Pearce Family Update

Okay, I lag. I thought about blogging a bunch of times in the past month...that counts for something right?? So, I guess since the actual posts were never written I have A LOT of catching up to do. The truth is most of the time during the past month my feelings toward moving and our transition here have been so jumbled, you probably would have got whiplash from reading my emotional roller coaster. Lets just say its better I am starting here and looking back at the last month. Don't get me wrong, things have been awesome here and we are really happy but there is the occasional feelings of being homesick that creep in and the occasional melt down of still being in this apartment with two dogs, two kiddos and virtually none of our stuff. Stuff is stuff but when you miss home, having your own bed to sleep in at night makes it a little easier. All that aside, our transition has gone MUCH easier than I could have ever dreamed. We are nearing the home stretch of our new house being complete (9 days in case you're wondering), meeting so many wonderful people and having fun exploring our new surroundings.
It has been awesome getting to reconnect with my good friend Liz since she moved to the Dallas area over 5 years ago. Its been nice to have someone from home here. We met up with her and her hubby Josh at The Texas State Fair and to say Gigi had a good time is an understatment...she's still talking about the rides! She had such a great time! I have been able to meet up with Liz for some girl time too and her and Josh were so super sweet and came down to watch our kiddos for us so we could go out to dinner and celebrate our 5 year wedding anniversary.
We are still really loving our new church and people are probably sick of us saying how similar The Avenue and our home church in Fresno The Well are but seriously they are! In fact, there are a lot of things about The Avenue that I like better which I never thought I would say. One of the hardest things about leaving Fresno was leaving our church so finding a new home church so quickly has been heaven sent to say the least. We have joined a really awesome couples life group where we have met some great people and I have joined a women's bible study that has allowed me to meet some truly amazing and supportive women. The kids love the opportunity to get to play at church during the week too. (Let me rephrase...Gigi does. Jensen is entering the awesome phase of separation anxiety which is a story for another time.)
We participated in the churches Trunk or Treat Fall Festival which was so much fun! They had pony rides, bounce houses, food and of course candy so Gigi, I mean Snow White, was in heaven! Its awesome to see her meet new friends too...she really misses her buds back home. :( Daniel was in heaven too since our trunk was Cowboy themed. People here are shocked that a family from CA were Cowboy fans before we moved here but for those of you who know Daniels family you know they are life long fans so Daniel is totally excited.

 During the week, me and the kids scope out new parks and try and to find new things to get involved with. They already have their favorite and Jensen is getting old enough to where he is getting into the park thing too. As I have said before the weather here is so crazy! Its hard to tell at the beginning of the day what the weather will end up being by the end of the day so I have learned to keep a wide variety of extra clothing for us and the kids at all times.

I love the weekends since moving here because we have a new little tradition of getting up Saturday morning and driving over to our new house and seeing what progress has been made on it. We feel so blessed to be able to buy a new home and its nice that with home prices the way they are here in Texas we are able to buy a house with a little more room than our house in CA. We really love the neighborhood to and have heard from many people that the schools in Midlothian (where are new house will be) are awesome. In fact the elementary school that Gigi will go to, Longbranch, is just up the road from us. We are scheduled (fingers crossed that nothing hold up the process) to do our walk through on the 19th and move in on the 21st. I said I hoped that we would be in by Thanksgiving and we will be just one day shy!  I CAN'T wait to get in and start getting settled. I feel like a home is the final piece to our transition and it has been a crazy almost 8 weeks of transition.

Then it will be the holidays and Jensens birthday (NO, I can't believe he will be 1!) and we have family coming at various times throughout November and December and January and I feel like that will definitely be the icing on the cake.
Overall I can't say enough how blessed we have been to have had so much love and support from our friends, new and old and our family and can I just say thank goodness for FaceTime! We are really loving Texas but are equally really missing California at times. I know the next month or so will be crazy busy but I will definitely try to blog more often to keep everyone posted on all thats going on. Thanks for the prayers and love! xoxo