the move & gatorland

so maybe some of you are wondering what we've been doing the past few weeks since we've arrived in FL. probably not, but maybe. basically, our lives went like this:

-arrive in town late monday night

-get reacquainted with WP

-receive our load of like 112 items from the moving company

-adam starts work thursday

-i begin attacking the boxes of j-u-n-k we've apparently been toting around for the past 3 years

i'll leave it at that but i basically spent the next week unpacking and reorganizing all of our stuff. it was a little unsettling to see a CD, a few golf balls, some kitchen utensils, a salad bowl and a few pairs of jeans in one box, so i needed to address this issue. we still have boxes piled high in one room of the house, but at least they are labeled and contain things in similar categories and they are only the boxes that need to be moved to permanent storage--for the time being. 

once this was sort of done, adam's sisters and their kids came in to town for a meet the newest cousin mckinley/fun at the beach/disney/etc. vacation. courtney and the kids stayed with us so we were lucky enough to have some more time with them as we've sort of been having withdrawals since we left UT. i'll probably post some more pictures of the vacation later, but i thought i'd post some from our trip to gatorland on tuesday.... in the scorching, humid heat of o-town. aside from sweating profusely for the entire day (and for several cool down hours after we got home) it was pretty fun/funny. 

ruby forked over her $5 to hold this creature

reagan trying to get a better look at the gator wrestling

ruby & i....body temperatures skyrocketing every second. she told me we were "just taking a break."

coleman getting a birds eye view of one of the shows until we were told kids on shoulders were NOT allowed

ruby sue getting ready to enter the park!

all the kiddies sitting in very uncomfortable positions on the teeth

coleman was a little scared, but couldn't quite take his eyes off the action. so he just blocked out the noise instead. 

reagan getting attacked

mating season at gatorland...yikes

rockstar

i was just showing this picture to katie and it became MUCH more hilarious to me when she pointed out my ruffle socks coming out of the top of the high top converse. what were you thinking, mom?

we made it.....

we're here! we got here late last monday night after a looong 1 day drive from houston. we had a good time pit stopping at adam's sister's house for the weekend. of course, i didn't document our trip AT ALL, so sorry for the lack of pictures. i will post something more exciting soon.

best buddies

these are just a few of the pictures we have of adam and our nephew wade having some QT together. it is really funny how wade has totally just latched on to adam. mom is still definitely #1, but wade totally recognizes adam and gets all hyper and smiley when he picks him up. adam's feeling like quite the baby whisperer these days since wade also cries now if you try and take him from adam. we think it's pretty cute!

Happy Graduation!

the day has finally arrived..... no more school! here are some pictures of adam and his supporters.

widget

even though i think the widgets are a little freaky, i have added one anyway for baby girl. then i can instantly know how many days are left since i have officially started counting down the days left rather than how many days/weeks along i am. is that bad?

read all about it

so i have always been a little obsessed with the news. when i was little, i used to watch 20/20 with hugh downs and barbara walters when it was on after TGIF, no matter what the topic was. then, when the oklahoma city bombing happened, i collected EVERY newspaper article written and kept them in a bin in my closet. i recently discovered this bin and recognized lots of the articles i had read a million times. i guess i thought when i got older we wouldn't have newspapers anymore and these little yellowed, filthy papers would be worth something? who knows. anyway- i am always driving adam nuts with my random newspaper articles and crazy dateline specials. but i love it. and i've currently been obsessed (again) with this story. i followed it in 2006 when it happened but it's back in the news now thanks to the book written by the two families. i was going to read it until i saw 2 interviews this week that were EXACTLY the same questions/answers...so i realized i've probably gotten all the suspenseful details from the book via TV. still, this is one of the craziest things i've ever heard....

in other "news"... i've never seen something circulate via mass emailing as fast as this... cnn thinks they're so funny with their april fool's-ing but you never know... brother snoop dogg could come around.