I have been completely consumed with Seattle. There is extreme excitement in the air, yet there is also an abundance of stress right along with it. Everything is happening so fast and yet it isn't happening fast enough.

Thursday night Scott and I were watching Grey's Anatomy (which is filmed in Seattle in case you're not a fan of the show), and as the Seattle skyline appeared on the screen Scott and I both looked at each other and just smiled. Soon, we'll be there. There, where we've wanted to be for quite some time now.  

Yippee! We are so excited! BUT...

Then, there's a teeny, tiny, minute amount of sadness that comes with leaving a city we've called home for so long. We're leaving a house we have loved for more than 6 years, the first home we ever bought, where we started our lives together. We're leaving the city in which we met and fell in love. The city we became a family in, where are children were born. We're leaving countless favorite restaurants and endless shopping (this one is probably more sad for me than Scott). We're leaving a city we know well. The highways, the back roads, the "local" spots that only the "locals" know.

We're officially in "count-down" mode, making lists daily of things we must do before we depart Big D, and yet, in the whirl-wind of it all, we're still finding time to take a little break now and then and just laugh and play with our beautiful children. Somehow those moments, moments of joy and laughter that we don't dare take for granted, make everything seem calm and peaceful, even in the chaos. No matter where we go, as long as we are together, I'll be happy.

Here are some of my favorite moments from this week.

Ok, perhaps not a favorite...but it's honest. It's not always pretty around here.

With daddy on the bumblebee.

One of those moments...

Someone is REALLY into raspberries these days

Her eyes are changing on us. Less blue everyday, more greenish brown.

It's a good day when you score a tennis ball at the park.

One of her first times on the swing. She wasn't really sure what was happening, but I believe that's the start of a smile there. Oh, and she's teething.