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... of an empty house

I am sitting in our almost completely empty house.  Well... empty of our things.  The friends who are renting from us moved most of their stuff into the front living room last week and so it's piled high with boxes.  But Quinn and I are almost done!  Then we just have to sort through all of the things that we brought to our friends' house where they are graciously letting us stay for almost two weeks.  We are surrounded by amazing people, let me tell you.  I would love to give you a list of all of the incredible things that our many friends have been doing for us this last month as we prepare to leave, but I won't.  I'm tired.  And that wasn't why I started this blog post.

I started this blog post to share this adorable video of Selah that my mom got today:

She's pretty adorable, if I do say so myself.

And here is Abram making me feel not so dumb while attempting to entertain him:

Anyway, (maybe) needless to say, we haven't had the camera out a lot to take pictures during this, the most hectic and busy time in our lives to date.  Our moms have probably gotten some good pictures, since they have both graciously come all the way from Idaho and Colorado back-to-back, in order to help us get ready to leave.  They have mostly been (wonderfully) taking care of the kiddos while we do trips to the house to sort, throw away, give away, and clean.  This productivity has also been make possible by my amazing 3 month old who has finally found her groove!  Not only does she sleep at least 12 hours at night, but she's taking three good naps a day and she eats about every four hours.  It's been an incredible blessing and a total answer to prayer.

That being said, Quinn is taking out some of the last stuff to the car for the night, it's 11:00pm and we have a lot of things to do tomorrow.  So I'm going to end there and do some craigslist posting (hate!) before we take off.  Hope you haven't been too Smith kid deprived.  I will make up for it during our travels, since Quinn won't be working and we will have much more time on our hands!
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