Moving in and Making Progress!!

We had so many wonderful guys help us move in on Friday night! We got to the Lockhart's at 6, at pizza and started loading the truck up by 6:30. We didn't get to our new house until 9 and it was pretty much unloaded by 10. Every single person worked so hard! Anthony did an amazing job putting everything in the truck together, he made it all fit like a puzzle!

Stephen, Noah, and Micah really were a big help! They were great at carrying the little boxes and lighter things... and I had so many little boxes they were busier than anyone!

Here is the prettiest mover...


We got eight pizzas... I kinda over ordered by three!!

My dad worked so hard helping us get it all loaded up!

The next four pictures are what our house looked like when we went to bed on Friday night... it was really overwhelming!!

We put together our bed and the fell into it and were immediately asleep!

Sherie and Nancy came the next morning and unpacked my entire kitchen! I would still be undoing boxes if it wasn't for them!

Here are some "after" pictures... still a work in progress!!

The kitchen looking into the family room...

Looking into the kitchen from the family room....

The girls room...

We're still deciding what to do about the trains that run along the top of this room. I want to make this a really pretty room and the trains just aren't working for me... but I don't think we'll can them all together...

Our room is small, but it fits our three pieces of furniture just right! Notice the flat screen t.v. they left for us!

Our living room is really coming together...

We've had lots of visitors... here is Aubrey playing with her friend Liv who came over yesterday!

Mommom and Poppop came over yesterday too!

And this is a picture of our first night in our house eating the wonderful dinner that my friend, Shana, made us! Bree and Jul were here all day... literally 10-6 helping me with Aubrey and unpacking! They can walk to our house and they wanted to stay all day and help... they made me feel like I was doing THEM the favor by putting them to work! I'm so glad we're neighbor's with them; I'm so glad my girls will get to see another set of sister's who love each other and their parents and the Lord.

Ok... so you have no idea how much procrastination is going on right now while I'm writing this... that spare room you saw covered in bags still looks like that... YIKES!! I gotta get to work!!

WE ARE HOME OWNERS!!!!!!!

Sitting out front on the housewarming bench our Realtors, Karen Miller and Mary Ann Kahb, gave us!! They were so wonderful to work with and we would recommend them to everyone! It's worth moving just so you can meet them and work with them!

Karen took this picture this morning when we went for the walk through... now we are loading up everything at my parents' house and then over to the Lockharts' for the rest of our stuff tonight! I don't know when we'll get our computer hooked up, so I wanted to get this picture up as soon as possible! I'll post pictures of the inside when we get sorta unpacked!

Happy 30th Anniversary Mom and Dad!!

My parents celebrated 30 years of wedded bliss tonight!! They are still in love after 30 years and their marriage only grows stronger as the years go by! Thank you, Mom and Dad, for your example to our family in your marriage, not just your commitment to one another, but love and enthusiasm for one another!

Surprise for "Miss SHeeeeee"

Our growth group through a little surprise party for my friend Sherie today, who is affectionately called "Miss SHeeeee" by Mackenzie. Mackenzie practiced singing Happy Birthday the whole way out to Fort Dix for the party, but then didn't sing a word of it when it came time! Here's our "big" girl hanging out eating pb&j waiting for the birthday girl to arrive! She didn't know that we would all be there!

The kids happily watched Elmo so we could eat lunch... it was a loud day, but they were all really good!

Aubrey chillin' with her boy Isaac!

And we had the best surprise announcement from our friend Maribeth today... she's expecting baby #2 in April!! Congrats Maribeth!! (Unlike me, Maribeth didn't want to pose with her tummy sticking out... I had to beg for this shot of the happy new Mama!)

A Few Pictures of Our New House!!

Here is our beautiful house that we are settling on at 10 a.m. this Friday!! Not a great picture, but just wanted to point out a few things: They have a wonderful wood burning stove, they are leaving us the couch, the piano, the sound system, and all of the little knick-knacky things around the fire place. They are even generous enough to leave the deer head over the fire place... hahahaha... you know the first thing Jake will be putting in the trash when we move in!! But seriously, she is being so sweet and anything they can't use in their new house they are leaving for us!

And this is my very favorite part of the whole house... the border in the kitchen! After everything we've been through with waiting for a house when we walked in to the kitchen and saw the scripture verses it was decorated with, we knew this was the house God had for us!

On Saturday night we went out to visit Mommom and Poppop for Poppop's 73rd birthday... we got stuck in a terrible traffic jam on the way there so I crawled in the back to play with the girls and kept them occupied... Mackenzie now thinks I should ride next to her anytime we get in the car! These close ups are of them in their car seats!

We all ate yummy icecream cakes Mommom made and honored Poppop... it was a great family time!

Enjoying one more day outback with our Lamp Post friends... this dream summer is almost over!

Life with Lizzi: Part Two

Lizzi was a blessing the entire time she stayed with us! She played so nicely with Mackenzie and Aubrey and was so respectful and helpful!

The"big" girls slept together in Uncle Andy's room...

Lizzi thought the baby monitor was the coolest thing... and I realized that they are actually two way monitors so I could talk to them from my room... would have been nice to know that the first night so I could tell Mackenzie to quit jumping in her pack and play!

Dear Miss Marybeth pulling Kenzie and Sam around back! We are going to miss them so much!

I am only putting this picture on for my mom's sake... I know she'll love his expression... however, I want to forget I ever played Monopoly with Stephen for three days straight! It ended with no money left in the bank because Stephen had every single dollar bill there was, plus he was owed $4010 from the bank... and I had everything I owned mortgaged!