Here are those pictures I promised from Brown County:

Brown County 2009

The best weekend every two years has come and gone. Sad to say. Every two years, my family travels to Brown County State Park near Nashville, Indiana for a reunion. This year, I drove down to Indianapolis on Thursday and met my mom, dad, sister, brother-in-law, niece, nephew, brother and soon to be sister-in-law. The next day, we met the rest of the extended family at the state park. I took pictures of the family on Saturday - which was a lot of fun! I'll have to post some here as soon as they're ready. I haven't even uploaded them from my camera yet. I've just been exhausted from the trip. Dan drove from Iowa Friday and left Sunday afternoon. I'll get to see him in one more week again. That helps a lot, since we can't be together right now.

Here's a picture of the Saddle barn:

Normally, I horseback ride with everyone else, but obviously I can't ride a horse pregnant. So I took pictures of the little kids riding the ponies around the ring. Fun :)

What was the highlight for me ..? I suppose seeing everyone and spending time with family. I enjoy the moments when we're all in one room, just talking. You can't really plan for that, it just happens. It's weird to think that in two years, when we go back again, I'll be 27 and have a one and a half year old.

Finally. The move is over. I'm in North Liberty, Indiana. And I feel like I can finally relax. It's been one crazy month and a half. When I got back from my trip to Maryland, it was just a whirlwind of packing, cleaning, touching base with the realtor, etc. And now things are finally calmer. Dan is still in Iowa and will be until he transfers. Hopefully that will be within the month. I really hate being without him. Thankfully he's not alone. He's staying with our pastor and family. So that's good. And I'll see him this next weekend and the weekend after that. *sigh* it will just be better when we're both here and finally getting somewhat settled.

Yesterday, I got to eat dinner with my inlaws. It was so weird being there and knowing that I wasn't going to be spending the night (which normally we'd have to since we lived 6+ hours away). My sister-in-law, Tori, spent the night at my new home last night. That was fun! We made chocolate pudding and popcorn, drank milk and dr. pepper (hey, this all may sound gross together - but I'm pregnant). And then we watched The Addams Family in bed until we fell asleep. We had a good time :) !!

For some reason, I keep waking up in the middle of the night (well, around 4 am) to go to the bathroom (Ok, THAT part isn't so weird to me). And when I do, I can't get back to sleep for the life of me. I've been up since about 4:45 am this morning. And now it's going on 7:30. Ugh. I'm finally starting to feel sleepy again. I wonder how long Tori will sleep.... Maybe I should go back to bed. I just want to be sure she's got everything she needs when she wakes up - food, able to shower, etc. OK - I'm going back to bed!