MOVED! (part 1)

Thanks to good weather and good friends, the main part of our move-out went extremely smooth yesterday! Although I about did myself in during the week getting ready for it, for the actual move itself Mason and I headed over to the "Eggstravaganza" the church hosted and got some brunch and found some eggs! Not only did it give me a sort of break, but it also got monkey boy out of the house for the movers. I liked how it worked out :) We now have a pretty-much empty house - with only a computer desk & crib left in it (we slept on an air mattress last night)! However, we also have our clothes, food, and toiletries here - the essentials - so it has made for an interesting time! I am quickly realizing that having essentials at one location and comforts at the other isn't the most fabulous set up, so I imagine we may move everything over tomorrow and call it good (and give me about 4 days to get this place clean and ready to be occupied by someone else). Thank goodness for the bulk of this being over - even when we do move (to wherever) in May, it should be a cinch. Yay!

Thanks again for those that helped us -- you seriously made this burden so much lighter!

No Turkeys

We went out for a quick game of bowling last weekend and Mason got his first taste of the bowling experience... and was ELATED! Amazingly, I had the highest score at a mighty 112 - I have to note it bc I am TERRIBLE at bowling and so it was a sheer miracle that this happened - Ellie & Matt were both apparently having "off nights". We've already planned a rematch. Anyway, most of the time that night Mase just sat in his stroller and clapped gleefully (regardless of whether you had a strike or a gutter ball - great morale booster!), but we let him push a ball or two down the lane at the end. I am sure that before long Matt will be showing him fancy bowling moves - as opposed to Mommy's awkward 'chucking' of the ball down the lane...

Organized (maybe) Chaos

(note the pile of liquor boxes in the background... if people didn't know us better...)

Packing, Packing, Packing... with playing inserted sporadically. Maybe too much playing :) Yesterday was so beautiful that we went on two long walks outside even though I probably should have been packing that entire time! We're down to crunch time with plans to move the majority of our things out of the house this Saturday - then we will trickle the last bit out during the days following until we have to be officially out on Friday the 26th. It is unreal to me that is has arrived already, gone are the days of "I've got weeks ahead of me!"

I think one of the hardest parts for me right now is accepting the state of our house!! The other night, on one of my nightly treks to the little girls room thanks to baby #2, I gasped and panicked a little at the sight of our disheveled bedroom! Since then I've been trying to keep things at least in "piles" so it doesn't seem quite as overwhelming. All in good time... for now I am just trying to keep the kitchen sink clean so I can feel better about the overall state of things - isn't is funny how keeping your sink clean can make everything else feel OK?

Now, time to get back to work!!!

It's a BOY!

Here is his manly profile :)

Let the name suggestions begin!

"Cheese"

Learning to say 'cheese' has stolen my heart... take one look at that scrunched face and how could it not?

...I think the country crock hat adds a little something, don't you?

Dainty or Modest?

Yet to be determined! We tried for a gender check on Wed but thanks to an umbilical cord between the legs we were unable to find out if it is a little miss or a little mr tucked snuggly inside of me. Our ultrasound tech asked us to come back Tuesday morning (free of charge) to get a definite answer... here is to hoping! I should have taken the pregnancy dream I had the other week as a premonition -- I dreamed that we went for the gender check and the baby had CLOTHING ON so we couldn't tell if it was a boy or girl. Ah, got to love those crazy dreams...

Meanwhile, here are two of the snapshots we got (good luck trying to identify- I should have blacked out her descriptions and left you guessing! and is it just me or does the baby seem to have sunglasses on? haha)...

SOLD

This news is still sinking in! As of Friday, the 12th, our townhome is under contract and set to close on March 24th! Unreal, right? We were on the market for a total of 58 days and got really close to our asking price. Crazy! Hopefully everything continues without any issues!

Let the adventures begin!

... oh yeah, and if anyone knows of any commercial or residential construction management jobs in TN, that is where we'd like to end up this spring :) Bring on any and all leads!!!