SO funny!

So funny looking? So funny smelling? I don't know what's so funny, but Jesse thinks Diva is the most hilarious creature on this earth. I wish I had gotten the camera quicker so you could hear the 5 minutes straight (no joke!) of gut laughing at Diva.

SURPRISE!

crawling together

WOW...look at my sword!

helping Alexis

rough housing like boys do :)

...and afterwards

Ahhhh...the little surprises that life always has waiting around the corner for us...some we want and others we don't. Let me explain:

We were supposed to close on our home this past Friday, our loan officer was on the phone with us all week getting things from Garret that she needed, and then Thursday night came along--they didn't have it together for us to sign on Friday and had been, in fact, stringing us along the whole week...SURPRISE!

We have to replace all the carpet and paint all the walls before we can move it. We picked carpet that was in-stock, they came out and measured the rooms, set-up an installation date...SURPRISE--they have to order the carpet now and don't know when it'll be in!

Thankfully, it's all sorting itself out now. We plan on closing this coming Wednesday or Thursday on our home. We have a family friend flying out to be our paid "handyman" on Tuesday and he'll stay for 10 days...that should really help us get a lot done to the house. Garret's Change of Command Ceremony is Friday, so both families are coming for that...the timing couldn't be more perfect for us since there will be extra hands to help with Jesse and the movers.

This past Monday I got a phone call from my Hawaii belly buddy, Jess Keane. She is a member of an exclusive club that we refer to as BOS (more on that later) as well with me. She's been a traveling lady this month since her husband is out of town and had time to make a trip to Kansas to see me the very next day--SURPRISE!!! Keane stayed 4 nights, 2 with me and 2 with another BOS member, Alexis. Her little boy, Billy, is almost a year now and it was too funny watching him and Jesse play together and steal food, toys, pacifiers from each other. Keane's trip was truly the best surprise of all.