Last week Nate sent me a text asking if I was free Monday. When I told him yes, he told me that I needed to be at his work at 12:15 for a 401k meeting they wanted the wives to come to. He also said he already got a babysitter for Landon, which I was appreciative about. So Monday comes, I get Landon fed, dressed and to his aunts house to be watched and I headed to Nate's work. When I sat down in his office he handed me a sticky note and said "this is where you are going." I immediately said, "I have to go to the meeting alone? You aren't coming with?" If you know me well, I don't really like going to weird things like that alone. He then told me that there was no meeting, that the address was to a place where I was scheduled for a Prenatal Massage! I was so excited and surprised that I started to tear up, but I held it in because there was some other guy in the office lol. I LOVE LOVE surprises like that, but because I love them I am hard to surprise. Nate totally got me this time though, I had no idea.

I really don't know how I deserve Nate as my husband, but I am so grateful for him and all he does for me and our family. He is so caring and selfless, I am very blessed to have him.

Needless to say, that massage was amazing! It was sooo nice to be able to lay on my stomach (since they have a form thing with a hole for your tummy to go through.) My hubby is the best!

This year for Halloween, Landon was the perfect age to go pick out pumpkins! We stopped on the side of the road at a fruit/pumpkin stand and let him walk around to check them all out. I picked mine, Nate picked his and then Landon picked his own. I assumed we would let him walk around but then we would grab a small one for him but Nate grabbed the big one Landon pointed to. It was bigger than mine and his haha. But it was sweet that Nate got him the one he wanted :) We had fun watching him walk through them all.

A week before Halloween we had a few friends over for a Halloween Dinner and Pumpkin Carving, and so those that hadn't seen our house could see it. It's kind of funny that just a couple of years ago, it would be all of us adults hanging out, and now there are babies everywhere! And more on their way :)I wish I would have gotten a picture of them all. We had a chili bar that turned out pretty well. I made a big cauldron of chili and had fritos, baked potatoes and corn bread to go with. For the appetizers I did a pumpkin shaped cheese ball with crackers, pumpkin fruit dip and mini veggie in ranch cups. For drink I mixed apple cider and gingerale. Oh, and we also had wedge salads with toppings.
I absolutely loved the (real) baby pumpkins on branches as the centerpiece.

Nate and I decided not to carve our pumpkins, we just hung out with everyone instead. It was a fun night with great friends :)

On Halloween day, Nate's work had their annual Halloween lunch that Landon and I went to. I made White Chicken Chili for it but when I got there and was getting my plate, I saw that someone brought Olive Garden's Zuppa Toscana....my FAVE! So exciting :) Hope everyone else like my chili haha.

We dressed up again that night but decided to lay low and not trick or treat. Landon would have been able to this year but we figured we weren't going to let him eat most of the candy so we will let him go next year. We just visited family and then passed out candy at home.

I was a Mummy (mommy), Nate was Michael Vick- a football player that is apparently always injured, and got in trouble for dog fighting (he is holding a stuffed dog with an ace bandage on, and Lanny was a little rockstar (he has a tattoo on his other arm.)

Nate and I feel so blessed to be in this home and so blessed with how everything worked out. It was a scary position to be in for me knowing we needed to sell a home before the new one could ever be ours, and we only had a few months for it to happen. I seemed to be the one that worried the most though, Nate reminded me everyday that things would work out how they are supposed to.

The time was getting close for our new home to be done and we still hadn't received any offers on our house. That was when I decided, it's in the Lord's hands. Whatever needs to happen will, and I just needed to let that be. It wasn't but a few days later that we received not one, but TWO offer on our house! I was so grateful and couldn't be more relieved. Once we accepted an offer we had about a month before they wanted to close on the house, the perfect amount of time for our builder to get everything finished up on our new home.

We were lucky enough to move out of one home and in to the other within a couple of days.

I am so happy with our new house but am definitely already missing our old neighborhood, friends and ward. I know this will be a fun new adventure for us though and I look forward to making new memories in this home as our family of three becomes a family of four in 3 months.

I will post pictures of our home soon, now that we are all settled in.

Ps-
Thanks to all of our family member and friends that have helped us in this journey one way or another, we appreciate your love and support!

Continued...

June 27th

 

July 10th

July 14th

 

August 8th

August 9th

August 28th

And our official move in day, September 6th...

Well, it has been a crazy journey, starting way back before Thanksgiving of last year when we first decided we wanted to move. We planned on putting our house up for sale when we got back from our Thanksgiving trip to AZ and of course, we had a shower disaster push that back several months. We had to replace our master shower and flooring; our bathroom was completely gutted at one point. It was a long back and forth with our insurance and it was finally all completed about 3 or 4 months later. So back on track we went, our house went up for sale April 3rd.

We started looking online for homes for sale but eventually decided we wanted to build. We ended up finding a lot in Syracuse that we really liked, but it was owned by a contractor that was about to start building a spec home. We contacted him, met with him, and decided after some thought and prayer that we were going to put earnest money down on it. We were able to tweak the blueprints to our liking and away we went. We were building a house before we even knew if ours would sell in time, let a lone at all.

April 19th

April 22nd

April 24th

April 27th

May 9th

May 17th

May 19th

June 2nd

June 5th

June 23rd

June 24th

June 26th

More to come...

Today we went to the Hogle Zoo with our friends, the Jaggi's. They have a daughter, Raegan, who was born one day after Landon. They are pretty much destined to be married ;)

We had a lot of fun with them and so glad they invited us, it was our first trip as a family there.

 

 

Also, they just opened a splash pad there. Landon loved it, and so did momma after walking around in the heat pregnant all day :)

And this picture, sums up exactly how Raegan feels about Landon wanting a little PDA...

Hahaha.