Taken by our friends Laurie and Jarrad on Halloween (obviously). We misplaced our camera for a couple of weeks after our move but finally found it recently. New pics should be coming soon. We took several this weekend.
Monday
For the Grandmas
Taken by our friends Laurie and Jarrad on Halloween (obviously). We misplaced our camera for a couple of weeks after our move but finally found it recently. New pics should be coming soon. We took several this weekend.
Thursday
Lots of Change in the Air
In addition to a new President-Elect, the Stullover household has faced a lot of change this past week. While Nate and I toasted our new president on Tuesday night, we also celebrated our house closing finally going through. We had signed the paperwork earlier on Tuesday morning. After it was all done, our realtor said, “Now that the deal is closed I can tell you that it almost fell through.” Apparently, the lender had agreed with the buyer that the down payment would be three percent. One or two days before our original closing date, the lender told them they had to come up with 10 percent or no deal. Luckily the buyers managed to come up with several thousand dollars over the next few days, but it delayed the closing for a little over a week. And while we were of course wondering what the heck was going on, I’m sure the buyers were highly stressed as well.
The house sale is great on multiple levels. We are no longer paying rent and mortgage, we can begin paying off some credit card debt that we’ve accumulated (especially when getting the house ready to sell), and we can finally settle into our new city. Nate and I have both been able to get in a few workouts in this week, which has felt amazing, and last weekend we got to go to some fun events and feel like Austinites again.
On Friday, we went to our friends’ house to have Zoe tag along to trick or treat. She speaks isolated words and is often hard to understand, so saying “trick or treat” was not an option this year. However, this did not hold her up her in the least. She’d run up to people’s front doors, but didn’t seem very interested in the candy. She often walked around whoever was handing out the treats in an attempt to go into their homes. As always, she was very curious and interested in people.
Our fun weekend continued. First we went to the Texas Book Festival. We weren’t able to get organized enough to go to panels, but we did walk through the book/exhibitor tents and we listened to Terry Hendrix at the music tent. Then we met up with some friends and walked down Congress to go to the Dia de los Muertos event at Mexic-Arte. We had some beer and ate some food and Zoe danced A LOT. It was pretty funny. She kept walking up to groups of people and breaking out into dance. Nate and I took turns following her around because she ranged pretty far from the group. At one point, an older Mexican woman walked up to touch Zoe’s face in an effort to avoid giving her ojo. Nate has heard about this from my family, so he took it all in stride saying, “Do what you gotta do.” Zoe hadn’t taken a nap that day, but all the dancing wore her out. After we left, she fell asleep in her car seat before we had reached the first stop light.
On Monday, Zoe moved up to the next room at her daycare, the toddler room. It always makes me nervous when she moves up because she is the youngest and the other kids seem so big. But all of her other teachers have told me not to worry because she stands up for herself. (And having been the recipient of a few of her looks, I can tell you that the girl has a stare that says, Huh, you talking to ME? It’s pretty funny for a one year old). On Monday when I picked her up in her new room I saw a little boy kiss her cheek three or four times in a row. Her new teacher says that another little girl likes to touch Zoe’s cheeks. I can sympathize; they are pretty cute. I’ve also been told that some of the older girls have taken Zoe under their wings. So, all is good. Lots of change but I’m hoping things start to calm down soon.
The house sale is great on multiple levels. We are no longer paying rent and mortgage, we can begin paying off some credit card debt that we’ve accumulated (especially when getting the house ready to sell), and we can finally settle into our new city. Nate and I have both been able to get in a few workouts in this week, which has felt amazing, and last weekend we got to go to some fun events and feel like Austinites again.
On Friday, we went to our friends’ house to have Zoe tag along to trick or treat. She speaks isolated words and is often hard to understand, so saying “trick or treat” was not an option this year. However, this did not hold her up her in the least. She’d run up to people’s front doors, but didn’t seem very interested in the candy. She often walked around whoever was handing out the treats in an attempt to go into their homes. As always, she was very curious and interested in people.
Our fun weekend continued. First we went to the Texas Book Festival. We weren’t able to get organized enough to go to panels, but we did walk through the book/exhibitor tents and we listened to Terry Hendrix at the music tent. Then we met up with some friends and walked down Congress to go to the Dia de los Muertos event at Mexic-Arte. We had some beer and ate some food and Zoe danced A LOT. It was pretty funny. She kept walking up to groups of people and breaking out into dance. Nate and I took turns following her around because she ranged pretty far from the group. At one point, an older Mexican woman walked up to touch Zoe’s face in an effort to avoid giving her ojo. Nate has heard about this from my family, so he took it all in stride saying, “Do what you gotta do.” Zoe hadn’t taken a nap that day, but all the dancing wore her out. After we left, she fell asleep in her car seat before we had reached the first stop light.
On Monday, Zoe moved up to the next room at her daycare, the toddler room. It always makes me nervous when she moves up because she is the youngest and the other kids seem so big. But all of her other teachers have told me not to worry because she stands up for herself. (And having been the recipient of a few of her looks, I can tell you that the girl has a stare that says, Huh, you talking to ME? It’s pretty funny for a one year old). On Monday when I picked her up in her new room I saw a little boy kiss her cheek three or four times in a row. Her new teacher says that another little girl likes to touch Zoe’s cheeks. I can sympathize; they are pretty cute. I’ve also been told that some of the older girls have taken Zoe under their wings. So, all is good. Lots of change but I’m hoping things start to calm down soon.
Tuesday
Monday
Querying Agents
This is the most accurate visual metaphor I can come up with to describe what it feels like to query agents, especially when you get no response.
