Hi From Connecticut

We miss you in Texas! We made it to Connecticut! It's is really great to be here!
Dave is getting ready to start his phd in August. We went to register him last week. It was really exciting and I was so proud! His classes are fully funded and he will teach and coach to get free school. One of his classes is called Cadaver Anatomy, he has to dissect a cadaver to prepare it for the undergrads! He's excited about the class and I am very thankful that he is the one taking it and not me. I wouldn't be able to even walk through the door of that class. As Logan would say "EWE!"
I am doing great! I love living in the country and feel as though I was a misplaced city girl for my first 28 years. There's something about the beautiful quiet that makes it even easier to think about God.
Landon is so happy that he dances often. He loves living a 10th of a mile from our fishing cove and a half mile from our beach on our lake. He jumps off of a huge rock at the beach into a deep body of water and is as brave as other boys twice his age. (With a life jacket on.) He is in "boy heaven!"
Logan is doing great as well. He is saying all new words and is an intense fisherman. He has to reel the fish in all by himself. He still is as sweet as always and runs to give everyone hugs!

Saying Bye to DBU!

A little history: Dave and I met at DBU! Dave was getting his masters and I was getting my undergrad. He waited until I was a junior and then asked the president if he could take me out to dinner. (Since he was a coach.) I said "YES!"

We dated briefly and got married in August 2001!

We multiplied and to stay with the Granniss tradition of 100 years and continuing, we were blessed with two BOYS!

The Granniss Family

Landon age 4 and Logan age 2. Landon likes baseball (from mom) and Logan likes soccer (from Dad of course). Landon can hit the ball over the fence with a daddy pitch (no tee!) and Logan already holds onto the soccer ball and dribbles. We have high dreams for the boys! :)

Brotherly Love!

Closing this chapter in our lives to say "BYE DBU and FRIENDS!"

Our Black Labs

We love our black labs, Guinness and Annie.
My husband had Guinness before we got married. She's eight years old now. She used to sleep in his bed until I dethroned her after our honeymoon. Sorry Guinness!
We found out some sad new today. Guinness has cancer. I know Dave is pretty sad. I don't think we are going to tell the boys yet. We are going to give Guinness pain medication for now and see how she feels. Moving is already so emotional, today was a rough day. It really makes you just hold on to each other and be truly thankful for family and friends.
UPDATE: We just found out that Guinness does not have cancer! She was not healed, but she was misdiagnosed. So Praise the Lord!

God is Good!

We are moving to Connecticut in approx. two months and this is the first time it has really "hit me" that we are moving. I think I have been emotional all day because of it.
We are amazed at all the things God is doing to get us ready to move.
We put our house on the market three weeks ago. The first person to sign up to see the house (besides all of our friends and neighbors who knocked on our door and wanted to see it) put an offer on our house! This is seriously a God thing! I am so excited but part of me is a little sad. It's the first time I have realized that we won't be here two months from now.
The past month has been very busy. Logan broke his collar bone and it has now almost healed. He was trying to get a balloon and he fell. I have been sleeping with him every night. He turns over on his bone and cries and I turn him back over. It breaks my heart! He has slept well the past few nights and he has shown huge signs that his bone is better. We get an x-ray next week to make sure it is completely healed. He's our little trooper!
Landon is in a very fun age. He is really good at paying UNO and he beats me at the game (almost every time) I don't even have to let him win! Landon also loves to help out around the house and he started a great trend. When his laundry basket gets full, he dumps it into the washer and gets me to help him put the detergent in the load. He is so cute. He loves to be a big helper!
We should know a move date pretty soon! Our rent house has a contract and closes in two weeks. Our house has an offer! Our house in Connecticut that we will live in closes at the end of April. I'll keep you posted!
We also had an exciting thing happen! We won the lottery!
We probably will just donate all of the money after we buy a house.
Oh wait we don't play the lottery... so I guess that I should now say "April Fools!"

Happy 2nd Birthday Logan!

Today is Logan's second birthday! He is getting so big! He loves to pray before or in this case after he dug in to his meal.
He loves to be the comedian. He loves to make his big brother laugh!



He loves to clean and pick up after himself or his brother. (He gets that from my mom. Yes grandma, you!) He loves to cuddle. He loves to give kisses. He loves balloons, in fact we consider him to have OBD. Obsessive Balloon Disorder. For his birthday his favorite thing was A BALLOON. Forget the toys, there was a balloon at the house. We had a family party today instead of a big party this year. (Since we are selling our house and moving to Connecticut in June-ish.)
Happy 2nd Birthday Logan "Scooter" Granniss!
We love you!

Cast Off Pics!

I got my cast off! I giggled because it really tickled!Ewe! This is the dirty part and I like to point out dirty things.
I walked sidways and I made it to the wall without a cast!
I have been wanting to look in here, ever since we got in this room! I think I'll make a silly face since you caught me.

Logan and Family News

I taught Logan sign language and now he mostly chooses to sign to us instead of speaking. I knew he was going to be one of those children that one day just decided to up and speak for the fun of it. Well~ Today may have been that day! Logan who has only said about a dozen or so words in his life said his first sentence.
"MY DADDY!"
He just melted us!
Logan got his cast off! I have cute pics of him running around the doctors office sideways because it felt weird to him without the cast at first. He was so excited! Logan turns two this month!
We only made it eleven days without eating outside the home in January! I can't begin to tell you what an experience it was, it was hard at first. I think I had serious withdraw at day three, which kind of showed me how much of an abundance I or we have in America. I then broke my New Years Resolution because Carleigh and I were given our hubbies blessings to have a girls night and because Kathy Knight took me to lunch. There was no way I was confessing to either friend that I was going to need to miss those blessed events of rejuvenation without kids! I now love to cook though, especially baking! I have even been daydreaming about Williams Sonoma and all their fancy cooking gadgets! I am thinking I can get them with all the eat out money we are saving!
Some very exciting things are happening in our lives and you can read about them here and here on my bargain blog!