Tuesday Tidbits!

--Got our Christmas cards ordered today! The past two Christmases we had our family pictures done way too late, so it was kind of a rush to get our cards ordered & mailed out in time. I absolutely adore snail mail, so I really enjoy the tradition of Christmas cards & I hated that something I loved doing was becoming a burden. I vowed that this year we'd get our pictures done early, so it wouldn't be a stressful thing. We did get our pictures done early this year (yay!), but I think having more time to agonize over all of the beautiful cards wasn't necessarily a good thing for me, ha!

--We ran out of Diet Coke yesterday. I think that has only happened twice in our marriage that I can recall. A trip to Target was the first thing on my to-do list today after dropping Shelby off at preschool so we could get our precious DC. Here is Hadley in the cart today at Target--I learned my lesson last time, so we headed straight for the popcorn today! ;)

I told Hadley to smile, and this is the face she gave me ;)

--In Biloxi, Derek would usually get home from work around 4:30 or 5 a couple of days a week, and we would all go out for a family run before dinner. Since the move, Derek doesn't get home until 6:15-6:30 most days, so our weekday evening runs stopped after the move. Now that it's started to cool off a bit and isn't 100 degrees anymore after the girls' naps, I've started running with them in the evenings while we kill time waiting on Daddy to come home. Getting back into our post-nap run & playground time has really made things feel more "normal" here, but it simultaneously makes me immensely homesick for Keesler and our sense of community there. There's nothing like finishing up a run and being able to text your friends to meet you at the playground, or just walking by their house and dropping in to visit unexpectedly. I miss that, I really miss that. And I really miss running along the track of Keesler's flightline. I had no idea how flat our track was until we started running here in San Antonio. The hills, oh the hills...they are killer here! Pushing two girls in a jogging stroller while running uphill against the wind is NO JOKE!

--The girls creating "something" (not sure what, ha!) together in the craft room at a local indoor playplace.

--Shelby has been talking about Biloxi a LOT lately. I wasn't sure how much she would remember about the old house/Biloxi as the weeks & months since the move went by, but she still remembers every little thing. The other day Shelby asked me when we were going back to Biloxi, and I said "I don't know, why?" and her reply was this: "I want to go back to 209, and I want Adam to go back to 905." (Those numbers were our street addresses.) And yesterday after our run, Shelby was picking flowers (aka weeds), and she found a little yellow one. She usually picks little blue flowers or dandelions, but when she spotted the yellow flowers she yelled: "Look, just like the ones in Biloxi!" And she was right, they looked just like the little flowers she would pick on the playground behind our house in Biloxi. Kids' memories fascinate me. Derek & I were talking last night about how much/little we can remember from when we were three or four, and will Shelby be able to remember anything from Biloxi when she's older? I wonder how Shelby is processing everything in her sweet little head..is she asking these questions to figure it all out (she is typically very curious), or is she missing her old house/friends/routine? Whenever she talks about friends or her cousin Elly, she'll always ask "Well, where did they used to live?" I think she thinks everyone moves on a regular basis. ;)

--I can't believe that Halloween is Friday, and that November will be here on Saturday! Time is flying!