Our Relocation to Northeast Ohio

Yep, we moved! It has been 2 wonderful months since we moved into our new home and "real life" has finally kicked in. Benson and I are enjoying the fact that when Lundon is home, he is actually home and not running around doing Dental school stuff. Since we've moved we have been busy having lots of visitors including my Dad, Mom, sister Natalie, Aunt Lisa, cousins Cory and Cami, Lundon's old mission companion Brandon, college friends Brian, Lacy and daughter Alli (Benson's adorable friend), Darren and Tiffany(+2 in her belly). We also just got back on Sunday from the Albrecht family 7 day cruise, which I will try an post about soon.

I'm not sure how I'm going to like the winters since we are now in the snow belt, but this summer has been so fun! I was afraid that there wouldn't be much to do here, but between the visitors and Benson we have kept pretty busy. Yesterday we went and picked blackberries at a cute little farm just 1 mile down the road. If you keep going you'll run into Lake Erie and find an awesome park with a playground right on the water. If you go West for 15 minutes you'll run into Fairport Harbor beach. Yes, we actually have a beach with sand and everything:) They offer yoga there that I will be frequenting more often now that our big vacation is over and life is starting to slow down. We are members of the outdoor YMCA which has 4 different pools, 3 of which are kid pools only with water toys. Now our next big project is grass so Benson has a yard to play in. We have a lot of things that we need to add to our new house, but we love having visitors and you guys are welcome anytime!

Side Note: 6 more days until Mockingjay comes out!!

Benson at Fairport Beach

Lundon took out all 4 of Natty's wisdom teeth while she was here (2 were impacted). What a trooper!

This is this house that my Mom grew up in. My grandparents sold it just 2 years ago. It is only 30 minutes away from where we live so we decided to go take a visit.

Grandma and Benson

The house. Our door is still the wrong color, but they are coming to fix it soon:)

A Penny a Day?

It's been a long time since I've been in the blogging world! Hopefully, I can ease my way back in and keep this thing updated more often.

Our latest news is that Benson decided to eat a penny on Friday night. He loves to play with what he calls "money" and so we've been letting him play with pennies. On Friday night I noticed he put his "money" in his mouth, so I asked him to spit it out. All of a sudden his eyes grew really big, he opened his mouth and pointed down his throat. I started freaking out and called the Dr. He told me that as long as he was eating and breathing fine not to worry about it. So, yesterday I started my diaper diving. I have to say that this is one of the most disgusting things I've ever done. I didn't find a penny all day! This morning Benson threw up and thinking that it must be stuck in his esophagus, we took him to the hospital. We took X-rays and guess what? No penny! This did not sit well with me because, I never saw it come out. So, I found the old diapers and started round 2 of my doo-doo digging . It was far worse the 2nd time around. A few dry heaves later and I found the penny. I'm so glad to finally be rid of this situation. It has been a long weekend!

On a lighter note, we now have a hole in the ground and cement poured for our new house! We are on track to move in sometime in July! We are very excited!

Our Summer in a Nutshell

It has been a long, long time since I last posted, so I'm going to do one big post to try and catch up. We have been all over the place this summer and Benson was such a good traveler. Our first trip was to Utah. We visited our Aunt Debbie, Uncle Brent and my brother Andrew in Las Vegas, my Mom, Dad, and sister in Cedar and my brothers in Cottonwood Hts. We were all over the place, but we had lots of fun. (I forgot my camera so these are some pics. my brother Andrew took. He is so good at this stuff.)

A few weeks after we got home we took a trip to Pennsylvania for the annual "Albrecht Family Summer Vacation." This year we went to Allentown and stayed in a beautiful historic home close to Dutch Wonderland, which is an amusement park for kids 12 and under. Benson had a blast! He got to go on almost all the rides. We also went to the Crayola Factory, an amazing Farm Park that was just like an amusement park, Amish Country, and the Hershey Factory. Of course, I forgot my camera:(

Our next stop was to Oregon for the Smith Family Reunion. We stayed at my Uncle Aaron and Aunt Syd's house. They have lots of land, where they built a fourwheeler/dirtbike course. They had chickens, cows, dogs and cats on the land too. Benson loved the cows and learned to say, "moo" whenever he'd see them. My favorite thing to do was pick the wild blackberries they had growing all over their property. Yum! It was so good to see family that we hadn't seen in a while. We had a great time!

Our last trip for the summer was to Chicago. Just Lundon, Benson and me. There was so much to do there. We stayed in a really nice hotel that was by a huge mall called the Woodfield Mall. The hotel was 30 minutes outside of Chicago, so we took the train in everyday and rode with the locals, there are some crazies in Chicago, but Benson loved it and learned to say, "choo-choo" by the end of the trip. We stayed for five days which gave us just enough time to do all the things we wanted to do. We took a double decked tour bus to get everywhere, and had some pretty funny tour guides. Some of the trip's highlights were the Shedd Aquarium, a river boat ride on the river and Lake Michigan, the Navy Pier, the Children's Museum, Italian beef sandwiches, Chicago style hotdogs, Gino's East Pizza, and the Garrett Popcorn Co. I actually brought my camera this time. Here are some pics.