A Brief Update

I am really lacking in the sleep department lately, so I apologize for not blogging more often (mostly apologizing to my mom who keeps asking for more pictures) :). We are moving in just over 2 months and there is much to do! I told my mom I feel like I'm so busy just trying to maintain any sort of cleanliness in the house and taking care of these 2 kiddos, I hardly have any extra time for things like blogging or PACKING!! Yikes.

Anyway, but I'm enjoying my boys a whole lot. They bring me much happiness and even though Connor has yet to ever sleep more than 3 hours at a time (AHHH!!!) - and that has only happened a handful of times - I am happy and I'm somehow still functioning. :)

We had a really fun weekend. Friday afternoon, Jeremy's brother Jared, his wife Mimi, and their cute kids Ben and Lucy came to our house! We hadn't seen Mimi and the kids since May of last year when Jonathan got married (and now he and his wife are expecting! yea!) Jared and Mimi drove all the way from Virginia in a big moving truck and stopped here before finishing on to their new home in Nevada. We are excited they are out here, but sad that now we're moving to the east coast! Oh well. So we had a great visit with them. Eli loved playing with Ben and Lucy and was sad to see them go Saturday morning.

Then Saturday we had a fun family outing to Ross and IKEA. We got Eli some new sandals at Ross, Jeremy some shorts, and then had fun checking out everything at IKEA - ending with a yummy lunch at the IKEA restaurant. I love family days! I've also decided I will never shop anywhere besides Ross and IKEA. Great prices! Love it. IKEA has so many space saving ideas which is great because we are moving into a teeny apartment in Pittsburgh (more to come on that later).

On Sunday, Heidi and her "beau" Sam came over. We ate yummy Greek food, caught up on everything, and only razzed them a little bit (she's the youngest and in her first big-ish relationship - it had to be done). Eli loves his Aunt Heidi and was very happy to see her since it had been awhile.

So that was our fun weekend! I also have some random cute pictures of the boys. Did I mention Connor's hair is turning RED? Crazy. It'd so cute though. I love how completely different Eli and Connor look. Hopefully someday they'll at least look like they could be related, but for now it's fun to have the variety! Here you go...

His hair looks really red in these pictures, because the sun was shining on it through the window.

Mother's Day flowers from Jeremy:

Fun at the park!

The pack mule.

Blossoms in our front yard!
Cute.

Enjoying blackberries on our oatmeal pancakes. :)

Escaped arm!

I guess there wasn't anything brief about that, huh? By the way, anyone have any suggestions for getting an 8 week old to sleep? In a typical night he wakes up every 1-2 hours and I feed him every 3. And I feed him every 2 during the day. He's obviously not starving, and I think he should be going at least a little longer at night. Let me know if you have any tips! I'm a walking zombie...