In mid-January we took a weekend to go shopping for new flooring for our kitchen. During that process we started discussing all the different things that we wanted to do to our home to make it better fit our needs. With that discussion we quickly went from picking out flooring to deciding to put our house on the market.
We met with a few realtors and went to see what was out there in our price range to make sure we could find something we liked. We found a realtor that we really liked and had worked with a few of our friends prior and we liked what we saw in the few we went to look at.
The house officially went on the market February 8 (Friday). We had our first showing on Saturday and they have continued coming.
It has been a whirlwind of emotions but we are trusting in God. We know that the house will sell in his time if he means for us to move, if not we will stay. This trust was tested in me today when our neighbors put their house on the market for not much more even though they have a bigger home. Needless to say this was very frustrating and now we have a lot of consideration to do. We are still relying on God, knowing that everything will happen in his time. Who knows, the showing we have this afternoon could be our buyers (fingers and toes crossed).
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Long Overdue Update
It has been a very, very long time since I have written anything and I thought it was about time for an update on our lives.
Since my last post we have made it through the end of 2012, celebrating Christmas with our families and trying to stay warm in some very cold temperatures. Andrew is still growing like crazy and every day it is more apparent that he definitely will have his daddy's height. Nothing seems to be safe from his reach anymore, even things on the counter tops.
Andrew's vocabulary has really expanded in the past month or so. He know says...this and that (when he wants to show us something or wants to know what something is), hot (yes we still have a chef and now everything is hot), choo choo, uh oh, roars like a lion, and best of all...Mom! He has also added both please and milk to his sign language skills which are very helpful. Our big boy has already been turned into a great State fan as well. Usually when he sees the mascot or the logo he will lift his hands in a touch down sign...Daddy is very proud of this.
We have been amazingly blessed by getting an official nap time routine down with our little guy as well. After a very long week of struggling I choose to just go lay him down in his bed one day, this was after a lot of crying and fighting and I knew he was exhausted. He cried in his bed for maybe 10 minutes and then slept for an amazing 2 hours. Since then this has been our routine and we are consistently getting 1.5 hour naps in his bed plus an occasional extend time of snuggling afterward. This has been such a blessing as it has eliminated a lot of daily stress.
Here are some update pictures for everyone...
Since my last post we have made it through the end of 2012, celebrating Christmas with our families and trying to stay warm in some very cold temperatures. Andrew is still growing like crazy and every day it is more apparent that he definitely will have his daddy's height. Nothing seems to be safe from his reach anymore, even things on the counter tops.
Andrew's vocabulary has really expanded in the past month or so. He know says...this and that (when he wants to show us something or wants to know what something is), hot (yes we still have a chef and now everything is hot), choo choo, uh oh, roars like a lion, and best of all...Mom! He has also added both please and milk to his sign language skills which are very helpful. Our big boy has already been turned into a great State fan as well. Usually when he sees the mascot or the logo he will lift his hands in a touch down sign...Daddy is very proud of this.
We have been amazingly blessed by getting an official nap time routine down with our little guy as well. After a very long week of struggling I choose to just go lay him down in his bed one day, this was after a lot of crying and fighting and I knew he was exhausted. He cried in his bed for maybe 10 minutes and then slept for an amazing 2 hours. Since then this has been our routine and we are consistently getting 1.5 hour naps in his bed plus an occasional extend time of snuggling afterward. This has been such a blessing as it has eliminated a lot of daily stress.
Here are some update pictures for everyone...
We got a very large blizzard a few days before Christmas and Andrew just loved the snow.
Andrew was very entertained watching Daddy dig us out through the little window left in our front door.
GO STATE!!!
Fixing my tractor.
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