Umm...oops...2 years later.....!

Ook, quite frankly I'm embarrassed with myself that it has taken me 2 years to update this blog.  So quick summary.....2010 we moved to Ohio for Dave to attend AFIT and get another Masters degree. 
June 2011 Ella's adoption finalized and we moved to Northern Virginia. 
August 2012, we flew to CA to have Ella sealed to us in the Oakland Temple.
So 2012, here we are with Dave working at the Pentagon, Anna is in 3rd grade, and Caiden and Ella are in preschool.  It's been a warm winter here.  Which is too bad since  I had prepared for snow!  Darn!
the children have grown so much!  I'll cover them individually in their blogs.  We are enjoying living here in our home.  The kids are involved in Gymnastics and having a blast with it!  So being quick here, now that I have a working computer again, I will try to keeps this updated more!

Car News

Ahhh, nothing like pulling up into the garage and finding all three kids asleep. I wondered why it got so quiet..lol. Sigh.
Anyway, it had to happen sometime that we would discover after two months of trying that 2 carseats and a seven year old in the back seat of a Jeep or a Neon make for a very tight fit! But very cute when they all fall asleep together! So we decided to trade in our Neon for a Dodge Grand Caravan. So there it is. I am driving a "soccor mom" car. but he additional space is nice as is all the gadgets (such as stow and go) that it has! So with a larger family comes the larger car. But we did have some great times with that small Neon before we got Anna and when we were just a one child family..lol. But the larger family is great and totally worth looking older!...lol.

Hah! See I'm catching up on my blogging!

Okay, so I finally sat down and have been catching up on posting pictures to this main blog and each of the kids.  It's easier now because I can load the pictures from my netbook (which I love) and it's faster than our poor desktop..lol).  So, life here is a little crazy.  Suddenly jumping to having two toddlers keeps me on my feet.  Caiden is warming up to Ella now.  Both are pretty clingy and Mama's lap space and attention are a premium.  But spontaneous hugs and kisses make it all worth it.  We've had Ella for almost two months now and while it's an adjustment, I think it was meant to be.
SO we finally hired a moving company and are getting rewady for our move to Ohio.  Last month I met Charisse in Ohio and we found a cute home for us to live in for hte short time we are there.  We are only going to be there for about 14 months or so, just while Dave does the master porgram at AFIT.  But I am so going to miss San Pedro!  The ocean, the fresh breezes from the sea, the community.....but I'm looking forward to moving to a four bedroom!!!!
Anna is doing great in school.  She really loves it, but hates homework!  She took up violin this year and I am so proud of her!  I wish I had kept up with mine, but we have been able to play together.
So what else...well how about off to find a bigger car!  Three kids in the back of my jeep is just not working as well as it should!  lol  OH and any spelling errors...darn blog doesn't have a spell checker!  Ha ha ha ha ha

See ya all!
Casi

Valentines

Look at me I'm running around during the church picnic!

No one can catch me!

Uh oh, Daddy caught me finally!

Emerson

Well, Just in case anyone ever wondered (lol), okay and because I wanted to, I am posting this picture of our sweet cat Emerson. He is abot 15-16 yrs old and a sweetie. He's so tolerant of the little ones!

Our First Whole Day Out

I'm going back and picking up some of the pictures from when we were in Oregon. This was on Saturday, our first whole day out together. Apparently we wore Ella out because this is what she did during lunch time at Burgerville.











Once she woke up we were at the park and played on the swings and the slide while Mommy stayed in the car with sleeping Caiden.

More Pic. from the Science Museum