Goodbye San Antonio!

I realized I forgot to announce here that Ryan accepted a new job in Houston!  It was pretty sudden, and so we've been apart since Labor Day(almost a month)! We've seen each other last weekend and this weekend, but it's been hard, especially since Rylee is getting so big! 

Because I was in Florida for two weeks, I had 10 days to pack by myself! Somehow I made it work(and I have lots of friends that love me and my awesome grandparents that live here). 

We're officially homeless as of last night(not really, we have family to stay with) and all of our belongings are either in our 10x10 storage unit or in our cars. Kind of a weird feeling! We don't have a new apartment in Houston yet, but hopefully we'll have a place very soon!

I think the ceiling is 12 feet high. We had stuff all the way to the top!

We're leaving a lot of very dear friends behind, and we'll be a little farther away from our family in Austin, so we're really sad! But we're also excited for a new adventure in a new city! And Ryan is really liking the new firm so far. 

Goodbye San Antonio!

This little apartment will always hold a special place in our hearts as the home our first baby came home too!

And goodbye Ryan. Hopefully this is the last time for awhile we'll have to say bye.

Pregnancy Bug

Oh no, it's here! The pregnancy bug! Tons of my friends are pregnant right now, and my baby is getting so big so fast!

I'm wanting a squishy newborn baby again! Stop it Ashley! As Ryan kindly reminded me, I have a baby currently who keeps our lives in a constant state of chaos! But look at her stand! It's going by too fast! 

I should probably make a list of all the reasons to wait a while longer, but I all I can think of is holding a teeny baby again(as my current munchkin is curled up next to me in bed because the crib thing isn't happening tonight). I guess I can wait after all! And don't worry, I am enjoying every incredible moment with this baby!

Florida Continued

I was so sad to leave Florida! We had so much fun and I miss everyone terribly.

Daddy-Daughter-Grandaughter dinner date!

Lunch date!

We had dinner at this tiny BBQ stand owned by a little old lady.  The baked beans were amazing!

Potato gun fun. This thing was LOUD!

At Adam's pack meeting!

Our flight home was pretty long. Traveling alone with a baby is pretty exhausting, especially when I always fall asleep on planes.

Now it's time to pack for our move to Houston! I had forgotten the many reasons I hate packing.

Rylee Photoshoot

Here's a couple pictures of Rylee that I took with my dad's fabulous camera!

Kennedy Space Center

When I was a kid, it was my dream to be an astronaut. My plan(when I was 8) was to go to the Naval Academy, become an aviator, and then move on to NASA.

That's not quite how my life worked out, but I still love all things space! We got to go the Kennedy Space Center yesterday and had a lot of fun!

You have to sneak attack Adam to get him in a picture.

View of launch pad from observation deck.

One of my favorite parts is seeing the Saturn 5 rocket!!! It is incredibly huge! Pictures really don't capture it's enormity.

Halfway view 

One of the coolest areas is the brand new building they have to house the shuttle Atlantis.

Look closely at this next one. You can see the scorch patterns on the bottom of the shuttle from reentry into earth's atmosphere, so cool! 

The Atlantis exhibit is pretty fun and has a lot of interactive stuff, flight simulators, and my favorite, the "shuttle launch experience" which is a launch simulator.

It was a super fun day! 

Florida Trip Thus Far

Rylee and I finally got to go to Orlando to see my dad,stepmom, and little brother and sister! They just moved to a little town outside Orlando on nearly six acres, complete with their own barn and swamp!

Rylee did really well on the airplane!

She loves her Grandpa!

First time meeting Grandpa!

And of course, Aunt Delaney is in love. Rylee was fascinated by her long eyelashes.

We went on an IKEA trip.

She loves Uncle Adam and her Honey(Tambra) too! Adam has really warmed up to her and is being super sweet(he wasn't thrilled to be an uncle to yet another niece).

Playing with her grandparents 

Rylee just adores her Grandpa!

Since my family has moved out to the country, they decided that the barn needed to be full of animals. So we went to a livestock auction and became the proud owners of a dozen chickens.

To my city family's credit, they've had chickens several times in the past.

My dad had this brilliant plan that if he got goats, he wouldn't have to mow...think he's still going to have to get out the lawnmower. 

But they went ahead and got three Nigerian Pygmy goats! Two adults, and one baby that is so cute! It follows Afam and Delaney around and cries when they go inside!

Dad learning how to clip their hooves.

Who knew that a suburban and a huge dog crate could be so useful?

Delaney with her baby, Adelaide. I seriously thought she was going to melt into a heart shaped puddle when she saw the baby Pygmy goats!

Dad finally got the wifi working tonight, so we got to FaceTime Ryan!

I'm here for another week, so I'm sure that we'll have many more adventures to write about!

First Sandals

I made Rylee's first pair of sandals! Not perfect, and they were a lot harder than the little Mary Jane shoes I made her. But I still think they look cute if you don't look at them too closely! The faux leather I had was really hard to work with because it stretched weirdly and was hard to keep the pieces aligned and straight. And the binding around the outer edge of the shoe was way too difficult for me(which is why it doesn't looks so pretty).  

Here's the tutorial I used. She has a boy sandal tutorial too!

http://www.makeit-loveit.com/2011/08/

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I  also had to share this. I grabbed a bunch of books from my parents' house that were mine when I was little. Here's my very battered copy of "The Very Hungry Caterpillar."

And inside cover!