Fahoo fores dahoo dores

All of my family is here and it's time to party. I cannot wait for all of the family things we have planned. I'm filling my tank up to the brim with family love before we leave. Christmas is the best. The end.

Some cuteness.

A little bit of an update on the cuteness that has been going on around my house.

Jude: He's FOUR months now. Crazy how fast it's gone by. He loves being tickled and being held by Livs. He can roll to his side now and is just about the cutest little boy I've ever seen. At his 4 month check up he was 15 lbs (70%) and I can't remember how tall but he's in the 90 percentile. He is a big boy! We've been sleep training him this week and he is a champion. Nothing beats having the whole family getting more sleep!

Livvy: She's 2 and half (although she told a friend she was almost 12). She is VERY excited for Christmas and asks me all the time what I want for Christmas. When you ask her what she wants for Christmas she says she wants a "silver bell". If you've read The Polar Express than you know why she's asking for that. I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I am to wrap a bell for her and she how excited she is when she thinks Santa gave her a reindeer's bell!

Life before the move has been hectic, but everyday I find myself having moments of feeling so blessed. I love being a mom and taking care of these little munchkins. I am so glad I get to take them with me to London.

Tomorrow

shippers come to my house and pack up {a few of} our belongings and ship them to London.

We are moving in approximately 6.5 weeks.

This last month is full of doctors appointments, dentist appointments and a WHOLE lot of family and friends time.

It's been quite the fiasco deciding what to take vs. what to leave. We're not taking much. Mostly Livvy's toys and a few essentials like beds. Everything else we're either giving away or selling.

Side note: It's ah-mazing the amount of kitchen appliances that one accumulates.

We're probably going to be having some sort of a garage sale (patio sale?). But right now we're focusing on tomorrow and shipping our stuff across the Atlantic Ocean.

When I told Livvy her toys are going on a boat to "Wondon" she looked at me and thought for a minute then asked "But who will hold them?" Good question my dear. Good question.

Zoo!

London.

We are moving to London for two years to do an international rotation with Lincoln's company.

This has been in the works for a LONG time. By long time I mean one year of waiting and run around.

Finally the wheels are in motion and we are starting to do big things.

1) Finding renters

2) Selling (most of) our furniture

3) Figuring out where we're going to live

Our offer letter says Lincoln's start day is January 4th...however, we are pushing it back to at least the 16th.

Just so you know that is less than 2 months away.

I'm a freaking basket case. I don't do well with stress (my older brothers will attest to that) and this is a dump trunk of stress.

Thankfully L's company will pay for us to live in temporary housing for 2 weeks while we find our long-term lease. His company will also pack and ship the stuff we're taking. (YES!)

So my question is how did Lincoln come up with 60 to-do items on a typed out "Get Done Before London" Excel sheet? How?

Most days I am just trying to get everyone fed and slept and cleaned. Add on an international move and I guess we'll see what happens...

I better stop talking about how much we have to do and go check some things of my list before it's December!

Jude's Blessing

Jude was blessed on October 30th. My in-laws flew out for the special day and all my family in the area came!

Jude wore Dew's blessing outfit (don't mind his grandpa belly hanging out).

Halloweenie

I know this is a little bit late...but I wanted to make sure I wrote about how fun Halloween was this year!

Livvy LOVED trick or treating and practiced being a "scary witch" for weeks. Lincoln was out of town for our ward party, but we braved it on our own and Livvy couldn't get enough trunk or treating. Jude slept for most of the event...but made a cute little skeleton.

The night of Halloween we went to my parent's house. After every house she would look at the next house and say "Now lets go to THAT one!" Whenever she was allowed to pick a candy she chose suckers. At one house the lady let her choose THREE and she seriously started walking into the house to stay and play with the lovely candy lady.

Overall Halloween was a success.