Some pictures from our last few days in Davis.

Our room in Tara's apartment. Nate burns calories while waiting for the Bruce the Mover to show up. Note his new glasses.

The truck the moving company sent to load up our 5 cubic meters of stuff.

Bocce Ball Bon Voyage Party at the winery!

Girls' Night at Woodstock's (crashed by two boys who couldn't keep themselves away from us). Me, Tara, Nate, Eddie, Lisa and Fran.

Our super snuggle kitties the last day in their crib before moving in with my sister Becky.

About to get on the plane in San Francisco!

more good news

Nate spoke with his new boss today. After hearing that our visa should be approved within the next couple of weeks, he told Nate that we should contact the movers and after we schedule a meeting time with them, we should book our plane tickets!!

Although this entire process has caused a lot of stress and tears, it looks like we will be getting there just a couple of weeks later than we first thought. Keep those fingers crossed!

This weekend we are moving out of our apartment and in with our friend Tara until we leave (new tenants are moving in Oct. 1). We are also moving the kitties to my sister Becky's apartment in Palo Alto. :( I'm not looking forward to that. How will Nate keep his arms warm when he's working on the computer if we don't have the cats?

Nate with Lou, who is waiting patiently for love.

yard sale and baby names

We held a successful yard sale on Saturday with a few of our friends. One of those friends was unloading his used baby gear, so we scored a gently used co-sleeper! We are trying to limit the amount of baby gear we're taking with us, but a free co-sleeper was too much of a deal to pass up. Just need to wash the sheet and mend a couple of holes and it will be good as new!

We got it all set up yesterday morning and wondered how long it would take our current babies to make themselves at home. It didn't take too long...

Lou and Hector on their blanket (not a cheetah-print baby sheet)

We also held our Baby Naming Tournament yesterday. Nate and I made separate lists of our top 8 girl names and top 8 boy names (32 names total) to complete against each other, NCAA basketball March Madness-style. Men's and women's names were in different brackets, and I hate to say it, but the men's bracket was much stronger than the women's; we had some real doozies in there (fortunately Nate's "Omarosa" was eliminated in the play-in round).

We had only two names overlap and they were both in the men's bracket. One of them made it to the final four and the other was eliminated in the second round.

Sorry - we're not sharing the winning names with anybody until the big day.

I can share that Nate's #1 seed won the men's division and my #3 seed was chosen as the middle name!

The women's division winner is a surprise, definitely a Cinderella story -- it came out of nowhere and toppled some powerhouse names that have been on the table since the very beginning. The winning name was inspired by my #6 seed and essentially entered the tournament unranked. We haven't selected a middle name yet.