4th of July in Washington

Since we only had a month of corporate housing, and we still had a month before we could move into our house, the kids and I  flew to Washington to stay with my parents while Ben stayed with friends and started his job. This was not the ideal situation to be apart that long, but there wasn't much of an option. Strangely enough, every summer since we've been married there has been some reason, whether it's buying or selling a house, internship etc, that I have lived with my parents for a few weeks (or months!) during the summer. Yep, I'm that kid that just keeps coming back :)

The first weekend we were home was the 4th of July. This was tough to be away from Ben, but we were glad we had so much family to celebrate with. A lot of my mom's family came over and we played on the lake, BBQ'd, made smores, and watched fireworks on the lake. USA! USA!

Corporate Housing in Los Colinas

At the beginning of June we finished our vacation in CA and flew to Dallas. We stayed in corporate housing for a month in Los Colinas. Our apartment was nicer and bigger than we expected, and we got quite the workout living on the 3rd floor. We had a few mishaps: the moving company not bringing our stuff for about a week, them not bringing half of our assigned corporate housing boxes, and me never getting my suitcase, resulting in me wearing the same 5 outfits for 2 months.

While we were there we did a whole lot of house hunting, craigslisted, furniture shopped, dealt with another one of Deacon's ear infections, saw some kid summer movies, and enjoyed the pool. We tried to explore a little bit and mainly just soaked up our last few weeks of fun-employment with Ben.

Deacon learned how to stand up!

Jen's birthday present:

Costa Vida!

Splash pad!

Sending Ben off to his first day of work at Microsoft!