A New Home, NTC, and a little laugh

We moved!  A week ago we moved on-post into a two bedroom townhouse thing.  There's 4 townhouses connected together but we're on the end so that's a big plus.  The whole house has wood floors expect for brand-new carpet in the living room.  Both Zach and I have said that we feel more at home here already than we have any where else so far.  God was so good to give us this place, I am so thankful.  He has brought us so far and continues to provide for us even when we're not sure where the money to pay the bills is going to come from... He has never failed us.  Like the birds of the air and the lilies of the field.  We were given a bookcase!  So now we have a place to put books and games.  There's still a ton of moving-in to do, hopefully I'll have this place put together by the time Zach gets back from California.

Zach's leaving for NTC (training in California) on Friday.  Obviously not something to 100% look forward to other than it being over and him coming home.  The real bummer is that Zach's not feeling too great, so he doesn't feel like taking walks or playing games or really spending quality time with us because he's just too tired.  I'd really like to spend some time with him but he really needs his rest, sounds like he's not going to get a whole lot in Cali.

There's gonna be at least two weeks where I won't hear from him at all, that'll be hard too. Especially because when he gets back, I'll want to know everything he did down to the details and I'll get the typical man-overview of what happened. ;)  This time it'll be even worse than basic because when he was in basic he wrote faithfully every night and most of it was about what he was involved in there.  I'm hoping it'll be a good "practice" for deployment, getting to see what being apart for an extended period of time is going to be like.  Especially with Esther here.

On a happier note, Esther full-out laughed today!  It wasn't a huge one, or extended, but it was the first laugh where I wasn't sitting there wondering if it was a laugh.  She's grabbing and pulling toys and just stares at everyone.  At PWOC this morning, a woman with an eight-month-old was sitting in the pew right in front of us and this little girl likes to be active and extremely vocal, she's adorable.  Anyway, Meghyn was raising her usual ruckus and Esther was just sitting there with this look on her face like "What in the heck are you yelling about?"  It was priceless.  And every time there's clapping, Esther's eyes get really big and she goes from staring at one thing to whipping her head left and right, like she's looking around to see where the noise is coming from, it's so adorable.  We got some great mom's day pics of her, but I can't find my camera cord in all the moving messies but hopefully soon, i'll get to put them up.  Until then!