Well, summer is just about over and so is our time in Philly! I still cannot believe it. We have lived here for THREE years! It has FLOWN! I guess that's what happens when you're having fun :)
In comparison with last summer, we had a sort of boring one this year! Haha, last year Lyndi and I spent a lot of time outside playing in our blowup pool while Emerie was napping, we went to playgroup every week, went to the beach several times, had lots of barbecues and were a lot more tan!
This summer we... packed haha. Well, I spent a good amount of time sorting, organizing and most importantly throwing things out!! It feels SO GOOD to get rid of all the stuff we've collected just in the time we've been here. Thanks to Tyler being EQ President and helping out with so many moves, we've "inherited" a lot of things! All of our possessions fit into a 15' truck. Also, we found out just how picky the thrift stores are about taking used things. I ended up breaking a lot of our chairs and furniture apart because they would not accept it. Which was fun, I'll admit, I tried some ninja skills out on our furniture :)
Among other things we did this summer though, we went to the beach on one of Tyler's weekends off, had 2 barbecues with friends, went to see fireworks, lit off some of our own, and went to the kids museum. Haha, that's literally all I can think of! I suppose there was a drastic difference in my free time during the day this summer though :) Levi's a pretty cute little time consumer.
Haha, I caught him in the middle of a sneeze, and I still laugh out loud when I see it.
This kid is such a cute chunky monkey! He finally fit into the swings at the park just in time for nice weather! He ended up falling asleep in it several times :)
Miss Emerie and her camera faces... haha. Lyndi's much more composed.
Look at those handsome baby blues :) ...and the pink jumper :)
Emerie has just begun to really take after her big sister. It drives Lyndi crazy to have Emerie mimic her, but it's so adorable!
That one time I forgot to turn the faucet off for the tub... Good thing she's taller than the tub! She wanted more baths with that much water haha.
Somebody has a girlfriend already :)
Lyndi was so upset about moving away from the neighbor girls! There were 3 that lived above us that LOVED our kids! The oldest one babysat Levi all the time and when they found out we were moving, she insisted on babysitting every day until we left haha.
This describes Emerie's personality so perfectly... :)
Check out that handsome dude all ready for church!
My beach babes :)
My other beach babes :)
This belongs on a magazine cover or something, such a cutie!
Lyndi loves the Perez's son Josh. They were best buds for a few weeks while he was here visiting.
I really am going to miss the beach!
My world right there :)
He had just started to notice the food we were eating
Our own little fireworks show before bedtime
Tyler and I went to Gettysburg for the day and stopped at the Turkey Hill ice cream factory on the way home, lots of free ice cream samples! Totally worth going without kids haha.
He laid there for almost 5 minutes with Cy on his face, I guess he felt the need to support Iowa State :)
I woke up one morning to this, he was awake just hanging out talking to himself with his feet dangling
Passed out after his bottle
Our summer harvest, sadly that's about all we got, but they were worth it!
Our street is SO noisy! But apparently that's all it takes for him to nap, so that became my only sanity the last few weeks of getting ready to move.
Our ward had a Pioneer Day breakfast, and this is what the girls wore, and believe me, they did their hair like that back in the 1800's ;)
Kids Museum
Haha, as soon as we got to the museum, Lyndi grabbed Josh's hand and they ran around everywhere holding hands :) After a while, Josh ran to his dad and said "Dad, she's wearing me out!" Haha, get used to it kid ;)
Goodbye Philly!
Our last minute at the house
This kid is now sitting up and borderline crawling!
He rolls over when he's drinking his bottle and gets so upset that his milk doesn't come out
Kindergarten starts in 2 weeks! So crazy!
We're not in Philly Kansas anymore :) Steeler territory here we come!
First time eating solids :) I have never waited this long to feed solids, but he has been amazing at it and seriously eats a ton!
One thing I miss about Philly, THE PARKS. They are everywhere and are all amazing! Greensburg needs to work on that :)
See that swing back!? Why would you put a chain on the back? So safe and so comfortable... :(
Plowing through our days without daddy.
Sporting Phillies
Emerie has JUST taken a liking to Levi. Not that she didn't like him before now, but she's now old enough to play with him and pay attention to him.
The 20 year old couch saw it's last day! Man, was that a solid piece of furniture, I will be buying our future furniture from them!
Scary or cute? Haha. The weird things we find in Aunt Alyssa's stuff :)
This post is all over the place I'm realizing now... after re-reading it. I don't care. My brain has been all over the place for months now, and it's probably not going to get better until Tyler's done with school in may!
We recently moved in with my parents in Greensburg, PA (by Pittsburgh for those of you who are wondering where that is) for the duration of Tyler's LAST school year (I still can't believe I'm saying that!). This is sort of stressful on everyone in some ways, and much less stressful in others. However, I made a countdown on my phone, and it just happens to be 40 weeks! So this is considered our 4th pregnancy. Haha, GOTCHA with that blog title eh?!? The first trimester no doubt will be full of sickness (physical and emotional) from Tyler being gone, the 2nd trimester will be long but probably a bit more comfortable once we get settled in, and the 3rd trimester, during which we will not see Tyler while he's in Montana, will be the longest and most painful. All just like a regular pregnancy ;) But after it's all over, we will get to take home a degree! 39 weeks exactly from today folks!
