NYC, a house, and a whole bunch of cute baby pics

Some of you may know that Paul has been in NYC for 4 weeks working on the Rapid Repairs program which helps people get back in to their homes by restoring power, heat and water.  I am so thankful that he has been a part of this program.  I know he is blessing the lives of these people who have been essentially homeless since Hurricane Sandy.  It hasn't been an easy situation for any of us, Paul works 15 hours a day/7 days a week, while I patiently work on my counting and deep breathing.  It's a shame this program wasn't during the summer, otherwise I would've taken off to Hawaii and bummed around on the beach for 8 weeks.  However, the Texas school system kind of frowns on that sort of thing, so for now we sit at home trying to find things to keep us busy.

Like teach Porter how to crawl!

We closed on our McAllen house last Thursday.  With Paul in New York, I had to sign the closing papers.  I went in at 10am but it was prepared incorrectly and so the attorney had me come back at 11am.  Sure, no problem.  I only have small kids with me.  That's not an inconvenience at all.  When we finally returned, the packet was 2 inches thick, I kid you not.  It took me 90 minutes to sign them all.  Then they called me back that afternoon and needed me to sign 10 more pages the title company forgot to include in the packet.  Then on Friday I got another call that 2 of the pages were missing initials.  Monday I had to email another missing page back to them.  I've never dealt with so many idiots before in my life.  But I digress.  I'm just thankful that it's done and over with.

Some days we all feel like doing this.

Occasionally we are all happy

Other times I just like to take random pictures of Porter because he's so cute.

Brothers!  I love this picture!

Porter and his eyebrows.

When will Paul be home?  Whenever they finish the houses they are given.  And even after that he may have to fly back for a week here and there to help tie up loose ends.

When are we moving to McAllen?  Whenever the construction down there begins.  It could be April, it could be June.  Who knows?  We are currently getting the sheetrock replaced, the whole house painted and the carpet replaced.

I am hoping to finish the school year out here in Houston.  I would rather not transfer Lana so late, especially since she is doing so well here.  Plus they have uniforms down there which what fun would it be to purchase uniforms that Lana would grow out of by next August anyway!?  However, we'll just have to play it by ear and see what happens.

One day soon we will find "the place" and we will stop moving and build our forever house.  One day.