November!

Well again with the time! But it could have been worse.
So since July not a lot has happened. We are now expecting our second child (Apr. 9, 2012). Jackie has been in Florida since August her great grandpa died in September. But she will be back in December if everything works out. Thanksgiving is coming up, Halloween has passed, and we are closing in on Christmas. All of Jackie's presents have been bought and wrapped, even one birthday present! We are now working on organizing our home and weeding out things we do not want to keep.
We are attempting to gather all of our donation information and get a head start on our taxes sort of. Since filing does happen around the time our baby is due (we find out the sex on black friday).
We are also in attempt of rehoming the cat that found us back in February, it's been harder than it should have been at this point.
But this is whats going on currently, and I will be adding more here and there since things are getting more eventful.

It's July!

Not much as been going on lately. We are pulling Jackie out of daycare next month, and hopefully finding more things for her to do outside of daycare. We have been painting the apartment trying to make it more home like and I think it is going well. Next up is buying the rest of our bedroom suite set, and hopefully saving more money so we can make a big trip out to Disneyland Paris in the winter.

So in life things either get easier with time or much more difficult. Lately things are just sailing on through without a second glance. Jackalynn is becoming more and more independent and speaking more and more every day. Her new class ( she was switched since I work in her old class) is nothing like the old one. She enjoys the classroom for the most part but I can tell she's still uncomfortable which is terrible for her. I wish I could figure out what I want to do because the job is so stressful and I don't really like dealing with how dramatic it is. However I did take today off not only because my back is killing me but also because of stress, I really can't take much more of certain children, they are beyond help and only two.

Anyways we have decided to rehome Butch, he attacks Jackie far too much. But in return we are playing with the idea of adopting a dog. I am unsure if that is a good idea but we will see how things pan out.

Again, we forget about this because of life taking us further

Though it has been some time I am back, and hope to be back on more and more than usual. Today John asked when the last time I updated was, since I could not remember I checked and I haven't been on here since we got back from the US back in January! Like I probably previously said our little lady turned two, and so did her attitude. She is now not too fond of anything especially taking photos, baths, listening, cleaning or even getting into the car. But we are working with her figuring out what she wants and trying to get her to understand rules and boundaries a little bit better not only for her own safety but our sanity too! So there will be more updates on that for sure.

But on to what it new. Jackie got a new bed (again) this time a twin sized bed just big enough for her and her cats. Speaking of cats we found a new one crying outside of our balcony in February, which we did pick up and both him and Morgen got fixed within weeks so they will not be having kittens. We named him Butch due to the fact that when we found him his ears were a bit butchered. He's a pretty good fit into our family now only having a few issues, the biggest attacking Jackie from time to time for no reason. But I did mention February, Jackie started daycare at the child development center on Ramstein on Valentines day and well though it was a rough start she got used to it and ended up having a great time and made a lot of new friends! I did start working at the CDC in April and can say its a great place when its being run correctly. 

    But enough about that. Laura came to visit in March for a week and we did a bit of traveling. We did make it out to Paris, France but had some mishaps along the way and a very long ride back home. Paris is dirty and the people are for a fact fairly rude when you're trying to find your way to things. I would highly recommend tour guides and not walking the city, or really using the metro either. But all around the trip wasn't really all that bad but since we went on March 19, 2011 when France decided to take up beef with Libya it wasn't all that great either. But alas we will be going to France again as a family for a trip to Disneyland Paris sometime at the end of the summer beginning of fall. Hopefully we will end up in a better mood with France by then!

A few months have gone by!

The past few months have just flown by, with our families first thanksgiving together, christmas, new years, birthdays and flying home!
It has been a great transition into the new year. I hope that we can post more adventures here soon. So stay tuned and know that everyone is in our thoughts for the new year! :)