictures from the amusement park:
Daddy and Phoebe on the Ferris Wheel
On the carousel
Scared on the ferris wheel!
Phoebe's first roller coaster and she loved it!!
Eliott's first roller coaster and hated it!
Phoebe's second roller coaster and she loved this one too!
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