home sweet home

so we made it back yesterday evening and all is well. the flight went well, uneventful really. all boys slept. andy got some good sleep and i slept little as i was uncomfortable really, so i walked and stood a lot! but i watched oxford murders and really enjoyed it. we rented a car once we got to heathrow and it was a bit hard to drive a manual car after 3+ weeks in an automatic!! we had a nice vauxhall zafira i think it was...very nice! i didn't want to return it today! =(

we actually realized on the way out of london that we didn't know where our keys were! we couldn't remember seeing them when we were packing up so we stopped in redditch first to have a quick look, then called to see who had them last. our window trims were stained our downstairs hallway and upstairs bathroom were painted too while we were gone! it was great to come home to that...but because of that we had left 1 set of keys with some of our friends who sorted mail and stuff and then later on finished off the painting stuff that andy's mom and dad started so they had set 2. set 3 we thought we had taken them with us, but they were actually here in the house, sitting in the back door. hmmm, don't know what happened there! so anyway, we stayed at avril's house until pheobe got home from work as she had hold of them! so it was all good and we got in the house around 8;30ish. both boys were asleep, jonah i fed and put to bed and andy and i were asleep by 9:30. all 3 boys were up in the night. at midnight they were hungry and thirsty so they shared a peanut butter and jelly sandwich! we switched around in the night, you know, musical beds, but all was good and we slept till 8:30! that was super nice though we still felt a little out of sorts!

so thats all for now, will write again in a few days when i have some more photos complete!

more from baltimore

still having a great time of course. sorry for not updating enough but this computer is slow and when i want to do stuff with my photos, it takes ages so...
anyway, noah had his tooth extracted today with ease. he was great and the dentists were prepared and they were in and out within 20 minutes! and noah even waved bye to the dentist when they left!!
lets see...thursday we went to the amish market then to silver spring mining company for a crab pretzel (yummy). took melissa to the airport then home with a storm brewing which caused melissa to have her flight canceled! she spent the night in a hotel and caught an early flight to NYC. friday hmm, i can't remember what we did. i think just a bit of this and that. nothing special. jen came over for dinner and we had rita's for dessert.
saturday we went up to lancaster area. to the outlets and the childrens store carter's. i did some birthday and christmas shopping, tax-free! stephen flew in that night and all was good. sunday we went to forge road bible chapel and it was very nice. i saw some people i hadn't really seen since high school, so that was fun! and there was a nursery for jonah during the morning meeting, then sunday school for the boys during the family meeting. i think we'll be going back on sunday too =)
monday we went over to carroll county to where jo and philip were staying. it was great. lots of fun stuff for the big boys as well as the little boys! it was a long day but very good. phil and jo were dropped off today and they rented a car for there last few days until saturday when they fly home. tonight we went to a bbq at a friends house and micah played with their little boy luke who is also 3.
well enough for now, here are some more photos from memo's birthday part!!

all my cousins on my moms side (and wifes' and husband...ok, and partners)

cousin lydia

jeremy's fam minus kilian who was sleeping

uncle lou and uncle pat, wondering what to do with noah

Queen Mums' birthday

85 years

so much going on!

last week was a nice relaxing week. saw a few friends, my dads' mom and sister flew in, saturday was a party for memo so lots of family came over for a bbq. it was really nice to sit and chat with everyone and the food was yummy! my friend melissa flew in on friday night and it's been so nice just hanging out with her. she leaves today for a weekend in new york city!


monday we spent the day downtown baltimore. it was a beautiful day to walk around. we visited the constellation, a tall ship dating back to late 18th century. we met up with a friend who was in england the same time as me, angie and her husband mike. ate lunch then some went on the paddleboats, then to the aqaurium. that night we went to jeremy's again for a bbq. aunt cathy brought some boudin with her... its a specialty from louisianna =) its a sausage, stuffed with rice and meat and it was very very good!

tuesday aunt cathy and (great) mimi flew home and noah had a little accident! he fell into the bathtub and chipped his tooth! well fractured it really as it goes up above the gums and has to be removed on tuesday morning. yep, so much fun! tuesday night we went to dinner at another friends house from college. he and his wife have 3 kids, the youngest being 13 days younger then jonah!

wednesday we just went to the park. melissa got a ride on the motocycle =) it stormed as we left but wasn't too bad here. then melissa, andy and i went downtown for a meal out at Ruth's Chris which is expensive dining! very posh and OMG so yummy! since melissa works for them over in Indy, we got a discount and we also got a tour! it was really cool and we saw 3 other restaurants/clubs as they own them all. it was really cool.

so far:
we met kilian

here's jonah at 2 months

mimi with her 2 babies

leah n amber, my cousins, holding maddie, my other cousins little girl

and micah got to ride on pop-pop's motorcycle too!

lovely baltimore

so here we are in baltimore once more! sorry, no pictures to add at the moment! haven't downloaded anything! and actually haven't taken many photos. just a few yesterday of andy hard at work with my dad building the steps for their deck! promise to take some more photos and put them up!

we had a great flight on sunday, no glitches or anything. all the boys were great and andy and i were able to watch one full film each and i started a few others! jonah slept most the time and feed 3 times. on taking off, on landing and once inbetween. micah was very good until he got tired then finally slept and noah was pretty good, though definitely didn't like staying in his seat as much!

yesterday we didn't do much (except for andy and dad). we stayed around the house then went to jeremy and kellys for dinner. we met kilian for the first time and their new greyhound named milton! the boys and andy swam in the pool and jeremy bbq some delicious dinner!! it was nice though we were so tired by 8 o'clock. so off home with 3 sleeping boys who slept through till 7 this morning, and jonah woke at 4 and 6. an improvement over monday morning....noah and i woke at 4:30 and couldn't go back to sleep. mom and micah joined us at 5:30.

todays the day...

we are leaving in an hour and a half to make our way down to london. its hard to believe the day is here, but we are very excited and cannot wait. our suitcases are pretty well packed and there are just little bits to go in. its all good! here are some photos to share from the past week... we had a bbq last night and i don't think we took any photos whatsoever! oops =)

Gordon/Papa did *A LOT* of gardening for us!! we are very very thankful to him and Valerie for doing so much for us this week! they are awesome =)


the ring leader



for all the rest of the photos, you will find them here

oh my goodness gracious!

i can't believe that today is our last day at our house!! wow...seems like so much to do =) the gang is out in weoley castle to do some tracting/surveys. then the majority of them are going to stratford for the afternoon then back here for the bbq. though it is rainging hopefully it will clear up!
i'm staying in to finish off the packing and getting bbq stuff ready!! then off tomorrow morning to london for the wedding, spend the night and then to the airport for our 1o'clock flight. unfortunately our plane is a small one... 2-3-2 is the seats going across, so we can't all sit together as we need 4 seats!
well i have to run quickly to go to the bank. more maybe later!
oh any if anyone wants to email me about our get2gether it'll be in the comment section! =)