First 4th in Texas

The first few days in Texas were not really blog-worthy. It was unpacking and moving stuff around all day. My parents helped a TON with unpacking and thank goodness for technology to babysit the kiddos. We have had SO much stuff stored in our Ohio home that we hadn't seen in a couple of years and it's been so nice to have 2 major piles going... one for a garage sale and one for donation. Feels really good to start whittling down all of our crap!!

But on the 4th of July we decided to have a bit of fun and stop the unpacking. Derek and I got up early to run the community 5K. I actually PR'd with a 27:23 thanks to a flat terrain. :)

Derek's sister just moved to Dallas to start her medical residence and was able to join us for the 4th festivities!

 The neighborhood also puts on a cute little parade which everyone shows up to...

And Ady officially moved to her big girl bed in which she's done AWESOME in. The earliest she's come down is 6:50 and she's slept all night each night. The best part? Her bed is my childhood bed which is adorable for her big girl room!

And my big sleeper who will be getting a new, larger bed soon too..

The neighborhood also has their own fireworks which we enjoyed with Gramma and Poppa!

And then pictures of my dad fixing and constructing. It's his thing and he always does it when he visits. The movers broke our nativity creche in quite a few spots but dad had fun putting it back together. And then the boys built some shelves in a little nook of our garage!