Evangeline's First Month in Marshall

Yeah. I have been horrible.

Fortunately (or unfortunately, if you have been waiting and waiting for me to post), 

I now am able to send pictures to Joe via text.

Therefore, I have lost my immediate need to blog regularly.

I will try to get better, though.

I promise.

So... due to my long delay, here is a collection of how our sweet Evangeline 

has grown over her first month here in MN.

These ARE in chronological order.

Enjoy the cuteness!

Yup. That is Evangeline and little T!

She LOVES her Bumpa and he loves her!

As a true Librandi kid, she gets her tummy time. It either ends in tears or dreams after many tiny push-ups.

Can you see her dark blue eyes!? I am SO excited!!

Isn't she cute!

...just not from the back. Can you say mullet? Poor girl.

Love, Us.

Our Last Days in Missouri

We returned to our home just in time to pack it all in a truck, live without furniture for a few days, and hit the road!

First of all, after an eventful Christmas ending in sickness, we all felt like this:

A couple days of recuperation got us back on our feet (or knees), though.

Our packing went smoothly enough that we had some time to have a couple last fun family outings.

We also just happened to head out for ice cream and hit Culver's BOGO sales hour!

The Evangeline snuggles were non-stop, even amidst the craziness.

And once again... all of our earthly goods are in the back of a semi!

To bide our time until officially signing out of housing, we were very excited to find 

"A Series of Unfortunate Events" on Netflix (whose audiobooks we had recently fallen in love with)!

As well, we all got to know the Presidents a bit better via a puzzle!

The trip up to MN ended up being just in front of/behind (still trying to figure out which) an ice storm.

But, we made it, and our homeless, fatherless time officially began in mid-January.

Love, Us.

The End of Our Christmas Trip

We finished off our time up north with some car shopping and visits with good friends.

The car shopping was ultimately successful, but it was a fairly painful process.

Both Joe and I had moments/days of doing very silly things that caused a great amount of stress.

I forgot to bring a checkbook. Joe left his wallet in a vehicle that he test drove.

It wasn't very fun, to say the least, but we are proud to say that we handled it well.

And we are now the proud owners of a Honda Pilot, which we paid for in cash (due to my blunder)! 

Oh... and Evangeline kept getting cuter, while her siblings continued to fall in love with her more and more.

Our final "stop" on our Christmas road trip was a couple of nights with dear friends in the Twin Cities.

It was truly wonderful to have some relaxing time with them in which to catch up.

After the required period of awkwardness and being shy, the Langs and Librandis got along great!

...even Princess!

This time around, we remembered to take those important Godchildren pics!

And this wonderful lady was an AMAZING host! Thank you, Liz!

Finally, our Christmas extravaganza had come to an end. 

The trip home, however, was also eventful.

This picture was taken minutes before Romeo woke up... and puked all over himself (for the first of many times).

Oh well. Home was not TOO far away.

We survived.

Despite that horrific ending, it was a Christmas break to be remembered!

Love, Us.

Christmas in Sarona

*WARNING* 

This is a mega-post! Grab a coffee and enjoy!

We had the great joy of being able to spend two weeks over Christmas with Joe's entire immediate family.

It was wonderful!

I will, for the most part, let my many pictures of those two weeks tell the story today, only filling in a bit.

Opah's kid-bench was perfect!

Wow... the perfect photo story: Why I didn't have an only child.

David turned 7!

T was the mastermind behind a Nativity scene!

It included the Holy family, an angel, a shepherd, and two wise men, and was SUPER cute!

We caroled at the Nursing Home. 

A quick word to the wise: ALWAYS do this is you have an infant!

It was SO awesome!

Some preferred eating the snow to playing in it...

Note: See a previous post for other great family pics from our photo shoot at the farm!

Christmas!

We went on a sleigh ride!

It was such a fun and festive excursion!

Patrick is STILL singing "Jingle Bells"!

It truly was a wonderful Christmas!

Love, Us.