There's No Place Like Home

We've moved... again. We're very good at it now, so it is with a bit of sorrow we throw away the boxes for good and settle into our home here in Scottsdale. While we don't miss the skunks and silver fish spiders of Ohio, North Scottsdale has its own wild life with which to contend. We've seen a bobcat, rattlesnake, scorpions, and the beloved garbage-dumping havalenas. Our first night in our home we woke to the cries of coyotes. If the saguaro cacti were not enough, these creatures are enough to convince us that we truly live in the desert.

There have been two things Braden was excited for upon our move. The first was a dog. He is our animal loving child (definitely not a trait acquired from his mom). He is still waiting for the dog. The second was the pool. Unfortunately we moved in the winter, though that was not what hindered him. His casted arm prolonged the plunge until December 3rd. The swim lasted only a minute, as even in Arizona it is not swimming weather in December.

The babies have acclimated about as well to the new house as Braden to the pool. Where the girls have always been wonderful sleepers, we now find them crawling out of bed seeking a better sleeping location. They'll initially climb in with each other or Emmry, but eventually insist on a nightly stroll into mom and dad's room. It only took a couple times pulling both two-year-olds into bed to realize that that was not a good solution. Our nightly visitors now have sleeping quarters on their parents' floor.

Ryan and I have acclimated quite well. The only thing we are missing here are our friends and family. If you find yourselves missing the sun, desiring a polar bear swim, or yearning to know what a havalena is, we would love to see more of you here!