Granddaddy and Grandma Mellie come to visit

Lee and Melanie came into town last weekend and graciously were willing to be our first house guests. We worked hard to get the main living areas of the house ready for visitors (don't go up to the master suite though). Although we've been in Lexington for a few weeks, that time has been spent getting the house organized. We have not really explored or ventured around town in any capacity.


We went out to Keenland to watch the houses "train". It was so fun to be back at Keenland and this time it was basically empty. We walked right up to the track and watched the horses run. After watching and exploring a bit, we walked down to the track kitchen . On our way down there we got to see the horses being walked and groomed. A few of the caretakers came over to the fence so we could pet and see the horses up close. Lillie loved it and so did all of us! We will be be doing this again and next time we'll head to watch the horses earlier. They're such amazing creatures!

We did a lot of driving around in horse country and just seeing the sights. In this moment, Lillie was very fussy and we were trying to drive home. Lee and Melanie tried "fake sleeping" to entice her to close her own eyes. Obviously it didn't work, but it was pretty funny!

On Saturday after nap time, we headed out to Crank and Boom Ice Cream. Our neighbor has been an awesome supplier for all of our ice cream needs. We went out there and all got a scoop. It is delicious and is on our must list for people who come to town. Richard LOVES the strawberry and I have yet to find a flavor that I don't like. Melanie got the Caramel and I think really enjoyed it.

Melanie got the bath time routine down pat while she was here! Lillie LOVES bath time and when she's ready to start the wind down process she will even walk over to the bathroom door. That is our clue that she's ready for bath time. and ultimately bed time. She and Melanie had fun and Melanie even brought her a new duck toy for the occasion!

We had a lot of fun showing Richard's parents around our new city. We appreciate their willingness to be our first victims/ house guests.  We are falling more in love with our fun new city. We cannot wait to explore and learn about all that Lexington has to offer! We are looking forward to more visitors, learning more about horses, maybe kind of  start liking bourbon and learn to love everything UK.  Come help us explore!

Finding Our New House

I wanted to share with some of you the story about how we found our precious little house.  We found out in December that we would be relocating to Lexington. We immediately began using every possible online house search possible, we set up meeting with a realtor that we suggested to us by our friends and the hunt was on. Lexington has a real estate market that rivals Greenville. A house comes on the market and in less than 7 hours it is gone. We made the trek to Lexington ( 6+ hours) with Lillie about 4 times in the next 4 months. Often times with Richard's schedule we would go up Saturday morning, look at houses late Saturday and early Sunday morning and drive back Sunday. We were exhausted and so defeated by the whole process. When our Greenville house went under contract, we were frantic to find something that would line up with our timing but more importantly Richard's start date at the hospital.

Helping mama unpack

Back sometime this winter, I was added to a Facebook group of Lexington Moms. I put out a desperate plea sharing that we were coming up, looking for a house and listed all of the specs we were looking for, the price range and the area of town we were living in. I asked the Lexington Moms to let me know if anyone was getting ready to put their house on the market and were willing to let us get a 1st look. I was flooded with messages from folks. The moment I got a message with pictures and a message from the previous owner, I knew this house was it! Richard immediately loved it too. We drove to Lexington and were graciously welcomed into the house for a look. It was just what we were hoping for, less than 2 miles from the hospital and in our price range. It had the old house charm that we love (the house was built in 1925).  We made an offer the next day and were thrilled when they accepted.  When we met the owners, we felt as if we had made some new friends.

We love our new house and are so glad it worked out how it did. When Richard was in orientation for work, he met people who shared that they had tried countless times to find a house but they were stuck renting because of the fast turnover.  We really lucked out and are excited about our new adventure in this sweet little tudor home.

Let me know if you need our new address and know that we have already had our first round of visitors (Lee and Melanie). Kara, Michael and sweet Greta are next on the visiting list and we cannot wait to have the cousins reunited after not seeing one another a year! Know that there is an open invitation to our friends and family.  We'd love to have people come visit and help us explore our new city.  As always, thanks for reading and following our adventure!