New Recliners and the Big 40 (four-0)

Well, the last few days have been busy and sometimes slow as well.  We received the contract on our property in Elizabethton, read it and then forwarded it to our attorney for review.  Our tentative closing date is on or before December 11th 2013.  This means that we will be in the house and spending Christmas there.  We can't wait, the apartment is nice but it is only a temporary home.  Kat and I have had enough of sitting on the beanbag chairs that we bought as temporary furniture so we purchased a couple of nice matching recliners to give our bones a rest.  As you can see below, the kids think that we purchased the chairs for them.  They own our Ipad as well.

 

 

 

Stevie and Hannah love riding their bicycles/tricycles.  We try to take them to the park as often as possible.  It has also been nice to be able to go swimming at the indoor pool once or twice a week. 

In between these activities there are field trips and home schooling Stevie.  He has really shown a lot of interest in math this week.  It feels great to be retired in the respect that it is November and I have not been at work since August 7th.  It has been great to be home with Kat and the kids and be able to more directly involved in the kids upbringing.  Here we are on one of our park trips just hanging out.

 

 

 

 

We had another huge, I mean really huge event occur in our lives in the last four days.  It was not as traumatic for me and the kids as it was for Kat.  On November 1st, a day that will live in infamy, Kat turned 40 years old.  I have to give to her, she is taking it well.  I tried to cheer her up on her birthday by telling her that she didn't look a day over 39 years old.  She did not seem impressed with the compliment.  Anyway, my lovely wife has not changed a bit since we were married 5 years ago.  She is still as charming as the day I met her and still has that spring in her step.  We are thinking about getting the spring fixed though, lol.  For Kat's birthday, she got to sleep in a little bit, I made two of the three meals that day and the kids gave her lots of extra hugs and kisses.  Kat and I have deferred buying expensive presents for ourselves in lieu of buying this home and planning a trip to the Czech Republic next year.  She is a great person and a wonderful wife.  We are a blessed family in many ways.