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I cannot believe how long it has been since I posted on this blog! I will try as best as I can to update a little at a time for the time in between. It's almost been a year!

So I should start at the beginning. We moved. A huge move. Across the country. We have wanted to move pretty much since Elijah has been a baby. I wasn't necessarily on the same page as far as where to go because snow is not super enticing, but there were a lot of contributing factors to the move, including being near to my parents, helped drive me back home. My Uncle Bob, whom I was very close with growing up, passed away around Thanksgiving time. It was very hard to not be by family during that time. My Grandpa passed away a few years prior, and it was the same thing. When living in AZ it is pretty hard to get 6 people back home without time to drive there and back or a lot of money. Pretty much our entire family lives within an 18hr drive when we are home. The only exception is Jake's parents and sister/nieces/nephew, whom obviously, we miss terribly. But hopefully we will still be able to see them more frequently. All of the extended family seems to come "home" so it's a lot easier to see family when we live here.

Anyway. The move was a difficult one, filled with many trials. Jake, Oliver, Molly and I drove his car to Michigan where I stayed for 6 weeks at our cousin, Angela's house and my parents house. Both watched Oliver while I started my new job. Jake flew back home and had the 3 older boys while our house was on the market and while they finished school. We were finally reunited Memorial Day. During that time, we sold our very first home that we shared together. That was so hard. I never got a picture of all of us in front of it. It was just so hard packing everything, finishing work up, saying goodbye to everyone...something I really don't want to have to repeat.

After feeling like we would never find a house here in Michigan, we found what we were looking for. It was a flip, and now we are discovering the joys of that, but over all it's perfect for us right now. Ideally, we will get the basement finished for more room because it's actually smaller than our old house, but it will do.

This is home sweet home. It is a mid-century modern home and we can't wait to do more updates on it. We want to make it a comfortable living space.

The kids started school. They had an extra few weeks vacation as the kids here didn't get out until mid-June. Look at the sweatshirts. You don't see that in AZ on the first day of school. They also get to ride the bus, which so far, they really like.

So many things to update. So little time. I guess that is a little blurb for now.