After a week of sitting on the floor.....

we got new living room furniture today!

Eli approves

Life Lately

If you follow my blog at all, you know I have been really slacking lately!  We have been in Louisiana for one week now, and settling in has been a little bit of a challenge.  It turns out, it's just as hard to unpack with two young children as it was to pack with two young children.  But there are significantly less boxes than there were a week ago, and I'm slowly finding a place for everything.  In addition, we have been sitting on the floor for the last week.  We sold our LR furniture before we left Georgia because we knew we wanted something new.  We finally settled on some yesterday and it will be delivered tomorrow.  Yay!


Here's what else has happened since our arrival:  


We arrived on Tuesday.  Wednesday, Cory's mom and sister showed up.  They were just a tad bid excited  about us moving closer.  Also, it was Lindsay's first time to meet Eli.  


While they were here, they took advantage of our nice apartment pool.  Landry enjoyed it too!    

              

Cory's already been recruited to play on the church league softball team.

The kids and I already took a trip home.  We went to be with my family and to attend the funeral of a very special, sweet, loving man,  my great uncle Lloyd.  He will be deeply missed.

Eli wore his first tie for the occasion.                   

And while we were home, Eli got to meet many people for the first time, including Uncle Josh and Aunt Trista.

Judging by his smile, I think he liked them.

So that is my "ketchup" blog.  I should be much better at keeping up after my boxes are unpacked.  I better run to get after it again.

Our Week in a Nutshell

Well, we move in just a couple of days.  So blogging has been a little bit of an afterthought.  But I thought I'd post a few pictures to show what this week has consisted of....

A rockin' photo shoot with these gorgeous girls,

A rockin' photo shoot of our family by Jawan McGinnis,

Boxes, Boxes, and more BOXES,

saying goodbye to wonderful friends,

Eli hanging out on is play mat and being as cute as ever,

Landry being as silly and creative as ever

That pretty much does it.

Bubbles for her Brother

I posted this to my facebook last week, but wanted to share it with my blog buddies as well.

Wordless Wednesday - Pic By Jawan McGinnis

Just One More

Wanted to show you one more watermark design.  I combined two of the previous designs into one. Thinking about using this one as a header for my blog and webpage.  I will still use #1 as a watermark for many of my photos.  

So what do YOU think?

Oops! Spoke Too Soon

I wrote about our move to Louisiana in this post.  And in the post, I said that we had found a house to buy and even posted a few pictures.  Well, turns out I spoke too soon.  We loved the set-up of the house and how roomy it was.  But after a less-than-pleasant inspection report, we have chosen to back out of our contract.  We're still headed to LA in a week, but we'll be living in temporary housing until we find the perfect house for our family.  Thanks again to everyone who has been praying for us during this time.  Please continue to remember us as we begin a new chapter of our lives!