4 Week Update...

Here she is 4 weeks old already... man, that's gone by incredibly fast. It's crazy how much of the little newborn baby stage I've forgotten about (and Lizzie's not even 3 yet). The eating every hour and a half to two hours, endless diaper changes, spit up everywhere and all over everything, and the sleeping all day long - that's all Abby wants to do (I wish I could do that some days). Good thing they're so darn cute otherwise we'd all be in trouble. Oh, and that fuzzy little head... I could rub her head all day long, good thing she loves it rubbed too. ;) At least she doesn't have colic and screams at the top of her lungs like Lizzie did. I'm extremely grateful for that! As far as her stats; Abby's 9lbs 6oz. and 21inches long, and she just started holding her head up, crazy girl, she's already trying to catch up to her big sister.

After Seven (and a half) Years...

It's official... after seven and then some years, Ben is finally finished with school! He just completed his final two classes this last semester and now has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation. Yeah... the weekends are now ours again! I can't begin to tell you how excited and proud of him I am that he saw this all the way to the end. I know there were many times he wanted to just be done with it and totally forget the rest of it (especially when he started getting paid for animating), but after many long conversations and a few arguments it's all over. We talk all the time how we would have done things so differently if "we would have known", but looking back I'm glad (and grateful) we didn't know... so many wonderful things wouldn't have happened to us during this crazy journey, and Ben (and I) certainly wouldn't be where he is today if we took the straightforward and easy way. Somehow God knew we needed all those detours along the way. ;)

Anyways, this portion of our lives is finally finished and it's on to the next. I think we need to take a little trip back up to San Francisco though... thinking about all this really makes me miss all of our friends and one of the few places we've ever called home.

I'm extremely proud of you Benjamin and love you very much!

This Game is Evil...

I'll be one of the first ones to admit that playing video games is a lot of fun (yes, I'm a girl who likes to play video games) especially when other people are involved and it's not some form of an isolation box, but the guys over at Harmonix are just plain evil. They have managed to create a game so incredibly addicting it's sick. No really, it's on in my house almost 24 hours a day. When Ben and I should be sleeping at 2am in the morning (so we can get up to feed the new baby) we're playing... when Lizzie takes her nap every afternoon we're playing... every time Heidi's over we're playing. You'd think we'd all be sick of it by now, but nope, and now that Ted and Jean are down here visiting it's even more fun (well I don't know how much fun it is for Jean to listen to our awful band all afternoon long ;) ) since we can have a band of 4. Anyways, for anyone who still doesn't have it just be forewarned - you will have no life after opening that big, huge box. It truly is that evil.