Visit from Friend(s)

A couple weeks back, my birthday week and the little man's 2 month birthday, we were lucky enough to have a couple friends visit us.  Well I should start by saying that we only knew about one of these friends coming out...little did I know that they booked their tickets together and decided to keep a HUGE secret from me by not telling me our other friend was also coming along.  I just have to say good job to both of you on keeping it a secret for so long.  I was completely surprised when I went to pick up Megan from the airport and found out Nadine was also there.  It actually didn't really sink in until we were back at the apartment that she was there....the baby was having a rough morning and might have had me a little frazzled!

It was awesome to get to see both of them again and that they were able to meet Jackson.  We did a lot of fun things while they were here.  The first thing they got to do was go to Jackson's 2-month appointment with me and watch him get 3 shots, ok so maybe that wasn't so much fun.  But after that we walked around Georgetown and grabbed a bite to eat.

The next day was my birthday and we did some touristy site-seeing in downtown D.C.  We saw a few different memorials, the White House and tons & tons of girl scouts...it just so happened they were celebrating 100 years of girls scouts that day. 

On Saturday we got to check out the Smithsonian National Zoo.  It was really awesome, especially since its a free zoo!!  It has been decided that if we are still living in this area Jackson will have his 3rd birthday party there...so everyone better start saving up to come celebrate with us!  After the zoo we went back and had a little pool time at the apartment and just relaxed since we had to get up at 3:30 a.m. to get them to the airport.

Enough with the words and onto a few photos!

 World War II Memorial

 Jackson enjoying site-seeing in downtown D.C.

 Almost all of us at the zoo

 Thirsty Nadine getting water from the Tiger at the Zoo

 Zoo

 Megan's obsessed with Smart Cars and got super super happy every time she saw one

 The White House

Nadine & Megan some what near the Washington Monument

I know I didn't do a great job summarizing their trip but free time is limited and I really should be sleeping instead.  I had an amazing time while they were here and I really hope they both come back out to visit again soon :)

All pictures were taken by either Josiah, Megan or Nadine

Happy Birthday To Who??? To Me!!

So I know I am way behind on A LOT of posts, so bare with me as I try and back track and catch up.

Last Friday it was my birthday.  In previous years this is one of the biggest events of the entire year for everyone I know, well at least that's what I like to believe.  I usually celebrate for at least a week if not the whole month of June.  For some reason this year it didn't seem as important to me as it has in the past.  I'm not sure if that's because I'm getting older or if it has to do with Jackson.  Either way my birthday still ended up being amazing without me making a big deal about it.

Two of our friends, Megan & Nadine, came out to visit us that week.  So on my actual birthday we did a little site-seeing in downtown D.C. The baby did an amazing job with all the site-seeing, he was super happy all day and even was awake when we stopped at the Lincoln Memorial.  It was the first time I rode the Metro without Josiah, which I thought was pretty awesome since I got us where we wanted to go without any troubles at all.  I did almost have a minor freak out when we got to the Metro station and the elevator was broken so we had to take the escalator.  It wouldn't have been so bad if it would have been a normal sized escalator but this thing was super steep and extremely long.  Little did I know that Megan has experience with strollers and escalators, she pretty much man-handled that thing!  Thanks Friend!!!

Photo courtesy of Megan....The HUGE escalator we took the stroller down and this isn't even from the top!

So all in all it was a pretty awesome day spent with the family and two great friends!!  Let's hope 27 is as good to me as 26 was!

Visitors, visitors & more visitors

Since the little man was born we have been fortunate enough to have our parents & my sister visit.  Thankfully they weren't all at the same time...that would have been a little much.  And next week our friend Megan is visiting! Since I have had some pretty word heavy posts thought I would share some pictures from when my Mom, Josiah's parents and my Dad & Nicki were all here....it might be photo overload!

 my Mom & Jackson

 my Mom bought Jackson a pig that you tickle and it sings and his ears wiggle....its pretty funny!

Josiah's parents & Jackson 

my Dad & Jackson

reenacting The Lion King

Josiah & my Mom on our first ever Metro ride

At the Smithsonian National Space & Air Museum

Notice the baby not in the stroller...he preferred to be carried whenever he wasn't sleeping :(

At the capital

Josiah's Dad & Jackson

Just meeting for the first time!

First time using my new ring sling, shielding baby from the sun with the "tail" part

my Dad touching the top of the Washington Monument

Nicki at the World War II Memorial

Getting some last minute snuggles before leaving

Not sure what exactly happened but not all the pictures are in the right order but you get the picture.  Lots of fun stuff happening here!! 

a BIG change

Since sometime this summer the Man and I have been seriously talking about moving and what the next year was really going to have in-store for us.  Again because I am a little scattered brained I am not sure if I have mentioned that the Man is getting out of the Navy...well kind of...instead of being active duty he is going to be a reservist.  Both of us were glad for everything the Navy has done for us but we are both ready for a change.  

Back to where I was originally going with this post...

With the decision made to no longer be active duty we needed to decide what we wanted to do and where we wanted to live.  Both of us are not big fans of living in California and really wanted to try and somehow get back to or closer to our families.  Because I really really like my job we thought it would be pretty awesome to transfer my job...this way we weren't both unemployed and starting in a new city.  

So the search was on for my job to be open in a different state....first we thought we might go to Texas or Virginia, well both of those positions ended up being a down grade from my current job...so the hunt was still on.  While inquiring about the position in Virginia, we learned of a potential opening in the spring of 2012....this would be perfect for us, since the Man would be active duty till this time.

Well long story short ok maybe its not that short after talking to what would/will be my new boss the position is open and I will be doing my current job in Maryland!  We will be in the Washington D.C. area, just on the northern Maryland side of it.  So without knowing anyone or ever being in the area I am not counting the field trip after 8th grade since I don't really remember anything useful from that trip, sorry Mom & Dad!! we are going to just pick up and move there.  It is a little very scary thought but I think hope together we will love it.

I am sure I will have more posts about this subject that will probably clarify parts of this post that might not make sense due to the baby stealing my brains and making me a scatter-brained forgetful person