Wyatt Levi

6lbs 15oz

20in

"Start Spreading the News....." NY here we come!!!

Well actually more like Jersey, but Chris is working in NY on Freedom Towers, how awesome!!! After less than a year back in MI we are moving on. Yes, yet another summer spent packing and preparing to move, ugh! Although this time a little different with only a few weeks left till baby arrives and Chris being in Jersey for the last 2mos and returning home every other weekend or so to fix up our "fixer upper" its been well lets just say a long couple months and we can not wait to be in same house again. We've found a great house in a great neighborhood (or so Chris tells me, I haven't actually seen either in person and well we all know what pictures can leave out, lol!). We hope to be all moved in within next 2 weeks which will give me hopefully a little time to unpack and maybe wash an outfit or two for the baby and maybe even put up a bed for it. Oh and by the way with the move and the need to eliminate unnecessary items to move we did find out that our baby is a boy. So yay!! We are looking forward to yet another new exciting adventure in our story of life in New Jersey with our soon to be family of 6, oh and Bear and Moses of course. Sorry no pics but its taken months just to get this much updated on here.
I keep thinking life will slow down and I'll be able to do all these things, but ya know for some reason it just never seems to go that way.... Oh well wouldn't change it! Ahh east coast here we come!!!

April Showers??!!

When I hear that phrase these are not the kind of showers that come to mind. Nonetheless this is what arrived for our "april showers" today.... Well at least we can have fun with it;-)! I must admit having grown up in Michigan all my life I never remeber being able to make a "snowbunny". By late afternoon it had all melted away. Maybe by June we'll have 60's!?!

December

What a month.... Our sprawling 9ft christmas tree we had in Vegas, no matter how hard I tried, just would not fit in our short Michigan ceiling. As Christmas drew near there was no way to get a different tree so I thought "Christmas without a christmas tree, I just can't see it" so we improvised. Or as some thought went a little "holiday crazy", and this was the result.

This was one extreme art project for the kids for school. And of course for weeks later I was explaining to Gabi that we don't color on all the walls....and certainly not with a Sharpie on whatever wall you want. Oh well we were gonna paint anyway. The tree was completely washable markers. I appreciated the kids even made their own presents at the bottom, whew save me the trouble of shopping. We left it up till, I'm ashamed to say just about 2weeks ago when we replaced it with this, which we got free from craigslist. Although we did opt to pay a company to delivery it, and based on the troubles they had we sure are glad we did.








Christmas also brought a couple more additions. First Zachary received a reply to his letter to Santa, which he had requested 14 golden labs- yes real puppies- However Santa being the rational guy he is subtly broke it to Zachary that he thought it best to just go with one. And sent in his reply letter this certificate to go get his puppy from a local rescue center.





This was the day we brought him home, which was also Gabi's 2nd birthday.
He was about 9 1/2 weeks. So cute....but boy did I forget what having a puppy was like, yikes. Although it is Zacharys puppy, there is still some mom duties in caring for it. After the first night he cried all night in Zachary's room we decided to try putting Zac's bed on the floor so the puppy wouldn't feel alone. So to this day Zachary still sleeps with his mattress on the floor and his bed above his head, but Moses doesn't cry anymore and climbs right to the foot of his bed and sleeps through most nights.

The other addition well was a little more shocking then the puppy stage. We found out 2 days before we were to pick up Moses that we were pregnant! Wow, was I a little in denial. Which is why I had decided not to broadcast our news till I was certain. And well today at 12 weeks I got my confimation.... Oh how beautiful life is! As it is now we are due towards the end of August. I've decided to not find out for certain what the gender is this time, well right now anyway. I'm so excited I have been waiting to put this baby countdown widget on my blog since the first time I saw it on someone elses 2yrs ago, and now I finally can. As soon as I figure out how.

The end result of our "wall tree"!

Zachary & his lil puppy

Gabi cookin up in her kitchen... looks yummy! Not sure what Moses is doing....I think Bear is wondering the same thing.