Happy Anniversary!

Actually, our fifth wedding anniversary was last Friday. The anniversary I am referring to here is the one-year anniversary of when I started the blog. I have to say I feel like its been longer than a year. But I guess that's just because we had the website before. It's amazing how much blogging knowledge I've gained in the last year. And how many other people have copied us! ;-) Technology and communicating through technology interest me and so here we are still plugging along.

We spent some time two weekends ago in Wisconsin to help Andrew's Grandpa Milt celebrate his 90th birthday (a little bit early, his birthday is in December, but they thought a summer party would be much more fun!). We enjoyed seeing all the Isaacson clan (except for Todd-we missed you, but working in Houston with the space shuttle is a pretty good excuse). After the weekend, we left the girls with Tom and Pat for the entire week! This was a new experience for all of us. We've left the girls for a day or two. But a whole week was very surreal. Walking through the airport without all the extra baby stuff was amazing and we thought to ourselves, was flying this easy before we had kids? It seemed like such a piece of cake! And I enjoyed watching movies and reading for the entire flight. The house was eerily quiet when I got home. I was on the computer and kept waiting to hear someone cry to signal naptime was over. After Monday though, I sort of got in the swing of things like leaving the house without having to remember 20 things. And I came and went all day running errands, shopping, etc. Andrew and I went to Nick and Stef's Steakhouse downtown on Wed. night to celebrate our anniversary. The food was delicious and the view was really cool with all the buildings and lights at night.

The true purpose of the week without the girls was to pack up all the stuff we don't use on a daily basis. I packed up 12-15 boxes and rented another storage unit. We moved a bunch of stuff over there. The place looks really big now! Someone better buy this place soon before we all go nuts!

By the end of the week, we were definitely missing the girls and ready to see them again! We took the red-eye back to WI on Friday night and Lily met us in the driveway waving excitedly to us. It was so cute. And when Ella woke up she came right to me and cuddled. Both girls were very happy to see us again! We all flew back home Sunday morning and spent the rest of the day recuperating from the time change and lack of sleep. Things are back to normal around here today. And will be pretty calm for the next few weeks.

We are thinking of getting a St. Joseph statue and burying it under our for sale sign. Apparently that is supposed to bring good luck to house sellers. Keep your fingers crossed for us!