Catching Up!

It's been waaay too long since I have updated this blog so I will do the best I can to catch up the last year! This has been an awesome year for Johnny! What fun and changes happen b/w the ages of 1 and 2. He's a full-blown toddler now who speaks full sentences : ) He has turned into a very good talker with a huge vocabulary. He's really good at telling us what he wants which is so nice!
Our family has also had some major changes in the past year which is probably right about when I stopped updating this blog...life got hectic! The bank that I worked for in Chicago was shut down and taken over by the FDIC in September 2009. We all knew it was coming but was a very sad time for those of us who worked there. It's a strange feeling to have to leave a job when you're still happy there and you have no control over the decision. I still miss the friends that I made there but we do a pretty good job of keeping in touch. Since I knew the end was coming, I began a job search in Chicago and Paxton/Champaign and ended up finding a great postion at Eastern Illini Electric in Paxton. We moved into my Grandma Schofield's old house until we found a place of our own which ended up taking a lot more time than what we had expected! So nice to have a familiar place to live and not have to rent a small apartment or invade our parents' homes. We moved down so that I could start my new job but our condo had not sold yet. We were extremely lucky to sell it within 2 weeks of listing it. In this economy, that was practically a miracle! We ended up living in my Grandma's house until May 2010 when we moved into our first house! It's over 3 times the size of our condo in Chicago and we are loving every square inch of it! It's located at Lake Iroquois so we're hoping to have a boat someday. Johnny is loving our huge yard and watching Daddy mow it : ) He is still obsessed with tractors! Johnny is also loving living close to all the grandparents. We were so fortunate to have so much help after we moved down here. Mom & Paul's mom each watched Johnny 2 days a week and Paul had him on Fridays in order to help us get back on track after taking a loss on our condo. Dad helped on several Fridays as well when he wasn't working. Johnny just started going to a babysitter for 3 days a week in June and seems to be doing very well. Each of our Moms still watch him 1 day a week for the summer.
Speaking of summer, Johnny has turned into a little fish! He loves swimming and wants to do it all by himself with his floaties. He's pretty amazing and has no fear....which is good & bad! We have been spending a lot of time at Grandma & Grandpa Schofield's pool on the weekends. It's been great!
I will add some more posts with pictures soon and hopefully keep this up to date again. I'm also going to start adding posts of Johnny's hilarious quotes that he comes up with from day to day as a way for me to remember them. I've been reading all of my old posts on this site and there are so many things that I would have forgotten!
That's all for now! : )

Videos!

I'm going to TRY to start updating this more....not going to write much for now....will on my next post. Just wanted to get these videos uploaded.