Short Houston Vacay to get away from the Move-in Mess

When we arrived in Prattville, Neal's fabulous parents were here waiting for us.  They scooped up our children and took them all back to Houston for the week so we could get settled in!   Unfortunately our stuff didn't arrive until the weekend.  Tyson and Val the superheroes (aka my brother and his wife) came in for a little slumber party, just in time to help us with the delivery, and to get the kitchen put away and get mostly organized.  They left and then we left too, and drove to Houston to pick up our kids and spend a few days with family.  I thought it would be a great idea to get away from the move in mess, but it totally backfired.  I was stressed and worried about the mess the whole time, so we cut our trip short, only stayed like 4 days and headed back.  While we were in Houston we went to the beach, and spent a day with Kelli and Shaun (and Tyson and Val since they followed us there for Alexa's baptism).  Millie stayed behind and went home with Tyson and Val to spend a week as a mommy's helper with her cousins in Biloxi.  I am surprised I remember any of this.  It feels like a fog now looking back.  Probably because THIS was going on in the middle of it all:

Lots of yummy morning sickness.  But so excited Baby #5 coming sometime around March 1st, 2014.

 Neal took Noah and Justin to explore a submarine one day in Houston.

We went to Biloxi to pick up Millie and it was hard to say goodbye.