Bon Voyage!

They say in life there are some things you just come to realize and are at peace with. After much thinking and praying, I awoke on Monday morning (my day off) and had that peace of mind. Rob was getting ready for the day and was talking on about how he was dreading heading back to the grind. I said, you know what, why can't we leave when we close on the house. Thus begins the craziness. As if we didn't have enough on our plate, lets toss on a big move! So after some more thinking and asking for parental guidance and support we've decided to take the plunge. So in eight more days we'll have our home packed and begin a new journey  in our lives. Please disregard the previous post with an Austin address. We'll be updating everyone as we know more details on a home in kansas city. I'm asking everyone to keep us in your thoughts & prayers as we adventure into this new and exciting chapter. We'll definitely miss so many things about Austin; the city, food, and most of all our friends that have been so amazing. However, we can't wait to be closer to home & nearer to our other friends too. Austin, we'll be back (hopefully often) to visit, you'll always have a special place in our hearts as this was our first home together!

From sunny Austin Tx,
Rob, Ash & Porter

Apartment Hunt

Well this week our challenge was to find an apartment that we can move into very soon as we now need to be out of our home in less than 11 days! I spent all afternoon on Tuesday calling place after place to find out 1. if they offered short term leasing and 2. do they take pets. Lesson learned, very few will do either one, let alone both! Luckily, we were able to find a little gem that isn't going to cost us an arm, leg and pet, it is also located very close to both of our jobs. We'll be moving the majority of our things next weekend. We'll definitely be taking volunteers for our big move back to KC at the end of May. Let us know if anyone wants to help us :)
Our new address is included below!

Rob & Ashley
13601 Elm Ridge Lane
Apt 1435
Austin, Tx 78727

What a Weekend!

This past weekend we made another trip to KC. Friday evening we were able to celebrate our nephew Carter's 5th birthday. Lessons learned, giant people do not fair well on inflatable jumping equipment. Saturday Robby celebrated his final night of freedom with his friends in Manhattan for fake patty's day. Thank goodness he returned alive the following day, he did look a little rough more most of the day though. For me I was able to catch up with a couple of good friends and got my wedding gown finished, I was so excited. Sunday my mother hosted a bridal shower and it was so great to see my family. Rob and I are truly blessed with such loving, caring and generous family members & friends! Today we had the joy of driving back to Austin. When we left KC at 5 this am it was 30 degrees and snowing/blizzard conditions and when we arrived in Austin it was sunny and 75 degrees. Needless to say, it has been a fun & exhausting weekend. We'll keep you posted as we can, we definitely have a busy next couple of weeks with packing, etc.

From Sunny Austin, Tx
Rob, Ash, & Porter

If you give a dog a bun...then he'll want an icecream treat...

Today is saturday, we had our third open house scheduled today. Like most weekends these days, I try to "sleep" in a little while and then I get up to do some groccery shopping, make some coffee, do laundry and then we get to work cleaning up for the open houses. This morning we had a little rain shower come through and I ran out to take care of the chickens. I thought that I'd give them a treat and gave them old hamburger buns; this is one of Porter's favorite times to come out because he likes to get whatever treats they are receiving. Today I decided I'd spoil him and gave him half of a hamburger bun thinking he'd sit down and eat it, rather he swallowed it whole essentially. He then sat outside next to the girls waiting patiently for them to kick the bread pieces toward the edge of their pen where he can then reach in and eat some. Today he sat for nearly 45 minutes.

We decided to drive downtown today during the open house and took the pup to a popular dog park we've been trying to go to the past two years. Porter had a blast, I made a new buddy...a great dane pup named murdock who kept sitting on my lap and tried to get into my bag of treats. Made me definitely want another puppy for sure. We tried to take a picture but there was too much chaos for porter to focus. We then drove down the road and had a lunch picnic. We ended the afternoon trip out by stopping by DQ and got a little icecream treat. Porter had been so well behaved I thought I'd spoil him once again today, and gave him a frosty paw icecream treat. Forewarning, the following pictures get graphic

Porter enjoying a frosty paw

Me cleaning up the frosty paw...along with breakfast. Rob just thought he needed to take this picture

Needless to say, the frosty paw didn't last long and didn't take long to come back up.

We wanted to keep our family and friends posted that we did accept an offer on tuesday evening. Our home was inspected on thursday night and now we're still in the waiting period. Continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers that everything works out well. If things go as planned we close on the home on the 31st of this month and will be staying in an apartment in Austin until mid-late May. We'll definitely continue to keep everyone up to date with our moving news/plans.

From sunny Austin, Tx
Rob, Ash & Porter

Home Update

Well, it is finally happening. The whirlwind of selling a home has begun. I think I mentioned in my last post that we were hoping to get our first offer on our home. We wanted to update everyone that so far we have two good offers on our home. We're hoping to square away some of the paper work and hopefully accept an offer this evening. However, we do understand that any myriad of variables could alter this but potentially we could be closing and be out of our home by the 31st of the month. With that said begins the real whirlwind. We're trying to determine if we should get an apartment for a couple months or do we start the chaos known as job searching and start to plan to move back to KC even sooner than we had planned. We hope that everyone reading this continues to keep us in your thoughts and prayers that we'll continue to make good choices and be close to our family & friends soon enough. We'll keep you all posted in the next few days.

From sunny Austin, Tx
Rob, Ashley, & Porter