New House!

Well, I have returned home from St. Louis and it was a success! I had such a great time with the Kuikens (friends from college). It was my first time away from Isabella and it was kinda nice. She had a great time with daddy.
We ended up with an amazing deal for this house and I am still in shock about it. God has been so good through this process. I am just very thankful that we have a space big enough to have guests come and stay (hint, hint...).


Front of the house.


This is the living room. The house is over a hundred years old and our landlord has
done a great job in renovations.


This is the master br.

This is the back of the house. Matt is happy that we can stick his grill out here.
Well, there is a few pictures of the house.

And here they are:

We got to go to the beach with our friends, the Torklesons. We love to go to the beach with them as much as we can. As you can see Isabella and Lincoln love playing even when it is cloudy.



This picture was taken around Easter. We had a BIG egg hunt at the Liebert's home. Me and another wife were the planners and we had a lot of fun.

Some More Changes

Sorry.. again that it has been so long since the last post. I recently found an old friend from HS on facebook and she asked "What is with all of the moving?". I didn't feel like writing a lot of details so I gave her the facts:
We moved from Philadelphia to the tip of Texas for three years and bought our first house,
Then our house got broken into a year later while I was home with Izzy,
So, we moved into our friends that (that hadn't sold yet) and lived there for two years,
then..their house sold quicker than we had anticipated (but we are SO thankful that it sold-for our friends),
so, we moved again to an apartment. This is where we are now for the next 6 weeks. Then we are moving again to St. Louis for Matt to do his sports medicine fellowship. After a year of being in a new city we will probably move again to (hopefully God will agree with this) North Carolina!

I had never written it out like that before and to be honest it has been a crazy couple of years for us. It is very interesting how you never know what God is going to do with you until you are through it. We are happy at this point b/c we don't have a house to sell, we don't have to clean a house before we leave, and now our friends don't have to worry about their house selling anymore. God is good, but I am ready to settle down for a while in one place and make a home. Maybe in another year...I can only pray.
~Katie~

~I'll post some pics tonight~

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Afternoon at the beach

This past Friday Matt got off at 2 and we decided to be spontanious and go to the island for the rest of the day. We have realized that we only have three more months and we want to take advantage of being 45 minutes from the Island. We packed up the car real quick and got on the road. It was a great day to go being in the high 80's with a breeze. It couldn't get any better. Here are a few pictures from our little "outing."




Mattt took Isabella for a run on the beach. They both had a great time while I enjoyed laying out on the beach relaxing.

This would have been a really cute picture if matt wasn't wearing a hat, but alas it is still a pretty cute picture.

This is really cute! I wish she had been holding his hand. She is at a stage now where she wants to walk by herself with no help. This is a challange in places like parking lots though.

My two favorite people. She smiled just at the right time and said "ezzz."

Around the house

It has been a while and I am sorry. I am getting worse at keeping this up...but again I will say that I will try harder. Isabella has been growing up so fast this last month; she is saying new words everyday and loves to say "mama" (FINALLY!!).
These few pictures are from around the house in the last few weeks:I don't know why this picture comes up sideways..but just tilt your head b/c it is a cute picture. She loves to "swim" now during her bathtime.

This was a week that she was under the weather and not feeling well. It was so sad to see her on the couch like that..you know they don't feel well when they just laydown where they are. It was really cute though.
These next two pictures are of my two peeping toms. Isabella and Rocco love to go to the fence and look at the other dogs. Isabella says "hi" to them everyday. Again, it is just really cute.




This is a flower bush in our back yard and she loves to go smell the flowers. As you can tell she is getting more and more hair. She won't get me put it up..i hope that she will soon.

some thoughts

well, I have shown you some cute pictures of Isabella and our family, but I haven't gotten to tell you some things that I have been processing lately. We have been very busy down here in the southern tip of Texas. The cool weather is coming to a close and with that we are seeing that our time here is as well.
We are trying our hardest to live these last four months (that is going to fly by) in a way that we won't regret. It seems like yesterday that we Matt was driving that 26 foot truck and me driving our little saturn over 1500 miles down here. I was barely pregnant and Matt was about to start three years of intensive training. We are now leaving with a beautiful growing little girl, friends that we will have for a lifetime and hopefully a little wiser than we were before.
We still have one more year of medical training before us before in St. Louis before we are done. I say "we" because I am going through this with Matt and it is an ending and beginning for us both.
I can't wait to see what God does with us in St. Louis. He will be challenging us in different way I am sure, but I know that He will get us through like He always has.
I just thought I'd share some of the things that are on my mind these days as we are starting to pack and get ready for this next step in our adventure. If you think of us please be praying for us during this transition into a new city and new people.