Park

Can you believe it I'm posting twice in the same month... lol. So, today we went to the park with some new friends from church. We had a really good time. It was nice to get out of the apartment and spend time with others. Bella made a couple of new friends.

This is Preston and Paisley Lineberry.

As most of you know Bella is pretty shy and doesn't normally play with others. I'm very proud to say that she played very well with Preston and Paisley! Paisley is in Bella's class at church and they will both move up to the Sunbeams class in January. Here are a few other pictures from today.

Paisley and Bella posing for the camera Bella smiling for daddy.

Preston, Paisley and Bella running on Mt. Trashmore.
Kate Lineberry with all the kids.

Fall

  We are in Virginia Beach and have been for about 3 weeks. It is a BIG change weather wise from Southern California.  I haven't seen this much rain since I lived in Ohio last fall. It is nice to be back east for the changing of the leaves.  This is one of my favorite times of year. 

Playing at the playground

   We found a place to live when we came to drop Mark off.  It wasn't exactly what we wanted but everything we had written down to look at was rented when we call to see it.  We found a nice apartment (a little small but nice).  We figured we can make anything work for a year.  I am going to start looking and asking about areas so if we decided we don't want to be hear after our year lease we have an idea where to go. 

  We are in a nice ward.  The people seem to be very nice and accepting.  My ward in San Diego was great but it was probably 3 to 4 months before anyone spoke it to me.  Bella gets to go to her first playgroup tomorrow.  She is pretty excited to get to play with other people besides mommy. 



Playing with leaves when we did family pictures when I was in Ohio



Bella watching the ducks at the pond



Blowing a leaf

Busy Summer

I guess I'm not that great at keeping up with this blog.  I keep saying I'm going to better but that never happens.  A lot has happened in our lives since April.  Mark and I both received callings in our ward in San Diego.  He was second counselor in the Young Men's Presidency and I was second counselor in the Young Women's Presidency.  We both LOVED those callings.  There weren't a lot of young men and women in the ward but the ones we had were great!  Our families both came to visit in July and August.  Mark FINALLY finished his schooling for the military. Bella got accepted into preschool in September and LOVED it.  In the middle of September Mark received orders to move to Norfolk, VA.  He received his orders and in 2 weeks we were moving.  Let me tell you that was a little fast!!!!  That about somes up our summer.