Can you stand the cuteness of these two girls? Our good friend Ms. Megan brought over Baby Emma to hang out last week, and let me just tell you, that kiddo is ALL cheeks. She is quite possibly the cutest baby I’ve ever seen…I just want to squeeze her!!

Busy weekend. We’ve begun the process of packing, slowly but surely. Our progress was helped greatly by the fact that three years ago, when we moved into this apartment, Vann convinced me to hang onto all of the original packaging that our wedding china and various other breakable gifts were shipped to us in. I had forgotten this, so when we drug it all up the other night, I was pleasantly surprised to find that everything was there, down to the tissue paper and bubble wrap. How lucky is that? I am a huge purger, so no doubt if it weren’t for Vann’s genius forethought, it would have all ended up in a recycle bin. Whew.

We’ve almost got all of the china and crystal packed and once that’s done Ms. Liz is taking the cabinet we have loved and used these past three years. We are trying to downsize considering we are doing the moving, so a lot of the furniture we have is going (and it’s a fun excuse to buy new stuff!). I have a call into one of the local charities that takes furniture donations and will even come to your house and haul it away for you. They’ll be taking two dressers, a bed frame, and Vann’s beloved sleeper sofa…again, a casualty of moving ourselves and a good thing considering it’s a monster to lift. Poor Vann. He’s had that thing for 15 years. Don’t tell him, but I’m not too sad to see it go. It has a permanent saggy spot right in the middle and it’s really not the most comfortable thing to sit on. Oh well, all the more reason to buy a lovely and plush sectional after we move…a couch that the two of us can lounge on together…what a concept!!

We decided we are going to take the video camera and make a little documentary about the apartment and all of it’s…um…challenges. Truthfully though, this place has been good to us and we attempted to de-clutter it as much as possible this past weekend to help our landlord show it to a few people. Hopefully it will be rented within the week and we can breathe a little easier.

All of that said, I admit I am having a slow start to the week. I have been taking a boot camp-like class with my trainer (“phat camp” with a ph) Mon, Wed, and Fri mornings and I just couldn’t get my butt in gear this morning. At the moment we are officially skipping Charlie’s swim class. Instead, Ella is napping, Charlie is watching “Cars” and I’m blogging. I’m sure we’ll make our way outside when it’s a bit warmer this afternoon. We got so spoiled with the 60-70 degree weather and the past week it’s been back in the 40’s and low 50’s. What’s up with that?? Texas weather, I welcome you (although you can keep those 100 degree days)…

Not a whole lot more packing can be done until Charlie is gone and we can use her room as box storage…plus the fact that she’s super particular and would most likely melt down if she saw us moving anything in her room. Better for her to think she’s just going to Mimi and Poppy’s for vacay, right?? We’ll do a little bit here and there until then…after all, that’s now only three weeks away.

Off to find something productive to do…