This post is about a week or two late, but I haven't seemed to have had any free time lately! The first weekend in January marked 10 years since Justin and I have been in Kansas City! In a way it seems like we have been here forever, but 10 years! Wow! Many people have asked how we ended up here, so here is the quick version! Towards the end of our college careers, we were both living in Cedar Rapids and we were not sure what we wanted to do with our lives! I knew I wanted to get a good job somewhere, not sure where yet. Justin thought about staying in Cedar Rapids, or moving somewhere else. He did know that he didn't want to move back to the country. That just wasn't for him. We took a trip down to Kansas City to visit my good friend who was visiting her then boyfriend (now husband). I had never really heard anything about KC. We fell in love with the city! We loved that fact that it had the opportunities of a bigger city, but had a small city/town feel. It was really easy to get around and everyone seemed so friendly. Closer towards my graduation from Iowa, I had a job prospect in Chicago and one in Kansas City. I knew Chicago was pretty cold and very expensive to live in and I remembered how much I loved Kansas City. So I decided that I would move to KC and hope that I got that job! Luckily I got the job! Justin still wasn't quite sure what he was going to do yet, so he said, what the heck, he would move too and figure it out once he got there! We didn't really have a long term plan, we thought maybe that we would stay for a few years and build up our resumes and then maybe move back home (at that point we were still referring to Iowa as home). But after a while, we really considered KC our home and noticed we were calling it 'home'. So we stayed! Although, we will always have a huge spot in our heart for Iowa. It is really hard to believe that we have been here for 10 years! We started our careers, bought our first house, and both of the boys were born here!
Easton has now lost his binky for the most part! Our goal was 18 months, but we decided with the holidays to wait until the first of the year. He no longer has it during the day, but still does at night. He was sick at the beginning of December and had trouble sleeping for a few weeks. So, we are letting him have it during the night until we can get him back to a normal sleeping routine. He has also officially entered the terrible twos! It was almost like one day it just started. He gets so frustrated when he wants something and we don't understand. I feel for him, because you can tell he wants to tell you, he just doesn't know how yet. His new favorite word is No! He likes to climb on things so I will tell him to get down and he just looks at you with this cute little smile and says, No, No!
Payton just started his third quarter of Kindergarten. It is also hard to believe that his school year is over half over! His teachers just adore him and his latest report card said that they can tell that he truly enjoys learning and being at school. He is still playing basketball right now. Right now he is really into playing checkers and grandma joy just taught him how to play backgammon! He usually beats us! Now that he is in school and activities, I am finding out just how difficult it is to work a full time job! It doesn't help that Justin works a lot of nights and weekends and I have a 45 minute commute each way!
