hectic weekend in PA

We had an even more hectic weekend visit to PA than usual. We arrived at about 12:30 a.m. on Friday night/Saturday morning. Got up the next morning around 7 or 7:30 and went nonstop until about 9:30 p.m. Saturday night. We visited just about everyone we hoped to, including Matt's uncle, great aunt, grandfather, and all the siblings. On Sunday before leaving we stopped to see our friends who had a new baby 2 weeks ago. It was great to catch up with them and see how they are adjusting to parenthood. The baby is adorable and I took some pictures for them. I haven't sorted through all of the pictures I took, but here are a few snippets of the weekend. More pictures of the new baby can be found at the Grazus Blog.

P.S. I also have a great thing to share from one of our nephews, I just have to find the piece of paper.

Moving

It appears in a few months we will be moving. Matt is hoping to graduate some in the late summer or early fall and has begun looking for job. While this is all very exciting, it is also going to be quite expensive. I have been looking at potential cities (where there might be some job openings) and doing some cost of living comparisons. Basically we live the cheapest place in the country, ok maybe not THE cheapest, but definitely somewhere close. This CNN comparator tells me that it is cheaper to live in Durham than in Burlington, NC. I mean who the heck wants to live in Burlington, NC. All that is there is JRs and some crummy outlets. And it is in the middle of nothing. Why can't all the ultrasound companies move somewhere cheap? like NC? We leave in just a few weeks, 3 I think for our cruise. I am getting pretty darn excited. I have started a packing list of everything we need to bring with us. I made a separate travel blog on travelblog.org for hopefully easy posting (not like this hard or anything). I will post the address of it closer to our departure. We will have some internet access when we are on the boat. It costs 50 cents/minute, so we won't be using too much of it, but I feel like we write everything we want and then log on to post/send stuff and then log back off. This weekend we are heading to PA to see Matt's family. It appears to be a packed weekend already with at least 5 people we want to visit in addition to the immediate family (which is 4 different families). There should be lots of cute kid and baby pictures next week for your enjoyment. Have a nice weekend.

pictures

Here are some random pictures from the past week or so.

Me in the gardens on Saturday, it as quite chilly.

My parents swimming pool before it was redone. Doesn't it look yummy.

Matt's mom and dad in the gardens during their visit this past weekend.

Albert in his new sweater we bought him. Shortly after this picture was taken he laid down on his perch and just tried to roll off (it is about 3 feet to the floor, luckily Matt caught him). He becomes paralyzed when he has anything on him. He forgets that his legs can bend.

One of the last tulips around here. They are all gone for the most part.

lazy weekend

Matt's parents have been here this weekend. We have had a pretty lazy weekend, with movie watching and eating. Yesterday we went to the mall and to the gardens. It was quite chilly, so we didn't stay at the gardens very long. We watched Happy Feet and Flag of our Fathers. Both were ok, nothing too spectacular. Today we went to mass and made a lovely Easter dinner. We invited our neighbor from Cameroon and learned all about Cameroonian living. It was very interesting. We also watched the Masters, which is my favorite HD TV event. Augusta National is a beautiful golf course, especially in spring and even more so in high definition. Now it is a little more tv watching and then bedtime. This blog is getting more and more boring by the day. Oh...today at church we sat behind this lady with the hugest hair ever. Honestly it was about 18 inches across. I couldn't see around her at all. I really wish I had my camera so I could show everyone how huge this hair was. Her hair wasn't naturally big or frizzy, but was styled to be absolutely huge. It was great! Tomorrow we will be going out to get some cheap Easter candy, hopefully there will be some left.