We're here...with NO place to live! You ain't heard nothing yet!

So we leave L-ville bright and early Friday am and head for Milan Tn. We arrived just in time to meet Walker's new boss and see where he will be working. Then we decided to grab some lunch...they only have a few restaurants here so we headed to Subway. (something halfway healthy for once!) Next, on the agenda...finding a spot to call home until our house sells in L-ville. We drove around town with a agent who specializes in rental property and attempted to find our new place. Yes, that's right we drove to Milan without a place to live, crazy right? I would have thought so too, but with the way my life has gone lately it seemed like nothing! Anyway, so the first place we looked at was an old farm house, I'll put it to you like this I cried! It was terrible and I thought this is gonna be so different from L-ville housing. The other places Josh (agent) had were not available but he showed them to us anyway. (they were nice, but again nothing like what I expected) I was getting desperate, it was getting late and I was missing my little guy. Josh decides to pull in a woman's driveway who house was on the market and ask her if we can rent her house. ( seems a little far out right? he claims he is a milaniate and he knows everyone and everything that goes on in this town! YIKES! ) She agrees to meet us and we walk in her house. We basically plead our case to her and she allows us to look around. After we decided it was a place we could live in we leave and she says she will call us back shortly to let us know if we can rent it or not. We leave and head back to the real estate office where my mom, dad, Davis, mother in law and father in law are waiting for us (patiently I might add). We tell them what has happen in the last few hours and we basically wait to hear from the lady. She calls and graciously allows us to rent and we decide on a plan.

Let me explain a couple of things before I go on...

Our house in L-ville is staged to sell so only the essentials and boxes that can be stored are with us in the 24 ft truck.

We just agreed to rent a place that is only 2 bedrooms and 1 bath. (roughly 900 sq ft) We thought (that is what we get for thinking) we would have at least 3 bedrooms and maybe some storage room...WRONG! This house has 2 closets!

The house we agree to rent is also staged. (therefore we won't need lots of things we brought because she is going to leave her stuff in the house while we rent!

To continue the story, we have the guys put some of the front stuff in the truck in the storage building and then they head to the house. We begin unloading which has to be done piece by piece because so much of has to go to storage. Once we unload everything we go back to storage and add the remaining things. After several hours of attempting to put stuff away we decided to still had too much and headed back to the storage building (at least three times) and store more of our things. So just for the record our stuff is EVERYWHERE (storage building, our rental house, our L-ville house) Don't judge me if I don't know where something is over the next couple of weeks. (typically something completely out of my character) Well this was our move in day. You think you are tired try being here and actually lifting all of this stuff! HA HA!

Our new home (as D calls it)

Aunt Laura and Mia pack up Davis!

D sure does love his blankey and Pops!

What a face, just had to include it!

hugs for mia and pops

Davis and Pops with the surprise face...not sure what face Mia is showing!

Davis and Mia!

Lala and D...SURPRISE!

Davis loves his baby. They are napping! HA!

PACKING DAY!!!!!!!!!!

Thursday was a very busy day at the Wellington household as we attemted to pack some of the esentials we would take to Milan, Tn. We started the morning off right with doughnuts with Pops. Next, pops and walker headed to get pick up the moving truck. Davis and I hung around the house to pack up more last minute items. I was packing some stuff in the loft when I heard plastic being rustled around. I leaned my head over the wall and looked down only to see...

I mean what kind of momma lets her 22 month old do this?

Oh my! I could already tell this was gonna be one fun packing day with a little man running around. Luckily everything went great and we were really done with the real moving around lunch time. We had PIZZA. (important detail I'll get back to it later.) So Pops decided to take D home with him and let us finish up the last minute details. Walker and I got everything else completed and headed to our last meal in L-ville. We decided to eat mexican. WE went to the first restaurant we ate at in L-ville when we moved here and it was great. Well...later that night after my lovely day of eating I got SICK!!!! I mean stomach bug sick! My body had had enough of our horrible eating and decided to let me know it! I survived and we headed to bed early for our long day of driving on friday.

PACK THE TRUCK DAY PHOTOS!!!!

Davis, Pops, and Walker taking down the crib. I mean how many men does it take? It's obvious Davis was doing ALL the work!

See what I mean! Poor guy!

Still working! It took awhile! Can you tell?

Davis was all smiles about it though!

MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW. Packing day sure was an adventure, but not near as much fun as driving/moving day!

TN Visit

Here is a couple of shots from our latest TN visit, before we became residents of TN! The rest wouldn't load at the current time and are on my computer back in L-ville so I thought I would at least share the few that uploaded.

22 months old...

Davis turned 22 months on Monday. We are amazed by how much he is changing and learning every day. He captures our hearts with his love and innocence. He is a very busy boy and keeps us on our toes. I cannot believe he will be 2 years old in only two short months. Where in the world did the time go?
He is doing some pretty crazy things these days:
-he knows most of his shapes (thanks ipad)
-he can spell words (i pad)
-he can spell his name, if he wants!
-he knows most colors (black, blue-his fav, pink, purple, red, white)
-he can do a happy face and a surprised face
-he loves numbers (and loves to say 2, 6, 9)
-he can say his name, yes all four of them!!
-he can spot a truck, bus, train, or car on the road and name it
-he loves singing songs
-he loves to dance (he even has his own dance!)
-he loves to do things with his hands (crafts with mommy!)
-he is still the most lovable little boy EVER
-he knows his mommy's and daddy's name
-he knows how to pack and label boxes!!!!
-he can say most anything (if he wants) and even makes up his own words if he doesn't like the original word!! (Charlotte-Addie, motorcycle-mongoose)
-he hates to leave anyone out (he has his daddy's heart!)
-he Loves holding hands
-he loves his friends and talks about them whenever he plays because everything seems to remind him of them!
-he can use the ipad like he his five!
-he still hates the doctor!
-he loves to play and does not really care for the TV
-he is pitiful when he is sick (we have had one rough week of sickness!)
-he loves to grab your face and point you in the right direction if you are not paying attention
-he is interested in everything (if momma or daddy is doing it, he wants to watch, help, be told what is going on, etc)
-when he says bye he most always is going to follow it up with love you! (he even told mommy's pee pee love you!!)
-he is curious where everyone is and will constantly ask about them
-if he has two of something he always says "momma two"
-he knows how old he is going to be: TWO!!
-his blankets are still his best friends!!

I am sure I am leaving out lots of things but this is all I can think of at this moment. Enjoy the next photos. Not sure if you can tell, but he has turned in to quite the ham and lady lover! He even loves singing so much he got his daddy and himself singing with the ketchup bottles!

Thank you Davis for being an amazing son! You humble me and keep me grounded. Love it when you make me smile and love on me for no reason at all. Happy 22 months!