New home

Here are some pictures of our new home. The first few came from the online listing. 

Entrance/living room

Family room

Kitchen 

By the way, that fridge was the worst ever. I'm so glad we bought a new one. And we got a really good deal!

Basement. That little platform is for stadium seating so we can set up a little movie theater down there some day. 

Matthew's room. We got the dresser from IKEA. That was quite the ordeal for putting it together, but it is adorable. The curtains are blackout curtains because it gets way too bright in there and Matthew was waking up at 6 am. I miss our plantation shutters from our old house! The plan is to get Matthew a bed for his birthday. I'm thinking a bunk bed considering we are having another boy, but we'll figure it out later. 

Toy room. I love that we have a toy room now. 

We need to finish getting my office set up next, and then we will get the nursery set up. Then hopefully I'll be done nesting for a while before the baby comes. 

Matthew update

OMatthew is as cute as ever. He is so much fun and his vocabulary is growing by the day. His favorite words are yes and no. Although he seems to interchange the two. We had an 18 month checkup in March and he's growing well. We switched providers again and are really happy with our new dr. 

He loooves  playing with these things at Target

He loves vacuums, so when he found this toy vacuum at our friends house he was on cloud 9. 

Helping daddy now the lawn

Already learning how to drive

We went to brunch at Sill's and brought the laptop to keep him entertained. It worked. 

I told him to give the baby loves and kisses. So sweet. 

While we were looking for a new fridge at Lowe's, he discovered the vacuum section

It was a hot day 

Finishing up work before bed

Homemade Popsicle!

Holy picture overload!!!

Baby update!

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I look huge in this picture 

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I missed a couple weeks, but considering everything that has been going on, I think I've done pretty well!

Things come in 3s

SO much has happened since I last blogged. I don't even know where to start. 

1. Baby is growing well and all that good stuff. He is very active, and has a great heart beat at each checkup. I don't love the sciatica, and other lovely pregnancy things, but other than that this has been a pretty low key pregnancy (so far...knock on wood). I'm grateful that with everything else that has been going on, I haven't had too much to worry about pregnancy-wise. 

2. I went back to work! Near the end of last year I felt like I should go back to work for whatever reason. I talked to Connor and my former supervisor at JetBlue and decided to apply as soon as they were hiring. That didn't turn out to be until around February, I interviewed in March and was officially rehired in April. 

It seems crazy, but everything has worked out so perfectly with the timing of everything. The week that I was rehired to reservations, the department I used to work in was accepting applications (which hadn't happened for years!) so I hurried and submitted my application, interviewed, and I get to go back to crew support in a couple weeks. It seriously could not have worked out more perfectly.

Of course I miss being with Matthew all day long, but it's also nice to have some time to myself, and it has been great for him and Connor to get more one-on-one time, and Matthew is doing much better with his separation anxiety. He's so cute when I drop him off at our friends house to go to work. He reaches for Mary and waves bye to me. I'm glad he has so much fun over there. 

3. We moved! I can't believe it happened so fast. In February, Connor and I both separately had the thought that we should move. We loved our old house, but did not love the HOA, plus with me going back to work we needed space for an office, not an office/nursery. So we listed our house mid March, and got an offer less than 3 weeks later. The day after we got an offer, we found our new house, which was vacant so we decided to try to do a quick close and we moved in on May 3rd.

It was so incredibly stressful, and because of some bad information from one lender (who we didn't end up using), we didn't even know if we were going to get approved for the loan at all. But somehow everything miraculously worked out and we were very blessed to get our house. Moving wasn't too much fun either, but we had a lot of help from our wonderful family and friends and it was actually pretty quick. We've been here for nearly 3 weeks and there are still things to unpack and what not, but I'm not in too much of a hurry. 

We absolutely love our new house. It has way more space than we need right now, but we will grow into it. With the way everything worked out, we know that this is definitely where we are supposed to be right now. 

***Pictures to come!***