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 Claire

My little girl has graduated Kindergarten now and they had a cute mini ceremony on Friday to show off the songs they have learned and get a diploma. Her teacher is fantastic and made her a scrapbook and things to take home to remember her year. Shay was excited to see her and wanted to join her while they were up on the 'stage' but she will get her turn. Claire was telling her teacher at church that she would be going to a new church next week so she is understanding what is going on, even though she didn't say she was excited just yet. She seems to think she will only have friends here and even though this week has been weird because they keep getting in 'fights' with their neighbor friend, she doesn't want to leave. I can tell she likes having a friend to play with every day that isn't just Shay and they have some fun adventurous games, but her pool in the backyard is making it hard for them to get along because the girls can't stop themselves from getting in the dirty and the rule is they can't go into the pool if they bring mud or dirt in.

Shay

All but a few of her toys are packed up and she keeps asking for things that are already gone. It is like she sees me packing something up and then wants to play with that specific thing and I have to continually tell her we can have those things back in our new house. We have also found some toys that have been hiding up in my closet because they used to fight over a 'magic wand' now they are playing with it again. She came with me on Friday to Chris's work because we were signing our loan papers with a mobile notary! It was a busy day because we dropped Claire off, went to sign, and then went back to school for the Kindergarten graduation. Plus I was busy before setting up utilities in our new house and trying to find a uHaul that we can move with.

House News

On Monday, we had a home inspector look at our house and the list he made of things that needed to get fixed was completed already. There was an issue with our backyard sod that was laid because apparently our irrigation water that connects to our sprinklers wasn't turned on yet and it died so they are going to replace it. We had an appraisal done and we are buying it for a few thousand dollars cheaper than what it was appraised for which made us feel good about our choice. Because of the holiday weekend, the safest way to close on Tuesday was to sign our loan papers on Friday so a mobile notary and I met Chris at his work and we sat in the break room for half an hour and signed our lives away. His patient that was our loan agent met us there too and gave us a generous gift to decorate our new home with; it is a charming, handmade burnt wood American Flag. Now we have less than a week and we will be living in our brand spanking new home which we got to see really good pictures of because of the inspection and appraisal!