cuteness

playing with Josh's hat

Brooke likes all the sun from our bedroom window and seems to be getting along ok without her brother. 

 

Anna decided to help herself to a snack from the pantry.  I found her like this in the playroom....

want some mom?

these chips are yummy!

our new apartment

Here is a little photo tour of our new apartment. The place is almost completely furnished for us, set up through Mike's job, so we only needed the basics, plus a few odds and ends of furnitue that we picked up after getting here.  The floor plan below is flipped, so it's not easy to read, but I wanted to show exactly how our apartment is set up. 

The tour starts in the back, in the main bathroom.... 

across the hall is the play room, set up with the kids toys, clothes and diaper changing area.  It will also double as my sewing room.  We've already added a bookshelf between the 2 windows and a table on the wall to the right inside the door.

dining area

Kitchen, laundry room door is through the kitchen and the front door is on the right in the picture.

Living room



TV and current computer area.  We're still trying to find space and furniture to get this all set up, but it works for now.




Balcony






View from balcony. 





There is a little hallway to the master bedroom/ bathroom






The kids sleep with us so this is a cosleeper,queen and twin, all put togehter.  And there is still plenty of walking space around the room.

Huge walk in master closet

Master bathroom

 

View of the pool from the landing outside our door



Moving to Louisville, KY

As many of you know, we are moving to Louisville, KY for a few months for Mike's job.  So far, we've gotten off to a pretty rocky start.  Mike and I were each driving a car loaded with all of our belongings, plus he had the cats and I had the kids.  We left about noon on Monday and shortly into our trip, I lost control of the van and couldn't correct it and ended up hitting a guard rail on 275.  The kids were fine (thanks Recaro car seats!!) and I ended up with a few bruises on my face and on my arms from the air bag, otherwise I'm ok as well (thanks Honda!).  Below are some pictures from the scene and of the car.  My parents were still in MI after helping us at the house, so they came to get us, loaded everything from my van, into theirs, and drove down with us.  We had some problems with Mike's van on the trip, but nothing he and my dad couldn't fix in an hour long pit stop...  We finally arrived in Louisville about midnight.  Tuesday while we were unpacking, the tornado siren went off and a tornado touched down about 1/2 a mile from our apartment.  And hopefully, ending our streak of bad luck, our beloved cat Beaker became very ill during the trip and passed away at the vet clinic late this afternoon.  Hopefully things will be better for us from here on out.  Louisville looks like a nice city and we look forward to exploring it once we finally get some rest.