Merry Christmas All!

I know Christmas cards have gone out directing all to the blog for more pictures. Sorry to say it hasn't been done yet. I've been having problems with uploading the photos. I hope to get some up before Christmas, but they are coming, I promise!!!

House updates

Well, since we moved in the "honey-do list" has been getting longer and longer. However, we are making some sort of progress, I guess. We finished some storage closets above our garage as our first big project in the house. It took us the better part of 3 days if I remember correctly. Thanks Pop for all the help!! Now that they are done they are full of who knows what. Next I painted the kids rooms. Sarah's is green stripes, same color but two different sheens. Andrew's is just plain taupe. I just need to finish decorating them. Our next few projects are putting up a fence, adding on to our deck, acquiring an outdoor shed, and building new cabinets. My hopes are to be done before all the Christmas company, but we will see how that goes...lol. Some of the ongoing projects we are working on include making our lawn look green and not brown and changing out all the brass to an aged bronze. I'm excited I just bought new ceiling fans and chandeliers. Nothing special, but better than the brass, in my opinion. Enjoy the photos. (note: the photos of the new fans/lights are of the box.)

Andrew's Room

Sarah's Room

The sheetrock is done. We primed the walls and ceiling and put in a linoleum floor and trim.

The storage units after we installed the insulation. It started out with only 2X4s that you see in the back, the blue stuff and the floor.


Our new ceiling fans. Yes they are the same as the ones we bought for our house in AK. What can I say, I like them and the price is right. lol


Our new Formal Dining Room chandelier.

The new chandelier for our eat-in kitchen

The chandelier in our eat-in kitchen. Any takers??

The chandelier in our Formal Dining Room. Any takers???

The current ceiling fans in our bedrooms, living room and bonus room.

Photos

As I'm going through 800+ photos little by little, I'll post a few from the variety of events.

The first set of photos was taken at Adam's parent's house in St. Augustine FL. This was the last event to be held at their house. They will be closing on the sale the end of this week and will be moving on. Where to....not exactly sure at this moment. Many, many options lay ahead for them. We are really curious to see where they end up living. Its sad to see the house go, but there is a time and place for everything! The kids will definately miss the swing out front!

Andrew and Fiona kissing. I missed the actual moment, but I did get her tongue sticking out...lol

Papa taking a break from all the packing and moving to color with Sarah.

From left to right: Andrew, Jenn, Little Adam, Andrea, Jeff, "Manga" (Adam's Mom), Liz, Papa (Adam's Dad) Sarah, Adam and Princess Fiona

From left to right: Liz, Papa, Sarah, Manga, Andrew and Adam

Our family on 4th of July

Clearly Andrew is upset Sarah is sitting in the rocking chair. Shortly after this photo was taken he was sitting in the rocking chair. Sarah is soo sweet...or should I say Andrew is a bully????

Could not pass the next two up. Just love his facial expressions. The outfit he is wearing was one of Adam's when he was smaller. I'm going to try to find the photos of Adam in this outfit and put them in here next to each other so everyone can see the two...

The next few are a couple from Sarah's 3rd Birthday Party. There are more out there somewhere, but not on my camera. I'll have to try to get more from the others with cameras. Andrea, Adam's sister, helped me make the cake. One of the better tasting cakes I've made to date. Thanks for the recipes Andrea!!!! Sarah was not willing to blow out her candles, nor did she like when we sang happy birthday. But the pinata was a blast!! Thanks to all who came. Everyone of you added your own special touch to make it very special to her.

The next few include some sweaty kids. We were outside for a very short time and this is what they looked like when we came back inside. It was 103 outside with the heat index being 108+ and absolutely no wind what so ever!! Two ice pops later the sweat finally stopped rolling down Andrew's face...lol Sarah saw that Andrew's hair was "all messy up" and decided she needed to brush it.

Summer 2010

Wow, what a HOT, busy and crazy spring/summer for us! Adam was gone the month of May at Safety School in New Mexico and we rendevoused in San Diego for my brother's wedding over Memorial Day weekend! The wedding was awesome! The ceremony was beautiful and the reception was a blast. The kids partied hard until 10pm. The kids fell asleep in their car seats before we were out of the parking lot. We all had a lot of fun! My other brother stayed in CA with us as we hit up some of the big attractions in San Diego for kiddos-Sea World and the Zoo. A great time was had by all!! We came back to NC the first weekend of June. The following weekend we would have Sarah's B-day party. After being home for a few days Adam's parents and his sister and her two kids came up from FL and GA to visit and for Sarah's B-day party. Saturday we had her party which was a big success and a lot of fun for the kiddos. Come Sunday morning the kids and I were alone yet again. Adam's family had gone home and Adam left for a week long TDY to AZ. Upon Adam's return I was in and out of the doc's office with sick kiddos and Adam was pulling long days at work. I was waking up at night with the kids and he was coming home late and leaving early, so no one was getting much sleep. With pink eye and ear infections we stayed close to home so we didn't spread the germs. About a week later Sarah either had a reaction to the amoxicillin or a stomache virus. She was miserable for a day or so then finally started coming back around. Finally the last few days of June life was back to normal. Adam's project at work was done and the kids were feeling better! Now its time to go to "Manga & Papa's" (Adam's parents) house in FL for the 4th of July and one last shindig at their house. Friday they will be closing on the sale of their house! We are excited to see what lies ahead for them! My head is spinning just thinking about the month of June, but we made the best of it and made sure to get out and do stuff as a family, such as hiking and blueberry picking. The rest of the summer we will be laying low at home. Hopefully we will be able to get more work done with the house. I'll be uploading pictures a little at a time. Here are some photos from my brother's wedding to start it off. Look for more in the next few days.

Jenn's Family (from Left to Right)

David-bro, Barbara-grandma, Kathy-Mom, Bob-step-dad, Robin-new sister-in-law, Chris-bro, Gene-Dad, Diane-step-mom, Andrew, Adam, Sarah, Jenn

Chris and Robin Bunt

Our Family


"Wow" His first sight of his bride

Andrew giving Sarah a flower.

Taking a break from chasing the baby frogs.

The newly-weds!

Bubbles-secret behind quiet kids during the ceremony

Andrew giving Sarah a goldfish

Getting Settled In!

We are in our new house and loving it! The kids love all the open space! With Adam's parents in town we are making great progress on getting the boxes out of the house and our list of projects is dwindling each day! With his dad leading the work and his mom "babysitting" we are just moving right along. Without them we would still have random stacks of stuff in the rooms and our formal dining room filled, floor to ceiling-not kidding unfortunately, with empty boxes. Thank you guys sooooo very much! Now we need to buy some more furniture to fill the house. The weather has been wonderful lately! Having the nice weather has enabled the kids to get outside a lot. They are just loving it! Oh yea, Andrew is walking finally!!! He is still wiping out quite a bit, but I would say its his main form of transportation! Now once he stops wiping out and becoming more proficient I'm going to be in trouble. He's strong-willed as it is but he can't move very fast so its not that bad. Sarah is pretty much potty trained. We still have accidents but they aren't very common. She only wears a diaper when she's sleeping!! I love it! I think having a more consistent/normal life again is really helping the kids progress. Being so close to our family is great! Adam's parents are here now, my mom will be here for Easter and my dad will be here the following weekend! We are soo excited to be so close to them all!

Adam is getting used to his new squadron. He's been pretty busy getting spun up in the C-130 and his new ground job which is in the training shop. We just found out he has been selected to attend Safety School this May. Its a great opportunity for him. Unfortunately he'll be gone for the month of May, but will be able to attend my brother's wedding over Memorial Day weekend! From there we are possibly looking at a Fall deployment. It should only be 4 months, but its going to be a long 4 months I'm sure! We'll see what happens. We are keeping our fingers crossed.

Sarah & Andrew

Just a classic photo.

Our new house!!!!!

Shamrock 'N Roll 2 mile Run @ Pope AFB

Sarah's first snowman.

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel...FINALLY!!

Well, at 10 am on the 26th of Feb. we will be closing on our new house!! But more importantly on the first of march we will be recieving our house hold goods!!! The kids will be having a second Christmas. After 10 months I'm not even sure of what we have anymore. This adventure has been long and difficult but with all the support of family and friends it has been much more bearable! We are so thankful for all that has helped us out, from those that put up with us invading their houses for long periods of time to those that just simple ask, "How are you doing" and offer words of encouragement. I'm sure without all the support I'd be miserable and a wreck by now...lol. If you are reading this you are important to us and helped us in one way or another and for that we are so greatful and thankful! THANK YOU so very much!!!! We are on the home stretch baby!!!!!!!

Here is the website of our soon to be new home...Not sure how long it will stay online, but check it out if you can. Hopefully we'll move in by the end of Feb. Once we move in I'll have access to our personal computer and I can upload some pictures. Right now we are using the computer in the hotel lobby for internet access.

www.166mountainviewdr.com/

We are in NC!

We are glad to say we are in North Carolina! After a long car ride from TN we made it in Friday night-Finally. We are pretty busy looking for houses and trying to find our way around, but so far we like it here. It is really rural and country. I don't think I've seen a Wal-Mart since we got here. Granted we haven't been driving around to find a Wal-Mart but still... We will be looking a houses this week and hope to find something by the end of the week. It may be a little while before we post again. Hope this finds everyone healthy and doing well!

Dec 09 and Jan 10 Pictures

Pictures, finally!! Sorry for the long wait, but they are here at last. Unfortunately, don't have pictures of Andrew's first birthday with me. Hopefully they were put on the computer in Little Rock before we left. Anyway, there are pictures of the kids opening Christmas presents, playing and some snow pictures. They have been enjoying their time here playing with the other kids my mom babysits and visiting some friends we haven't seen in quite a while. Sarah has been missing Daddy and Stroller Strides. She realized he was going to be gone for a while when she saw "the blue car" was missing. Its super cute, and sad, when she says with her eyes tearing up, "Blue car & Daddy home, me go home." Boy I'm not looking forward to Adam's first deployment at all. On a positive note, we did get a little bit of snow on the 7th of Jan! I just had to take Sarah and Andrew out to get some pictures of them in the snow. Andrew isn't too sure about it, but Sarah was thrilled. No hesitation at all to walk in it! To compare the size of the two kids, the Christmas PJs and snowsuit Andrew is wearing in these pictures are the same ones Sarah wore last winter. Before long he'll be wearing the same size she is...lol. Enjoy the pictures!!!!!

Opening Christmas presents in Little Rock before going to TN.

Sarah & Andrew opening Christmas presents in TN.

Madison and Luke Dickerson and the backs of Sarah and Andrew's heads.

Sarah and Madison driving in the Jeep.

Sarah showing Andrew what snow is.

Apparently you only need 6 front teeth to eat corn on the cob...

Alright, here is my smile-take the picture and get me out of this stuff.

Andrew's first time playing in the snow. He's not sure what to think of it.

Andrew is standing for a quick second here and there!!! Yeah!!

Quick New Year Update

Well, Happy New Year all! The kids and I are in TN at my Mom's house. Adam is back in Little Rock finishing up training and packing up the apartment. We are hoping he will be done mid next week! The past two weeks have been pretty busy with Christmas, New Year and keeping the two kiddos out of trouble. We have also taken a couple of side trips to visit some friends we haven't seen in a while. Things are going great and the kids are enjoying being with Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Dave and Hannah (foreign exchange student staying with my Mom) I have a ton of pictures to sort through and plan on doing that soon. My goal is to get it done before we leave here. lol. I will post some cute photos for everyone to see.
We got a little bit of snow today!!! Although its a bit of a taste of what we are missing in AK, I'm very excited that we should be arriving into NC in about a week or so!! Looks like another birthday spent moving!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and is having a very happy New Year!