Victor and Brooke got married on June 18th, and it was great being there for their special day! They're so cute and complement each other so well :) Congratulations to them both!
And like I had mentioned in my previous post, my dad was able to come up and we had a blast with him here! We wish he and Neiva lived closer to us. Maybe one day.
Then Andrew turned 7 months old! He started to sit pretty well on his own and still no teeth... He got pretty good at sleeping through the night, but we were about to move, so there was no sleep training in his crib quite yet.
We then headed to Louisville, KY to pick out a house to live in. We were here for 4 days, and we had a house picked out on day 2. Not bad! We feel that we were guided by the Lord to be in the town and house we chose to be in, and I can't believe all the interesting things that have led us here. Truly NOT a coincidence! But we got to do a lot of sight seeing on day 3, although not as much as we had hoped. They were under a heat wave and every day was above 100F with over 80% humidity. It was brutal. We could only be outside for 10 minutes before we had sweat pouring down our faces. Jacen had stayed home with aunt Brooke and uncle Victor, and we brought Andrew with us. He was a little trooper.
This bridge is one of the bridges connecting Indiana and Kentucky (I-64). It's a cool bridge. Too bad we can't go over it for a while now because they just found it's cracking and they'll have to fix it, which may take months... maybe a couple years. It's caused a lot of havoc because it's the main bridge that connects both states.
And our house! We found it in a city called Shelbyville, which is about 30-35 minutes away from downtown Louisville, and only 22 minutes away from where Elijah works (Jeffersontown). It's almost half way between Louisville and Lexington. We like the house and the neighborhood but the cell phone reception and internet connection out here are horrible because we live in the middle of nowhere. Our ward, thankfully, is only 2 minutes away, but we're told that our ward encompasses 4-5 COUNTIES. We made some good friends and their house is about 25 minutes away, and they are in our ward. LOL I'm grateful for starting to make friends, because I'm really having a hard time adjusting here.
That's downtown Louisville, looking from the River Walk. It's a pretty place. They have a playground there and some cool fountains.
Anywho. Back to before we left on our move. I ended up having to have emergency surgery 4 days before we left for our move, and that really kinda messed things up. My IUD perforated the wall of my uterus and got lost in my pelvis (which explained the severe pain I had for about one week following insertion), so my OB was nice enough to fit me in his surgery schedule and waited for 5 hours before we were ready to get an available OR at IMC to pull my IUD our laparoscopically. He is the best OB ever! I highly recommend him to anyone. Thanks to everyone (especially Brooke, Victor, Susan and Roy, including Sadie who threatened to slap me on loading day if I were to lift one finger!) who came in and helped me finish packing my house the day after surgery so we could load the moving container the next day. What a crazy weekend that was!
The night before we moved we got together one last time with Sadie and she brought Sam along with her, so we had to take a picture of the buddies. Too bad Porter wasn't there otherwise we would've gotten a picture of all 4 boys together. And not surprisingly, they were both wearing green.
The next 4 days after that were HORRENDOUS. The first day in the car was especially difficult because not only did I sob as we were leaving Salt Lake valley, but the boys did not like being in their carseats for that long. We stopped our first night in a little city just an hour into Nebraska... that was probably the happiest I had ever been to be in a hotel room. Poor Andrew had been screaming in the car for the last 2 hours and it was hard driving and not being able to help him. Also being post-op, I had to be careful not to lift our suitcases, so that was hard on Elijah. On our second night, we stopped in Kansas City for the night, and wow! We really loved that city. We even saw the Kansas City Temple on the freeway at night. So pretty.
The second day of driving was probably the worst because we weren't done and the kids again were hating every minute of it. Andrew had figured out that every time we put him in his carseat he was going to be there for a while, so he'd cry as soon as we put him in it. Ugh. Terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE!!!
This is the St. Louis Temple, which was also right off the freeway. We loved St. Louis... such a pretty city. Funny because Elijah and I have contemplated moving there in the past and driving by just solidified our love for it! We plan on doing a Mormon tour in Missouri sometime, to visit Adam-ondi-Ahman and such.
Then FINALLY we got to Louisville on thursday afternoon. We decided to leave early on thursday because we figured the boys were at their crankiest after 6pm, so if we could be out of the car by then, our drive would be so much better. And it was. We got to our hotel in Shelbyville at 5pm and it was heavenly. That stupid drive was over!!!
The next day was chaos as we had to sign papers for the house and get keys, get a fridge, and ended up unloading the truck (which was awesome, I highly recommend ABF for long-distance moving) that got here at noon. About 20 people from the ward showed up to help us unload, and I wasn't even here- I was at the grocery store buying stuff and when I came back, everything had been unloaded and half the furniture had been put together! It was awesome! Thanks, Shelbyville ward! They have been so welcoming and friendly. If it wasn't for this ward, I'd be crying every day.
And Andrew, in the middle of all this mess, turned 8 months old! He finally got his own room, and now sleeps in his own crib- ALELUIA! He still has no teeth, and is finally showing some interest in wanting to crawl. I'm dreading the day he does start... I really like that he's content wherever he's sitting. He is always so cute and flirts with all the ladies. I worry about him as a teenager.
Our house is 99% set up. We need a couple furniture pieces and I need to hang pictures on the walls... But I had everything out of boxes 24 hours after we moved in. I was impressed with myself LOL :) I will get pictures of our house once I get everything else settled in.
It's been hard for me to adjust here. There's nearly nothing around us and I'm very lonely most of the time. Elijah and I had to sell his car before the move, so now we're down to one car, which makes it hard for me to be able to get out every day, because if I ever need to use the car, I need to take him to work, and I don't necessarily enjoy it. But life goes on I suppose.
I'll be applying to the University of Louisville within the next couple of weeks. More info to come soon!
