The Last Sunny Acres Blog

Today is our last day at Sunny Acres.

We are moving in with Grandpa Leonard for 1 week before we officially become expats...

So I'm taking some time out to post some pics from our last weekend.

We will really miss it here

:(

Playing with the last few unpacked toys....

I'm not sure if Lucky is built for two......

Especially these two

Three boys rough housing...

Downtime with Elmo

Story time with Grandma Thompson

Early Christmas with Grandma Leonard

Grandma passing out presents.

Which was silly because according to Sam they were all his anyway.

Life Size presents are the best!

The new matchbox car hauler!

Exhausted after all that gift receiving.

For my loyal blog followers, no worries....

Our blog will have the same web address.

Hong Kong here we come!!!!

Luckiest. Girl. Ever.

Happy 4 year Anniversary Phil!

I love you.

First Dance.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Our Ceremony was about 20 minutes.

(I didn't want to give him a chance to change his mind.)

Mr. & Mrs!!!!

Leaving the Church.

Just Married!!

Who doesn't ride a bull after they get married?

Also, Happy Birthday Eustace!!!!

Thanks Aunt Anne!

Aunt Anne's refrigerator went out about a week ago. And is still out.

She has 4 children and is pregnant.

Rather than being upset turned it into an opportunity to be grateful.

So Saturday when we broke our brand new expensive digital camera, I decided to be grateful for the insurance.

(I was also grateful I wasn't the one who dropped it)

Then, on Sunday when we returned home from our 4 day trip to Indiana and our new furnace wasn't working, I decided to be grateful for my home, my warm clothes, and the fact that I'm not Amish.

This morning rolled around...Not discouraged, we went off to Target for a nativity set.

It was a BIG HIT.

Note- The matchbox was a present from Sam to Baby Jesus, and if you are in search of the above Fisher Price Nativity set, it may or may not include a matchbox car.

We returned home, the Furnace man came & fixed the furnace.

Now I am grateful for heat and Aunt Anne whose grace and wisdom helped me all weekend.

And that I'm not Amish.

Everyone should move across the world once.

First allow me to say...

GO HOOSIERS.

Thompson men watching the game.

(IU defeats Kentucky 73-72)

Now on to the point of my blog today...

As our move rapidly approaches, I can't help but think how lucky we are for so many reasons.... but today I'm particularly grateful that this move has resulted in spending time with our family and realizing how truly important they are to us.

I wish everyone could be lucky enough to spend a great weekend with their families and just appreciate each other like we have had the opportunity to do with ours.

Here are few pics of our weekend in Indiana....

Saturday Morning in Geneva with the Arnold's & Santa.

I'm not naming names but two of the three men in our family didn't want anything to do with Santa.

Here is my Braveheart.

A little coercion

A little more....

We spent Friday night with Phil's parents and sisters & their families.

Here are a few of the things we'll miss....

Music lessons.

(And Lainey)

Best. Toys. Ever.

Cousins.

My fellow smut lovers.

(Apparently Eustace disapproved of Emily's text)

More cousins.

(All 8. Not a bad picture considering that Getting this crew in a picture together is like herding cats. )

Thankfully will get to see Phil's parents one more time before we shove off....

but these little faces will be a lot different next time we see them, especially if the flight goes poorly because then we won't be returning. ever.

Moving Update

Lately when Sam, our little cowboy (read renegade), is about to do something wrong he will tell us to "go away"

That way we won't be around to tell him to stop said bad behavior.

Or put him in time out.

And then he can always just say...."Luke did it"

As a result Phil decided to have a conversation with him about integrity.

I'm sure our 2 year old absorbed all this information and will now act more mature and responsible going forward.

That's why I can blog without having any concern that he might be drawing all over his brother with a sharpie.

For those of you following us on our adventure to Hong Kong....

December has arrived.

We are 26 days away from our move.

20 Days away from vacating our house.

AND

As of this week we are no longer...

Home Owners

Dog Owners

or Gym members.

If the boys don't want out we might accidentally give them up too.