See you later

Hard to say Good bye!

SAHM

Do you even know what SAHM is? Stay at home Mom aka Jill. Survived day one! Did WAY too much. Major grocery shop, lunch with Ray, pool, target made dinner etc.

Ended the day with a homemade pumpkin pie. 

Moving along

Only a few more days then see you later alligator.

Tomorrow is my last day at work then clean the house and go to the airport.

Did I mention....

The temporary assignment house had no a/c day one for Ray?

The TA house still has no working oven/stove or hot water? 

Pantry is down to vitamins and cereal

Neighbors

Living on this street has been one of the biggest blessings the last four years. Our neighbors watch out for us and help us in so many ways. If we need help they are there. Every night after dinner we come out of our houses one by one. Parents gather to talk while all the kids start up a game and go play. 

Tonight Stef gave the boys presents and look at this amazing cross stitch she gave me. Does your neighbor know your families eye colors and favorite colors (for the shirts)?

8 years

8 years ago on a cold rainy day just like today we said I do!

Today two of my maid of honors joined me at the Dayton Mall play area and Auntie Anne's for pretzels! 

Love you ladies! 

I'm impressed with Maddie's picture taking skills! 

The Big Move

If you read this blog but we don't talk on the phone regularly you might have been wondering where I have been and why I haven't been posting.
Life.Is.CRAZY
My eye has been twitching the last 48 hours with the amount of stress that we are under right now.

About 2 weeks ago we found out we were being relocated. Off to AZ we are going! Ray has already been working there for about a month leaving me to lead the troops. I've met with 3 Real Estate Agents (which means extreme cleaning), had the landscaping mulched, the walls touched up etc. We had a HUGE garage sale this weekend and got rid of some junk collecting cob webs in the basement.

We have been assigned to work with a relocation company, they needed a ton of documents, then Ray and I this weekend completely emptied out our walk in closet so that it looks HUGE for the professional pictures that are being taken today of our home. Our house will be listed Friday. Pure crazyness!

We just found out our temporary housing assignement- hopefully it will be a nice place for us to live...has an amazing pool that the boys should enjoy! I tried to quit my job but since I had just accepted a promotion as my boss is getting ready to retire kind of had them freak out and they said I will work remotely through at least July and then we will re address my work schedule and their needs for me.

Keeping a house "show ready" is the main cause of the eye twitching. Ready for the fun part of a new location and a pool is what I'm trying to keep my eye on! We will have weekly maid service at our temporary assignment. I can do this........

If it wasn't attached....

I'd loose my mind. Seriously. Just to log on to this little blog of mine I have to have google text me a new password each time. I have no clue what it is, get locked out every time; create a new one, save it in my phone some where then go through this same cycle again.

When we were coming through the Ft. Myer's airport yesterday Ray says to me "you are calling me". "No I'm not" I say. He answers, talks to someone then heads back out of the gate, to the front of the airport where someone had found my phone on a chair. Oops. Ray got a good laugh as they identified him as the phone owners husband via the Movember pictures I have of him as the back ground of my phone- ha ha ha.

We had a great first ever just the four of us vacation. You know we always vacation at the lake each year but Grandma, Grandpa, Dave Val and GG are there so it doesn't count really as a "family" vacation. We went to Sanibel Island. Speaking of forgetfulness. I did back Connors Superman Backpack full of toys, snacks etc to get them through the flight and then left it in the back seat of the car. Does anyone else feel rushed when you pull into long term parking and the bus guy is just sitting there waiting for you?

Sanibel in particular South Seas was perfect for us. About 50 pools, the beach outside our Condo door- daily and nightly activities to attend if we felt like it. Fun, fun fun. Good family memories.

Most exciting thing was: Ryan became a little swimmer. Our fearless baby would jump off the side, plop under the water and kick those cute little thighs to Daddy. He did it so many times I actually got fearful that he would be light headed and would make Ray take breaks.

Connor being Connor was cool with the water as long as he could touch. Sanibel knew there would be kids like Conman and had two pools that were no deeper than 3 feet- hand me a margarita and let me (kind of) watch my kid from the comfort of my chair.

Connor Man

Is getting so big. Every day I look at him and think he has grown from the day before.
Reading a "read along" (book on tape) tonight.

Kings Island

For my birthday I wanted the four of us to go to Kings Island Amusement park. We took a co workers advice and went during the week after five. He was right, less people- short lines. 

Much to our surprise, if they were tall enough to ride they loved it. 2 different roller coasters for Connor and 1 for Ryan. Hands up, smiles and giggles galore.

We splurged and got an awesome photo of con and dad going down the hill

32

Another year older! I actually had to ask Ray how old I was. Sad. I also did a cartwheel today with Cynthia and I think I pulled a muscle. Old, sad, old.
Can't believe on Sunday it will be 11 years ago that I ran my first marathon. CRAZY. This summer we will have been married 8 years, had Boji for 8 years....insane. This summer Ray is venturing off to the alma mature for a frat-tastic 10 year reunion.

Other news, we are taking our first every just the 4 of us family vacation! We are going to Sanibel Island. I'm not 100% sure where it is or what we are doing there. I walked into a travel agent's office last week on a lunch break, a few texts to Ray later and 1.5 hours later I walked out with our trip booked.

My requirements were: warm, sand, not a hotel and a place that had all day daycare for my brats wonderful boys. I can almost feel the hot sand on my feet now.

If you are a part of my life, thanks for sitting next to me on this crazy roller coaster and listening to all my stories.
Love,
Jill