Hello loyal blog readers. We are so sorry that this post has taken so long for us to do. It has been a hectic few months around here, but it has all been worth it. For all of you that haven't heard yet, our house sold, after being on the market only 1 day!! We are so blessed! We got a great offer and accepted it right away. They officially get possession of our house on October 1st. This past weekend we all went into Winnipeg to look for apartments and found one that suited us perfectly. It only took a day...again...blessed. So, it looks like we are going to be making our move to Winnipeg in just 3 weeks. I have to be honest and say that I have been a little emotional about the whole thing since we got home Friday night. It is just going to be really hard leaving this beautiful house we live in that we literally poured our blood, sweat and tears into. I think that it has finally hit me that we are not only moving, but moving away from Brandon. I can't say that I am overly happy about it all, but I know that this is going to be a great move for us in the future. We are scheduled to get possession of our lot in La Salle as of October 1st as well, but it may be prolonged a little bit. We are hoping that it doesn't get put off too long, as we would really like to move out there as soon as possible, and we already know that it will take at least 5 months to build our house. I guess that all we can do is hope and pray for the best. That is what we have been doing all along and it has seemed to work so far!
The summer really has gone by quite quickly. I guess because we were working 24/7 for half of it. I can't believe that September is already here. We realize that we haven't spent as much time together as we would have liked this summer, so we are looking forward to a trip out to Calgary and maybe a few other family outings together.
Sari is getting to be such a little toddler. She really is growing up quickly. More and more words are being formed in her vocabulary every day. She understands everything we say and ask her, even if she pretends not too! Mommy knows better than that! She is also learning the sounds that some animals make and where the features on her face are. She does 'nose' really well, but takes a little encouraging for the rest of the face. She loves putting things on her head, especially underwear (clean of course!), buckets, shirts, and pretty much anything else that will fit. We have some great pictures below of her with some head gear! We took her to Playtime, which is a fantastic play center here in Brandon, one afternoon when we didn't have anything to do on the house. She LOVED it! I thought that she would be a little intimidated by the very large play structure that they have there, but she wasn't deterred at all. She and Chris climbed through the whole thing over and over again. She especially loved the tunnels! The play structure is great, because there is no way that any kids of any size could fall off any part of it and take a nasty tumble to the ground. I highly recommend that place to any one who has kids!
I don't think that there is a whole lot else to report. This post doesn't seem to be very long for the amount that has gone on the past 2 months. Oh well. I have posted quite a few pictures of the little munchkin for you all to see. We will keep you all updated on how the move goes and how we are settling into Winnipeg. Enjoy the pictures!
Sari crawling across the bridge on the play structure.
Sari and daddy peeking through the tunnel on the play structure. So cute!
Sari jumping in the bouncy castle.
My favourite picture.
The two ladies of the house.
"Bucket head!"
Ryder and Sari had just bumped heads here...good bonding time!
