Closing on a house and sending the kids off to Grandma and Grandpa's house

The last week or so have seen a lot of interesting things. I visited Rachelle for Memorial Day weekend with Riley and it was a lot of fun. She is doing well and things seem to be progressing as good as we could hope.

Closing on our new house
Right after I got back, I had to get everything ready to close on our house. That turned out alright I suppose. At the final closing, my realtor, Barbara Oldham (a really good realtor if you need one) asked me if I was nervous. I honestly replied that I had a lot more to be nervous about that a simple house closing.
Doing the whole power of attorney thing was really tedious. It meant that every time I had to sign Rachelle's name I would have to sign, "by Jayson V Wilkinson attorney in fact". It took forever but I eventually made it through and got the keys to our new house which turned out nice.

Getting the kids to Grandma and Grandpa Wilkinson
Two days after closing on the house, I drove the kids to Amarillo which is approximately half-way between Denver (where my parents live) and Austin. I found that it is much more difficult to drive without a copilot who can both navigate and meet the needs of the kids. They were mostly good but had a few issues along the way and I only missed two turns which I felt was pretty good considering everything.

It is nice to not have the kids around because I can get a lot more done but at the same time, I already miss them. I really have great kids. Kaiya was starting to be a bit of a stinker (I think it was mostly from not having a lot of stability over the last few months) but I am sure she will be better when things settle down.

Article in Meridian
Last week we also got an article published in an online LDS magazine called Meridian. It was recounting the whole story but a lot of people saw it and sent some really nice emails to us. Here is the link to it:

http://www.meridianmagazine.com/journey/070601quint.html

Moving
I am now getting ready to move on Saturday June 9. I was going to try to visit Rachelle this weekend but realized that since she left on April 10th, I have only had two Saturdays that I was here in Austin. We decided that I would stay here and move and visit her again on the fourth of July weekend. I am hoping to recruit a bunch of friends from church and any from work that are interested to come and help me move.

It seems pretty amazing that in just about 8 weeks or less, these kids will be here. We still don't have any agreement on names but we haven't discussed it as much as we need to (which is my fault). There just seems to be so much going on that I haven't really had a chance to sit down and ponder names. A lot of people have a lot of opinions on this which makes it challenging. In the end, I am sure that we will probably ignore most of the opinions and just go with what feels right.