I'm glad it is relaxing, since we're still stressing about selling the townhouse, we know it will happen its just been a weird market in Houston this spring.
We had our first pool party yesterday -- Kevin's brother, wife, 3 nephews and niece, and their dog all came over for the afternoon. The kids' reactions to the house were hilarious - "is this real?", "are you rich?", "can you leave it to me when you die?" (where do their ideas come from?) . They had all been at a swim meet that morning, but still swam most of the time they were here, we also took the opportunity to find a nearby meat market and try out their fajitas -- delicious, since Kevin had pounded them out. We should've bought more! We had hot dogs for the kids, but the two older boys wanted the fajitas --- have to remember as they get older that they want the adult food more and more. They also ate the entire dozen mini ice creams we'd bought....swimming makes them hungry! better them eating them than me :) We hope this is the first of many get togethers in our backyard and can't think of a better group to have been first!
Some random house observations from the first month:
- the first night, we realized there is no door between our bedroom and bathroom ..down the road we'll have one added, but was funny to realize we'd never noticed that missing door. The main adjustment we've made is that I use my hairdryer in a guest bath in the morning
- there are so many light switches! we still don't know what some of them do, but are slowly figuring most of them out
- We have a back door doorbell, and its a different tone than the front door (front is ding dong; back is just ding), It'll take me a long while to remember that we have two, when I think doorbell I think front door
- our driveway is tough to back down with its curve, but so much easier than backing onto a busy street!
