blessings a2z: am I back?

I feel like I'm writing a letter to a long lost friend. actually, lately I've been missing blogging like it's a long lost friend! there have been some pretty big changes in the last two months:

1) my hubby is back from his short tour (a year) in Korea
2) we moved!!! we're still in California, but we moved about 7 hours away!
3) Liam is back in school (we decided to stop homeschooling him and he began kindergarten
at the local charter school last thursday!)

those are the three things that are the biggest & most significant! but of course there have been many changes for all of us! both Jericho and Zoey had to start their new schools and I have had to accept that zumba (yah, the blog totally missed out on all my obsession with zumba) may not be a part of my life, hopefully just for a while!

so, that's where we are! we're getting settled here and I'm feeling like I'm really loving it. I'm still adjusting to not having my little Liam home with me - and he is still adjusting to school. Zoey rides the bus to her school, because it's a good half hour drive!! she adjusted to that quite quickly, though the first day she cried and was very upset ... I walked into the house bawling my eyes out. to say I'm having some real challenges as a mommy would be very accurate - but I feel like I'm learning to let my babies go, just a bit!

so, am I back?

well, I sure hope so.

I have been thinking about the blog so much lately and have been missing having this space to document our memories ... I always think of the kids and think: "will they remember this?"

I still take pictures, so I hope that will be enough. but it means so much more to have the stories and little memories that even I forget about later! so, there may end up being some "catch up" here and there - of the things that really stick out in my mind!

for today, I will be sharing a few photos, cause every good post needs a few photos!!!

I will share our photos from our trip a very fun little pumpkin farm ...