our amazing realtor!

Just a shout out to our awesome realtor Michael Reilly! I highly recommend him. He has tons of experience, is an amazing negotiator and knows homes (since he is also a builder) and the Austin market. He sold our home in 12 days in a down market (to say the least) and saved us over 20k on the purchase of our next home. So, if you are in Austin or moving here, check out his great site where you can search Austin homes for sale. Go Michael! We are so thankful for all of your help!

Mueller

We are making the move to Mueller Austin! We found a great house yesterday and we're putting in an offer today. The house will be completed January 15th, they day we move out of our house. We are so excited for many reasons, one being that the lifestyle in Mueller is very family friendly. Unlike my current neighborhood, there are tons of families with young children and tons of parks and places to play. The Austin Children's Museum is even thinking of moving to Mueller. They are in phase two of the development and by the time it is complete there will be a work-live town center. Currently our home is located two blocks from a great park that has a pool, playscape, big field and basketball court. Mueller has 140 acres of parks and trails. Our particular house is in a Garden Court. Five homes with (garage alley access) face another five homes with a large green space/courtyard in the middle. The homes are close together, but because of the brilliant design, you still have privacy! Super cool. We're really excited.

Pictured above is the first Garden Court homes, ours is slightly different, but ours is similar to the yellow one, only it's blue.

avery allen

I did some modeling for my designer friend Avery, she is super talented and you can follow her blog here.

new red robot boot

Five more weeks in this cast. But thankfully, it's waterproof! I'm just excited we can wash him properly. I was a bit sad that he wouldn't have the cast off before Christmas, but such is life.

oh how I love the things you say....

Noah says so many awesome things lately. I really need to be writing them down so I can remember. The past few evenings, when Ben walks in the door, Noah immediately asks him if he bought a trumpet. Finally we asked him why would Daddy need a trumpet?

Noah responded: "So he can wake up Christmas!"

We had been telling him that he will wake up Christmas morning and find presents! I guess he figured, he has tried to "wake up" Christmas and it hasn't worked, Dada MUST be able to wake Christmas up, maybe if he blows a magic trumpet....


Also, he tells me every night: "Mama, I love you sooooo very much! You are the cutest Mama ever!"

I wish I could just follow him around with a tape recorder.