Funny Child...

Abigail just saw me looking at blogs and I showed her ours. She asked me why I called it the Axelson Zoo. My parents have referred to my house as a zoo since we brought Abigail home from the hospital to a house with 2 dogs, and instead of lightening the load, we brought Noah home. :) She thinks it should be called "My Family is the Best!" I love her, but I think I'm going to keep the name I have.

Fun in the Fall!

We've had some really warm weather here the past few weeks - not the norm. So yesterday afternoon we took full advantage of it!

Abigail doesn't want me to keep taking pictures, but I just love Noah's face here!

He drives so much better than his sister! (She must have inherited the driving gene from her Mama!!)

Finally! A nice one...

When the Cadillac first arrived in March 2007. Look at how little my girl was!!

W. Maui Lane

I know I posted these on Facebook, but I wanted to have them on the blog as well. There aren't a lot of pictures yet, but I am sure with my Mom and Dad here this weekend, we'll be remedying that shortly! :) Thanks for sharing in my excitement over the new house. I may have found it, but Pete talked me into buying it! Something he is not soon to let me forget!

Front of the house

Awesome driveway where the kids drive their Cadillac and ride bikes!

Wonderful fireplace/built in entertainment center. Still needs some decoration.

My fabulous eat-in kitchen. I love the cupboards, counter tops, and appliances!

View from the front door.

Halloween Fun!

We had great spooky fun this year at our house! Buzz Lightyear and The Witch! I hope everyone had a great weekend and ate too much candy!!

Too infinity! And beyond!!

I'll get you my pretty!! And your little dog too!!

Sitting on the porch, passing out candy.

Laughing with Daddy after all the fun was over.

Home Sweet Home

We live here now. That just makes me smile. :) We still have a ways to go in the unpacking department (you sooo don't want to see my den!) but it is feeling like home. Clothes are still being moved from the piles in the guest room into Pete's and my dresser, but it is coming along. Our kitchen is awesome and unpacked! The kids' rooms are awesome and unpacked! The bathrooms/laundry room/linen closets are awesome and unpacked! The couches look great and the tv was purchased today! Woo hoo! (For Manuel and Sal, it is a 52" LCD/HD, Sharp Aquos, 120mhz, 1080p. All I know is I am looking forward to Paige's recommendation of McDreamy on the 52"!! I'm so going to have to watch Paul Walker and Mark Whalberg movies next weekend!) It will be delivered on Tuesday and we're going to have the Best Buy Geek Squad install it for us. That's a lot of money to be literally sitting on my shoulders! Let someone else do it for me. :)

I'd like to say I have pictures to show you, but I don't. Sorry! I left my camera and few odds and ends at the rental house and just haven't been by there to pick them up. Pete's going to stop by there tomorrow and pick it up for me. Then I need to find the cable for my camera to the computer. Seriously, my den/computer room... You so don't want to see that! But I'll show you anyway this week. :) I am just so happy this move is almost in the bag. A HUGE weight has been lifted and now the fun/expensive part starts - or continues! Gotta love decorating and landscaping!

Poor Noah was so confused by the move. He is such a creature of habit that this move really had him upset. I think he was afraid we were moving, and not entirely sure we were taking him with us. I took Friday off and he and I spent the day together, just him and I. We played toys, unpacked more boxes, and I was able to reassure him, this is our home and we were all staying together. After 3 days off with the kids and husband, I so don't want to go back to work tomorrow. :( I miss being a stay at home mom more than I thought I would. Can it just hurry up and be summer again? Next year I am really thinking about not working full time. Noah will be in Pre-K next year, and I think I just might substitute 3 or 4 days a week. The kids will be in school, but all the hours I put in when I get home really takes away from my time with the family. I love my job. I really love my job. I just wish there was a better work/home life balance during the school year. Thankfully I have 3 more quarters of school to really work through this. Could be I am just tired and really frustrated with my administration and am overreacting... I'm just glad I don't have to make that decision tomorrow. Until then, I am going to relax and love on my family in my new house! Did I mention that I love it??! :)

A See a Light...

I see a light at the end of this tunnel! Wow, what a busy weekend we've had! Friday night we moved a bunch of stuff over. On Saturday, the kids and I (and by the kids and I, I mean I) went through a bunch of old clothes and toys deciding what to keep and what to donate. Today we bought a new couch and love seat and moved more stuff. Even better news, we have movers set up to move the furniture tomorrow morning! Yay!! The new couch and love seat will be delivered tomorrow also! When we left Omaha, we had to split our set we had (it wouldn't fit on the truck) and so we really needed a new set (meaning I really wanted a new set. :))

Tomorrow when I get done at school, I will be going home to the new house! Thank goodness Pete is off tomorrow. The only real bummer is that our internet connection won't be turned on until Friday. I didn't want to cancel the service at the rental until I knew the furniture was going to be moved, and that wasn't set up until yesterday around noon. I can facebook via my phone, and blog from school, but it's not the same. Thank goodness I will have cable tv at the new house tomorrow. I would hate for anyone to have to deal with me without my weekly dose of Amazing Race, Survivor, Project Runway, Grey's, etc... I won't be able to watch tv downstairs anytime soon.... Between my frugality (cheapness) and Pete knowing exactly what kind of a tv he wants, it may take a week or two before one is purchased. :)

So as of now, no pictures. :( Without the internet connection I won't be able to post any. Watch for next weekend, I will have pictures and a house mostly put together! Thanks for being such voices of encouragement throughout this process over the summer. I have the best blogging buddies! Even those of you who don't comment! :)

Moving Sucks, Yo!

So we're moving! As excited as I am to be in this process... Seriously?!? Could it come at a worse time? I have no time off before Thanksgiving, but I want to move NOW! :)

The house is great. We're getting our stuff over there slowly but surely. Most of the kitchen is moved; all of the CDs and DVDs; all the books; and the closets are making their way now. I have a moving company coming on Saturday to give us a quote on the furniture moving, and hopefully (all fingers crossed here) it will be a good bid, and they'll do the work on Monday! That means... We'll be over in the new, beautiful house on Monday night!

TV and furniture shopping is slated for Sunday. The new house has a recessed portion of the wall directly above the fireplace for a flat screen television. (Yes, I know... fireplace in Phoenix. I've missed mine in Omaha so much over the past year, that it was something I really wanted. I know it won't get used much, but hellll000, it's pretty!) So short story long, we need a new TV. Pete is really looking forward to this trip! :) We also need a new living room setup. So we're going to load up the kids (and a ton of snacks!) and hit the stores on Sunday.

Pete picked up Noah's new big-boy bed from IKEA today and is over at the new house right now putting it together. It is a super cool loft style bed. We went to IKEA because I had seen the bed in the catalog and wanted a closer look. We walked to the display and Noah announces, "This should be my room!" With the final approval from the Bubba, Pete picked it up and is assembling as I type. I figure, Noah will climb the furniture regardless of what I buy. I might as well buy something "boy friendly!"

I really need to get over there and take some pictures. I'm just waiting for our stuff to be in there so the pictures look more like our home, and less like the house we just bought.

I'm ready for the heat to be over here in Phoenix. It is still hovering around the 100 degree mark. Living in Omaha had a perk, I love fall. The Midwest has an amazing autumn. Not amazing enough for me to deal with the winters ever again! :)

Hopefully I will have new moved in updates later this week!