Yee-haw!

It has been a super long time since I posted and so much has happened, so time for a quick update.


It has become more and more obvious that USF was not a good fit, so Nick and I applied around this year.  Nick even applied to industry jobs.  He got a great offer at University of Houston - Clear Lake, so we will once again be moving.  It was a hard choice and is bitter sweet.  I think it will be best in the long run, but it is hard to leave my parents, our friends, my moms club, and this amazing city.  We will miss Lakeland terribly.  The current plan is for us to move late July, with Nick going out before I drive my mom and the girls.  We have our house on the market and we found a house to move into.  So we have been swamped with moving related stuff.  We had a very successful garage sale and I have been selling stuff on mom swap.

In other news, we are enjoying our last few weeks here.  The girls did well at swim lessons, but have both made huge strides since.  Sam takes breaths well and Zoey swims to me and back and can dive for toys when you give her a small shove.  Zoey completed her first run in ballet.  Zoey also started a piano program for preschoolers.

Sam really enjoyed her first season of flag football.  She always played hard and gave her all.  She was a very aggressive rusher.  We had one bad game with a coach who did not play fair.  We ended up beating them in the super bowl.  So the first time Sam played and Nick coached, they were super bowl champs!!!!

Another mom and I have been doing photo sessions for the moms club.  She took a few of Zoey and myself.  Zoey was not super cooperative, but I loved this one.

Sam had a lot of end of the year things.  I went for awards day.  She made me so proud!  She got so many awards.  She was even one of only 2 Kindergartners to get all A's and the other girl was not at Lincoln for the first of the year, which is when most kids got B's.  She aced a super hard school.

Here she is on first and last day.  She was so sad for school to end.  She loved her class and her teacher so much and is still sad about the move.  Unfortunately, the card in my dslr malfunctioned, so this was the only last day photo, taken with the point and shoot.

We also were visited by our good friends, Martin and Sarah and their kids, Seb and Luciana.  They actually live outside of Houston, so we are moving about an hour from them.  We actually saw them on a quick house hunting trip, but they had never met Zoey.  The last time we were out there was New Years 2011.

We had a great time hanging out with them.  Their was lego time, pool time, reading time and more.

We also made it to Gatorland.  Zoey wanted nothing to do with the baby gator.

Sam even sat on a big one.

I have never seen birds attack seed sticks so much.  At Zoo Atlanta, they are always overfed and hard to tempt.  Zoey freaked out, but Sam loved it.

The former roommates and their kids.  We are so excited to be close to them!

Wish us luck, send us prayers, etc to help us sell our house, pack, and make the big move.  We know it will be rough.  We are trying to enjoy every drop of Lakeland time, but I am looking forward to when this time is a blur and we cannot believe we have not always lived in Clear Lake.