The Last Week

Hopefully Joe doesn't mind me showing off his accomplishment! Joe did this oil painting of Notre Dame's Crest to give as a gift to the business school. He worked really hard, for what seemed like a hundred hours, and I think it turned out perfectly! We made sure to get a picture of him with it before giving it away.

Sawyer started his soccer course at the South Bend Parks and Rec Department last Friday. He is SO excited for it! Joe played soccer as a youth, and has been teaching Sawyer soccer moves since he could walk. Sawyer is so athletic, I'm really glad they offer soccer for 3 year olds!

Just a few baby smiles. It's getting pretty easy to get them out of him now! So dang cute!

Rolling, Rolling, Rolling...

Six weeks and rolling. I caught the last second of it on camera:

He's already growing too fast!

And speaking of going around and around.... here's some of Sawyer's "live entertainment" he provides for Hunter (it's kind of long, and also includes Sawyer hanging out with and taking care of him- kinda boring, but maybe you family members that are far away will enjoy it):

The Cuteness Continues!

Hunter's "official" first smile was actually March 5th, while changing his diaper at a friend's house, and there have been a couple a day since then; BUT today was finally the day I caught them on film!

"I don't like Curious George."

So we were coming home from the temple last night, and as we got off on our exit, Sawyer joyfully cheered "Notre Dame! We're home!!" Joe struck up a conversation with him by saying, "You know Sawyer, we're not going to live in Notre Dame forever. When it's summer we're going to move to Georgia." Sawyer, in his pouting voice responded, "I don't want to move to Georgia." Joe asked why not. His response? In his pouting voice: "I don't like Curious George."


As our laughing tapered off, Joe explained that we were moving to Atlanta, which is a city IN Georgia, which is a state... Sawyer cried out "But, that's where Curious George lives! In his house!"


Why is he so scared of living by Curious George?

On a related note, that leads into the cool semi-recent news, even though we've told some people already: We're moving to Atlanta! And we're very excited to check it all out! I've only been in the airport, but I sure hear fantastic things from other people. I'm also totally excited to have our first winter WITHOUT winter! Goodbye to driving in snow 5 months a year! My second favorite thing about moving there? There are FOUR Cheesecake Factory locations, one being only 4 miles from where we're living!!! So, it's either "goodbye diet" or "hello running 2 more miles every day". We'll see what happens!

RECOVERED!!!

Can you believe that after SEVEN MONTHS, the Wilmington (North Carolina) police pulled over the guy riding JOE'S MOPED and GOT IT BACK for us?! We got the phone call from the police at 1:00am & didn't know what to even say... we had no one there who could go pick it up!

Joe decided to call the bishop of the church we attended over the summer, and asked him if he could find someone who needed extra money (and wanted to do this), could go pick it up from impound, sell it for us on Craigs List (or whatever way they wanted), and we'd split the money. Someone at ward council said they would do it, and put their half of the money in their ward fast offerings. Very nice! Hopefully we'll have more than $50 bucks coming our way in the near future from this, to make back some of the $900 we lost. :) Good thing we held onto the original keys & vehicle ID certificate, "just in case..."!

The Boys

I wanted to get some good pics of Joe with his boys, so they let me do a photo shoot this afternoon. Here are my few favorites! Which do you like best?

They finished with some rough 'n tough daddy-son wrestling. Doesn't Hunter look intimidated?

I love my boys!