Lots of posts at once...

I feel like I just have to get caught up with this blogging. So I'm posting a bunch at once to catch myself up with what is currently going on.

A week ago Tony had a trip to Charlotte planned. He rented a car and was planning on meeting my dad up there to look at a few commercial properties and secure financing. Saturday morning about 2 hours before he wanted to leave I asked him if the kids and I could tag along. It was totally last minute, but because he rented a car it wouldn't cost him anything to take us along. It took me about 30 minutes to plead my case and rebuttle every reason that he came up with as to why it wouldn't be a good idea but he consented under two conditions. 1) I had to get both kids and myself packed in 30 minutes. 2) The rental car had to comfortably fit 3 adults and 2 carseats. About 2 hours later we were on the Interstate headed to Charlotte.

We had such a blast on the trip. The kids travelled really well, surprising Tony as that was reason #749 as to why it wouldn't be a good idea to take us along. And I was thanking my lucky stars that they were so good since I insisted that they would be angels. :) The trip was very confirming to me that Charlotte is the place that we want to raise our family. It is a beautiful city and I think we are really going to love it. The trip was very productive as we looked at several properties and have our top 2 narrowed down. Tony is just working on negotiating the leases to determine which one is going to be best for us. He was also able to get some really positive feedback as far as the financing goes. We are finishing up paperwork with the bank and should know sometime this week whether everything went through.

I didn't pull out my camera as much as I should have so I really don't have many pictures from the trip. But we are going to head back up in May to look for our housing arrangements, so I'll take more then. I also learned on this trip what an excellent sleeper Miss Kaiya is. We requested a crib from the hotel for her and I was looking at it sit outside the front closet in the hotel room and thought that it would probably fit in the closet. Now before anyone calls DFS on me, it was not a completely enclosed closet. It had a rod about 2 feet from the ceiling with a shower curtain like thing. So I slid the crib inside and then when it was time for her to go to bed we just pulled the curtain closed. She was so good and got herself to sleep each night even though we had lights and tv on. It was great because then we didn't all have to go to bed at 9 p.m. :)

Here we are waiting in the car for Tony & Papa to get done meeting with the banker.

I took this picture about 5 minutes after we hit the road to head back to Florida. She is totally passed out.

So I attempted the near impossible today. Braiding Kaiya's hair. She tolerated it pretty well and kept the rubberbands in all day. I think next time I may only do it partway and tie the band at the base of her head. But she looked pretty darn cute today.

We are tired around here. And clearly don't sleep without one of our children in bed with us. Yeah, that's gonna have to end soon - we still have a fullsize bed. Can you say crowded?
Like father, like son...

Lazy Saturday morning... Kaiya climbed into bed with me around 7 a.m. yesterday. This is how Tony found us around 7:30 a.m. What a little sweetheart. We were so asleep we had no idea that he even took the picture.

We are tenatively planning to move in June. Of course, it could be sooner or later than that depending on how quickly this process takes. When we officially sign the lease on our commercial property I'm sure we'll post a picture. We're definitely getting pumped up about this move. I'm training in the office about 20 hours a week learning how to run Tony's office. I'm feeling good about it, but there are still more things to learn (i.e. - insurance-ick!) So that's the overdue update.