Many Overdue Updates

Oops... thought I actually posted this back in July....

Well, before Suzie tells me one more time that I need to update my Blog, I am going to use my time sitting in a back-to-school training, to update what I can.

Things are going well with the pregnancy... We found out in June that we are having a little girl and are getting very excited about welcoming her to the world in late-October. We have been VERY busy since I last posted...

Rian left Le Cordon Bleu in mid-June. He felt it was time for him to move on in his professional career and it was perfect timing since a technical high school in DaKalb county was looking for a Professional Foods teacher to start this fall. The past few months have been stressful waiting for DeKalb to get all of his necessary paperwork together and processed in order to officially offer him the position. As we all know, Rian cannot just be doing nothing for too long, thus he found himself a "farmer Rian" position at a local organic farm located in Loganville to keep himself busy and learning while he waited to hear back.

We took at trip to Maryland in June to visit Rian's family and to see Chris Robinson graduate from the police academy in Salisbury. It was great to see everyone since I had not seem most of them since the wedding, which was two years ago. Hard to believe huh?! It was great to see Jordyn and get to hang him; he has grown up so much since we last saw him. Him and Baylee got along so well, chasing each other around the house and playing catch outside in the backyard. Sometimes we wish that we lived closer to family, it would make visiting so much easier.

After we returned, we entered getting ready for the baby mode. We wanted to have wood floors installed before she arrived and to get the rest of the renovations in the basement finished. Thus we had our work cut out for us. We picked out the wood for the floors, scheduled the install while we would take our last summer vacation to New Hampshire to my parents lake house, and starting preparing the list of items we need to purchase in order to welcome our new one to the world. And the list continues growing...

Over the July 4th holiday, Rian's mom came to visit for a week. While we tried to relax some, Rian had us going to the farm to see what his new summer job entailed, and working at the Powder Springs Farmers Market, which actually turned out to be fun, despite the extremely high temperatures. Towards the end of her visit, we put her to work, helping us pack everything in boxes so the furniture could be moved to install the new floors. Thus it was a jam packed visit.

We were able to finally relax when we boarded the plan to Boston on our way to New Hampshire! We had a great visit with my parents and sister. My mom planned a surprise 60th birthday for my dad, which was pulled off without any problems, the weather even cooperated! Just being able to do nothing for a few days was terrific. There is something about being at "the lake", that makes you just relax... the view from the house overlooking the calm lake and the fresh air. If only it was not in New Hampshire where it snows A LOT in the winter!

Although it was hard to come back to reality after a few days of peacefulness, it was nice to come home to new floors, ones that I do not have to steam clean almost every week in order to keep the white carpets clean. It was not too nice however to have to spend the last few days we had of vacation unpacking all our stuff, and cleaning all of the dust from the floors being installed.