If everything goes as planned, we only have eleven more times to sleep here at our beloved Adoni Acres Family Farm.

I am pretty sure not many of us have processed that fact, because we are just SO busy.

Last week and this past weekend were full!

Besides Eliza’s big day of appointments on Monday, we had other appointments as well.

Chad had a check-up at the orthodontist.

I remember when Chad first starting seeing the orthodontist, they would put a pillow under his bum so he could fit in the chair right!

Now his feet hang off the end of the chair – and he makes all the technicians gasp when they see how much he has grown.

Yep.

Our gentle giant of a boy.

The doctor said it is time to start stage 2 (or is it stage 3?) of Chad’s orthodontic care.

Chad will be getting braces again – but we pushed it off until early March of next year – after we get settled in the new house and get Eliza through her surgery first.

Sadie also had an appointment!

For her one year check-up and vaccinations.

The kids had a ball helping me take her to the vet!

There was not much happening over at Twin Oaks last week, as they are waiting for everything that was ordered to arrive!

The upstairs floors were put in though!

They turned out fantastic!

We are running the same floor through the entire house – upstairs and downstairs.

I cannot wait to swiffer them!

I know, I know – who says something like that?!?

No transition pieces, no bumps in between rooms – they will be a breeze to clean.

You will find that is the theme with EVERYTHING we chose for the new house.

Easy to clean.

Oh – and durable too.

On Friday afternoon, we watched (and watched, and watched!) as the semi for the move was dropped off in the barn yard!

It took several tries to get it down the driveway!

Friday night we got to bed on time to gear up for a weekend of loading that semi!

We took a hit on our help when Grant got called out for disaster relief at 3 a.m. Saturday morning.

The rains here have been devastating!

There were 34 roads closed in our county alone late last week.

Grant put in a long day Saturday hauling rock to flooded areas.

Addie Mae works on Saturday too!

We may have been a skeleton team that was left – but we got after it all and got SO much done!

Hannah was a HUGE help with anything and everything – including keeping two little people happy!

Kayla and her little side kick came and helped late Saturday afternoon and evening!

It was just the push I needed to keep at it.

Addie Mae got home from work and she and Hannah fed us all and cleaned it all up!

After church on Sunday we got back to it – this time we had more muscle!

Literally!

We are loading the semi with anything we do not think we will need for several months, and it will be parked and stored for now.

It will give us a much easier move come moving day, and give us a chance to finish the new house so there will be a place to put everything.

There is still a lot left!

But I bet we have gotten rid of well over half of everything if not two-thirds!

I went through every tote in the basement before we carried them out.

These two big totes –

fit in this blue tote by the time I was done with them!

We are not the only ones moving.

Sweet Hannah, who has been filling our home with her smile for the last seven months, is moving too.

We are sad that she will not be joining us at Twin Oaks, but happy for her as she starts the next chapter of her story!

We will miss you more than we could ever say, Hannah!

There will be lots of hard good-byes coming up in the next couple of weeks.

Hannah, the horses, our cats, this blessed place we have called home.

We are not just leaving our home, but a lifestyle that we have lived for years now.

Farming was the hugest blessing ever, and we are going to miss it dearly.

We could never have imagined what the Lord would do for us here at Adoni Acres!

THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!