Yes, we are still around! Thanks to all who have checked this blog and encouraged me to update it...it's been off the priority list for the past few weeks, but we want y'all to know we are all alive and well in south LA. We hope to be into our house within a few weeks...bear with us through yet another "settling in" phase, and maybe by mid-October we'll be somewhat back to normal as far as keeping you up on some news and photos of the girls.

AG and LL are doing well...both riding the waves of this transition fairly smoothly, though sharing a bedroom with her parents has thrown off LL's sleep pattern (and ours!). AG has reached new levels of independence... wanting to do so many things herself and repeatedly saying, "Do not help me" just in case we forget! I almost wonder if we left one child behind in TX and somehow arrived her in LA with another one! Both AG and LL were troopers through the daily grind of the house hunt and AG is looking forward to having "the movers" bring back lots of the items she misses when we get to the new house. Here are a few photos so you can see how they are growing! The one of both was taken in our front yard in Austin the week before we moved; the others here in our temporary apartment with AG keeping the stroller wheels hot and LL showing off her favorite new funny face!