Has it really been this long since the last time I posted here?! It doesn't seem like it for sure. Well, the time flew by me and it seems I cannot get hold of it to try to slow it down. We've been quite busy here. Where should I even start? As many of you already know we've moved out from Moscow in November. I've been missing it quite a lot. Much more than I thought I would. So it's true what they say - home is where your heart is. We had our hearts in that place and it felt like home. It was hard to say goodbye to all our friends, hard to pack all our stuff and leave without coming back. The hard part was when couple weeks into our home leave Alyssa started asking when we'd go back home. That's when I realized that I miss our 'home' too. It definitely were great two years that we had there and I'll remember it as such. At the end of November we flew to Utah for our big home leave. It was great. We managed to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas (+ New Year's when I fell asleep before midnight. Shame!) there with Matt's family. We missed having holidays with family and I am glad we had a chance to spend some time together. Big plus - Matt did not have to work for the whole month and we enjoyed it oh so much. Kids loved bugging spending lots of time with Grandma and Grandpa. Thanks so much for letting us crash at your house for so long! Then came time to move to DC. It was hard to leave but at the same time everyone was excited to finally go to another 'home' of ours. Emma remembered a little bit of our stay there from two years ago. Alyssa was happy to go to 'our new home'. And I think Matt's parents were happy for our loud gypsy family to be out of their house. I know I would. The trip went great. We spent 40+ hours on the road. I love road trips so I was happy. Thanks to the DVD player kids were happy most of the time. Matt did not complain. Since then Emma lost her first tooth and then couple weeks later her second. Alyssa had celebrated her third birthday. We had a little tiny party for her because it was Sunday and she did not have any friends yet. She was happy to finally become a 'big girl' and didn't mind not having a big party with friends. And Katelyn did a lot of growing during these months. She is going to turn big One in a month and a half and I cannot believe it. She is such a third baby. Ha. She just (like last week) started sleeping a little better. Last night was the first time she woke up only once and I felt like the whole new person in the morning. During the day she usually takes one nap and only for 45 minutes. I used to hate it but now I just don't care anymore. Katelyn is such a cute and funny baby that I don't mind having her around. Even with little sleep she is usually pretty happy. She loves her big sisters and loves playing with toys. She started getting into things I don't want her to get into. She loves cruising around the furniture and can stand by herself for a couple of seconds but still very cautious about taking steps. As of now I can say we are completely settled for the next 6 months of Matt's training. He finished his Consular classes today and on Monday he is starting his Bulgarian language training. I hope it's easy for him to pick up a new language that he'll have to use for the next two years. As about me, I am trying to survive these months of us being here. All three girls are with me the whole time. It's quite a change from the last year when I was pregnant with Katelyn and would take naps when Alyssa took her naps and Emma was in her preschool. These days I run the rat race. I signed the girls up for dance classes, we go to the library twice a week, we go to a lot of activities they have in our apartment complex, we have play dates almost every day, we go to parks and just hang out with some great people. We also went to Disney on Ice which girls loved and we went to the Zoo last weekend. We've been blessed with the warmest winter this year and enjoy it very much. I barely have time to relax during the day and when the evening comes I am exhausted beyond words. It is going to be crazy busy like this for the whole time we'll be here and I am glad I don't spend days being bored and trying to come up with things to do. So if I disappear again for the next six months or so, please forgive me. Just know I am spending lots of time with my lovely girls and literally have no time to pee write a new post. Oh, and sorry for the Instagram pictures - these days it's the only way I take pictures.