More August and a New House

Getting that run in everyday even on swim days. Outdoor swimming is coming to a close but a few more left. It's so dark in the morning when we hop in at 6am. 

Football cutie!

More runs. 

Because of the stupid bats, Oakley had to get a rabies booster. We saw his photo in the lobby calendar: 

Girls had connect day at school, school pictures done. Isaac had a meet the team for 9th grade High School Football. 

Starting to realize old homes are just not for us anymore. Their layouts don't fit our need, we are tired of fixing things up or having things go wrong... and for the price it's just not worth it. So we started to explore the idea of the numerous new builds in the neighborhood. Edina has a culture for tear downs. It is such a highly sought after area given the great schools and close proximity to the city without being IN the city that when an old small house comes available there is a number of builders that will buy it, buy a 'spec home' they call it and sell it. The layouts in these new homes are exactly what we need, more so than they were 4 years ago when we looked. Wanting 5 bedrooms but also two offices and a room for working out. It HAS all that, and two living spaces, a generous mud room, 3 car garage and the amazing thing about THIS house is it backs up to a park so no one will be living directly behind us. SOLD! Actually we are, spoiler alert this is our house! We move in March 1st. We just didn't know that for a few more days from when I took this photo. 

Thursday swim

Friday run with Jana

I think I mentioned our Ragnar relay was cancelled due to poor new ownership that has been owing money to venues the past probably 2 years. So instead three of us from that group decided to relay an international triathlon. That's a mile swim, 23 mile bike, and a 10K run. The day finally arrived. 

I have done the spring Maple Grove Tri numerous times, but never the full swim. Last year I was a swim angel and ended up swimming all three lengths and knew I could handle the one mile. It was SO much fun!

While I swam: Chelsie and Alicia hung out, then Alicia went out on the bike and for that 1.5 hours Chelsie and I hung out. 

Then Chelsie went out on her hour run and Alicia and I got to spend time together and cheer her on. 

So fun and we did amazing! We all beat our times we had planned on getting. 

As we declutter before we begin to pack in a few months, it's so funny how the kids love playing with stuff we're getting rid of that hasn't been touched since we moved here from Wichita 4 years ago. 

Sunday we go to see a house that is almost finished built that has the same layout as the walkout one in the photo above. We loved it, submitted our purchase agreement Sunday night and Monday in one of my 4 drives to Edina I flew my drone over to capture it better:

Mom's Birthday Weekend

 Saturday night Kyle and I went to see Ed Sheeran play at US Bank Stadium

Openers were Lukas Graham and Myles Smith

Ed came out in the center stage, which was directly behind a pole for our view, but the bridge was super cool that gave him a walkway back to the main stage and he wasn't blocked by a pole there. 

It was good, the loop pedal he used was so cool, hence the name 'Loop Tour' ha. 

Sunday was my birthday, for my 44th year I have made a goal to run a mile everyday. (I mighta allow walking a mile if it comes to that, but so far 9 days later I've ran at least one mile each day) 

After my quick run it as time to feed the kids before our trolley tour at 1:00. I had wanted to ride the trolley that goes by our house for a long time, figured if I bought tickets on my birthday then no one could complain :-) 

However it was rather a nightmare dealing with them hangry. We waited for about 40 minutes at breakfast club but the wait was getting longer so we left and went down the street because we didn't want to be late for the trolley. Pre food photo... not a keeper. 

Post food photo, still not the greatest...

Alright one more attempt.... finally. (pay no attention to the figure at the bottom of the frame... Kyle just wanted to be a part of it, lol!)

The tour was great, they no longer go by our house. He said the trek all the way around lake of the isles was too much for guests so they shortened it by going down Hennepin then just doing isle for a little bit. 

The house hunting was under way. We have pretty specific perimeters, which makes this even more shocking given just in this area the prices are easily $300-800k higher, gulp. Welcome to Edina. This idea of moving wasn't BRAND new because I did go see a house over Father's Day weekend, it's been in the back of our mind for a while given the last three years of driving and more so this past year being the first time all three were back in the same district since 2022. We weren't sure if everyone would land in the Edina school, but here we are and they have. AND all four are in sports which makes it even more beneficial for us to live in the community. So we're biting the bullet, we're saying goodbye to our beloved lakes (for now) our amazing bike trails and running paths, and hello newer house that better fits the needs of our family and hello to walking to school again <3 (well walking to elementary and middle school which is the next 6 years).