July 3, 2008

Hello Everyone,
I have decided to get back on the bandwagon with the communications about our family! I know you're all excited about that...and if you're not, oh well...

If you haven't heard, we've moved. We've been in our "new house" (that's what Ally calls it) for almost a month now and we LOVE it. We have all kinds of room and each of the girls could have a room to themselves, although the little girls still share a room. Ally's loves her new bedroom. It's light purple with dark purple polka dots and still an animal "theme", if you will. Lauren & Olivia's room is pink with a flower "theme". Since the move, the little girls have not shared the same bed. They have finally been separated, and they love it! Their cribs are still very close together so they could actually touch and play together if they wanted to, but I don't think that happens that often....or maybe it does and that's where the giggling comes from when they're not sleeping.

Jerry loves his new pole barn too. It's stuffed to the max and he doesn't even have all his toys in it yet. He needs to get organized in my opinion. I am loving everything about the new house. I love having a garage that we can actually park in, I love having space and everything has it's own place, I love opening the windows and letting the breeze blow in, and the fresh air, and a house that is new and complete and not unfinished! It's just all so great! We're so blessed! We had to wait awhile for it, but we're finally in it and we plan to stay for quite awhile!

We're still settling in, and I think it's going to take awhile, but it's fun and we're loving it. The neighborhood is wonderful, FULL of young couples and young kids. Our yard is nice and big and the girls are in it most of the time. Funny how they went from watching TV all the time to playing outside most of the time...and it's not just because it's summer...it's because our old house didn't have much of a good "yard" and we lived on a busy street and the TV was always right there in front of us (now it's in the basement, out of sight!).

As for our old house...well, they're about to tear it down. Jerry drives by every day on his way home from work, I on the other hand have only seen it a couple of times (I did drive by today). It's still there, but barely there. Many people contributed to taking things out of it and it's just got an outside shell to it now. It will be a little sad to see it down, but it needs to come down. It was a good home to us and that's where all three girls were born, but at the same time, we're very happy in the new house! Jerry did drive Ally by it a week or so ago....I think that was a little traumatic for her. She came home and said to me "mommy, someone messed up our old house! Maybe someone will paint it to fix it up." Yeah, if that doesn't crush her heart, it will once she sees that it's gone!

Today I took the little girls to the doctor for their 15 month well baby visit. They are still on the small side, but they are still growing, so that's good news! Lauren weighed in at 18.9 lbs (which is less than the 5th percentile) and Olivia weighed in at 19.4 lbs (which is the 5th percentile). Both of them measured 29 inches in height (but I think she measured Lauren long) which is the 10th percentile. And of course their heads are HUGE, like Jerry and Ally, at 18.25 inches and that's the 70th percentile! They each got 2 shots and did great!

Tonight we're going to meet some more neighbors. We're all getting together to do some fireworks. It should be fun!

Well, I hope this will be a good way to keep in touch with you and I hope you enjoy it. I will post some pictures when I download them from my new camera....

Take care and HAPPY 4th of JULY! :)