Thanksgiving at the Farm

We spent Thanksgiving with Chris’s family at the farm. We had a good time hanging out by the camp fire, taking long walks under the autumn leaves, smoking meat in the smoker, eating a ton of food, riding four-wheelers, and taking the canoe out on the newly formed lake. Cooper had a good time and enjoyed all the attention from his grandparents, aunt, uncle, and extended family. Cooper was pretty much spoiled rotten while we were there.

I hope that all of you had a good Thanksgiving with your family!

Here is a picture of Cooper from our trip at the farm.
(Don’t worry that is milk in that glass!)

Update

I know that I have not been as faithful to blogging as I should, but now that Cooper is crawling and pulling himself up on everything and anything, it is hard for me to have a moment to get to the computer.

House Update: So far we have painted the master bedroom, master bathroom, cooper’s bedroom, cooper’s bathroom, and the laundry room. We are also mostly done painting the living room and we are going to work on painting the hallway and entryway this week. Still have a long way to go, but eventually, little by little we will get there.

Church Update: We found a church! Yippy. I am so happy that we found a church that we can sink our feet into and grow. We attend morning service and then following the morning service we attend a small group. The small group is comprised of a lot of young families with young children. I love it. I am hoping to make some good friendships with these people. Best part about this small group, I am really challenged by the teaching and study that we are doing. Cooper goes to the nursery for 8:30-11 while we do our church thing. He seems to really enjoy being around other kids. There are 4 other babies who are his age in the nursery from our small group. I think that is neat. If you want to learn more about our church click here: http://www.themetonline.org/

Cooper Update: Cooper is crawling, pulling himself up on everything. He is babbling away. Cooper loves to eat finger foods cut into small pieces. He enjoys drinking water from his big boy cup that has a straw. He is really not a little baby any more. I look at him and it is hard to imagine him as a tiny little baby. GEE, he did grow up fast. He is just a few days shy of 11 months and in one month he’ll be one. His new claim to fame is picking up his toy telephone and holding it up to his ear, too cute! He takes two naps- one hour nap in the am and 1.5 hour nap in the pm. He sleeps about 11-12 hours a night. I love all the sleep I can get at night.

Vacations/ Travel: We are getting ready to head back to Maryland for a family vacation with the Tumolo’s at my father and Step-mom’s beach house. That should be fun. I will make sure to take a ton of pictures. The week following that we are going to be in the Columbia area visiting with friends and family while Chris returns to APL for a week of work on site. For those of you who did not know, Chris is still working for APL remotely in Texas. Chris plans to make the switch to his family’s insurance business in the middle of September.

Moving

This is my last full week in Maryland before we make our trip west to Texas. I have a thousand and one things to cram into the last few days I have left here. Between packing, visiting with friends and family, Jayme’s graduation, settlement, and just trying to run a few more last minute errands, I have my hands pretty full. So if you don’t hear from me on our blog for a while, you will know why. I promise to faithful keep updating the blog once we get to Texas and get our Internet set up. I am sure I will have a lot to say about your move. Just in case you did not know, we are driving to Houston, Texas with Cooper. Yes, I know that sound crazy, but we are doing it. We needed to get our cars to Houston and well that means we needed to drive. Jayme is coming with me to help out with Cooper. We plan on breaking the trip down into 3-4 days. So hopefully that will make it more manageable with Cooper. Cooper has been a real trooper lately! We have taken him all over God’s creation and keeping him up late at night (normal bedtime is 7pm and he’s been going to sleep some nights close to 9pm) he is missing naps left and right, but despite all the craziness, he is doing okay! I cannot believe that he is handling all of this so well. I am thankful to God that he is allowing Cooper to be more flexible so that I can do all my good-byes!

This week is bound to have me filled up with emotions. I was born and raised in Maryland and leaving it feels like I am leaving a piece of me behind. I pray that my transition to Texas will be smooth! I’ll just miss all my family and friends that I am leaving behind.
Okay…more cleaning/ boxes await…signing off for a little while…