Been Up To

So what have we been up to for the 4 weeks we have been back in the States?

A little bit of this...

a little bit of that...

and a whole lot of fun!

Also we finally got the official verdict on baby brown. It is absolutely 100% a boy. As my deep seated fears of raising a boy fully sets in (they have so much energy and seem out of control a lot of the time) we are starting to seriously discuss names and nursery decorations. Any suggestions on names? We like names that are unique but not necessarily weird. With our extremely common last name, we like to give the kids a less common first name.

Moving

I mentioned a few weeks ago that we will be moving immediately after we return to Asia in March. Before leaving we managed to pack about 60% of our apartment. It got a bit crowded and a lot messy. I began to have a deep respect for professional movers because I do not know how they manage to pack entire homes in just a day. I need those packing skills! Where do you go to school for that?

Because our garage tends to flood at certain times of the year, we needed to store all of our packed boxes in our apartment. That meant we had to shuffle things around to store the boxes and then later get to whatever we accidentally put behind the boxes, or find the one thing we should not have packed that is in the very bottom box. By the time we left, all of our boxes were stored in our middle bedroom, stacked to the ceiling. How did we manage to accumulate so much stuff in 3 years? Here are some pictures to commemorate our mess.

(That's the Cosby show, season 2 introduction on TV)