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Time to catch my breath...

Wow, what a day we had! Yesterday was one of the longest and most car-riding/driving filled days I've had in a long time! Thankfully, everything went well -- I really had my doubts at some points -- and our babies arrived on time, safe and sound!

I'm going to try and make this as short as possible, considering the long day we had. We met Doug at Lowe's about 10 minutes from his house (in the heart of STL) and followed him back. He knew we were get lost trying to find our way to his house, so he offered to meet us. While we were waiting on him to arrive, I got a panicked message from Shannon (who we got our creme girl from) saying we had to be at the cargo building by no later than 4! She told me baggage when she first booked the flight, but she was wrong. I called Untied Baggage, they were absolutely no help, then had to call the cargo building. Long story short, we did have to be there by 4 to get her, but someone was going to be there until 5 and we were able to make it on time!

Since we had over 2 hours to go before the arrival of our BFBB boy, we decided to go back to Doug and Kyan's in the mean time. I felt TERRIBLE that they had to drive to the airport twice, it sucked. Back at their house, we got to see all their gliders and even trimmed everyone's nails for them. It was time well spent and I had a blast!

We left just after 6 and headed back to the airport. We had to go inside the airport to baggage claim to get this boy. Luckily Kyan did all the talking -- he even went right to where we had to go, he's a life saver! We all had to stand in the baggage office for 30 minutes waiting on someone to bring him up from the plane. Naturally, the baggage from the Denver flight (the one he was on) was delayed and everyone was waiting on their luggage.

We went back to their house and stayed for a little while longer before we had to leave. We left with two new additions, but had to leave one. Our little boy, Pietro. :( Christina picked him up from their house last night after we left. I was not okay parting with him, he's such a sweet and lovable boy. I feel like I'm betraying him by leaving him there. He's in good hands, don't get me wrong, but it's not the same... he should be here with us.

With that being said, I am on cloud 9 and feel unbelievably blessed to have two gorgeous and amazingly sweet babies! They really are two of the sweetest gliders we've ever brought into our home that haven't been crabby. Tracy told be how sweet Zorro's babies were -- I was also told that from two other people that have his siblings -- and she was 100% right! He's an angel! This little creme girl is super, super sweet too. It's like night and day from the creme girls we got from Tracy. It almost doesn't seem real!

I'm obsessively holding them, starting at them, carrying them around, and then some. It's safe to say I'm OBSESSED with them! I love them so much and want to soak up as much time with them as I can before I have to return to work tomorrow. Sigh... work.

We've already thought of two really cute names, Ginny and Oliver. They're very normal and fitting. We've never been one to name our animals anything other than something you would name a human, Pip aside. But he is named after Pippin, while not a human, but Hobbit instead. Close enough to a human in my book. Anyways, so Ginny and Oliver it is! :)

On that note, I want to spend as much time as I can not on the computer or social media. I know, impossible! I will try, though.

Love & Peace

-Megan

Pictures from Sunday before we departed:

Pietro's travel supplies.

The last pictures I took of Pietro with the camera:




He's so cute. I'm going to miss him SO much. :(





Pictures from today. Everyone say hello to Ginny and Oliver:





Look at how dark and gorgeous he is!



This little girl is impossible to get a picture of.

Operation silver wings...

So tomorrow is the BIG day! I'm so unbelievably excited/nervous/scared/anxious and several other things all at once! I want to get our new gliders SO bad, but I also want to spend the afternoon with Doug and Kyan. I hope everything goes as planned and we have no setbacks.

I have everything packed up and ready for tomorrow, everything we need to take for ourselves and our new additions, plus everything needed to ship Pietro -- he's staying with Christina the rest of the week so she can ship him. I'm so heartbroken already, I'm going to miss him like crazy! It doesn't really surprise me, all of Charli and Tyler's babies have that effect on me.

Before I went to work today, I spent some time with my aunt and uncle. Today is my uncle's birthday, so I made sure to take lots of pictures (96!) and give him a couple gifts. It was short lived, considering I had to leave at 2, which sucked. He and aunt Sharon had plans anyways.

So, it's incredibly late and I desperately want to play Mad Max, so I believe I'm going to call it a night. Until tomorrow -- probably Monday...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Pictures from yesterday:

This is a cage set we finished up for the boys. They love pink, so it should be a big hit. 


Pics from my uncle's mini birthday celebration:




He's going to murder me for posting this. Like literally murder me. O.o

The cake - one of my favorites from the day.

These are some of my favorite cake pictures that I've taken so far.

You know me, I love a good food picture.



This is probably my favorite. I love candles on a cake.



Getting ready to blow the candles out:



The card and presents:








The annual group photos:





The End.


A bird in a gilded cage...

So, time for an update of the majority of what's going on -- as of today. Our original plan was to meet up with ALL our glider friends Sunday, the 20th in the city, pick up our new boy and have dinner. Well apparently the cargo building closes at 4 PM on Sundays -- this completely soiled our plans.

Dee contacted me earlier today with the shipping information on our boy. Wanna guess what time he arrives? At 6:30 in the evening! This means we'll have to be at baggage claim at least 30 minutes early. This leaves no time for dinner before or after, completely eliminating any chance we had at dinner. Now we're going to have to cancel, which is going to upset everyone.

We're still meeting up with Doug and Kyan -- go figure -- so that we can drop of their cage set and so that Doug can drive us to the terminal, cause I myself cannot.

Now for a fill in on what's taking place with the creme mosaic from Shannon. I can officially sat that she's coming to live with us! :D I sent her the shipping money, so it's a done deal. I don't think the reality has set in just yet, because I'm still cool as a cucumber. I'm sure I'll react when we get closer to the 20th.

I think I've covered everything that's taking place in the glider world. I know you all know who/what we're getting -- I'm also sure I've mentioned that Wanda and Pietro have found furever homes, but have I mentioned that Jeremy officially has a home now? Well he does! A deposit was placed on him the other day. Now I can officially say that all our joeys have found their forever homes! I'm SO relieved! Especially with Chloe's soon to be joey and our TWO new additions. We're going to have a full house.

I guess that's all for now. I have loads of lovely photos to share with you below, hope you enjoy...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Mr. Hopper -- unfortunately he got spooked after a while:



Randomness:



Love this cat! Such a gorgeous boy!



Time for a preview of the joey pictures from today:

Pietro





Wanda





Jeremy





Elena






Gotta have a cat section:

Toby is such a goof.





Not sure why, but I think these are the prettiest little flowers/weeds:





My gorgeous "collection" of ducks:



















More cats -- mainly my man, Toby (with an I):









Hands down, favorite picture of him ever!









And lastly, a little one-on-one time with our super sweet girl, Elena: