Things I'm Thinking...

*I miss living close NYC

*I think there might be light at the end of the potty training tunnel....I think it's finally sinking in....we'll see!

*Zach and I (and Aubrey) are headed for Canada in less than a month

*Zach's little brother is getting married(WEIRD!)

*the weather is cooling off at night! I went out the other morning around 7ish to bring out the garbage and it was "cool"!

*I could go for a gyro from this place in NYC....

*Pregnancy cravings are kicking my butt.

*Big Macs and Ramen Noodles do not a skinny woman make.

*I have wonderful "morning"(more like "all day") sickness. So excited for the 12 week mark, hoping it goes away then like it did when I was pregnant with Aubrey...we'll see.

*I want to fly to England and see my sister and her family. And I HATE to fly, so that tells you how bad I wanna go.

*I'm loving the rotation Zach's on right now, some days he gets home early...like 5pm early!! We actually get to see him!

*We tried our first church here last weekend, it's not quite the church for us, but it felt great to go.

*I started to do the lay out of the quilt I had posted about and I'm loving it so far :)

*I haven't sewn much since moving here, I need to get my crafty butt in gear.

*I'm excited for the weekend, even though Zach has to work on Saturday(booooo).

*I'm thinking a Big Mac is in my foreseeable future...

*And those Ramen Noodles I just had were gooooood....

A Little More Lyndhurst....

So today is really going to be about the pictures...who am I kidding?!? It always is. I'm LI-terally(said like Rob Lowe from Parks and Rec...in case you were wondering) in a maze of boxes and I feel like a little, itty bitty mouse trying to find it's cheese....or in my case, my Better Homes and Gardens magazine so I can switch my mailing address. I'm SO not going to find it :( It's nuts here right now and I'm going a little crazy. So I will join you in gazing at these lovely pictures from mine and Amy's(take that grammar police) trip to Lyndhurst. The grounds around the rose gardens were gorgeous, so we spent almost as much time wandering around them as we did in the gardens. Oh to be a family summering in the 1800's....must have been nice.....

Looking Through Rose Colored Glasses....

The last few weekends I've had a standing date with Amy on Sundays....not that we don't hang out every other chance we can get ;) But Sundays are just us, no kids, and it's blissful...even if it only lasts for an hour! This last weekend we went to the Rose Garden's in Lyndhurst(NY) to get our photography on, let's just say we had a blast (duh) and I could not be more in love with roses at the moment! There were over 400 different kinds there, seriously, that's a LOT of roses. I don't have time to do a lengthy blog post today, so I'll let the pictures do the talking for me....and, as usual, there are offensive amounts of them. Um, I may or my not have taken 422 pictures that day....aren't you glad that I whittled them down for you ;)

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Packing/moving update....the move happens next Sunday and as of today, I'm at the point where it's the last minute things that need to be packed. I am done "cooking" as of today and it's sandwiches and take out from here on out...not to mention paper plates, etc. Sorry environment, you're about to take a hit. I'm fixin' (yup, getting ready with my "Southern" talk) to pack up dishes, pots, etc.... and not buy any more groceries...we'll see how that goes! My BFF Marcy(ohp, and her husband Tom) get here on Wednesday and are coming with packing bells on! SO happy they'll be here for that transition...hopefully I'll sob/wail/scream/cry a little less because of it...here's to hoping. But before allllll that happens, we have to do the ever stressful border run to renew our visa's. If you could all keep us in your prayers, that would be GREATLY appreciated. We have everything in order, and it should go smooth (Lord willing), but you never know and it's going to be a LONG day. It's 6 hours (drive) to the border and we're planning to go there and back in a day....see what I mean about needing the prayer?!? And no, we never do anything the easy way. The Lord seems to love stretching us to the max in these cases.