Move #8, Anniversary #7....and counting

Tomorrow is our 7th wedding anniversary. Last night Chad's mom came to keep Meg and we were able to eat at Reata, our favorite and see a movie. We tried to go to Four Day Weekend, the Improv Comedy Group in FW, but the 7:30 was sold out and we don't do anything that STARTS at 10:00pm, so the second show was out of the question. Thursday my parents are coming from OKC to keep Meg, and treating us to Legally Blond the Musical at Bass Hall. I can't wait. We watched clips from Fireproof this morning in church, which was a good reminder of how God has blessed and protected our marriage these 7 years. I am thankful! Chad told me when we were dating that he would never expect me to fulfill him, but that he would look to God for that. I am the love of his life here on earth, but God is his first love. Phew!!

Last weekend, we completed our 8th move in those 7 years of marriage. The first 6 years of marriage we lived in houses that Chad built and moved as they sold. With the housing market the way it is, we are not currently building Spec Houses, so we are "staging" houses for other builders/home owners/investors to help them sell. Buying or renting would have been too easy for Chad. (I am "blessed" with a husband with a creative and resourceful mind. I am kidding with the parenthesis, by the way. It really is a blessing.) Statistically, a lived in or furnished house sells faster and for more money then a vacant house. We have the experience and the freedom, so why not? I explained some of this when we moved the 7th time, but I didn't really even fully understand what we were doing at that time. Now, I get it. So here are some pics of our current "home". I have a feeling we won't be here long. We moved in last Friday, the 24th and it has already shown like 7 times. It is a little old house, but I kind of like it. Some day we will live in a house without a For Sale sign in the yard, but for now.....we are still on the move. Meg doesn't even seem to notice most of the time. Although I told her to go get something out of her toy box the other day and she did a 360 turn like, "where is that again?".

I don't have a lot of pictures of Meg since the last post. Partly because we moved and my camera was packed, partly because she is never still enough to capture and partly because I just can't keep up with everything. I did take these the other day when Chad called and said he was on his way home and wanted to take Meg on a bike ride. I got her helmet out and she wanted to put it on immediately. She wore it for 45 min until they actually left on the bike ride.