Showing posts with label Belmont House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Belmont House. Show all posts

Saturday, August 13, 2022

June 1st!

 Phew made it to blogging about June, which feels like an eternity ago! Given how today is August 13th, might as well been forever ago. 

June first was our last FULL day living in Wichita, the next day the truck would pull away and we were drive away to Minnesota, to stay in a hotel that evening and close on our new home on June 3rd.

We had breakfast at doo-dah diner. This was the first place we ate at on our very first visit to wichita. We had drove through the night, and our hotel wasn't ready for us to check in, so we pulled into this diner about 6 in the morning. We wanted to make sure this was one of the last places we ate to bookend our time in Wichita :-) 


Now and 2.5 years ago: 

 

Kids playing in an empty house, movers almost done. 


We drove out to check on the chickens. I can't remember if I'd mentioned it in the blog, I think I did that BeepBeep was taken by a predator. The girls were able too catch some of the other chickens, but ours were being WELL protected by Gary, so much so that Gary attacked Emma :-( Kinda bittersweet because it provided closure that our chickens were no longer ours but were being well cared for. 






Back home to play with neighbors. Our neighbors were going on their summer vacation and leaving that day, which kinda made us leaving the next day a little easier. But I did make sure to communicate with the young ones that while they would be returning from their vacation we would not be back in the house and that this goodbye was goodbye... well until we visited again, we hope they will come up to Minnesota and see us. 


I absolutely love this photo: Mary taking a selfie with her, Emma, and Talas and then the photo she took right next to it. 

 

So thankful for their friendship and all the fun times they had playing together. Really missing them now as I write this two months later.



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Using up coupons, lol. First time eating at this Red Robin, but the kids had free ice cream coupons to use, that was their dinner haha!



So 2.5 years living in this house and we NEVER had an issue with water in out basement until THE DAY BEFORE WE MOVE! SERIOUSLY! We had so much rain the prior week that our house was literally sitting under water. One of our three sump pumps went out and started to overflow. Thankfully it happened after all our stuff was out. I called around to a few places and was waiting for them to get back to me. Had I been able to redo this situation I would have continued to call people until someone was able to come out because the following day still no help with it and our departure was delayed because of this issue. 


Harpo in his room for the last time. 


We had some fireworks to use up so our other neighbors came down to help us. The movers were done but just waiting for the night time and they'd come back to get the mattresses that were on the floor. 



Emma was in a sour mood, I can't remember exactly what happened I think someone was fighting or something... but she was a sour-puss for these photos. 





Wednesday, July 20, 2022

End of May Recap

I made the kids post cards to hand out with our address so they could stay in touch with their friends. I had a good pic of Isaac and Mary but needed one of Emma so snapped this after school. 


Thomas and I enjoying our last few days of alone time in Kansas before the move. Made a trip to this store to pick up this Shirt :-P Kyle liked it too so I went back and got him one as well. 

 

We had some drone play at the Keeper before going in to Exploration Place. We watched the science show. 















LOTS of playtime with our neighbors before the move. So sad to leave them and so sad we didn't meet sooner, this family moved in the fall following covid and it took a bit to get to know each other but the kids loved playing the last month we lived there. 




Last day of soccer for Emma and Thomas's team that Isaac and I coached. It was a chilly day but a fun season.




More playtime at the neighbors!

 


Ice cream!



Four trips to Costco for our new couch. 

  

Using up any remaining punch cards to places (Bubble Tea below from ICTea)


Barnes and Nobel trip for Isaac to use up a few gift cards he had collected.


Took one last run around College Hill.


Mary all fancy for church. We sure do miss that church - we loved it!


Neighbors OVER! More popsicles.



Memorial Day meal with our neighbors, Beryl cooked a lot of the food and we grilled out chicken, burgers, and hot dogs at Amy's. Rained on us a little toward the end but we still had fun. 









Using up more free meals - this time coupons at Chick-fil-a


Movers showed up MONDAY!!!! May 30th Memorial Day. A day early! It was just the driver and his rider, the packing/moving crew would come the next day on Tuesday. They did some packing to get a head start but only a couple hours. 


Out of the house for the packers so Harpo came with us to Home Depot.


Lunch at NuWay, Mary's choice. 




Harpo getting his nails trimmed before the big move. Loved this vet office, they were great with our cranky old man.


More dinners at Amy's, so thankful for all her help in letting the kids come play so we could pack and prepare for the move. 








Isaac's last game, May 31st.


He got a HIT!


 

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