Western Frontier

Getting settled into the new house has been eventful. While the movers were much better this time around and the house is a lot nicer, we have had much more piled on our plate. I do not recommend moving across the country, shipping your car with unsavory characters, buying everything needed for a nursery in one night, trying to buy a new car and unpacking a house in the week before Thanksgiving. While the unpacking was the easiest part with the movers even coming back to get our empty boxes to be recycled, everything else is still up in the air. We are hoping things keep falling into place - that there are no more gas leaks, the cable guy doesn't need to come back again, that the car arrives safely on its slow boat from Japan and doesn't get re-sold to someone else, the nursery furniture gets here and we don't have to deal with Babies R Us again and Tess gets new tires.

Lola is loving her new house and the cool weather. She does not like birds in her yard though and will sprint down the stairs and jump higher than the pub height dining room table to make sure we see her so she can go out and chase the birds away. She is also pretty excited to be able to go to a farm for daycare where she can herd ducks. I didn't get a new picture of Lola because she was still out looking at the farm when I was downloading pictures and all the new ones are on my phone. Sorry Lola. She also has tons of fun going to the dog park and even though she stole a little boy's ball from his hands and ran away with it, she is still making lots of new friends. Lola super duper excited for Grandma to come and visit next week. .

Baby is doing well and moving tons. You can see the belly moving from across the room. I went to get set up with a doctor on post and the intake nurse changed my due date back to the original date which is February 20. I am sticking to it. It makes me feel thinner. We celebrated by going to the super chinese buffet in town, its deliciousness makes me even more happy that we moved to the town we did. Baby also enjoyed it. Baby also did back flips in celebration of Lola's bestest friend DONNIE getting sworn in to be a NJ lawyer !!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY DONNIE !!!!!!!!! we are a little sad though that he wont be coming out west to be our full time Manny/ Dog whisperer :(

New Home



All the excitement of the neighborhood



Lola's Domain -- NO BIRDS ALLOWED




Living Room


Dinning Room


Kitchen WIth a View


Kitchen


Bedroom/ Bathroom - no there is no door




Baby Gear - we are hoping to get the actual furniture soon




I was not going to take a belly picture after cleaning the kitchen and in the middle of making dinner, BUT The Gip sent me a Mr. Peanut apron a while back and it is officially no longer able to tie around my belly. Being that I am now bigger than Mr. Peanut... I baked a cake for a snack (the frosting has Hershey Syrup in it). I do not regret this delicious decision.

Month of Madness

Lola had a super busy month. She had her first Halloween, but spent it sitting at the dining room table watching the trick or treaters so that we could get the house ready for the packers. Then she went to daycare for 3 days while the moves came to move our stuff. She got a nice bath and got to say good bye to all her friends at daycare. They even gave her a going away sweet potato treat. After being tired out for a few days playing, she then got into the car for a nice drive to see her buddy Luke and DONNIE !!!! She was very excited to be there.

Lola and Luke went on many walks and shared many treats. Since Lola didn't get to go trick or treating we brought her costume to show Grandma and Grandpa. She made one feisty Lobster !!! She really liked being a Lobster, but Grandpa put her mouth through the ear hole so she was a bit wiggly.

While we were visiting our friends and family threw us a lovely baby shower and we got tons of adorable things which we are very thankful for, but didn't get many pictures of. Lola helped Donnie celebrate passing the Bar and let us borrow him long enough to take a picture of us.

After spending not enough time with Luke, Lola had to get on a plane and fly out west to our new home. She is loving the cool weather and long walks through our new safe neighborhood. Lola also learned how to climb the tree in the back yard so she can chase things out of it -- it's quite impressive. She also made a new friend Dutch, who tired her out big time at the dog park while the movers unpacked our things. It also snowed all weekend. Lola had fun running the sprints with her nose plowing through the snow. We tried to get a few pictures of the house, but it has been snowing too hard. we will try again soon.

Baby is having fun too and moving around tons and practicing back flips, which you can see through my shirt. We have an apt with the nurse today to get set up with a doctor, who will hopefully get us a more accurate due date. We are going tonight or tomorrow to shop for all the baby nursery furniture and gadgets that we will need once Lola's buddy arrives. Which is all quite exciting :)

Lola's Halloween View


Lobster Lola





Baby Shower




25 week Belly


Hopefully things will start to slow down and we will post again soon