Yes...Finally Back at Blogging and 11 Months!

I can't believe it has been 2 whole months since I last updated the blog. Well in the 2 months...so much has happened. My blogging hiatis started with a work trip to Chicago. Jack got to visit grandma diane and grandpa jeff for a whole week! Patrick came to Chicago late in the week to meet me for a long weekend. To our surprise he got a call the day before his scheduled flight asking him to interview for a coaching job in the chicago area! This is the day the hope began. So he interviewed on Friday, and he got a call on Sunday while spending the weekend in Michigan explaining he was the top candidate. He got the job offer on Monday, and our plans to move back to Illinois began! We were going to be Huskies! because Pat was now the Head Men's Tennis Coach at Northern Illinois. Everything happened so quickly and it was definitely one of the craziest times ever. Luckily Grandma Diane and Grandpa Jeff volunteered to keep jack for a couple weeks until we were able to get somewhat settled. We traveled home on Tuesday...packed all of our stuff...said good bye to BYU and to all of our friends in Utah and left on Saturday morning! A hotel was our home for the first week in Dekalb. And we found a month to month lease on a campus apartment. We finally got Jack back. We missed him dearly...but we would not have been able to do everything we had to do with him in tow. Then...onto the second set of craziness during the last couple months. We brought our first house! Over the next couple of weeks...we looked at many many houses...and finally found the perfect one. Now we just cant wait to move in. We are still waiting to find out our closing date and we are counting down the days. So those are the big things that have happened...but then there is all of the little things that come with moving too! So we have been kind of busy. And the craziness is not ending as the holiday season is now fast approaching...Not to mention our baby boy's first bday is around the corner. I get choked up as I write this. Jack has been such a blessing in our life...and we can not imagine it without him. Can't believe we have been a family of 3 for almost a whole year. Here are some recent pics! Enjoy....I promise I am back to blogging regularly. I have so many new things to share!