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Hectic, hectic, hectic! I have barely had a spare minute to update ( as you can see, I haven't since January).

We moved to Fort Wayne two weeks ago and aren't completely settled in yet. I forgot how difficult it is to move. It's especially difficult to move with a child. Last time we moved Owen was only a year old, and it was WAY different. Besides that, we had also moved from Virginia to NY, near my parents so they helped watch him a lot during the whole process.

The move has been really hard on Owen and we're trying to make it as easy as possible, so I have been spending a lot of time taking him to do fun things so that he really loves this area. It's not too difficult, because this area is easy to love if you're a parent or a child. Fort Wayne really must be one of the most family friendly cities in the world. Everything you could want is so close by.

One of the first things I did when we moved here was buy a zoo membership and Owen have already been to the zoo 5 times in the past two weeks. It is such a great thing for him and I to do together, and he is absolutely fascinated by all of the animals and their habitats. It really is very humbling to see animals and how peaceful their lives are, and how they interact with one another.

Brian loves his job here, which is a definite plus. He comes home smelling like printer ink, office paper and magnet wire from his companies plant which is next door to the building where Brian's office is. The best part is, it only takes him 10-15 minutes to get home. He had to drive 45 minutes to get to work when we lived in NY, and that was pretty tough (factor in an extra half an hour if there is snow/ice)

I've been trying to get our home life as stable as possible even though not everything is completely squared away. We still have boxes that need to be unpacked, and we still have another 30 or so boxes back in NY with two living room sets and a ton of other furniture. We didn't really bring any furniture with us, other than our bedroom sets, which meant we had to buy new furniture when we got here. We will be moving all of our other furniture when our house sells. Then we will store it in Indiana until our house is built because we will need it. Our new house in Indiana is going to be about 3,500 square feet (our house in NY is 1,700 square feet).

From now on I'm going to try and update once a week, and I'm going to try really hard. Maybe I will make it a goal to update every Sunday. That's usually a pretty laid back day.