Friday, July 16, 2010

Swimin' what?


We were hoping that the security clearance for Randy's new job at Aberdeen Proving Grounds would be through by now. But the HR department that processes the forms before the security clearance can be processed has been SLOW. Randy finally received the security clearance forms on Wednesday morning. He spent the whole day filling them out and sent them in first thing yesterday morning. They tell us it usually takes about two weeks before people are cleared with a working clearance - which would put us hearing back from them a few days before the end of the month. (Dare we hope for a quick return? I'm not holding my breath.) However, our lease is up this month. So we are moving forward and have finally set a moving date for the last Wednesday of this month. We have had that calm assurance that everything will work out in the end. So even though it sounds a little crazy that we might be moving to Maryland before knowing that the job is a go, it doesn't feel crazy to us.

Here are few pictures of the girls having fun in the boxes we have been collecting.





And no post would be complete these days without a picture of the newbie:

Friday, July 2, 2010

As requested



More pictures:

And just to clarify, yes, we blessed her at 3 days old--before our parents had to leave. Randy gave a really nice blessing!

A musician??

Oh, the sisterly love!


Lucy at 1 week


Anne and Ruby have done really well with the adjustments. It's not pure bliss or anything, but all-in-all, not bad at all! This is the tea party I found in the kitchen after feeding the baby. I love it.

And last but not least, here she is in her Sunday duds! It's so fun to dress her up!


I feel so blessed! Heavenly Father knew just what I needed right now. I was worried (and so was Randy) that things would be too crazy right now. Randy has been really busy finishing things up with school, so it has been such a relief to have such an easy baby. We've got some really busy weeks ahead of us too. To be continued...