Happy Holidays

Wow, it really has been a long time since I last posted. So much has happened. We have had a pretty crazy few months. To start, we moved back to Georgia. We lived with my parents for a couple of months until we found an apartment. Mike worked for his step-dad doing golf ball recovery. He traveled quite a bit. We usually only saw him on weekends and then sometimes he would be gone for 2 weeks. It was pretty rough. We finally found an apartment/townhome for pretty cheap and jumped on it as soon as we could. It's a 2 bedroom/2 bath. So it's pretty spacious. We really like it. Mike quit with his step-dad to get a more stable job. He now works for GBR Funding, which is a lot like Capital Access Network (the company he worked for before we moved to Idaho). He makes pretty good money. We are very blessed that he got that job when he did. I started to work for a transcription company to make some side money. I really enjoy it.
Adelaide is growing and growing…well kind of. We took her for her 18 month check-up about a week ago and they said she was very underweight. Go figure. LOL She weighs 20 lbs and is 34 in tall. So she is a bit petite. But, in my defense she is a super picky eater. The doctor gave me some tips on how to help her eat and told me to put her on Pediasure and vitamins. Well I don't have a ton of extra money every month and Pediasure is rather expensive. So right now we are working with her on eating better and I bought her some vitamins. She is a very active little girl. She loves to play outside. And since we live in Georgia and it has rained 90% of the time we have been here she has started to really like puddles. She pretty much jumps in all the puddles at least twice when we go to the car or anywhere for that matter. She loves to color and help me cook. Pretty sure her favorite person is cousin Jace. Her face lights up whenever she sees him. They have become very good friends. Outside of Jace, Uncle Blake is probably her favorite "grown-up." They cuddle and play together a lot. It's pretty cute. I can't believe how big she is now. She talks a ton, but most of the time I don't understand what she says. She knows a lot of words but usually to get my attention she just screams/whines at me. That's fun. Needless to say I've learned a lot of patience lately. She also likes to hit and scream when she doesn't get what she wants. She can be kind of destructive, so we have been working on that too.
We have a new addition. As of November 21st, we welcomed our son Parker Brian Godell. He weighed 8lbs 5oz and was 20 inches long. I will write his birth story in a different post. He is such a sweetheart. I was deathly afraid that since Adelaide was such a good baby that Parker would be way more active and crazy. I was wrong. He is just like Adelaide. He is super chill and adorable! He even cries like her. LOL He is growing too fast already. He is a little over a month old and just as cute as can be. He now weighs 11lbs and grew a couple of inches. He smiles sometimes and loves to be wrapped in his blanket with his arms out. He is also a cuddler. He loves to cuddle and just be held. We just adore him. Adelaide is a great big sister. She always tries to calm him down when he's crying and she likes to help feed him a bottle. We are very lucky to have such wonderful children.
I can't believe tomorrow is Christmas. It's crazy how fast this year went. Mike has an interview in St. Louis for a line job in January. We are hoping it goes well and he gets hired. We would like to end up there. This job will be good for us.
We recently traded our beautiful Tammy the Tundra for a VW GTI. The payments on the truck were a little too high and with insurance and gas we were spending over our budget on it. So, we traded it in. We got a great deal on the VW and love it. It gets great gas mileage and it's room enough for all four of us if we need to us it.
Anyway, until next time. Sorry it took so long. I'm sure I will update again in a couple of months about the holidays.