Fall has arived....sort of...

It is finally cool enough to consider it fall in central Texas. It has taken its sweet time in getting here. It is now really nice in the morning when I get up to do PT and the kids can actually go outside with out spontaneously combusting.

This weekend we are headed to San Antonio for Thor's birthday weekend. We decided since family can't always be near us to have parties that we will make our own party. We are picking a theme and and running with it. Thor is still fascinated with whales and sharks and sea creatures of any kind so we are going to go to Sea World (neither Jake or I have ever been) and going to have a blast.

Baleigh has decided that she is a giant panda recently and so we are going to take a mini trip up to Memphis in November to visit one of the three zoo's in the US that have giant panda's. She has even picked out a set of panda cupcakes that she wants for her birthday.

SO looking forward to a nice long weekend....its almost like a mini vacation.

5 years and going strong!

On Friday we celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary to each other. Pretty amazing! When we went through out marriage counseling with the chaplain he told us something that I don't think I will ever forget. There are two things that will stress a marriage more than anything else, "finances and moving". Well we have dealt with more than our fair share of moves in the last 5 years. This last one brought our family up to 10 moves total - so far. WE have also dealt with being on the bottom rung of the financial ladder. We have been separated by miles and by years. We have driven 100,000 miles, most of that with at least one child and sometimes with only one parent. We have acquired and lost two dogs, and then the cat came along. We have slept on the floor and celebrated the purchase of the most amazing bed ever! We have lived in small apartments and huge old houses. We went from two babies in diapers to two independent kids. I wouldn't say it has been easy but we have done one heck of a good job getting to where we are. Some people may not agree that it is the best life for the Nielsen's but we wouldn't go back for one second. Happy anniversary Jake!