Much to blog about, again

No pictures tonight. My camera broke yesterday. I KNOW! Not to worry Canon will repair it under warranty as soon as I mail it in to them. Still doesn't give me a camera for our trip. I think we have the old (big and clunky) camera. Hope so. So if you want to stop reading now go ahead. Otherwise, sit back, it's a long one.

The last few weeks have been hectic and it seems like each day we get little wrench thrown into our system. We are pretty much just rolling with the punches at this point. I would have blogged sooner, but the laptop has been at the shop for a couple weeks (wrench!). It wasn't supposed to take that long, but when the parts are not in AK...anyway. Today we only had to juggle our schedules with one car. Tomorrow it's the same thing. Pretty much this means lots of switching car seats around. Which we need to go outside and do in a few minutes. We aren't juggling one car because we have shipped one. No, not yet. We are actually shipping our car on the 4th, but leaving here on the 1st. See, that is just one of our little wrenches. Right now, both cars just need something-or-other before we head out.

So we were packed up on the 21st and then the movers came again on the 24th (another wrench) to load up the boxes and furniture. But we have such wonderful friends up here, Melissa and Chuck, in AK that have invited us to stay with them while we are in transition. We have known them for a long time and think of them as family. Now that we are all staying under one roof we might as well be family. I just realized that by the time we leave we will have been their house guests for over two weeks. Wow. We owe these guys big time!

Earlier this week, we sold our AK house and bought our OK house. Pretty uneventful actually. Just paperwork. We haven't actually seen the new house, but our friends did. And we trust them! : ) Thanks to Katie and Dan and Eli who looked at our house and even took video and put it on YouTube.

For the next two days we are all just soaking in as much of this place as we can. The weather this week has been absolutely perfect. And the sun is setting late (sunset tonight is 11:17pm) so we are enjoying the amazing views even after we get the kids to bed. I love it! I am looking outside now, and one of the neighbors is painting the deck. It is 9:45pm!! Nicholas and Stella have been outside so much. I had them out for just 2 hours this morning and Stella was so wiped out. At lunch I looked over and she had fallen asleep at the table with a big hunk of sandwich in her mouth. I had to wake her up six times to finish chewing it up. Nicholas has been playing nonstop with friends. We did playgroups on Tues and Wed, playgrounds and parks, you name it. And all the time in between, he has been playing with his friends, T & E, across the street from Chuck and Melissa. He is constantly looking over to their house and asking to play with them. This morning T & E saw us outside and were banging on their windows and calling to Nick. I don't know what is going to happen on Sunday when we have to leave them. I want to cry just thinking about it. Good thing is, their mommy is having a baby next week so they will be involved with that excitement. The kids are so happy playing together. Even Stella loves them. We are going to have a sad, sad little boy next week I think. I might be wrong.

I WISH I had a picture of Nicholas for you. He got his haircut today and the girl spent about 45 minutes on him. He has a horrible cowlick so I have been growing his hair long to weigh it down. Well, it had gotten to the point of shaggy-and-a big mess. I couldn't stand looking at his hair. But this girl took SO much time and care on his hair. She even washed his hair. He was a perfect angel for all of it. And he has a perfect haircut too.

Soooo tomorrow night is the opening night of Sex and the City movie. This couldn't have happened at a better time. I am a huge SATC fan. My girlfriends, the awesome women they are, set up a girls night out/going away for me and we are going to see the movie. But not until after we go to Simon and Seafort's (nice, nice AK restaurant) for appetizers and drinks! I am so super excited for our night out. I needed this. Now, instead of dreading "goodbyes" I am anxiously anticipating the fabulous night on the town with my incredible girlfriends.

I suppose that is the happy note on which to end this. We have a full schedule tomorrow and I know Stella will be up tonight.