Will be Missing you!!

We are moved. Now it's time for adjusting for everyone. Sophie has been pretty wound up, Brody is trying to get used to sleeping in a new room and so am I, and I am adjusting to taking care of Brody in a new place. It's good changes but I am tired. I am hoping in a couple of weeks we will be more settled and used to our new place. The unpacking is coming along smoothly and we have A LOT done! It's weird because I don't have internet there. We actually still have the internet hooked up at the old house and have been going there to clean, do laundry and check on the place. So here I am sitting and writing to you all. I am not sure when or if I will get internet at the new place so I may be reading and responding to your blogs less and writing less. :( I will do my best to try and keep up. I will probably be back tomorrow afternoon but after that not sure. Take care and I'll be checking in when I can. :)

Cruising right along!!

Well Don and I have gotten quite a bit of packing and moving done and it's not even the weekend!! SWWWEEEETTT! It feels good to see our new little place coming together and weird to see our house becoming more and more vacant. I am going to be going to the house this afternoon to do some more unpacking and some cleaning. Maybe I will try to take a few pictures and post them. We have moved two loads over to the apartment and one to storage already. However if you look at our house we still have quite a bit of stuff. It's crazy. I didn't really how much STUFF we had stuffed into our little house.

Anyway, this is what I have been up to and it's kept me pretty busy. However this morning while Brody slept I decided to take the time to catch up with the blog community. I had a great morning. Don spoiled me this morning and I got to go to the gym by myself, then I showered and got ready for the day (by myself!)  and then I ran an errand to target to get some more stuff to help us organize our new place. So that's life from JP and the boys! This weekend I get to go to a Fisher Price play date and spend the weekend continuing to organize our new place. It will be nice to be moved in and get settled. :)

MORE MORE MORE!!!

I really wasn't trying to allow the dog to keep doing this but I was getting them playing together and it just happened!! You would think that Brody would learn to close his mouth. :( eewww..

Regardless they completely love each other. Brody laughs harder when the dog is around then any other time. It's so cute. 

The night the goose came..

Sarah's oldest, Nathaniel!! Isn't he the cutest. I was at the hospital the day he was born!! :) 

The boys on the boat. Brodes thought that Caleb was hilarious!

Brodes loved standing at the back of the boat. We would stop and restart and he loved the take off. It was hilarious!
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Just the girls!

After bathtime we read the kids a story. TERRY was a brave man. He gave all of the little kiddo's a bath together. It was so cute. :) Thanks Terry!

What a little wise guy!

Isn't Sarah beautiful! LOVE YOU LADY!

Look at that handsome little dude! He looks so happy.

Little M... she is just a peanut and is a few months older then Brody. 

Love my MAN!

This is my favorite... could that be any cuter?? I don't think so.

Last Wednesday I was so excited. We were going to be heading north to go visit my girlfriend Sarah and her family. Sarah has been one of my best friends since college and she is the best!! We have so much fun together and we always always laugh... she is hilarious. :) They have a pontoon and when we go up there it's always nice to go out in the boat. The first time we took Brody out I didn't have my camera!!!! Isn't that a shame. So this time I brought our little point and shoot, for convience purposes but I still got some cute pictures. Oh wait, I am getting ahead of myself. So anway Sarah kept telling me about the night before they saw this goose that flew right up to the boat and was following it. She said it was the craziest thing.. well here we are out in the boat. They kept wondering if we would see this crazy goose again. On the shore line we see a goose but he didn't come over to the boat so they thought that it wasn't the same goose!! WRONG... all the sudden here he comes, parks himself along side the boat and follows us for a bit and then starts to lag behind and then goes away. It's quite amusing. We all got a kick out of the little guy. Anyway we had such a great night with our friends. Here our some pictures. 

Why you shouldn't run at the dog with your mouth open...

 GROSS!! Hahahaha.... 

Moving on..

Since I have been married Don and I have never really been settled. I guess the most settled we were was in our first house. However, even then I knew it was temporary. I knew he always wanted to go back to school. Since we have been married the longest we have lived in one place has been about 2.5 years. We have been in transition since he decided to go back to school and we have two years of school left. There is apart of me that is ancy and ready for the transition to come to end. I am excited for Don to be done with school and to find a place where we can stay and raise our children, a place that they can call home.

Right now we are in transition again. We are moving. Most of you know this. It has been stressful as the circumstances are far from ideal. (In terms of why we are moving.) Regardless of this we have been packing and tonight we started to move stuff to the new apartment. We will be living with Don's mentors in their house. They have an apartment in the basement of their home. Today as I packed I felt more content about his move since we first knew it was going to happen. Tonight however as we were sitting there and putting furniture where we want it, unpacking our stuff I could picture us living there. I am excited to move on. I am excited to live somewhere that will feel safe and  secure. I am excited to be close to family. They are truly family. I am excited that Brody will have his "adopted" grandparents upstairs. They adore him. They are so sweet and thoughtful, they told us that they are willing to keep an eye for Brody at night if he is sleeping and we want to go out for ice cream, or for a walk. It's just nice to know we have the option. I will say that there is a small hint of sadness as we leave our home where we became a family. Certainly this house holds many memories but I know that it's time to move on and have peace about our newest endeavor. 

Catching UP!

I am so bad at blogging. I am behind in pictures, stories and everything. These pictures are from the weekend of the dedication. I love watching Brody interact with friends and family. He loves his cousins. We have also discovered that he loves football. Don keeps telling him that he can love to watch it but he can't play it. I have a feeling that when the time comes Brody will tell us if he wants to play it or not! :) We will see. While the boys were here they brought a little football with and it has replaced the big football for now because it's easier to carry and he carries it around everywhere. He is such a boy! 

This weekend was busy but a lot of fun. Saturday I shot a wedding on a boat in Afton. It was so fun. They were an adorable couple with such a fun and close family. I hope to be posting the pictures on my business blog later this week. After the wedding we headed to my parents for the weekend. It's been awhile since we have traveled home or any kind of long distance with Brody!! I was shoved back into the reality of why we don't travel long distances anymore. It's amazing how a 3 hour trip can get drawn out. We left our house at 4pm on Saturday and got to my parents house just before 10pm. Now I will say that we had to run to Home Depot and get gas just after we left. Then we took the wrong road by accident while we were leaving town and had to turn around. Then of course we stopped and got dinner, then later had to stop again for a bathroom break. Every time we stop we have to let the dog out to go to the bathroom so it's never a quick stop. Needless to say by the time we got there we were tired and a little crabby. Then Brodes decides he doesn't like Grandma and Grandpa's house and screamed bloody murder for about an hour. The first night was a bit tough. However we got through it. :) Sunday we stayed home from church. Don got up with Brody and let me sleep until about 9:30. Honestly I was so tired I went back to sleep and slept for another hour while Grandma took Brody to the park. When she got back we gave him lunch and he took over a 3 hour nap. :) Grandma napped too and I worked on pictures. My Grandma and my aunt Suzie stopped by while everyone was napping and I had a fun visit with them. Then in the evening my parents took me out for dinner for my birthday (early birthday dinner.)! It was nice. Then we went to see my sister and my nephews. It was really fun. Brody was so happy and excited to see them. He was making us all laugh. He kept putting a blanket over his head and running around with it. He is in this stage right now where he thinks it's really funny but then he runs into things. It is funny! He cracks me up. We left my parents at 10am Monday morning to come home and again we stopped quite a bit. We went and saw my other sister and nephews. That was really fun. Her boys are very close to Brody's age and they all just seemed to love each other. It's so fun to see Brody interact with other kids and get excited to see them and play with them. They had a big stuffed alligator and it completely freaked him out. He was crying hysterically. I am such a bad mom. I was laughing at him and I didn't mean to but it was sorta of funny! I guess you would have had to been there. :) Anyway it was a good weekend. I ended it by going to a movie with my youngest sister and it was really fun. I love spending time with her. We saw "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2". We laughed and cried together.  All in all it was a good weekend. Hope you all had great weekends as well!!