We are in!

We have officially moved into our new home and absolutely LOVE it! The kiddos are adjusting really well... it's like they know this is their home. We are still not 100 % unpacked and settled, but we will eventually get there!

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!

Almost there!

The time has almost arrived! We are set to close on our new house this coming Friday!!! We absolutely can't wait! As soon as we get settled in, I will be able to start blogging again... we have a lot of catching up to do.



PS... I can't believe our babies are turning TWO on Wednesday! These past two years have flown by!

I can't wait until we get to catch up... SOON!

updates...

Well, we have put an offer on a house and it was accepted! If all goes according to plan, we will be closing on the new home Dec. 11! We are very excited and are looking forward to it!

Things have been pretty much normal around here for us. Len continues to put in long hours at work (poor guy!) and therefore I continue to put in long hours with the kids at home. Being in this apartment is really getting to the kids. Gavin now is having an extremely hard time sleeping. He was always the easy one to get to sleep, but boy... how things have changed! All of a sudden one night when putting him down, he just started screaming. Ever since then, it takes at least an hour and a half to get him to sleep (both for bed time and nap time), and he is now waking up multiple times during the night as well. Ugh. We are all exhausted.

Like I said... we are VERY excited about moving, and I'm hoping that will solve all of these sleeping issues.

Hope everyone has a Happy Halloween!

There is always a reason...

So, just in case you are wondering why you haven't heard anything from our wonderful family... I promise that there is a good reason. We have sold our house and moved! Since the move, we have not had Internet. We are waiting until we are in our new house to reconnect to the wonderful world wide web.

We sold our house on Sept. 22. Man, what a whirl wind that was. Our plans were to build a home that would be ready in Dec/Jan. So, after selling our home we have moved into a very tiny, very cramped apartment until our next move in Dec. Plans have changed, and now will be buying a pre existing home and hopefully closing sometime in Dec (we are in the lease now until then.... ugh). Life is VERY challenging in the apartment, and we find ourselves grumpy pretty much most of the time... so we are really looking forward to Dec. Unfortunately, I won't be posting a lot between now and then, but will do my best to keep everyone up to date on those precious kiddos!

They have gone under cover

The kids are cracking me up with their sun glasses! We went out for dinner tonight, and they just had to wear their glasses while we were eating. It was so funny, it's like they have gone under cover or something and are trying to hide their identities. I mean look at this...



HA HA HA! They can do their best to go under cover, but I can always spot these two cuties anywhere!

Such a happy boy!

Bayou Wildlife Park

We headed out to the Bayou Wildlife Park last weekend and had a great time. The kids LOVED seeing all of the animals up close and personal! We will have to go back soon... once it gets a little cooler!While we were driving into the park, all the animals that were near the road would come up to the cars for food. It was so funny that these animals are so acclimated to people that they are not even afraid of the cars. We literally had to "off road" to get around this guy... he would not move out of the middle of the road!
Here he is again... at my window asking for food! He was NOT planning on moving for anything!

Our safari boy

And our safari girl... HA HA! She really wasn't grumpy... she was just really hot



This picture looks so funny, but I promise that this ostrich was not about to eat this child... just the child's bucket of food!





The zebras were really neat. Our tour guide said that we were able to get closer to these zebras than people who go on an African safari!

Do you think Gavin is checking out the camel or the little girl??? We are going to have to have a talk with him...

No matter how much fun you are having with all the wildlife, sometimes a boy just has to stop and take a break to pick some boogies! UGH!!! We are also going to have to have a talk about that...

"Here Mr. Goat, eat from my bucket... not that bucket!"