So Friday we moved into the temporary lodging on the base, Saturday we moved all of our household goods into storage, Sunday was Easter, and Monday we had a baby! It definitely ranks as one of the more eventful long weekends of our lives. Monday evening we left the boys with Kara's mom at the place on base and drove down to Santa Maria to do some cleaning and organizing at the house. On the drive, I started having contractions, but they were fairly mild and ten minutes apart, so when we arrived at the house, Dwayne went running with a friend as planned, and I worked on some things in the house. The contractions started getting stronger, so I called a friend up the street to warn her she might be taking me to the hospital if our husbands weren't back from their run soon. Fortunately, Dwayne got back just as I was feeling completely confident that this was the real thing. He took a quick shower and we headed to the hospital (not without a quick [the length of one full contraction, to be exact!] stop at In-N-Out Burger for Dwayne to get a chocolate shake). I was admitted around 8:30 PM, they broke my water, and Daniel Brian Kisby was born at 10:04 PM. I knew it would be a fast labor (Stuart was very fast), and I was so happy that the timing of everything worked out so well. I can't say it was easy, but if I shared details of the labor, many women would be jealous, so I'll leave it at that. Daniel weighed 8 lbs. 5 oz. and was 20.5 inches long. He has dark brown hair, with just a little on top and a lot in the back. It looks sort of like receding hairline, but since he's just starting out, we'll call it "progressing."



Dwayne, my mom, and the boys came to visit in the hospital. Simon and Stuart were both fascinated by their little brother, although Simon's interest lasted a little longer. Stuart was quickly pushing the empty bassinet around the room with vrooming noises and crashing it into beds, walls, and medical equipment.

By the Friday before Easter, we had moved into the TLF (Air Force acronym for Temporary Lodging Facility) on base. It was like a long-term furnished hotel, complete with three bedrooms, two baths, laundry, kitchen, and housekeeping service. Though we obviously would have rather stayed in our rental house a little longer, we definitely couldn't complain about the arrangements on base. On Saturday afternoon we decorated eggs with Grandma Draper and rested from the events of the move.




Our friends, John and Beth Chamberlain, invited us for Easter dinner on Sunday and their teenage kids put together an Easter egg hunt for the boys. There was definitely no shortage of sugar this year! We enjoyed a delicious dinner and spending the evening with our friends.

We began the packing process as soon as we found out we had to leave our rental house, but the boxes really started to pile up in early March in preparation for everything going into storage on March 22nd. The boys were usually eager to help and are here transporting empty boxes from our back storage shed into the house to be filled.


This is the pile of boxes that we had packed a few days before the move. The boys were constantly climbing them, so we'll see how the contents fared once we open them. They also had fun poking holes in the sides of them with pencils. Several missing pencils later, we realized Stuart had been putting the pencils all the way through the holes.

Kara's mom arrived on the 20th of March, just in time to be very helpful with the move. Most of our kitchen was packed up by the time she came, so meals once she arrived were scavenged from the freezer and served on things like tupperware lids and yogurt containers. She was so helpful in organizing the last minute details, especially as Kara was slowing down a little bit due to the imminent arrival of the baby due the next week. Several friends from church and Dwayne's work came to help load the truck and take everything to the storage unit. Dwayne estimated just right on the size of storage we'd need--we filled it to the very last foot.