I officiated a wedding...

I finally officiated my first wedding! The added bonus is that it was for two friends from college. Such a great time.

Eli & Emerson loved the wedding and for some reason (maybe because I was more centrally involved) they had a lot of questions about marriage and who is married to who.

Emmy and I had this conversation on friday after the rehearsal.

Emmy: Mama are you married?
Me: Yup I am. Who do you think I'm married to?
Emmy: Jesus.

Haha it was a good try. Then we had this conversation.

Emmy: mama I want to get married.
Me: Ok you can one day.
Emmy: I'm going to marry you.
Me: okay and who is Eli going to marry?
Emmy: daddy.

Then Marcus and I were asking Eli & Emmy questions about people in our family who are married to see if they were understanding the concept at all.

Me: Is gram married?
Eli/Emmy: Yes
Me: Who is she married to?
Eli/Emmy: Granddad

haha so they got that one right, but perhaps only because they're a package deal in their mind. The pretty much only see their grandparents together.

Me: What about Uncle Luke is he married?
Eli/Emmy: No
Me: What about Tia Mara is she married.
Eli/Emmy: No
Me: yes they are they're married to each other.
Eli/Emmy: No they're not

It's possible they don't get the concept.

However, Disneyland had some staying power because according to both Eli & Emerson the bride in her dress was the princess. After we left the wedding they kept asking, "Where the princess go?"

Fun times. (I have pictures but they were taken by a friend my camera died at the wedding). It was in a gorgeous location in Wine country.

Trouble Sleeping (For Emmy)...

We've only been in our new house for 10 days and in that time Emerson has been having the hardest time at night. She resists sleep, instead asks over and over to come and "sit with mama"

She wants to sleep in our bed (which is unusual and not something we've ever done), and she wakes up crying.

I wonder if this is due in part to the transitions. Not only the move but not having me home as much. I worked from home at my last church, but I'm away all day here. She's really attached to me. I wonder if going to preschool is really going to send her over the edge, poor baby.

Made up Words...

Eli & Emerson have always been able to communicate with each other. They "get" each other even when others around have no idea what's going on.

Today they created a word, it had meaning for the both of them, but Marcus and I could not figure out what exactly it meant.

Emerson ran in from outside and said, "mama I want to 'twinkle' (at least whatever it was she was saying sounded like twinkle to me) then she asked, "Want to see?"

I went out and the best I could tell "twinkling" simply involved Emerson repeatedly riding her bike off the concrete into the dirt"

"See mom I 'twinkling'..."

I still didn't get it, so I asked Eli who was sitting next to me, "What's sissy doing?"

"Sissy twinkling"

So clearly whatever it was that she was doing was a game/word they had developed together. I'm glad they were having a good time even though I have still have no idea exactly what the word or the game is.

My crazy kids (at my church last Sunday)

No internet +moving+new job =

No time for blogging.

Life has been crazy this past week (less than a week actually)

We arrived in our new city Saturday.

I started work on Sunday.

We've been trying to unpack, work, etc. etc. Plus we still don't have internet at our house. That's an ongoing frustration and Marcus has spent hours on the phone with our provider and they suck.

But we're alive and exhausted. Eli keeps asking to go back to his other house. Poor boy.

My Welcome to the new church.

Me & the Senior pastor sharing communion 

Eli & Emmy helping me meet new people at our church.

Hopefully, much more later. I still haven't had a chance to adequately blog our disney adventures.

It's Moving Day...

We're moving today! I'm exhausted already and it's only 9am. We're currently waiting for the movers who were suppose to be here anytime between 8 & 9.

Then we're off for our new city, and I start my new job tomorrow. I don't know when we'll have internet at our new house (hopefully soon). So I'll update when I can,

I'm hoping Eli & Emmy do okay with the move. They've been walking around the house for the past two days saying, "I don't want a new house I want this house." Over and over.

We're Home...

We're home from my work conference and even more exciting Disneyland!!

We had a great time Eli & Emmy loved it, now we get to move in 2 days. More later but here's a couple pictures for now.

Candy Store...

Eli & Emmy are going to spend some time with their grandparents this week while I'm a work conference. But before the handoff we're staying the night in a City that's a halfway point for us.

We took Eli & Emerson to a candy store. They loved it! (And they might be eating candy for dinner in our hotel room, we're on vacation...)

The posed themselves, silly kids.

Such good friends.

Eli, eyeing all the candy.

Emmy beyond excited

Hopefully, we get some rest tonight since I have full days of conference for the next 4 days, then off to disneyland, and then we move. All in the next 10 days eek.