Moving Along

Well, life is moving along..... slowly! We spent the weekend having, what is probably the biggest shopping trip we've ever had buying everything under the sun. Saturday, the restoration company brought more of our things back like Aerie's dresser and our dining room table so we are really starting to become functional again!

Basking in my own personal amusement.... I am happy to say I finally own the Bissell Pet Eraser and MAN IT ROCKS!!!! Must have for all pet owners! I took it to Artex's kitty window seat covered with fur, fur and more fur... and it cleaned right up. I'm so happy I stuck to my guns on wanting it!

I finished up class one towards my MBA this week. Organizational Behavior is officially over and hopefully I got a good grade (I think I did). This Saturday I start class 2. I wish they gave you a week in between, but alas.... no rest for the determined! I'm now in Management Information Systems (in layman's terms...... Computers in Business). It shouldn't be too bad. Eight more weeks and I'll be done for the semester, WOO HOO!

Aerie's been adapting to her new home well. Matthew called me this morning to tell me that she did something new today and that's reaction. He had her in the living room watching something on TV and apparently at one point there was an audience clapping and then she started clapping. Whether it was by sheer accident or on purpose, either way... it was pretty cool he said!

Aerie gets her booster shot on Wednesday and goes back for a check up on her pink eye. I can't believe our house burns and she gets pink eye in the same week. We'll never forget that, that's for sure!

Well, time to fly! I've got a million things to do!

Anyoe have some sanity?

Ok seriously! Does anyone have some sanity to share? If you haven't figured out by now, life is a bit crazy in our lives and hopefully it will return to normal at some point. Let's recap...... On Oct. 6, our home for the past 2+ years caught fire, leaving the house uninhabitable. Thankfully, we had insurance as many of our possession were water damaged from the fire on the two floors above us. We were forced to move in with family and frantically search for a new place to live. Miraculously, within the week we found a new home (a house all to ourselves) and moved in that weekend. Our new home is still in Washington; very close to Washington Hospital (We can actually hear life flight from our house). It’s a beautiful neighborhood with a nice mixture of families ranging from the elderly down to our age and even many with children. Our house is small compared to our apartment, but at least we don’t have to share it with anyone. We also have a beautiful fenced in back yard and garage big enough for a car and then some (Check out the pictures in the photo section I took while we were looking at it). I will post new pictures when we get things back in order (and it doesn’t look like we’re too lazy to unpack).At this point, we’ve begun to rebuild our lives. A restoration company has many of our belongings, attempting to clean and restore them to their glory; however, we lost our bedroom furniture, living room furniture, many electronics and Aerie’s playpen, swing and many toys. Thankfully, State Farm is really amazing and within a few days we had money to start replacing what was lost. Within a week we had new living room and bedroom furniture and started buying back all the things Aerie lost. It’s been a slow process because we don’t really have much and some of what we have can’t be put away yet because my shelves are with the restoration people. We’re basically living out of boxes and on the bare minimum hoping to eventually get back into a normal routine. It will come, one day …… hopefully soon. Keep coming back to the website as I redevelop it. De to changing from Verizon to Comcast, I lost our old website, but no biggie…. I’ll get everything back up soon. I think I’m going to look into buying my own webspace (more like I’ll have Matthew hunt to find me some webspace at a reasonable price) so I can do more with the website than the internet edit functions will allow me (plus have as much as much space as I want to have). Until then, this is the new website home.

Yeah! 6 Month Photos!

Aerie's six month photos were taken at Brownlee yesterday. She looked so adorable! We get to see them next Saturday..... Oh I can't wait!!!! A variety of poses were taken including putting Aerie on a bench with flowers, in a bath tub (my favorite), with rolls of toilet paper (it's adorable.... TRUST ME), and we even made her a fairy again in Aunt Barb's dress (bought months ago)! I can't wait to see them.... she's such a beautiful baby!!!!!!

Life is just as crazy as it's been! Run, Run, Run is all I do anymore. I attempt to find time to do homework and other things (like cleaning my house..... so totally not happening).... but there's only so many hours in the day and by the time I'm home from work, I'm just exhausted!

Well, that's my update for today. I have too much to do.