so yeah, basically i'm going to give a re-cap of the past week or two since i don't actually have time to blog and post photos and all that crap that people actually like. things have been a little crazy. i thought last week would be a nice calm week and i may be able to catch up on a few things around here...whatever. i need an assistant.

1. lucy is still not being nice to her cousins who stay here a few days a week. again, she's an angel at church, but not at home. especially when i'm feeding olive and she knows i can't get up and do anything about it.

2. lucy puked in ann's car! yeah...while ann was driving and it was gross. poor ann, she is definitely never going to have kids after being around ours. she's always a part of lucy's puking incidents. lucy and olive both got sick last week. right before ryan and i were supposed to go out of town for once. both running a fever, but magically went away and we were able to leave.

3. ryan and i went to dallas for the weekend...alone. our first night away from olive. we went to the fabulous IKEA, which is...fabulous. we made it a two-day event so we could do a walk through and get some ideas and then go back. over all, i think we were there for about 4-5 hours. it was great. we got some cool stuff for us and for the girls. plus we just enjoyed our time alone...dinners alone. where i got to order whatever i wanted because i didn't have to share it with a squirmy, loud-talking 20-month old. did i mention the weekend was great.

my favorite part was the sign i saw that just said "welcome ya'll," and had a woman with a cowboy hat on. you could imagine the extreme southern accent she used to say "welcome ya'll." so i said it all weekend. the most random part...ryan saw his bus driver from middle school at an applebee's in texas somewhere. his name was columbus tuggle...i just thought that was an awesome name.

4. ryan bought another western shirt...yeah. at a real western store. again, he needs an intervention, please pray for him. it actually has embroidered roses on it...enough said.

5. long car trips. so we haven't had too many long car trips since we moved back from kentucky. a couple of things to note. trying to use a breast pump while on the dallas expressway...not fun. not only do your risk flashing everyone who passes you, slamming on the brakes to take a big curvy exit...not fun. so i advise against it, in case you were wondering. secondly, listening to podcasts while driving...good. listening to a podcast about how cannibalism works, while in the middle of freaking nowhere with possibly no cell phone signal (near gurdon, ar, that town has always creeped me out a little)...kind of scary and makes you sick to your stomach. and makes you think you're going to break down on the side of the road and be chased down by the guy from texas chainsaw massacre...and i don't run, i fall down (just ask ryan). so i wouldn't last long...maybe not such a bad thing. (note: we don't normally listen to podcasts about such morbid things...but we were bored and the other ones in the series weren't so weird).

6. back to reality of crying, hungry babies and one who insists on sitting in my lap while i type this entire blog. but we did miss them terrible.

7. we're moving! we found a house not too far from here. we are super excited about it..just not looking forward to the moving process. i just realized that lucy will have lived in 3 houses before she is two. wow. but this is a house all to ourselves! we're excited. anyone up for moving furniture...