themarcandrecifamily: We are Texans again!!!

After my last post about October, so much has happened that I've spent too much time living our life to blog about it! Things have slowed down a bit in the Smith household, so here I am ready to tell our story again!

Here's what we've been up to:
We came to Texas the last week of November and first week of December to visit family and look at houses. Here's where God and social media really came through for us. A friend from our Jackson Meadows neighborhood (the neighborhood we lived in before AZ) posted on Facebook that they were thinking about listing their house and asked if anyone might be interested in buying it. We really were! We asked for pictures of the house and it appeared to be a PERFECT fit for us !!

When we came in town, we decided to look at the house and it was as perfect for our family as the pictures we saw!!! Thanks God and Facebook! We put an offer on the house, negotiated a bit and voila we are homeowners for the second time in our lives!!

After this, things really got busy for us. We went back to Arizona on December 9 after 21 hours of driving. By the time I had caught up with laundry and cleaning, not to mention all the Christmas shopping and mailing of our gifts, it was time to pack for our family trip to Colorado.

We left for Colorado Decemer 26 and I experienced my first super intense mountain snow driving. I drove for 7 hours in the mountains, got caught in a snow storm and eventually made it to our destination... Crested Butte. I drove the twins in the Traverse and Marc and Shiloh rode in the Corolla! Thanks to Frank, Zach and Sam- they drove our Corolla back to Texas so that when we moved we wouldn't have to put it on a trailer.

We spent an amazing 7 days in Colorado!! Shiloh skiied for the first time and the twins played in the snow for the first time. A super fun trip of firsts for our family! (pictures to follow)

After Colorado, we hit the ground running. We got back on January 2 and had until the 16 to pack our entire house, clean it and move to TX!! With three kids, that was quite a challenge, but we did it!

We moved and are FINALLY settled into our new house... just a few houses down from the first house we bought in 2009! We still have some painting and decorating to do, but have ZERO boxes left to unpack!

I have to add that I am beyond HAPPY to be back in Texas!! I am HOME, I am HOME, I AM HOME!!! Thank you Lord!!!!

Here's my photo journal of November 2012-March 2013:

All three girls reading