a return to blogging. :-)

Hello all! It's been a long time since we've posted... lately we've been feeling like this every night:

Most days Katherine and Marie are getting along pretty well. On a rare occasion Katherine even says, "I want to play with my very best friend Marie!" She usually corrects herself, telling us "Well, Marie isn't my best friend too much... just a tiny bit." 

They get into plenty of mischief together. With our house on the market right now, we don't have too many toys out. The girls have gotten creative, finding "toys" everywhere! Their favorites are Mommy's shoes and jewelry. 

No one will argue that this has by far been the longest winter we've had in a loooong time. Most of the time we were wimps and stayed warm inside, but a couple of times we bundled up to play in the snow.

Even in dreadfully cold temperatures, Marie will beg to be pushed on the swing for almost half an hour. Every time you try to move the tray and take her out she screams "no no no!!" and squirms until you push her more. Can you imagine how much fun she'll have when it's actually pleasant outside? :-)

Most days it seems like Katherine has outgrown her terrible twos, but Mommy's favorite nickname for her is "Sassy Cassie" because she packs a lot of attitude into a tiny girl. :-) Katherine insists on wearing princess dresses ALMOST every day. She tells Mommy "I get more hugs and kisses in princess dresses," and how can we argue with that? Even though we give her about a million kisses every day regardless of what she's wearing, she loves hearing friends and strangers tell her how beautiful her pretty dress is. 

In case you haven't heard-- we're moving! To make a long story short, through a lot of prayer, discussion, and being patient, we decided to spend a couple years in New Jersey for Julie's job. We'll be staying with 4moms, but moving out there will help Julie to focus on building relationships with business partners that are headquartered in New Jersey. Below we're in a hotel room where we stayed while we were looking at houses. At least we know there's good food out there! ;-)

Here's Daddy at the Original Pancake House close to the neighborhood we're looking at in New Jersey. We won't move out there until our house sells. So far it's been on the market for six weeks and is receiving positive showings, but no offers. We're being as patient as we can-- please join in our prayers that a family finds our house soon, so that they can build a happy, holy family!

We've been enjoying every minute with our Pittsburgh family while we can. :-) We'll of course be moving back in a couple years (and visiting every 6 weeks or so), but we'll miss the kids playing together and evenings at Grambie and Grandpop's house for the couple years we're away.

It seems like the weather is finally warming up, and we're eager to get outside more. Hopefully as we get more active we'll be a bit more inspired to blog more often as well! 

With Love,

The Block Family.