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Happy Birthday Kate.

How did that happen?!  6 years?!
For some reason, it seems so much longer.

Kate made our little family legit with 2 kids instead of 1.  She made Emma a sister :)
What a delight it is to have her in our family.  She is always looking to help.  She is always easy to please.  She is always with Jake ;)
I love this girl to death and so blessed and lucky she is part of my little family!

Jake at 8 months

I never thought the past month would fly by so fast with everything that was happening.  When I was writing last month's post, I was thinking, wow, by the time I am writing 8 months, i'll be in TN in my new house...and here we are!
Most of this month, we were traveling and everything was a upside down for your little world.  You were either in your car seat or the pack n play.  Sorry about that.  We were moving across the county :/
But you seemed to still have fun the few occasions you were out of your car seat!

This month:

• You started getting comfortable rolling and scooting around the floor.
• By the end, you could scoot back into a sitting position!
• I lowered your crib mattress finally!
• You started chomping your mouth for some real food
• Your sitting skills improved greatly!  No more falling over!
• We finally cut out that dream feed and you are still sleeping through the night :)
• This month, you seems to go on a nursing strike.  You would only eat for like 5 minutes each time.  It was like a wrestling match to keep you eating.  We did not like any sort of distractions!! 
• You are still babbling like crazy
• You love to observe your siblings play (and fight)
• Love  your mom & daddy
• First time you were swimming and was not a fan!

Happy 4th

So.  Here we are.  We have made it to TN.  Many things have happened since the last time I posted...over a month ago.

But since I had these ready to go, I decided to post them up.  

I have a strong belief & testimony of this country and the freedoms it was founded on.  The crazy things going on right now with this country is scary.  But as long as people like me, believe and act on those beliefs & protect them, I hope we can hold out a little bit longer.

I'll get posting soon on the things that have been going on this past month.  

But for now, here are my lil' guys.

Last Day of School

The end of the year has finally come upon us here in WA.  Which means in a few days, we will be moving :(
The girls are excited to be done and have the summer to play and explore and travel...a lot.

I am sad though.
I am going to miss this place.  I am going to miss friends, the schools, the bakery, the small town, my morning walks, the weather.
I gotta stop now because it hurts!  I have never been so tied to one place like this!

In the rough...

Amidst the chaos of boxes and moving, we have this going on...

A rolling fool, this one is. {finally!}  And I thought he was adorbs on his back.

Are we ready for this?

Well I guess it's about time to let the cat outta the bag.

We are moving!

As you can see from my snazzy image that we are heading to Elvis's home town, Memphis TN.

You may be wondering why?  Ya me too...

Here's the lowdown:
-Joe is heading back to school.  He'll be attending University of TN Health Science Center for Endodonics or, in other words, Root Canals.  It's a 2 year program.
-We've known since Sept. that we'd be moving to TN.
-We've had to keep it a secret due to his current work situation.  We didn't want all his patients in the office leaving to find a new dentist!
-We've known for about a year and a half that we needed a change.  So the application process began.
-So while I was growing large with Jake, he was busy sending in applications, then heading out to 8 interviews all over the country.
-Sept. 20th, Emma's Birthday, we found out we got into the TN program.  What. a. relief.  This was his 2nd to last interview so we were starting to get a little nervous.  I was driving back to Cashmere from being away for a few days in the Tri-Cities to avoid the smoke from the millions of fires.
-At this point in the game, we are excited for a new adventure, new people, and new prospects at what our future could hold for us.
-Granted, i've had this whole time to get used to the idea.  At first, I was not a fan.
-I love Cashmere.  Seriously.  Heaven on Earth.  I am very sad to leave.  I have stability.  The school here is incredible.  I have friends.  The kids have friends.  We are safe.  The community is unbelievable.  I honestly wanted to live here forever.  I was hoping, just hoping, things would work out.  But it didn't.  And that's okay.
-This decision didn't come lightly.  It was years in the making.  I know it is best for our family.  Definitely will be better in the long run.
-I just hope we can find another place like Cashmere to call home one day.


SOOOOOOO the moving date is approaching very quickly.  If you saw my home right now, you would slowly walk away backwards then quickly turn around and run like the dickens.  We're gearing for a garage sale.  Packing up with 4 kids is very very hard.
I'll be leaving with the kids June 13th to the Seattle airport to pick up my Dad, who will then help me drive to UT.  I'll stay a week there and then my parents & siblings will then proceed to do a momentous Family roadtrip to TN.  It should be really fun.
And Joe will leave on the 15th and head straight to TN and get things started over there with unpacking and such.  Poor guy gets the hard HARD part of it.
So our Summer will be very busy and full of new adventures.

So stayed tuned...
(I will probably do a few lamenting posts for the loss of Cashmere and Life that I once had...just wait for that ;)  )