Happy Thanksgiving!

By now, most or all of you are prepping for a Thanksgiving meal. But just incase you have a moment to check your email, we wanted to wish each and every one of you a happy Thanksgiving! We are thankful for you and blessed to call you friends and family.

The summer has flown by and we haven't remembered to post any updates for you!

Noah is still working on the P-8a Poseidon project with Boeing and the Navy here at Pax River. Some things have changed with his work, but all is generally the same. Noah is now on 2nd shift between Thanksgiving week and Christmas, which has been great. I get to sleep in and he gets more time with Judah. Perfect! Haha! It has been nice having him around in the mornings though. We seem to have a lot more family time this way.

I am still involved with the moms group and worship team at church. Staying home with Judah keeps me busy. Throughout the Summertime we've made it to several parks around the area, and found a great playground close to home (right next to the library!). In addition, we're looking forward to the moms group Christmas cookie decorating next week with the kids. That should be a blast!

Judah is always our main focus in these blog posts.... and he is doing great. He is growing and learning a mile a minute. We just had visits from both sets of grandparents recently, and they were blown away by his paragraph sentences! :) Judah is a little smarty pants, and has to figure everything out all the time. He is constantly analyzing things, or using his creative juices to do something new. We are learning that he has a very active imagination! Along with all of that, he is doing well with potty training (despite going through a very independent phase). It will be a while until he's fully trained, but he's been a trooper!

Here are some pictures from the past several months...

Watching the Cardinals win the World Series!
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2268128937459.2122848.1075628199&type=1&l=ec60a460ea


Visiting a local farm with the moms group and baking Halloween cookies for the trash guys (who always wave and beep at us!): http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2314055525595.2124358.1075628199&type=1&l=ba2de3d329


Trick-or-Treating: Although Judah didn't really enjoy the whole trick-or-treating experience in the dark (some kids had really scary costumes!), he did enjoy getting dressed up! http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2338166008342.2125135.1075628199&type=1&l=a54307fd76

Miscellaneous fun in November: We caught a huge grasshopper, and visited the EMS building and got to sit in an ambulance. The nice guy there even turned on the flashing lights for us!
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2358761243210.2125816.1075628199&type=1&l=32eb390e22


Happy Thanksgiving everyone, from our family to yours! We plan to be in town (WI and IL, and make a stop in STL) during Christmas/New Years. We hope to see you soon!!!

Love,
Noah, Krista and Judah

Judah's Birthday

Hi Everyone,

We want to thank everyone for all of the cards, gifts and birthday wishes for our little man! Judah had FOUR (count 'em!).... 4 wonderful birthday celebrations!!! It seemed like every time we had an opportunity to see family within a month of Judah's birthday, we had another party. Due to moving and all of the travel, we didn't have a themed party, or have any other kiddos over. But it was nice to see both sets of grandparents, and Judah's Uncle Nick, Uncle Paul and Maria! Judah had so much cake, that by the time it got to his actual birthday, we ended up just putting candles in his dinner (a chicken quesadilla), and singing "happy birthday"! haha

Anyway, here are some pictures of the fun we've had over the past several months.

Birthday pictures:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2023296696806.2112802.1075628199&l=f5fe22b668

Moving Pictures:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2023257055815.2112798.1075628199&l=df55b7b90d

Misc. Fun:
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2037679936378.2113673.1075628199&l=3ebc1726d5

I know it will be a while until we are in the Midwest again, which will be at Christmas time. We are planning to be in New Jersey to visit some of Noah's family there at the end of July. We hope you're all doing well, and love and miss you!

Blessings,
Noah, Krista & Judah


Enjoy!

Our New House

So some of you have **repeatedly** asked for pictures of our new home. Here you go!

Please keep in mind that I have no pictures or decorations up yet, and the master bedroom, basement and office need serious help!!! :)

http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x219/nkbrown81/New%20House%202011/

We had several things that were broken in the move (one of them is the computer desk), so that's what's holding us up. But everything else is coming along nicely and we're getting settled in! Our neighbors seem very nice, and there are a ton of kids on our street.

This morning, I joined a few of my moms group friends and headed to the Amish farm down the road (about 10 minutes away) to pick up some fresh produce! They already had sweet corn, peppers, cantaloupe, zucchini, cucumbers and a bunch of other wonderful things. So much better than the store!!!

The weather hasn't been too bad here the past few weeks. It's been warm and muggy but we've been getting a little rain here and there which has kept the temps and humidity down a bit.

Judah is having a blast living in a house again. He did very well with all the moving chaos and adjustment, and I think he really likes having his new room and big bed (we put the box spring under his mattress, so it's higher).

Noah's job is still going well, and I'm doing fine too -just glad everything is pretty much over and we're settling in!

We hope all of you are doing well too! Love and hugs...

FYI, we will be in Wisconsin on December 23rd, and Springfield after that. So please let us know if you'd like to get together!!!

Blessings,
Noah, Krista and Judah

We're "Home"!!!

Hi Everyone,

We wanted to share some big news with all of our friends and family, and pass along our NEW ADDRESS!!!

Everything is finally coming together with our house situation, both here in Maryland and back in St. Louis. We will be closing on our house here in Maryland on June 10th, and our house back in St. Louis on June 13th (what a nice birthday present!).

We got ALL of the news yesterday, which made for a crazy day - scheduling home inspections, finalizing insurance and lender paperwork, talking to realtors... but a good day, nonetheless.

Before I forget, I know a lot of you will ask for our new address. Please note that there is only one "N" in our street name. It's goofy, I know!

23270 Jenifer Ct.
Leonardtown, MD 20650

We may have the opportunity to move in before our closing date, so we can move all of our things out of our townhouse and St. Louis house - straight into our new house. So we're praying that that will be able to happen. If we can't, we may need to put our things into storage for a short time, which means another move. But thankfully Boeing is taking care of us in that regard!

We are going to try to make one last trip back to the Midwest in a few months (mainly for the purpose of being there for the movers in St. Louis). We can't guarantee we'll make it to see all of you. My guess right now is that we won't be able to make it to Wisconsin this summer, but we should be able to see some friends and family in the Springfield, IL/St. Louis area, who we didn't get to see at Easter. As we get closer to figuring out if and when we are coming, we'll certainly be in touch to give you the details and try to get together with as many of you as we can, in between making the sure the movers get all of our things out of the house.

Thank you for all of your prayers and encouragement through this big transition in our lives! We are so thankful for such supportive and caring friends and family, and are truly blessed by each and every one of you.

Aside from the house stuff, we are doing great. The weather this past week was amazing - in the mid-70's and sunny almost every day. But it looks like this week will make up for that - they are predicting rain almost every day this week!

Noah's job is going well, and he is getting more opportunities to fly on the aircraft he's working on, which is very exciting for him. When he flies, he gets to wear a full flight suit and military issue boots, and he looks like one of those Top Gun pilot guys! :) I managed to snap this rare image of him in his gear, and mysteriously have never seen him come home in it since! haha


Judah and I have stayed busy with the Moms Group we're involved in. We have had a bunch of play dates at the park, breakfast at Panera, a trip to an Amish farm, storytime at the local library and a lot of other fun activities. Judah is talking a mile a minute, asking questions left and right, and likes to point out everything going on around him. He knows his alphabet, and is trying to count to 20 (missing a few of the 'teen' numbers, but we're almost there). He loves to draw and color, but he also likes to figure out how everything works (i.e. - vacuum, car keys, what the mail man does, trash truck, dishwasher, laundry, you name it!). Judah continues to love music too... so he's definitely got a little bit of both his mommy and daddy in him! He is such a good boy, and so much fun.

I have been starting to get involved in our church in addition to the moms group. There was an audition for the worship team several weeks back, and I am not a part of that! I'll be playing piano and singing in the band, which is an honor and a joy! It will be so nice to get back to serving in that capacity at church! I have truly missed it.

I think that is about it for us (for now at least!). We hope all of you are doing well, and miss you! Please keep in touch. When we get settled into our house here, we would love some visitors. Please don't be strangers!!!

Love,
Noah, Krista and Judah