WE'RE HERE

Well we made it. We've moved to greener pastures (literally-because it actually rains here)!!! We are excited to be a part of the metroplex. It was a fast move. From Matt's notification about getting the new position to his first day was only three weeks, so we are very sorry to those of you who we did not get to hug good bye! Be assured that we miss you all!

Matt has already started his new job and really likes it so far. He is excited to be a part of growing and progressive district that is planning and doing things for the future of the district. Also one that uses up to date technology and lets him have (share) a secretary. He's not sure how that will work, but I am sure he will manage:)

The boys and I are good, we have been getting reaquianted with old friends who live in the metroplex and exploring a bit. They have about adjusted, but just as that happens we have started our search for a church. Boy there are a lot of choices here so we may visit quite a few as we are not real sure where we will end up living more permanently. So if any of ya'll out there have suggestions we are all ears.

MOVING DAY

Noah was very concerned on moving day that the donuts for our'crew' get loaded. He kept sneeking them on to the truck.

Our Crew - our nephews Josh, Jake, Conner and Alec They worked hard and were great. We were lucky they were in town visiting, which was another reason we decided to move in a hurry before our help headed back home.

8 years of stuff!!!!

Ready to go...Noah got to ride in the big truck with Daddy and had a blast.

First night in the 'new city' as Noah calls it. Nobody had trouble sleeping that night.

View from our back yard

For those of you in West Texas, that's Rain!!!

Noah turned 4 July 21.

Reilly, the chubby boy, has just been hanging out. He loves to play with Noah. He seems to love the new city too!

We Are Moving!!!

Dear three people who check this blog,

We are off to the DFW area and have only a few weeks to get there. We are thrilled with this opportunity for Matt and are looking forward to being in a large town with lakes and stuff to do and most importantly some family near by!!!!!!! So I will ask your forgiveness for not posting much the past few weeks and probably will not for a few more weeks. We have a lot to do and very little time to do it so I better get packing.

Happy Summer everyone, when we get settled in we will update you on all our digits, etc.

Noah Funnies

Since I have posted alot about Reilly , here are some fun things Noah has been up to.In March Noah, Reilly and I took our first road trip with out Daddy. Actually it went very smooth, no major crying episodes. It was nice. We went to see my Mom graduate from pastry school. At the school they served great food and here Noah just grabbed a huge piece of bread and started gnawing away.
On that same trip Noah also had his first Starbucks (my mom and I love Starbucks and stop often when we are together). Noah requested some coffee as my sister and I were getting out of the car to go order. They have stuff for kids (who knew) so we ordered a kids cocoa and he called it his chocolate and cream. He really enjoyed it. I told him they only sell it in Austin. Shhh, that will be our secret. Also you may notice the head phones. My mom has a DVD player in her car so he was listening to his movie with his wireless headphones. Remember the days of 'I spy."

'Workin Man', Here's Noah helping us tear down an old building that was in our back yard, cleaning up old shingles.

Noah has also recently has started to love Legos because of the Star Wars 2 lego game that he plays with Matt. So we finally got a small real set today and he made this apple tree. I was pretty impressed.

Okay Traci, there's an update!!! I'll update some things about Reilly later.

Reilly 5 mos.

Reilly did start crawling last week and is getting faster by the day. This is just when he was learning.
Here he is at 4 months (forgot to post last month)
Here is 5 months, that's Noah holdong up five in the pic.
Already wrestling....

Being Three, Being three and half Months

(time elapsed between photos aprox 3 seconds)

Of course we have been told many times how the second child seems to change so much faster than the first. We can agree to that. Here's Reilly rolling over at just 3 and half months. He's a strong one.

and a cute one!!!

Noah Being Three

At three you are so excited to go somewhere you forget really important items of clothing

You are already toturing your little brother. Who doesn't love to wear underwear one their head every now and then.

(time elapsed between photos, also three seconds)

Reilly 3 Mos.

Not much going on here, but thought I would post a few pics for fun.

Noah really loves helping with Reilly especially at bathtime. He really enjoys having a brother.

Mr. Reilly is picking his head up quite a bit now. He is very good and just a great baby who so far pretty much lets his parents get sleep. He is scooting around a little on the blanket. We have a feeling he is going to do things pretty quick to try to keep up with big brother. He is smiling quite a bit although I have not gotten a great pic of that yet. He smiles alot at Noah and at Matt when he gets home from work.

Noah's I just woke up look.

Maybe some of ya'll kids do this too. Noah will just say words that we don't know he knows totaly in context. Over the holiday we drove to the Metroplex and close to Ranger HIll area where it gets hilly he looks out and says "Mommy look at the mountain." Since there is nothing close to a mountain in our region and we have not taken him to see any we wonder how he learned what a mountain was. He also was talking about his throat the other day. And again it was totally in context. When we ask him about it he just says yeah a mountain, or yeah, my throat and looks at duh of course I know these things.