Things have been quite busy around here (hence no blogging) but I’m blogging right now before I have to get dressed for a run.
We got lots and LOTS of boxes last night (and a tape gun!) so I will hopefully be able to pack most of the house today. It’s starting to get me down – the thought that we’re leaving beautiful Monterey and the ocean and all the wonderful friends we have here.
Thankfully a lot of those friends are in the Utah National Guard as well, so we’ll see them occasionally. But there are a few precious friends who are dear to our hearts that are active duty and will be sent to far away places. We will miss them SO much. We will probably have to take some vacations out that direction (a few of them are going to Ft. Bragg) and visit. It would be neat to see the other ocean!
My little family is doing wonderfully. They are growing up so fast.
We went Whale Watching on Monday with Sanctuary Cruises. Vince loved the boat. Joseline slept. Russ got sea sick. And I got to play hero and take care of everyone.
We saw one whale. It was magnificent. He only surfaced about 3 or 4 times, but it was really cool. And now Vincente has seen a real live whale. He probably won’t remember it much, but we’ll remind him about it. Especially since we will probably never go whale watching again. We have decided that we are not ocean people. At least, we’re not the riding-on-the-ocean type people. We like the beach! Does that count?
Joseline signed her first word!! Well, she actually been doing it (inconsistently) for a few weeks. We’ve been trying to teach her “mais” (or “more”) and she has been clapping occasionally to say “mais.”
Last night we were eating pizza with friends and we were trying to get her to sign “mais” for more pizza. She would clap, and then once when she was clapping she suddenly stared at her hands and pointed both fingers and touched them together.
I ran to get the camera in case she did it again.
She didn’t.
So here is a picture of another baby doing the sign. Removed said picture since I caught her on camera.
Joseline was way more cute. She was staring sooo intently at her little fingers, making sure she got it right! It was awesome! I promise to post a picture of her signing as soon as I can get one.
I can’t believe I never got a picture of Vince signing anything. And he did a LOT of signs.
Okay, clearly this is not our house (or our POD… lawn/pool furniture? Yeah… no. Bricks on our driveway? No.) but it serves the purpose of showing our preferred method of moving. I’ll take a picture of our POD when it gets here… IN THREE WEEKS!
Our official move date is February 25. It was going to be a little later, but apparently the housing office’s last day is the 25th, so if we didn’t want the 25th, we’d have to stay here into March, and we just want to get our stuff packed up and get back to UT! Plus, the earlier I’m back in UT, the faster I can start finding a job. And I need to get fingerprinted for the ARL program, and if I don’t get it done in UT it will take up to 10 weeks to process. Sorry, folks, I need a job a little earlier than that.
Right now we are in need of moving boxes, since we just decided on Friday that we were going to move out a month earlier than planned 8-o
We’ll be seeing all you UT folks soon!! We can’t wait!! :D
We have a little to-do list for before we leave:
- whale watching cruise (scheduled for President’s Day! the 15th)
- family photo shoot on the beach (gotta find out about that!)
- trip to San Francisco (I think we would be really disappointed if we lived in Monterey for over a year and never went to SFO. So we’ll have to plan that trip in there sometime!)
- sell our CAR!! Ack! 8-o Otherwise we may need someone from UT to fly out and drive it back for us. Any takers? I found flights from SLC to Oakland for under $100. We’d pay half the ticket? If it comes right down to it we’ll probably end up just trying to sell it to a dealer 8-o Yikes.
