Mobile baby, Thanksgiving weekend, MeMe Niemann and move thoughts

Good morning! It is very early on my birthday morning and I can't sleep. I woke up around 3:45 to give Lu her medicine (she has another ear infection) and have been hit by a wave of sadness regarding our move. There are just so many goodbye's I'll have to say over the next few weeks and I am not looking forward to it. In addition to all my dear friends, I will miss my house and I can't believe I will be saying goodbye to our dogs. I still wonder how I will ever be okay with giving them up. John is taking Elvis this weekend to our friend Jay and I keep thinking how this is my last Monday, etc. with him.

This move is just so much harder than any other we have ever done. I am really leaning so heavily on the Lord to sustain me right now. If you have any encouraging words I could really use them. I keep questioning if this is the right decision and it doesn't matter anymore because the decision has been made. A dear friend recently reminded me that our emotions often cloud things. I am feeling that right now.

We spent a nice weekend in Nacogdoches with John's parents. It was nice to be away from the house and the worries of keeping it show ready. We took lots and lots of pictures of course! And John's sweet MeMe (his dad's mom) celebrated her 95th birthday yesterday. Her wonderful church hosted a reception in her honor and it was such a joy to be able to celebrate that milestone with her.

Four generations of Niemann gals!

Lucy wore her pretty Christmas dress that I pray will still fit her at Christmas!


Lucy was so tired from all the partying!

We think she is so cute when she is sleeping hard like this!

While we were there daddy got some new boots. Lucy had to try them on.


She had some lap time with Grampy.


And Grammy, too.

We are so sad to be moving so far away from them.

Lucy got a cute new shirt that we had to take some fun pics in.


Lucy is such a joy to us! She is so happy. She sat through the church service yesterday and did very well. She loves paper so the bulletin kept her entertained most of the service. At MeMe's reception she giggled and smiled the entire time.

Oh, and I almost forgot out HUGE news! Lucy is now mobile! I noticed she was super close to crawling so on Thanksgiving morning I put her down on her rug and placed a toy far away from her. Sure enough she crawled all the way over to it. When we got to Nac later that evening I put her down again and she crawled all the way across the room. She has been on the go (slowly) ever since. She looks so funny because she stops often to do what looks like a push up/yoga pose, crawls a little more then stretches out one of her back legs like she has a cramp. It is so cute!