Back to Normal...

Boy, it's been a whole month since I last posted!  We've had such a wonderful summer.  The last two years have been a little different and it's nice to finally get back to the busy busy busy lifestyle I've enjoyed so much in my life.  Lawson seemed to enjoy it, too, which bodes well for his life with me as his mom. 

This summer had us roadtripping around Texas for a week in June and I was a bridesmaid in my friend, Heidi's, wedding in Buffalo, NY.  I did a short weekend visit to Vicksburg, MS, to swap out vehicles with Brad and came home and bought something new.  In mid-July, I left again for a week-long training course for my new job at the United World College in Montezuma, NM.  I learned a lot about the IB program I'm about to start teaching and got a chance to see a bunch of great sites around the area. 

I was home for less than a week and it was back in a plane to VA for Lawson and me.  We visited with Brad and his family - many of whom came down from NJ and Boston...even had a couple of family members who were here from Poland!  Oh, and a visitor from Italy!  Quite the family gathering....  I got a chance to see many of my friends and we even took Lawson on his first trip to Washington, DC.  He rode the subway for the first time and toured his first Smithsonian museums (Air & Space and Natural History).  We even had a picnic on the National Mall...  Great stuff!

There are so many pictures to share from all these adventures and they won't all fit on this blog...so I'm going to direct you to my Facebook page to see them.  Don't worry, even if you don't have a Facebook account, you'll be able to see my pictures if you follow this special link.  Just click on the top left picture and you can see them in a slide show.  Hope you enjoy!

 Album 1  and Album 2

The adventure continues as we move out of our 2 bedroom apartment this weekend and into a larger 3 bedroom rental house (complete with a much-needed backyard).  We're very excited about it!  And then, on Monday I start back to work and Lawson starts daycare again.  However, now that he's in the 3-year old room, it's really more of a pre-school environment and he's going to be learning some really great stuff.  Stay tuned for some great anecdotes!