Sorry for the extended absence. In fact, I've been reading your blogs between feedings, changing and walking Elizabeth, but I haven't had much time to put my thoughts together and write. Speaking of Elizabeth, she is a little colicky, but we seemed to have turned a corner. Luke is also well but
a bit a lot more needy than he was before her arrival.
While all of this has been going on we packed and moved out of our house, put our stuff in storage and moved into a temporary rental (more on that in a minute). We also closed on our house. So, we're officially
homeless. Leaving our house was harder than I anticipated - our first home together and Luke's first home made it really hard to say good-bye.
Ok. So, now for our new, temporary home. We're staying in a 1400 square foot home on the CT shore. It's bright and sunny home and we're really happy here. And we're literally across the street from the Long Island Sound, with water views from our windows. If this was summer, we could never afford this!
It's a cute cedar clapboard house with a nice stone patio which we've used for lunches. The kitchen isn't huge, but it's open clean and bright.
And, it's open to the living room, below.
There are two first floor bedrooms (ours and Elizabeth's) and Luke gets the entire upstairs to himself! It's his own secret hideout and he loves it.
Other than the occasional jaunts to the beach and napping whenever I can, that 's what has been going on here.
I'm hoping as we settle into more of a routine that I can get back to posting more frequently.
Third - Such loving parents.
Fourth - My big ol' family that always produces a good time.
Fifth - Great friends. Especially ones that will dress in awesome tacky Christmas attire. 
We celebrated a family birthday on Sunday. I threw together a tiny gift for the birthday girl before we visited. I made a fresh batch of cookies {using the Nestle Toll House recipe on the back of the package} and bundled them in this adorable box....
It's a generic gift box. I buy them in large quantities after Christmas every year for super cheap. I added a card with the Happy Birthday message and tied it all together with twine. Simple and sweet. 
Talon and I started dating when Creed was ONE. So hard to believe. 
We celebrated his big day with a birthday party at a park where we had a pick up baseball game. Grandparents included. 
His little buddies came to help him celebrate. They were all excelent baseball players.
Uncle Tal was the first baseman for the birthday boy.
Creed was showered with lots of prizes.
Including a new BIKE. 
Everyone was jealous of his new ride.
Don't they look crazy creepy?? These guys didn't get to trick or treat us because of a few hundred miles in between us (they live in Texas) but my sister sent me this picture of our sweet nephew and niece before they loaded up on candy....
Makes me miss them terribly! While Tal and I were handing out the goods Tillie was rebelling in our bedroom {we made her stay in our bedroom for the night out of fear she would lick one of the kiddos to death}. Here she is hanging out on our dresser....what the heck she was doing up there I have no idea. I guess she was pissed she didn't get to partake in the festivities. 
