Long Overdue Update

Since I find myself with a few spare moments and a "built-in babysitter" (thanks Mom!) I am finally able to post an update. There is much to report and a handful of pictures as well, so I'll just hammer it out. In November we made a quick trip to Chicago and Southbend for a mini Cronley get together and to see Notre Dame lose to Navy (AGAIN!) at home. On the way there, we had a pretty funny experience -- as we are boarding the plane, the Pilot greeted Marin and then asked her if she would like to sit in the cockpit for a few minutes. Of course she said yes and the next thing I know, he plucked her right up and put her in the seat and told me to take pics if I wanted. Tom was quite irritated, to say the least, that his 3 year old daughter has managed to sit in the cockpit of a 737 before he has!!









A few weeks later, we decided last minute to take a road trip to Kansas City to spend Thanksgiving with my sister and her husband. We had a great time and thanks to Cath and Matt's good friends we managed to score some tickets to see the #1 Jayhawks play in Allen Fieldhouse. It was Tom and Marin's first Kansas Basketball game and it brought back a ton of memories for me :) We also got to meet up with our old friends, Matt and Allison Wilkening and their two sons Eli and Asher for a morning in the park. Marin was very excited to see her old buddy Eli!










Here are some pics of our last few weeks in Meridian:
Although we have not yet sold the house in Mississippi, Marin, Muzzy and I have made the move out to California! We decided that it made more sense to just come out for Christmas and stay rather than fly back to Mississippi after the holidays for a few weeks and then come right back out to the GOLDEN STATE. So we will be residing with my mom for the next couple of months. Tom will join us next week for Christmas and New Years and then he will be back in Mississippi to do a debt in El Centro (this is totally confusing, I know) for work and then one LAST TIME GOING TO THE CARRIER in early Feb. Then he will make the permanent move to CA. It feels great to be back in California and to have survived the three and half years in Meridian. I'm grateful for the friends that we made and the different experiences we had, but mostly I am just grateful to be back in a place that really feels like home. I apologize for the ramblings (Tom is much better at this than I am!) -- I blame it on this awful cold I have and not being able to "cure it" with my usual concoction of Robitussin and a hint of Johnnie Walker Black. UGH!!