The Countdown March 28, 2011

It has been quite a while since I last posted. The last month or so has flown by!  We have said goodbye to lots of folks- aunts and uncles, classmates, parents, teachers, doctors, nurses- the list goes on. A few more goodbyes and then we are off. Four days and counting.  The movers come Thursday to pack everything up and put it on a container ship to Australia. Think it will be about 8 weeks before we see our "stuff" again. Wow, that sure seems like a long time!


My sister and her two kids, Katie (10) and her son, Ryan (7) were here this past week. What a great visit!  Cooper and Tucker have had a blast with their "big kid" cousins.  Cooper and Ryan spent hours in the yard playing ball, digging up the yard and just doing boy stuff. Katie was a huge help with Tucker.  We also had fun doing some "girl stuff" like painting our nails, sewing and drawing.  It was so awesome to have my big sister here. We laughed a lot, enjoyed quite a bit of good wine (and some not so good wine) and even managed a spa day. She and the kids also spent quite a bit of time watching my boys so I could get those last minute appointments and errands taken care of. Thank goodness for family! 

Cousins Katie and Ryan at the top of the Space Needle 

As you might have guessed, the saga with the dogs goes on and on and on!  Too much to blog about and probably not the most fascinating reading.  But, the plan is 3 weeks of boarding at our wonderful vet hospital, a plane ride to LA and then to Sydney via Air New Zealand aboard a friendly cargo plane- yeah, loving that idea.  Once they have landed in Sydney, it is off to the quarantine station for 4 weeks of, well, quarantine.  Watch out Australia! Here come 2 of the world's most dangerous creatures- my pugs!  Yes, all they do is sleep all day, get up to eat and beg for food and then go back to sleep.  Good thing they are keeping them out of the mix for 4 weeks....

So, we head down to CA on Saturday with brief layover in San Francisco where we are hoping to meet up with my step-sister, Reeves, for a quick visit and then off to Sydney aboard Qantas Airlines.  We will arrive in Sydney sometime Monday.  Strange how we will completely lose Sunday in our travels....

The Countdown March 28, 2011

It has been quite a while since I last posted. The last month or so has flown by!  We have said goodbye to lots of folks- aunts and uncles, classmates, parents, teachers, doctors, nurses- the list goes on. A few more goodbyes and then we are off. Four days and counting.  The movers come Thursday to pack everything up and put it on a container ship to Australia. Think it will be about 8 weeks before we see our "stuff" again. Wow, that sure seems like a long time!


My sister and her two kids, Katie (10) and her son, Ryan (7) were here this past week. What a great visit!  Cooper and Tucker have had a blast with their "big kid" cousins.  Cooper and Ryan spent hours in the yard playing ball, digging up the yard and just doing boy stuff. Katie was a huge help with Tucker.  We also had fun doing some "girl stuff" like painting our nails, sewing and drawing.  It was so awesome to have my big sister here. We laughed a lot, enjoyed quite a bit of good wine (and some not so good wine) and even managed a spa day. She and the kids also spent quite a bit of time watching my boys so I could get those last minute appointments and errands taken care of. Thank goodness for family! 

Cousins Katie and Ryan at the top of the Space Needle 

As you might have guessed, the saga with the dogs goes on and on and on!  Too much to blog about and probably not the most fascinating reading.  But, the plan is 3 weeks of boarding at our wonderful vet hospital, a plane ride to LA and then to Sydney via Air New Zealand aboard a friendly cargo plane- yeah, loving that idea.  Once they have landed in Sydney, it is off to the quarantine station for 4 weeks of, well, quarantine.  Watch out Australia! Here come 2 of the world's most dangerous creatures- my pugs!  Yes, all they do is sleep all day, get up to eat and beg for food and then go back to sleep.  Good thing they are keeping them out of the mix for 4 weeks....

So, we head down to CA on Saturday with brief layover in San Francisco where we are hoping to meet up with my step-sister, Reeves, for a quick visit and then off to Sydney aboard Qantas Airlines.  We will arrive in Sydney sometime Monday.  Strange how we will completely lose Sunday in our travels....