Hello friends. Sorry for the delay in updating. It has been a whirlwind 6 weeks for us. We returned home from our trip to Rosemary Beach (and after Ash had interviewed in Atlanta), to the slow fastness of change. We couldn't talk on the interwebs about it, so that was our top-secret project. We had to wait until he could tell his employers to actually say anything on FB, which is just the world we live in now. Crazy. The new firm is Square Feet Studio in Inman Park and Ash seems pretty excited about it. Lots of high end restaurant and modern stuff. I think. Less educational institution work. So we have been in logistics mode big time, so that's my excuse for not blogging. Once he accepted their offer, we flew down to look at homes to buy. That was a gigantic waste of time b/c the inventory in our price range absolutely sucks in Atlanta/Decatur right now. Really surprised by that. So we are renting for 6 months while we figure out the area more. We are moving with another move to come - glorious. UGH. Basically, I'm packing up everything except the essentials b/c I do not want to unpack it to pack it up again. Slim living we will be doing. We will be living less that .3 miles from Ash's new work, so hopefully we will see more of him b/c he will just walk to and fro and we can stay a one car family a little longer. YES! I thought I'd let you see some pics of the other fun things we've gotten to squeeze in as we finish out what is left of our Boston summer. I am glad to move back, but I think I was SO looking forward to the Boston summer that I'm disappointed in the timing. I know I'll be grateful in Jan/Feb, but really, we are moving to Atlanta in their HOTTEST month of the year. Moving in Nov. would have made me feel like I was escaping winter. Oh well. Enjoy the pics!
Here are some pics of our little super-hero (we are attempting this in lieu of princess mentality. We'll see how long it lasts):
I think she just looks like a baby hipster right here, minus the fanny pack and awkward glasses.
For Father's Day, we rented a boat and rowed around the Jamaica Pond in our neighborhood. :)
This is from the week we spent in Atlanta looking for houses. Ellery hung out with two of her favorite people all week. Noah and Jonah, who also fancy her just as much. Yay cousins (and Unkie and Anise!) We were so thankful they were so willing to hang out with her all week while we trekked through homes out of our price range and awesome, or ones that fit our budget and smelled like cat-pee. Awesome.
I'm including this one b/c this is what I walked in to find one morning. She really does wake up happy most days. And this day was ridiculous. LOVE her. And not totally sure how she did that with her shirt. She is starting to get obsessed with taking her clothes off.
We had a slow weekend of July 4th and just hung out together and enjoyed the city. Sat morning we went to the Franklin Park Zoo (yes, the one where they filmed that new Kevin James movie, Zookeeper. Re: stupid). Anyway. She loved it. And we loved the baby gorilla they had there too. As my friend Candice would say,
Adorbs.
We went down to Horseneck Beach in Westport, MA one morning too. It was REALLY foggy until about 11am and surreal. You couldn't even see past the shoreline out into the water. Props to my friend Heather for getting Ellers this cute suit.
Last weekend, we took our last trip up to Rockport, which is one of our favorite places to visit. Just an old fishing village...
Thanks for keeping up with us. We are sad to leave our Boston friends. Very sad. And though we've wanted to move back to the South for sometime, this is way harder than I imagined.
