Last few weeks...

Life around here has been C.R.A.Z.Y with a serious capital C!  Between moving, stuff not making it for 15 days, starting school, starting a medical practice, being in charge of a race...life has not slowed down long enough to even sit down for very long much less blog.  Now that the race is over I feel like I can breathe a little.  So a little recap of the last few weeks:


Sweet friends took the boys a couple times so we could get a few things done.

I spent some time visiting with my precious first born...its good to be near his grave site again.
We did a little celebrating before the first day of school.
We started Pre-K.


We started Parents Day Out and slept in a big boy bed for the first time.
Our stuff finally arrived after 15 days.
I went on a date with my love to celebrate his first day of work.
I obviously didn't get enough sleep before the race but there was so much to do that sleep had to come last.

The race was a success even though it rained (I will blog more about the 5k when I get the pictures back from my photographer).

So thankful to have this man by my side through all of life.
So great to see some of my favorite NICU families at the race with their precious children (that is water from the rain not sweat on my shirt).
2 of our very favorite families stayed with us over the race weekend. So thankful the McGuigans and Robinsons they made the trip!
My naked chef helped me cook dinner.

There is a lot more to blog about but I'm tired and have tons more to catch up on.  Be back soon!

Road trip recap

We made it to Memphis last Monday but unfortunately are stuff didn't make it.  The truck from Boston is taking 16 days.  What?!?  Definitely ridiculous but what can you do.  We thankfully had a Pod in Memphis that we left for 14 months that had a few things but right now we are pretty much living in an empty house.  There were some cross words shared with our friends over at United Moving Company. Not sure if they picked the right woman to mess with...20 weeks pregnant, a 2 and 3 year old, and 2 weeks away from the biggest event she puts on...this woman needs her stuff!!!  We are praying it makes it by Wednesday.

I took pictures along the way on our road trip for memories.  The road trip really was wonderful.  The boys did awesome and we were really proud of them.  The longest drive was a little over 7 hours.  Every other day we tried to keep it closer to 5 or less.  We watched lots of movies, colored, played with toys, and made numerous stops.  It was so great to catch up with old friends along the way as well.  Definitely something we will look back upon and smile!

Road trip day 1: packing up the house, loading the car, saying goodbye to our Boston apartment, and driving as far as we could make it.


Road trip day 2: waking up in a hotel in Danbury, CT, watching movies in the car, stopping for lunch, ending the day in Washington, DC meeting David's high school best friend's new baby boy, Whit.


Road trip day 3: touring DC, seeing the White House, Washington monument and Lincoln Monument, enjoying the Air and Space Museum, seeing an old college friend who works in the Senate, and taking hard naps.

Road trip day 4: longest drive of the trip (7 hours) and staying with great friends in Huntersville, NC.

Road Trip Day 5: drove from Charlotte to Knoxville, spent the night with wonderful friends and enjoyed catching up and seeing their home and children.

Road trip day 6: driving from Knoxville to Nashville, seeing our sister and brother in laws new home, and playing with cousins. 

Road trip day 7: making it to Memphis and seeing our new home!

Bar Harbor, ME

A couple weekends ago we took a long weekend and headed north to Bar Harbor, ME.  Its about 5.5 hours north with no traffic and unfortunately it was closer to 7.5 with traffic on the way home.  I want to be honest before I post the beautiful pics that make our trip look wonderful that it was H.A.R.D.  The trip was exhausting.  The boys were in rare form and just not easy to deal with.  Miller was so difficult in the car on the way up there that I thought I might go into a looney bin (not encouraging as we are currently driving 1400 miles home to Memphis).  Once we got there, the boys didn't want to nap, they were restless, disobedient, and really just difficult.  I thought I was going to pull my hair out majority of the weekend.  I have decided you can't call trips vacations anymore because really they aren't vacations with 2 small children...they are trips.  But after some time I now look back on the weekend with a smile on my face and very thankful we went.  Bar Harbor, Maine is one of the most beautiful spots I have ever visited in my life.  The weather was incredible and the city and surrounding areas were gorgeous.  I am going to let the pictures do the rest of the talking for me.

Our first day we went hiking in the Acadia National Park.  It was truly beautiful because you would be hiking along and come across the most amazing view of the ocean.  Breathtaking!

Austin walked the entire 1.3 miles. He was fussy a few times and wanted to be carried some but overall he did great.

Miller had quite the perfect set-up.

Like I said...the views were incredible!

My biggest love and I walking on the cool "bridge".
After we finished the hike we drove back towards the little town we were staying and saw some beautiful sights as well.


That night we went to dinner at a family friendly restaurant (we learned our lesson the night before from going to a not so family friendly restaurant). The boys loved the Lobster outside the restaurant.
After dinner we sat by the harbor and watched the boats come dock.
After hanging out in the harbor we headed back to the hotel to put the boys to bed and then we would sit on the balcony watching the sun set. This was our view of the ocean.
On Sunday we went on a horse and carriage ride through Acadia.
We ended our weekend with a little time in the center of town playing, running, and throwing rocks in the water.

Thankfully the boys took a good long nap on the way home.  
We highly recommend a trip to Bar Harbor.  We even looked up flights from Memphis to Bangor and they weren't terrible.  A 2nd trip is on our bucket list for the future for sure.