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To say the last few weeks have been crazy for our family is an understatement. I've now learned how different a move with children is. In fact, I would almost say our four other moves before Kate, don't even count compared to this one. It was a lot of work, but was very successful. Our last move included the arrival of our truck 8 hours late, the knocking down of power lines in front of our house affecting the electricity of our entire street, and the damage of a good 40% of our belongings. This move thankfully went a lot smoother. The moving truck arrived shortly after the determined time of 9, the wonderful gentlemen carefully packed our belongings, and sent them to storage. The condition of our items is yet to be determined, but I am hopeful.
We are now nicely settled in at my Parents house and have all survived the first 10 of our 60 days together. Actually, Kate and I are both getting rather spoiled with all the attention and help. Kate is enjoying the lakehouse as you can see in the picture at the top of the post. She has a new little house on my parents deck and loves to take her book and color out there. "Kate co-lor," she orders us.

We have also really enjoyed getting to know Grayslake. We've driven by our house many times, met the current owners, and are going to see the inside again later this afternoon. We went to the weekly Wednesday farmer's marked in downtown Grayslake which is very quaint. We picked up some honeycrisp apples and Kate enjoyed the kids activities including the hula hoop.

CLICK HERE for Video of Kate doing the hula hoop!

Brian's installation was very nice. The church gave us a very warm welcome. His vicarage supervisor, Dean Nadasdy, came from MN to preach and did a wonderful job. Brian's first week of work went equally as well. So far so good. Considering what a tremendous change in our lives this has all been, its gone relatively smoothly.

Kate has asked several times for her friend Abby and for our friends the Starks (Katie, Matt, Boots, Cheri, and Troy) as you can see in the video below. It's sad for me to hear, but we weren't going to be in MI forever and the longer we were there the sadder this move would have been. There are things we certainly miss about Michigan especially our good friends, but we are excited about how things are going here, and being close to family has already been wonderful. We'll keep you all updated as to our progress. I know the break in our Kate updates was too much for some to take, but no need to worry as our regularly scheduled broadcasting has returned.

CLICK HERE for Video of Kate asking for her Friends!