Christmas Letter Update

If you have found your way here after receiving our Christmas Card...I am not quite fully caught up on blogging! You caught me. With everything we have had on our plates this past year I was not good at keeping up so now the past week or so I have been frantically working to get everything updated (from practically the entire year). I am making progress and may be able to remove this "embarassing" post soon. I plan to have myself all caught up before the holidays hit!

The nice thing about getting out our Christmas Cards (super early for us) is that we were able to let many people know we moved who may not have. The bad thing is I didn't have quite as much time to finish my backlog.

***Update 12/18/18***
I am done! I am completely caught up for the first time in a year - yikes. And that being caught up should last at least a week of so until we have our Christmas adventures to post about. I sure plan to be better in 2019 then I was in 2018. Enjoy!

Bam...I did it

Almost two weeks after getting started I finally got caught up.  Thank goodness for kids being in school and Kate taking naps.  I also have to make note that a few days were spent getting Kate's 1 year baby book completed so I could take advantage of the free photo book offer I got online (and I got it done when she was still technically one - victory).  Phew...that is quite a lot of To Do List off my plate for now.  I hope to not get so far behind in the future, here's hoping. 

Ahhh..I am so behind

Well today if the first day of school (afternoon Pre-K) for Lucy and Jaydon is just starting his 4th day of First grade so I get some kid free time while Kate naps.  Jeremy has finished one of his school projects that also kept me from the computer quite a bit.  Not to mention the fact that we had an amazingly busy and fun summer!  But, now is my chance.  I hope that in the next week or so I will be able to get this blog updated.  Let's hope the computer cooperates and I can plow through some of these updates from the previous 3 months of our lives.  Thanks for your patience...

And done!

Finally caught up!  Jeremy and I appear to have switched personalities as he has needed to go to bed early since returning from Atlanta and I am being the night owl getting all kinds of work done in the evenings.  Thankfully, I am now caught up with our blog, and I hope to get a chance to get more sleep soon.  I also really hope I start remembering to take more photos because the blog will become very sparse if my past few weeks of photo taking habits continue.  Hope you enjoy our stories!

We are still here!

Sorry folks, for those of you who try checking here every once in awhile to see how we are doing!  We are surviving and I have a huge list going of the updates I am planning to do I just haven't found time to get around to them.  I am still trying and maybe sometime in this next week during the evenings I will be successful, just in time to kick off all the fun holiday posts :)

A few updates, sans photos, from our family:

Jeremy took a new job with UCB, another pharmaceutical company.  The really nice thing is no more travel to AK and he will get a chance to sell some different meds for Parkinson's and epilepsy which will give him a chance to continue to learn new stuff which he loves.  The only real bummer about this new job is that it comes with two weeks of travel in Atlanta!  It certainly isn't great timing for him to be gone for two weeks (both kids are a bit sick, Lucy is teething, I start basketball coaching in five days - fun times) but we are making it work and are very thankful for his new opportunity.  

Jaydon is working on his potty training and doing  a mighty good job.  He was nailed with a yucky virus right on Halloween that kept him down for a couple days and then led to an awful cough.   Coughs are tough, they hurt, they keep everyone awake and there isn't a lot to be done for them except drink honey.  Luckily he is feeling a bit better now so hopefully back to normal soon.  He started swimming lessons (more on that in a previous post with photos when I get to it) and loves playing with his little sister.

Lucy is up and walking around on furniture and even pushed a toy around the carpet walking around last week.  She is working on that pesky second tooth and is doing well with teething but not sleeping well.  She loves to explore everything around her, especially what her brother is getting into.

I am tired but hanging in there, I may not win any parenting awards this month while Jeremy is gone and I am in awe of single parents and the work they do.  I am excited for basketball to start and look forward to Lucy turning one so I can start eating some sinfully delicious foods again!

 Here are a couple photos of our fall fun just to keep you in the loop until I get more updates on here.  

A few random photos

A few miscellaneous photos.

Grandma with a bundled up Lucy after a chariot adventure

Lucy being a bottle champ and still a spit up champ!  She doesn't get bottles very often but it sure is nice that she will take them so well.

Lucy is a smiler!  Since almost the first week she has blessed us with some terrific smiles and some great interaction.  I have yet to actually capture a good one on camera but we came close here.  She is enjoying some naked squirming time on her changing table.

She finally succumbed to her tiredness.  It took some effort, a bit reminiscent of Jaydon.  Bouncing on the ball.  She will sometimes use a pacifier but not that often and not for that long, I think she will be a thumb sucker as she has gotten her thumb a couple times and is pretty proud of herself for that.

Higgins and Lily taking care of each other!

More posts to come

I haven't been neglecting the blog on purpose, but we have been transitioning to a new computer and I don't have the software I need to get the pictures from my camera onto the computer. While I will get more pics and stories on here soon, for now know we have been keeping busy and are having fun. Jaydon and I have a number of weekly activities we attend (library story time, Time with Twos (at the tech college), toddler time, a moving and music class, and many trips to the park or to watch sporting events when the weather is cooperating).

Jeremy is keeping very busy with work and school, he started the coursework for his PhD program.

We are excited about fall and Halloween rapidly approaching. Jaydon has asked to be a giraffe so I will be making a costume (we will see how that goes) and will make sure to get pics and good stories on here of the events we have planned surrounding Halloween. I love to be able to have my house decorated and enjoy the many different decor changes that will happen between now and Spring.

We're Home!

Well we made it home from our Alaska adventure and now that we are actually moved and settled and staying put for a moment life can get somewhat back to normal (what is normal again?) I have a TON of photos to upload to the computer and then get onto the blog - it will happen. Be on the lookout for many posts to be filled in for July!