Going away gifts ... Part 3

Mom asked for me to do something with water colors and the phrase 'and they all lived happily ever after' so I made this for her and gave it to her before we left. Actually I had Bella give it to her so she would have an easier time with it. Kids are good for that! 

At some point I will get a good scan of it and print one for myself!

 P.S. Corinnea here.... Making it easier on me by having Bella give it to me actually means, Mom wouldn't dissolve into hysterical crying in front of Bella there by making it easier on her... It worked, for the most part. 

Going away gifts... Part 1

We moved recently... Matt took a job transfer back to California. So we left my parents and a lot of very, very close friends back in Jacksonville. Lots of ugly tears were cried. We are beyond excited to move back to the west coast and for opportunities we have here, but we are equally or more sad to leave this bunch of people that we love so much. 

One of our friends demanded a going away gift. No gift=no leaving. LOL. She took the news especially hard..... So, since she is a die hard Hello Kitty lover, and she and her husband are both Gators, I thought it appropriate to mix the two and appliqué this graphic that I found online onto a quilt. 

The back is a super soft double sided minky (not that that matters since it sandwiched) but it does make it super fluffy. Its almost a twin size. 

It took me a bit to find a photo of Thaoly that she or her husband wouldn't kill me for posting. She is well known for posting/taking possibly embarrassing, but aways awesomely funny photos. She also taught Bella how to pout and eat Oreos at inappropriate times; scheduled girls shopping trips when she hates to actually shop for clothing, and filled Bella's vocabulary with things like 'California sucks'.  lol. They were one of the first people we had to our house after we moved to Jacksonville 9 years ago and are super amazing people. 

We miss them so much! Hopefully we will get them to come out and visit soon...

I have a couple more going away gifts I will try to get them up soon- do you all make things for people when you leave? 

We kind of disappeared!

I knew we had been sporadic since my birthday about posting... but until I glanced at our archives today I hadn't realized we really have been terrible about posting since the beginning of March... oops!

We have been crazy hectic around here and I guess I could fill you in on a little of what's been up with us--

The biggest thing is Uber and I have moved! That's right you would have thought I'd of mentioned that at some point since it had been in the works for about 6 months but we were never sure it was going to happen until it was all over... and then we were so busy that I didn't have time to say anything.

As I am sure most of you would know/guess moving while pregnant means everything takes 100x longer to be completed and moving with a child means everything has to be done at least twice because they like to undo whatever you have just done.

I can finally say that we are pretty close to being settled in (a month and a half later) we are just trying to get the last few things done and I will show you the new place-- fun things like Micah's big boy room should be completed in the next week and now you know why I haven't shown anything about Isabella -- until this last week I hadn't unpacked her space yet!

So since I don't have pictures of the place yet I will show you the floor plan

It's a condo and we are on ONE level-- this is amazing people... I am not sure I will ever have stairs again! We are on the second floor so there are actually still stairs but there is an elevator... so my fat lazy self and 30 pound 18 month old are currently taking advantage of that.

Other then that small thing we have had quite a few family things happen the last two months- which are personal so I don't feel comfortable sharing them here (and it's not really stuff that needs to be shared) but it's been keeping us busy. On top of that we have had family in and out- which means we spent our time playing instead of making.

I would say we will be back to regular posting but I really can't promise that. I know we have a bunch of stuff that we have made and haven't shown yet- so we will at least try and get that up in the next few weeks... There is some super cool stuff being made!

But with Isabella due sometime in the next 5 weeks (that's 34 days or less-Crazy!) I am just not sure what we will be up to. Don't worry though we will let everyone know when she arrives!

Playing Catch Up

Moving and all of the aftermath can be boring. There's just so much to be done that's not interesting. There are some very funny things that have happened and some very not funny things. Things like trying to get my car. Not funny. Things like a visit to the post office. Very funny in a not very funny, sort of way. Visits to the DMV where you grab a number, remember you forgot something, drive a 45 minute round trip to arrive back just as they are calling your number. Awesome! I am just beginning to craft again and we have some fun things coming up but in the mean time you get an impromptu photo shoot on the beach taken with my iphone.

I love these two!

Jess is a huge fan of people randomly grabbing her stomach and talking to the baby.

Hope you are all fine. I am trying to get back to normal, or find what is my new normal, or a facsimile thereof.