So we loaded the moving truck last night and it was so cute. Moxie brought out all her toys one by one and put them in truck. As she was coming down the ramp if Jodie or I were in her way she would say “Excuse me”.

Something wrong with the video but close your eyes and listen.

Don’t let my wife hang pictures.

I think this is going to be one of the quickest house deals in the history of house deals.

We listed it on Friday 10/2
They Saw it Wednesday 10/7 and made an offer
We countered and accepted the terms on 10/8 and entered escrow
Home Inspection was today Saturday 10/10 with no issues I might add
Garage Sale Saturday 10/17 come and take a look
We will be out on Wednesday 10/21

Got to love a Cash Buyer so we don’t have to deal with a bank.

Well we sold our house today. We put it on the Market on Friday and had a showing yesterday and had an offer, we countered it last night, they countered again this afternoon and we accepted it. The rub… we have 2 weeks to be out. Looks like we are going to be packing tonight.

Now for the next news, we are moving to Illinois for a while. It has been too long that I have been away from family and we need a new adventure.

I’ll report back as this progresses…

On Sunday Jodie had to go to defensive Driving class due to a speeding ticket so Moxie and I went down to Tempe to visit Ikea and have breakfast and pick up a table for my office.

Monday I took off because I worked too many hours last week so I went with Jodie to The little Gym to watch Moxie. She seems too old for her class. She elps them clean up the bells, is usually the first one to try out the activities and Monday she was taught a roll with a spotter and immediatly did it again perfectly on her own. Her favorite part is getting the stamps after class. She came home Monday night with stamps EVERYWHERE.

She has the Alphabet song down perfectly and loves singing it and is big on counting these days. Is up to 19. I taught her how to stand on her hands and she does it on the couch with the cushions at her back and has really good balance.

The other thing of note is she now finds things ‘yucky’ (Thanks Dragon Tales) and ’scary’ (Not sure where she got that one). Jodie and her walked to the Mail box and Jodie asked her if she wanted to walk to a neighbors house who has halloween blowups in their yard and she said no because it was ’scary’. I am concerned she won’t be making it to the Haunted Mansion or Pirates of the Caribbean this year. We will have to wait and see. When she did it at 19 months she did great, doubt we will have the same luck this time.

On the down side she is needing less sleep these days. been going to sleep at 9 and getting up at 7. I miss the 12 hour nights. Not sure what our Christmas Vacation will bring sleep wise.

We hit the 90 day mark to make Advanced Dining Reservations this week for Disney so I have most of my planning complete for our vacation. We are staying at the Wilderness lodge and have dinner reservations at the Hoop De Doo review at Ft. Wilderness, Le Cellier at Epcot, Cape May at the Beach Club and Chefs De France in Epcot. We are also planning on going to the Triple D ranch and take Moxie on a Pony Ride and do the camp fire. With as many days as we are going to be there we are trying to do some of the things I have either never done or haven’t done since I was younger.

My main observation is that Moxie is growing much too quickly. When Jodie asked her last night if she was ready to go to bed, she said ‘Not yet mom’. WHAT? I guess its our fault for asking and not telling her but regardless, she’s talking more and more like an adult.

She says the full alphabet song and counts all the time. Last night she went to the Little Gym and did great. She is listening and following directions and last night they did some yoga and she did the Tree Stance and did downward dog. She has practice as she does it with us when we do P90x Yoga.

This weekend Jodie’s Brother Joey and her parent’s dog, gus came to stay with us, while they went to Sedona for a few days. As much as we miss the dogs, I’m reminded how much easier everything is without a dog.

I entered Moxie in a Gap Casting Call and we are hoping to get her into show business, (ok not really) but how could you not think she is a gap kid by this photo. Please go to this link and vote for her by either entering Moxie L. or ID 455684210. Thanks.

Vacation-So we are now officially booked for our full vacation at Christmas. The first week we had all planned and are staying at our time share on Sanibel Island and the second week we are going to Walt Disney World. Disney released a new deal on Monday where if you buy 4 nights they give you 3 nights for free, both for the room and the tickets which saves over $1000 when staying at a Deluxe Resort. So we are staying at Disney’s Wilderness Lodge for 7 nights. I haven’t stayed there since 1996 when we were there for my Cousin’s Wedding. We are really looking forward to it.

Next up are ADR’s (Advanced Dining Reservations) at the 90 day point which is later this week. I have to get to planning them.

I finally finished my Tie Quilt. It was extremely difficult with the way ties are cut. I’m happy with it but always critical of my work. Regardless it is very comfy, I found this great charcoal gray soft cotton fabric for the back side of it. I also was a little long on one end so I folded it under and ran binding across the top. Hope you like it.

Since most of you probably don’t frequent all the Disney sites I do, I thought I would add this little piece of Disney Art. It is the concept art for the newly proposed expansion Fantasyland at Walt Disney World and it is spectactutlar. They will be removing the old Toontown Fair and putting in dueling Dumbo’s and several little meet and greets themed for each of the princesses and pixies. Adding a Beauty and the Beast restaurant and a new Little Mermaid E Ticket where 20,000 leagues used to be. Enjoy the art, click to enlarge.

So we are back in the grind of things in the ole homestead. Moxie can count to 12 and sings the alphabet song, although doesn’t always get all the letters in the right order, but Jodie only gets it right part of the time too, jk.

She is still swimming on Thursday Nights and had added The Little Gym Gymnastics on Monday Nights.

Jodie and I started up on Monday with our diets and P90X as we have 99 days till Florida and need to be in swimsuit shape by then.

The Neighbor appears to be in Jail indefinitely till he gets a trial which apparently will be a while.

Still can’t sleep well with just too much on my mind but all is good and working on too many projects at once.

Moxie saw me with an Iron the other day and said what’s that, probably the first time she has ever seen an Iron. I was working on my current quilt. I used all my dad’s old ties. It is the coolest quilt i have ever seen. I’ll post pics once I complete it. Goes well next to my first quilt which was made up of all my dress shirts.

That is all for now. I’ll try to post pictures soon. Moxie appears to be getting taller quickly.