It is finally calm...for the moment

So, a TON has happened in the last couple of weeks.

We packed everything up and moved out of our very first house. It was so sad, I just cried and cried. Once everything was out and we started to clean the carpets...it hit us, it REALLY hit us...this was no longer going to be our home. Then I cried some more :( On April 15th, we pulled the last few things out of the house, and left for the very last time...


I think that I will miss this tree the most. It was the tallest tree in the neighborhood, and just so amazing...


Josh and I both knew that we would be exhausted from moving, so I convinced him that we should use our vacation time and take a few days off to get settled and figure out what we were going to do while waiting for the new house to get finished. It also, just happened to be our 4th Anniversary and Josh's 29th Birthday...so it just seemed like a good time to take vacation.

Well, what Josh didn't know...was that I had already booked plane tickets to Ohio to see his family :) It had been over a year and a half since we had seen his sisters...and a year since his Mom and Stepdad came for Hayden's surgery. I knew that he was really missing them, so I thought it would make for an amazing birthday/anniversary present :)

I finally let him in on the secret on Monday night, and we were leaving Wednesday morning :)
"Josh, call your Mom"
"Why?"
"Just call your Mom...just ask her what the weather is like"
"What, why...wait...why?"
"I need to know how to pack our suitcases..."
"WHAT?!?! ARE YOU SERIOUS?! NO WAY!!!"
"Happy Birthday Joshua, we leave Wednesday morning!"

He was sooooo super excited and shocked!!

We had an amazing trip! It was just what we needed after all that moving! They had a birthday party for him on Friday night with all of his old friends, and then on Saturday all the family came over and we celebrated again. It was just what Josh needed :)

We picked up Josh's little sisters from school, they were sooo happy to see him:) They had no idea that we were coming, we kept it a secret from them too :)




Happy 4th Anniversary to us!! I love you so much Joshua!!
April 17, 2008




Ok, that is all for tonight!!
Have a great night and check back tomorrow for exciting news and pictures of the new house!!!

Goodbye House...

Dear 2460 Antler Trl,

For the past four years you have been the most amazing home ever. We moved in the day Josh and I got home from our honeymoon. We were so excited to turn a house into our home. Over the years, we have fixed you up and made you our own.

We moved in when Tatum was nine months old.
She took her very first steps here.
She learned how to ride a bike here.
She left this house to go to her very first day of Pre-K.
She has grown from a little baby to a sassy little girl.

It was in this house that Vannessa, Tatum and I sat around staring at a little stick in my bathroom to see if we would be welcoming a new baby to the family...I will never forget the three of us sitting on my bed, calling Josh at work and having Tatum tell him that she was going to be a big sister.

This was Hayden's first house.
We brought him home here when he was only a couple days old.
He learned how to do EVERYTHING here...roll over, sit up, crawl and walk.
It was this house that I came crying home to the day that we received the most devastating news ever, Hayden needed surgery on his skull.
And, it was this house that we came home to, crying happy tears, when the surgery was over.

We have celebrated so many occasions here...birthdays, Halloween, Easter, baby showers.

Oh, if these walls could talk! This house has been so full of love and laughter, heartache and tears.

Thank you for everything...we will never forget you...