Saturday, May 22, 2010

Trip to Georgia

We've been home from Georgia for almost two weeks now and while I'm sitting in the TLF (temporary living facility) while Ellie's napping and the boys are at the airshow, I decided perhaps I should post pictures from our time there! I know I posted a few but I thought I'd share the rest of them. While we were there, I went and picked Josh up from college at PBA. It was nice and warm down in southern Florida and this girl that's been living in ND for the last couple of years got a little warm! BUT LOVED IT!!! Okay, I didn't love the sweat but I loved the feeling of being warm and having the sun soak into you. Getting hot just thinking about it! Anyway, after getting back from getting Josh we enjoyed some time at the beach and at my uncle's pool. It got so warm during our time there that the pool actually got a little more on the swimable side although I refrained and watched the kids this time! Here's a little scrapbook of pictures from Georgia.

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What we're up to

Well, right now we are in the middle of move mode. The packers started this past Wednesday and finished Friday evening. Monday the driver will come do inventory and then Tuesday our stuff will be loaded on the van. I decided yesterday while I had some time that I should take some pictures. I always forget to and wish later that I had, so.... here they are!

Here's a partial view of the kitchen

This is the playroom
This is our "dining"area

This is definitely NOT my favorite part of the move but, hey, at least it's not ME packing all those boxes! We're very blessed to have someone else come in and do that for us! It's funny, though, because the packers never believe us when they first get there and we tell them we have a lot of stuff and it WILL take at least a full three days of packing. They always seem to think they'll be faster or that we don't really have that much stuff. Until it's 4 o'clock on Friday and they're really wishing they were done already! One of the packers said to me, "You knew all along didn't you?" I said, yep! This isn't my first rodeo!

Thursday, May 20, 2010

An Almost Perfect Day

I keep thinking about it and I have a moment so I wanted to write about a great day we had last week (a week ago today exactly). It was the day before Brian got home (although the kids still thought he was getting home on Saturday) and we had MOPS that morning. It was our last MOPS and it went really well and was almost surreal. Then, we came home and had a picnic lunch (in the living room - it was chilly and dreary outside) and watched some Schoolhouse rock videos. I put Ellie down for a nap then Ian and I had school time and it was a good day. Ian was in a good mood and it made school easy and fun. Then, Ellie got up and we enjoyed the afternoon playing. It's funny I can't even remember what all we did just that the kids and I were all in good moods and it made it an enjoyable day. That night when I put Ian to bed we finished reading "Little Britches" and both ended up crying. We had a good chat and prayer and it was a great way to end the day. It's funny, isn't it, that I didn't have to plan anything extravagant or spend lots of money to have a perfect day with my kids!

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Look who followed me home!

One day last week I went out for a run at my parent's house. After my run, I walked around my parent's cul-de-sac to cool down and was nearing their house when I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. I turned to see what it was and was surprised to find a mallard walking along in the grass beside me! He kept walking until some dogs in a house across the street started barking and then he stopped and looked around like, "I'm not going any closer." I said, "I completely understand" and kept walking. Well, I'd gone another few feet when I see a commotion out of the corner of my and look to see the mallard landing right next to me again. Well, he proceeds to walk the rest of the way with me to my parent's house and then walks up to the front door with me! I ran in and told Ian to grab a piece of bread and come out to see a friend of mine that followed me home! I grabbed Ellie and brought her out and the mallard kept pecking at my shoelaces and untied them. He didn't seem really interested in the bread but did keep pecking at it. At one time it looked as though he was trying to go in the front door and I had to tell him he didn't want to do that as we have two dogs inside that might want to do more than make his acquaintance! My dad said maybe he thought I was mom and I said, "Well, Brian does tell me I waddle!" Here's a picture of my mallard friend (sorry he didn't want to face the camera)!
Here's one of Ian trying to feed him and him going for Ian's toes instead!

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Georgia trip

We've been in Georgia for almost two weeks now. I haven't taken a lot of pictures but thought I'd share the few I've taken. The first pictures I took were almost as soon as we arrived in Georgia. I wanted to go to Chick-fil-a. If you know me, you know how much I love it and have missed it being in North Dakota! So, we had just left the airport and I looked up the closest one in the GPS and we went. Well, it was only after we'd been there a while and were amazed by the fact that it had a sit-down full-service section that I finally realized we were sitting in the ORIGINAL one! The sit-down section had waitresses that would come and take your order and it was more like a diner than a Chick-fil-a: you could even order a hamburger (don't tell the cows). Anyway, here are a couple of pictures!

One of the things Ian has really enjoyed being able to do while we've been here is go fishing anytime he wants (within reason). My parents have a couple of little creeks and all around their house that has a plethora of little fish willing to take his bait! The other night he and my dad had a contest - Ian was using hot dogs for bait and my dad was using lure. Well, Ian caught 19 and my dad caught 0. So, I think Ian won that one! Now they're saying they have to switch for the next one. The following are a couple of pictures of one of the fish he caught a few days ago. He came in to get me so I could see it.