Starting our new life in CT

 Here are a couple pictures from our new life and home in Connecticut.  We are loving being near my parents and brother.  People that have family near by tend to take it for granted, but we know what a special thing it is and love that my kids finally have family nearby.

 DeeDee and I took the kids and dogs down by the river of East Haddam.  It really is beautiful.  and the kids love being by the water.

 Mommy and the twins walking Charlie.

 Julian and charlie taking a stroll by the river.

 Lilly and Alex having fun at dee dee's house.

 Enjoying dinner with dee dee.

 After dinner with daddy in Essex.  The kids love seeing the boats and feeding the ducks.  Then we enjoy ice cream for desert.

 I love this picture of the kids looking at the water. Alex has his arm on Lilly.  They really have a love/ hate relationship.  I don't think he would know what to do without Lilly, and Julian is the one they always look up to.

Bye Bye PA

 Even though we were excited about this move for the opportunity to be with family, moving is still extremely hard for everyone.  You think I would be an expert at this by now, and do have it down pretty good, but it takes lots of work.  The movers and commented about how clean and organized everything was, but I learned how it has to be so it goes in smooth to the new house.  I didn't quite get to to do everything last time with the move since I had just delivered premature twins and was in another country than our stuff, but had tried to do as much as I could before I left.  This time I wanted it done perfect.  We enlisted the help or our babysitter for the past year to keep the twins busy while Julian was at school, which helped a lot.  They even played with their stuff to the bitter end.   The twins handled loading up their toys better than expected.  We think they had a pretty good grasp on what was going on and where we were going.  Of course, with the promise that we were going to see Dee Dee and PaPa, made most things easier.

 So, we add another house and location to the places we've been.  We did have many great memories in this house.

Our last week in PA

 Our last week in PA was packed full of activities and getting last minute things done before the move.  The twins had their last week at their preschool that they have been going to since we moved to PA.  Advent Speech and Feeding had been part of our life from the very beginning in PA.  They helped us through many ups and downs with them, especially with Lilly's eating, and then progressed to their speech development.  They have come so far since they were born, and many people have contributed to getting them to this point.  It was sad to see leave Advent for the last time.  I always new they were there if we needed anything.  We will always remember all of our special teachers- CareyAnne, Tonya, Jenna, Susan, Melinda, Tonya, and Rachel.  Thank you.

 We also had Julian's baseball games to attend before we left.  We always had so much fun watching Julian play sports and getting to interact with all his friends.  The thing I liked most about Easton, was Julian's school.  It was a very small, close nit school, where everyone knew everyone.  Julian played sports with the same group of boys for everything.  I always knew someone was looking out for him and they all knew us.  Julian was enjoying his season and was progressing so well.  This was the first season out of T-ball, and the coaches and kids pitched and Julian was getting so good.  The last week, he went 3 for 4 and 2 for 3 in hits both games.  Chris and I couldn't have been more proud.  Nothing makes a parent more happy than to see their child having fun and doing well at something.

 Julian's spectators at every game.  They love their big brother.

 This field was out in the middle of nowhere, but it was so pretty being out in the country playing baseball with all Julian's friends.

 Julian's best friend JJ.  We will miss him so much, and hope he finds new friendships at our new house.

 Enjoying cupcakes and hotdogs before we go to the hotel for our last night.