Coming Home

We are finally recovering from our 2-week trip to Wisconsin, but I'm certainly not complaining. Taking a vacation always seems like more work, but it's completely worth it. The kids and I flew to Madison the day after Mother's Day--Matt had boards the following week and was studying all the time and we had some flight vouchers to use up, so the kids and I took off. We weren't looking forward to being away from Matt, but so excited to see our families and friends in WI.

The kids sat together on our first flight as we were on a smaller plane with only 2 seats on each side--I wasn't sure how they would do being across the aisle from me, but they ended up thinking it was so cool.

Wyatt was so interested in reading the safety instructions--but this quickly turned to "Mommy, why is this lady jumping out of the plane?" "Why are these people in the water?" "Why is the airplane in the water?" I could hear everyone around us listening intently to how I would answer each question. And interesting it was---the only question I was able to pass over quickly was the question about the lady jumping out of the plane. Wyatt just said, "Oh, she's jumping out of the plan like Lindsay did" (My sister went sky-diving awhile ago.)

We spent our first week in Madison at my in-laws, but unfortunately the only picture i took was this one. I guess we were just having so much fun that I forgot to take pictures. But Sadie loved sitting with Auntie Cam and playing with her phone--and Cammie loved it as well.

Then we were off to La Crosse the next week for a few days to visit our friends..

Wyatt and Drew

I love this picture of Wyatt and Drew--they were watching these kids playing in the area of resident housing that used to be 'ours' with this look of "Hey, what are you guys doing here?"

Wyatt had such great friends in La Crosse--and they are such boys! They both found these huge sticks/branches and had to see whose was the tallest. (You can see how interested Sadie was!)

Wyatt, Drew, and Caleb--these guys had so much fun when we all lived in res. housing

We stayed with our friends the Caldarella's--Leo and Wyatt are about the same age and Sadie and Jac were born just 5 days apart. So we had so much fun spending time with them.

Wyatt and Leo 'measuring' to see who was taller---who could it be?

Sadie loves babies--have I mentioned this lately? She had fun playing with the boys, but was much more interested in playing with AJ half the time. See pictures....

These two had so much fun....

Sadie's swing, after watching baseball a bit......pretty good, i must say!

Wrestling....

...wrestling.....

..and more wrestling...

We got back to Madison and the next day, Matt flew in. It had been almost two weeks since we had seen him and the kids were dying to see him. Unfortunately, we had to leave right away to drive up to the cities and look at houses. So once we got back to Madison, it was time to relax and spend time with family.

Family Bocce ball

A 'classic' Wyatt picture--he's explaining the game to everyone

I had to put this picture on here because the timing was so great. If you click on it, you can see Wyatt getting on Matt for his poor throw and Ty and Mary Jo celebrating their victory due to the poor throw--hilarious!

Auntie Cam stopped by and brought the kids a little surprise, which they always love.

T-shirts from the "T-shirt Deli" in Chicago
These are so cool--they come wrapped like this, as if there were sandwiches--in a deli bag complete with potato chips

..and a little surprise for the baby!

While we were at my parents, Wyatt spent just about every waking moment helping Nani and Pops outside--mowing the lawn, planting the garden, pulling weeds, fertilizing--all things my parents love doing and it seems Wyatt may share in that.

He was so proud of all his work in the garden and Nani promised to take pictures of everything and send them, so he can see how it's all growing! He actually spent an entire afternoon in this garden with my parents--when they started, it was a tilled-up mess and when they were done, it looked like this! Great work Wyatt.

We were so thankful for our time with family and friends. We also found a house in the cities and our offer was accepted. So we are now back in Columbus, finishing up our one-year fellowship and anticipating the next stage in our life which will begin shortly--new job, done with training, new city, new home, new baby, etc. Just a few changes, but we are so excited about it all!