IT'S OFFICIAL!!

Well, it's official! We are moving to St. Louis, MO for graduate school!!!


We have to be there by the middle of May (that's when orientation starts for Brent) so we are probably leaving the first week or two in May. The best part is that we don't have to look for any place to live! YAY! We are moving into Matt and Heather's (Brent's sister) duplex. It's worked out perfectly!!
There has only been one slight problem and that would be Heather and Matt are not leaving until the second week in June. You see Heather is pregnant due around the 5th of June and they don't want to move right before, which is COMPLETELY understandable!
So we will either have to live with them for a couple of weeks or Brent's brother, Jordan, who is also living there!
Boy, do we have it great or what! It's so great to have family where you are moving! We are excited for the new adventure!!
So, if anyone needs a vacation or would just like to come see us or Missouri-- come on over and visit we would love to have you!!!

Update!!

Well, since Ben was born a lot has happened!! I took Ben to his 2 week appointment and he is a growing, big boy! He was 9 lb. 4 oz. -- and still growing! We have been having so much fun with him in our home- Leila absolutely loves him, she is a great big sister, but loves to act like the mother! It's really quite cute! So here are a few updated pictures of him...

I love this picture of my cute family!!



I know, I know, he has a cute double chin and is nice and chubby!! :)

This beautiful blanket was made by his Aunt Heather-- THANKS Heather it is BEAUTIFUL!!


Next update... About a week after Ben was born Brent had the opportunity to go to St. Louis for 3 interviews at Xavier (Ohio), University of Missouri, and St. Louis University. The night before he left Heather, Brent's sister, called and told him to bring Leila - she would be free to fly with him and when he would go to his interviews she would just be able to stay and play with cousins! So we decided that it would be fun for her-- and she had a BLAST!! When she talked to me on the phone all she could talk about was the airplane and getting pretzels and apple juice!


Brent said Leila was great on the plane rides and loved to entertain by talking to everyone on the plane.

They had a layover in Phoenix and Leila loved to watch the planes take off and land!

Thanks again to Heather & Matt and Jordan & Chelsea for taking care of Brent and Leila for me while they were there!!

The best part of this update is Brent has been accepted to ALL the schools he has interviewed at! We have had many different offers - so now it is decision making time! We will keep you updated, but for now we think it's down to University of Missouri or St. Louis University. (I think Brent really likes Missouri!)

So there you have it! Sorry it was a little longer than I thought it would be, but hey - the good part is there are a lot of pictures to look at! :)

Welcome Ben!

Benjamin Brent Eddington was born Thursday, February 12 at 4:04 a.m. He weighed 8 lbs. 8 oz. and has quite a bit of dark hair. We were watching a movie the night before when Megan began having pretty consistent contractions. We headed to the hospital a little after midnight and from there, things went very quickly and very smoothly. Both mommy and Ben are doing really well. Leila is excited, though a little jealous--she loves giving hugs and kisses. She also loves to tell us to be quiet when Ben's sleeping. We are so excited to receive another one of Heavenly Father's children into our home!

HELP!!

Okay I have a dilemma here... we have SIX more weeks until this baby comes and we can not decide or find a name that will suite this baby boy!! So I need help- if ANYONE has any great name ideas that they would like to share and wouldn't mind if I stole the name, please help me!!
Thanks!!

Long Update!

Well, it's been quite a long time since I have put pictures on here--- SO I have a bunch!!

Let's see.... to start here are a few from Halloween! Leila was so funny when we carved pumpkins- we started carving a face into her pumpkin and she ran and hid behind me and didn't want to even look at it! We finally got her to talk to it and even give it a kiss! After that she was very proud of it!

She was a chicken this year and was such a cute one!!! She loved wearing her costume! She wore it many times before Halloween!



Thanks Crista for letting us use the cute chicken costume!!


Okay next picture is of us raking/playing in the leaves. We had a TON of leaves- I should have taken a picture of all the piles of leaves we had at least 5 HUGE piles.



Leila wasn't so sure about playing in them, but she got used to them. And in these pictures she has on a coat and gloves, but it really wasn't that cold she just needed gloves on because daddy had them on and she loves her coat so I couldn't talk her out of it.


And here is our small Christmas tree! Leila had a hard time figuring out how to hang the ornaments, but when she got the hang of it she would take them off and put them back on- every morning she reminds me that we need to turn on the tree lights!


This video is my favorite we had our ward Christmas party the other night, and the primary kids were singing songs and Leila was leading them!! So CUTE!!



Well, that's our update! Sorry it was so long! Hope you enjoyed our pictures!