Very busy...

So, I think I'll get all my bases covered with this one post. Things are still going pretty well. We're still super busy, but it's starting to feel like routine. Arianna is beautiful, as always. She is just pure joy. We love being parents. I've attached some new pictures and a video. The first picture is of Arianna playing in the grass. We tried to get her to look up (it was going to be her 9 month picture) but she really just loved playing with the grass...

The next picture is of Arianna in the bath. She LOVES taking baths and I think she looks like the Gerber Baby in this one. It's the Gerber Baby Shampoo that's making her hair stand on end!

Next is the video. This is the true girl in Arianna. She is a HUGE drama queen. She saw me taking video and wanted the camera. I wouldn't give it to her, so obviously, she threw a fit. Is that bad...seeing as she's only 9 months?!

So sorry

I know everyone has been looking for more video and pictures, but honestly, I just found the camera in one of our MANY boxes still unpacked. Seriously, it's like we just moved. The new carpet is beautiful, we miss our cats :( but life is good. We are still unpacking all of our junk (most of it is still in the guest bath!) so, as soon as I can recharge the camera, I'll take some more video and pictures and post them, I promise! Good health to all and God bless!

Trying to be techy...

We are going to try and post this video of Arianna crawling. You can hear our prompts in the background encouraging her to wave, but to no avail. Anyway, she does wave bye-bye but we couldn't get her to do it in the video...we'll keep working on that!

major prayer request

So, this is going to be deep. Ever have one of those weeks where you feel totally overwhelmed and out of control? That was this week for us. We've had one thing after another and it just feels like nothing is going right and that we are just going crazy! First, our vacuum broke. Not a big deal, but it was just the start. Then this week I had musical auditions. So, I was hardly ever home, I didn't get to see Arianna much and Jason had both daddy and mommy duties. Arianna FINALLY broke her top two teeth in, but with it came some serious diaper rash. Obviously, she was a little cranky, and I mean who could blame her? If I had sore buns, I would be cranky too! I got a MONSTER cold and feel like dung and I can't breathe. Then, we decided that we had to get rid of our two cats. They were starting to pee on the carpet and hiss at Arianna. So, we tried everyone that we could think of that would want to take our cats and no luck. So, we decided to take them to the humane society...turns out they won't take cats who pee outside of their litter box. They told us that they were probably sick (which I do think Oscar was sick) and the best thing we could do for them was put them to sleep. So, that's what we had to do. There really wasn't any other option, but we're both still super sad... and FINALLY, our new carpet is coming in next week Monday and Tuesday so we're looking at a weekend of trying to move our furniture around for the carpet. So, we're about out of gas over here. If everyone could just pray that things will start looking up that would be great. It seems as though we're just trying to keep our heads above water right now...
Thanks for all the support already for me with going back to work and all. It's still going great. Arianna loves her daycare and I"m getting into the swing of things and the daily routine is getting easier. Thanks again for all your concern. Let me know if there are any prayers that you need!

Basic news

So, it's the end of the first official week of school for me. Last week I just had meetings ALL day EVERY day, it was a blessing to have students. I think it will be a pretty good year. Overall, the week went well (I only cried on Monday!) Arianna loves her daycare which is a true answer to prayers. Keep us informed on how you're all doing. I'll post new pictures soon...she's growing daily! She's a chunk!