Saying Goodbye

Living here can be hard especially when we have to say good bye to people that have become our family. Today we had a goodbye party for our dear friends Marianne, David and their daughter Sarah. David and Marianne have been here since we moved here 7 years ago. They have been a significant part of my kids lives and mine and John's as well. They are the kind of people you look for at your dinner table for Thanksgiving and Christmas and if they aren't present (like this past Christmas) I cry. So tonight we celebrated their time here and took a trip down memory lane with a video of all their years here in Asia. It was neat to see the impact they have had on so many people. We are going to miss them dearly.

Me and Marianne

All the guys.

Layla hanging out in her stroller.

Layla is 3 Months!

Layla is 3 months old today! She is such a joy to be around. She loves to smile at us and coo! She really likes for Kayleigh to talk to her. However, with Zeb you can see her brace herself when he comes near! He gives her a lot of tough love. We can't wait to see what kind of personality she is going to have.

Reunited

Kayleigh and Zeb talked a lot about their friends in East Asia while we were gone. The ones they talked about the most were their friends Bright and Zion. I am pretty sure at least three times a week if not every day Zeb would say "I need Bright and Zion" when he was sad. Kayleigh has a different reason for missing her friend Bright. She says that they are going to get married when they grow up and she is serious about it too! They hold hands all the time when we go places with them. Could this be her first love?? At age 4 almost 5! My mind can't even go there. For now we just laugh and enjoy the funny things they say about each other.

We Are Alive!

I know, I haven't blogged in almost 4 months. You know the funny thing is I had these big plans to catch up on our blog ( since I was always about a month behind) before Layla was born but then life happened. While in America we had multiple sicknesses including John getting shingles, family surgeries and oh yea, a baby. So the catching up never happened. I still plan to go back and blog about the last 4 months of our lives. I plan to turn my blog into a book some day so that I have some kind of documentation of our family life. My hopes of ever even finishing one of the scrapbooks I started has died so I am counting on myself to really keep up with the blog. My plan is to keep blogging in the present while also putting posts up of what happened the last four months of our lives. If you are a curious you can start scrolling down or looking back to see for yourselves.

As for now we are finally settled back into our lives here in East Asia. It has only taken me two weeks to unpack. In my defense we did have 9 bags! Ten if you count Layla's small one. I just asked John today to put the suitcases away. Life with three is challenging to say the least. I knew it would be hard adjusting back once we left our families and all the help they offered. I am counting on a 6 month learning curve. I hope it takes only that amount of time since that is what it took me with the adjustment to two. My house is certainly not the cleanest it has been but I'm having to accept that.

We are glad to be back and for the first week Kayleigh and Zeb played for hours with their toys because they were like new to them. It was good to see our friends again however, we are starting to say good bye to many of them that are leaving for the summer or for some even longer. For now we are just looking forward to a relaxing summer!